Character Creation

The Orbital Guard had been tracking the activities of an organized crime group calling itself the Stateless Syndicate for months with little success. Their operational security was good, but Philip's wits kept him alive and embedded long enough that the Guard finally tracked them down. Once the location of their manufacturing lab was discovered (container on a low-traffic orbital relay station) they moved swiftly to dismantled the operation. Drug manufacturing, weapons smuggling, illegal hacking tools--it was a great bust, and Tanner had his fingerprints all over it, from interviewing Philip a dozen times to putting the case together to finally breaching the hull on the final raid.

An uncharitable observer might say this guy needs to get a life.

Phil got a phone call from the cop that had arrested him previously. To his surprise, this time it wasn't to accuse him of a crime. They needed his help getting in contact with an old friend of his. A women named Jessica was stuck in a bad situation as she had been taken hostage by space pirates. Of course, the cops didn't give Phil all the details, but he was sly enough to ask the right questions.

The cops needed Phil to contact Jessica to get information from inside a space station that had been captured by these pirates. Most of the questions he had to ask her were about the exact positions of the bad guys. Where they hung out mostly, how often die checked on hostages, how well armed they were.. That sort of stuff. All this to make it easier for the infiltration team. At some point, Phil had direct contact with Lt. Tanner. This turned out to be both a blessing and a curse as it put him on Tanner's radar.

One of ORBCOMM's biggest clients is, of course, the Orbital Guard, so when Gavin replaced their old account manager (a relationship that had been... strained at best) and stuff started getting done, Major Woods took note and started sending more work their way. It's been years, and Woods barely things about orbital communications anymore.