Ridley's Dream.

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Zlen Washburn was a former head in the Information Processing Technology (I.P.T) education department at planet Manhattan, New York. He had it all; fame, fortune, power, respect and a family he could respect and rely on. However, all had changed the day Liberty Security Force (LNS) shot down the door to his home and charged him with theft, kidnapping, identity theft and hacking of the Liberty Police records located in West Point. This was not the truth of course. Liberty once again suspected the wrong person; then arrested him.

Washburn was then taken to Texas for trial. However, a pirate force attacked the prison ship carrying Washburn en route. The ship was badly damaged in the attack, with massive hull breaches and electrical failures. Several prisoners managed to escape from their holding cells in the ensuing chaos. He used all his previous knowledge of I.P.T. to hack his way through the decaying ship, and commandeered a small fighter to escape. When he returned home, he grabbed his family and his ship and took the Lanes to head to Baffin. However, on his way to the California Jump Gate, a Royal Liberty Navy (RLN) fleet commander had stopped him and his family in their tracks. As Washburn pleaded with the RLN to let him go, Washburn quickly put his family in the escape pod. Unfortunately, an RLN had seen this action take place and immediately shot the pod, thinking Washburn was inside.

Washburn's life and all that was in it, had been destroyed with a single shot from the RLN. He immediately took action avoiding the RLN and taking the jump into California and heading throughout the Jump Holes into Cortez, Coronado, then lastly Baffin.

Being given the title of a criminal, the only people who accepted Washburn were those who had committed all the crimes for which he was charged, namely the Lane Hackers. Swearing vengeance upon all of Liberty for murdering his family and destroying his reputation, Washburn, in an act of sheer vindictiveness killed liberty children, thus inflicting the same pain as he too had suffered.

Washburn is one of the most feared Hackers known; for his ability to avoid identification and consequent apprehension and justice and his feared desire for revenge on liberty. His skills were noticed immediately by Markus Ridley and he was approached with an offer to join a newly established pirate force specifically formed to target the Liberty Government. Washburn jumped at the chance for revenge. He was found by a man named Ridley, hey discussed the stories that they have had, and shared the hatred for liberty. And from that day and to this day, Zlen Washburn is now no longer Washburn, but now Gravity.Reaver.O ...a 'Reaver'.