Anthony Borislav was born to Zoner parents ten years before the Nomad war. He grew up in space, touring Sirius in his parents' Train; but by the time he was a teenager, he began to see a disturbing pattern. His parents often smuggled cargoes to unlawful bases, and while they were there young Anthony got to see firsthand the result of what the Houses called "justice." Families were destroyed, children starved, and decent
people were forced to piracy simply to survive.
When he was old enough, he bought an old Viper, and flew with some of these groups for a time...but it soon became obvious that they would never really get anywhere on their own. Their dreams were too small; they would excise the cancer in the arm of a House, only for it to be reinfected from some other part of the body. No, Anthony knew that the whole body had to be incinerated to be rid of the infection...
One day, he met some pilots that thought as he did, flying a flag he'd thought long-forgotten: that of the Coalition. Anthony didn't need any convincing, nor did he have to be asked twice to join the revolution. It was the only way to cure Sirius of its disease, and free the oppressed of the shackles unjustly placed upon them by the corrupt Houses. So he changed his name to Arkady, put a Coalition flag on his Viper's tail, and got ready for his new life to begin...