Bjorn Olaffson
Bjorn Olafsson's small biography
762 A.S.
Born in Hamburg, Son of Olaf and Elke, both lotto coupon salesmen. They lived in a small village, Wotankeld at the outskirts of the city of Hafen,one of many villages for the working population, far from the noise of the main city....
768-785 A.S.
Began basic education at the small school of Wotankeld, he managed to keep a decent rate by raw effort, while he wasn't the brightest of all, oddly for a kid, he didn't cared about, instead took note of his father's words : "you can't be the better on everything, but don't let no one tell you you didn't tried your best". Keeping this motto in mind he managed to finish scholarship with a rather decent note enough to be eligible for mid studies at the city of Hafen... Well, he began to have problems, as the fancypants of the institute vilified him for his humble origins, calling him, among other things "attempt of hessian", "go farm somwhere else", "go to stuttgart, where you'll fit better" everything ended when he was expelled from institute as soon as he knocked down half a class, making the rest piss on their pants. Obviously, the Principal wasn't amused at all.... and Bjorn began to grow a beard. 786 A.S. Bjorn found a job in Wotankeld's baker... he spent half day pushing a cart full of bread village up and down, under all conditions, rain, freeze, blizzard, i said rain?, besides all this drawbacks he got a grasp on what he would dedicate his life... he decided to go to the spacedriving school... 788 A.S... Purchased a Humpback and became the owner of the baker shop, which let him deliver to all villages around, thanks to his awesome humpback. His beard grew as his income did, and began to expand the business as he began to contract more bakers and pilots for the small humpback fleet, as "Bread an Cakes Olafsson and company" began to get lobbies at the city of Hafen itself, gathering attentions in the high spheres, an attention he would revile after.... 800 A.S. The Nomad War: What for most was a disgrace, for Bjorn and his business was the real chance of growing up to the highest. All his business was devoted to supply the lines of the Rheinwehr as the tremendous increase of numbers went too high even for the Republican shipping corporation, so big was the income, that after the war he decomissioned the Humpbacks and purchased a good amount of Behemoths to Daumann, as well as he finally gave jobs to all the folks of Wotankeld when he ordered to increase the instalations in order to increase production....
805 A.S. The Bad Business
The great success of the deliveries by Bjorn's small business attracted the attention of Republican shipping and the corporation began to try
to buy the business, but Bjorn denied, and nothing else happened, but he had some backhanded menaces about expropiation and mumbles like that... Bjorn broke the Republican businessman face in a single blow with his fist, rendering him inconscious, and dropped to the street like a mongrel....Bjorn wouldn't hear more "offers" for a time.
813 A.S. Republican's last Offer:
Kanzler Reinhardt liberalised the market, bowing this way to the corporations and giving them more power that they should. Not long after this event, Republican Shipping directed its predatory attention to Bjorn's business and began to bargain again for the business. In that times all was revolted around, The Hessians were striking hard, the Libertonians the same through Hamburg (a fact that griefed Bjorn, as the economic embargo affected him directly), the news flew around and Rheinland was rather unstable and insecurity establised as a blanket over a bed. Wanting to keep things as they were Bjorn denied again the Republican offer, as well as he heard, and somehow seen, the dreadful conditions of the low class workers in such corporations. This time Republican Shipping had the "authority" to do what they pleased. This time they hided some corsair artifacts in Bjorn's personal Behemoth and gave a whisp to the Polizei, who charged Bjorn with minor smuggling charges, and an astronomical fine... Not wanting to have probems with the authority, complied and payed. But didn't ended here. A week later another Republican businessman came again with the offer to buy his business, This time, without a word, Bjorn took the republican by the neck and made him eat the papers of the proposal in a non metaphorical way.
Many days later, at first hour just before opening the Baker and delivery instalation, he saw some suspicious people running away from
the building. Before he could react the same building blew to pieces, destroying in a single blow the job of his entire life, the transports, and even worse, the jobs of the folks of Wotankeld. After running after one of those bastards, he managed to catch one and beated him hard, too hard as the, now recognized as a republican worker, died. Scared he threw the body to the bonfire of his business and ripped away any sort of identification. Fortunately nobody saw the murder.
Wanting to take some compensation he denounced Republican Shipping and went to a trial. But was useless, at this time the corporation
had almost full control of the government, and the Kanzler was nothing more than a puppet, dancing at the pace the corporations gave him, The trial concluded with a devastating fine to Bjorn, as he was accused by Republican shipping of damages and prejudices (and aggresion to their representatives), rendering Bjorn with little to nothing left. Feeling already defeated he went to ask to a private detective about this matter, after explaining his case, the detective negated, he said "that shit is more usual than you can imagine, as the government is rotten to the core, the only useful thing that i can tell you is to keep what remains to you, this is a lost case", and Bjorn asked, hopeless "what can i do?, there's some way to change the situation?", the detective didn't said nothing, just passed a small paper to Bjorn, it was a Hessian propaganda. "Kreuzberg" told the detective, "contact them there".
814 A.S. Bjorn's new purpose of life
Bjorn took a shuttle to Kreuzberg, said shuttle was a junker in a CSV who agreed to carry him for some credits. When he arrived, Bjorn went straight to the bar and started drinking, after some deliberation and a pair more of drinks, he asked the greasy junker who was attending the bar and without a word he showed him the propaganda "Where" he muttered, the junker pointed a door, "there, there's a communicator, frequency is 348'67". Bjorn toggled the frequence and waited for the signal of open channel "uh, oh, Hallo?, a ja, das ist the frequence..." 814 A.S. The beggining:
Bjorn began to train with the recruits, it was a fun time, as he (and the other recruits) noticed could be the grandfather of some of them. That gave him some sort of respect as they began to saw him as "the old dude that knows lot of things". Besides this, he trained as all of them and began to slowly get experience as he arrived to become a Gefreiter... untill he developed really nasty cataracts and had to be put out of service while he was treated about 819 A.S. 819 A.S.-Today Bjorn finally ended the post-operatory rest and recovered his faculties, not longer he was re-comissioned into service as Gefreiter, and he managed to distinguis himself to become Leutnant and shaved his beard... and this goes on...
