while i sit here and consider a coffee run because 😴, let me introduce holden steiger, former asteroid miner (ore, mostly) and few years old resident of lowtown. he was born and raised among the malm-349g asteroid belt, son of miners who were children of miners who were children of well-to-do, but poor-as-hell residents of belos, and grew up really only knowing that. as such, he followed in their footsteps, worked as a miner from age sixteen and through the expansion war which saw him outfitted with some work-related augments (pain dampener and cybernetic lungs) as production needs went wild. it ended up pushing him to make use of some unsavory connections to get the capital to move his parents and himself to terminus, setting up in lowtown with a nice fat debt to his name.
what happens when you get debt? you have to pay it off? shoot... enter a deal: holden steals from smugglers, thieves, etc. and his benefactor gets to turn around and sell the product earned for a bunch of cash, very little of which goes holden's way, but it is supposed to be paying things off which, as one can guess, hasn't been the case. so, naturally, he's back to working his life away, but at least it is something that can be a lot more fun than breaking rocks.
he has a few friends around the station (~aced, ~checklists, ~herder, ~botnik), some criminal connections (~harlock, ~pewpewpew), former mining sorts (~fuses), and #disappointeddad ~raybeam who he tried to steal from once and somehow got job opportunities, but greedy is as greedy does and i'm greedy for more! fellow dockhands and miners, poker buddies, drinking buddies and friends of all sorts, neighbors in lowtown, t-sec officers to bother and evade, smugglers and thieves he's stolen from, fences he sells to, fellow brawlers / fighters in lowtown, exes/flings - whatever!
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