Fly Me To the Moon

Earlier in the week, I discussed the use of lifepath generators.  Today, I spent a bit of time creating and exploring a lifepath via the Mongoose Traveller system.

Once in a generation, a superstar takes ahold of the public imagination not based on their own accomplishments, but simply the sheer gravitas they place in front of a camera.  Marilyn Monroe wowed the public imagination by blowing kisses to America and its president.  Kim Kardashian and Paris Hilton demanded that same attention by having videos of their most intimate of moments leaked to the public -- some say deliberately. Marquis Frances Foster captured the Empire's attention with nothing but a keen eye for self-promotion and a smile.  Known as "The Gambler," Foster broadcasts most of his activities over the comm networks of over two hundred systems within the Spinward Marches.
Foster was born on Mora to Lee and Rebecca Foster, a pair of freighter corp executives.  As a child, he excelled in the private tutelage his family provided, and qualified for admission to the Imperial Naval Academy, but was arrested numerous times for distribution of narcotics on various Imperial worlds before the age of eighteen, necessitating his dropout prior to his first term -- the majority of these charges were quickly dismissed and expunged from the record, though Celebrity Newswire still has multiple records in our archives.  As his father traded civilian service for public and died at the helm of a capital ship in the Empire's Admiralty, Frances was left in charge of his family assets.
Some say he had a hand in arranging his father's death, and that it was deliberate.  The younger Mister Foster liquidated much of his family's assets to finance first a series of grav racers, all crashed, all the while gambling on said grav racing.  He then invested 500.8m credits to craft the monolithic 1km long grav racer Gravtrawler in order to set a new grav speed record (19,824 km/h; 12,318 m/h) before promptly crashing it into a canyon wall after traversing more than 160 miles in under a minute.  With the majority shareholder bowing out, the Foster Freight Corp (FFC) was turned over to minority shareholders, including the new Chairman of the Board, Lance Everton.  Everton famously reported that Frances had sullied the Foster name, leaving the board no choice but to change its name to Freighter Holdings, Inc.

Foster's Current Assets

He was romantically linked with members numerous noble houses, ending with a one-day marriage to Marchioness Hester Albani of Ramiva, who walked in on a romantic liaison between Foster and her twin sister and was rather unamused at his unabashed suggestion that she join them.  He has taken his technical title Marquis and used it after the divorce.  Since the separation, he has been linked to numerous young ladies, including nobles, administrators, Imperial officials, and numerous alien species.
Foster made a living of projecting much of his daily life on the holonet, and is one of its first true celebrities.  Imperial citizens were fascinated with his larger-than-life antics.  He notoriously had himself tested for psionic discipline in an expose, filming and distributing the event live on the holonet, during which he found that he had no more talent as a psion than the average Imperial citizen.  He also took six women and two men under his roof, all of whom aspiring actors who sold themselves to slavers in the hope of becoming his personal pleasure slaves.  What was initially billed as an expose on the slave trade became an opportunity for Foster to show his own personal poise and wealth.  Each of the eight were released into freedom after ten episodes of the series.

With his fortieth birthday looming, Foster took to exploration, with the assistance of John Kojic, a personal friend of his father who provides transportation and logistics.  With a holovid crew, he explored often hostile worlds teeming with almost certain death.  His first expedition led him to Nagaschk, in which he tamed a Garhawk, naming it Wren.  Foster and company also unearthed an ancient alien relic, selling it to the Imperial Museum for enough credits to buy back in to his father's old company, FFC.  This was the impetus for his father's estate to deem his behavior finally appropriate for a member of such social standing.  The estate has resumed payments of Foster's trust fund, and has given him access and control to his father's properties. The proceeds of his adventuring have led to him investing a total of 76MCr in FHI, and he is considered to be a minority partner in the business, with 10% of shares.  When asked to comment, Foster simply reported, "My father was a great man.  I intend to preserve his legacy financially.  By the way -- you should watch next week.  I plan on making daiquiris in the core of an ice planet."  Everton, holder of 40%, remains the chairman of FHI, and reports that he intends on seeing Foster not return to a majority stakeholder.