Name: Rhaef Sorandash
Age: 27
Position: First Mate
Allegiance: Could Care less.
Physical Description: Rhaef is about 6' tall, dark hair and eyes.  He is handsome, but not overly so.  His dark hair is somewhat unkept but in a meaningfully way.  His facial hair changes almost by the day, since it grows fairly swiftly.  He wears a smile easily as well as his ankle length charcoal gray trench coat.  The pistol on his hip is more for show than for fighting, though its seen some action.  His boots are black and come midway up his calf.  He is fit in build but again not overly tone, nor does he let himself go.  His appearance is a representation of many of the things he has been taught through his years in the Hand.  He is average in many ways, so that he is easily lost in the crowd.  The only distinguishing feature, is a black tattoo that stretches from his shoulder to wrist depicting black flames licking at his skin.  It was a comprimise to maintain his anonymity.  Had he gone through the typical process of initiation into the guild of the Burnt-Hand, he would have just that, a right hand charred permanently grey.
Personality: Rhaef is an intelligent man who can sometimes come off as cold and calculated. He tends to be a bit abrasive, his wit is sharp and cutting, and he uses it to test those around him.  He is a 'button pusher', someone who likes to see how far he can push someone before they reach the edge.  He is brutally honest.  The feelings of those around him aren't necessarily always a concern to him.
History: Rhaef was born on New Canaan, where his family were bootleggers for the Burnt-Hands, an unsavory organization who controlled much of the liquor transported offworld, as well as other interests on other planets in the 'verse.  He had worked the family distillery, transporting to the ports and back to the farm since he was old enough to reach the controls of the rig.  Rhaef was 11 when he first left.  At that point the Sorandashes were approached by the Gr'Atow Syndicate and forced to hand over a shipment meant for Ezra.  The Burnt-Hands were not happy and took the boy as insurance that it wouldn't happen again.  After several months in captivity, the boy was trained to be a spy for the Hand, using the unsuspecting child to eavesdrop on important conversations, steal artifacts, or whatever they deemed necessary.  Rhaef was groomed as an underboss to Menon Curio, a man who looked after Rhaef.  Rhaef learned how to pilot ships, infiltrate computer systems, and disguise himself through his years with the Hand, as well as observation skills and skills of a darker nature.

He really doesn't remember much of his family on New Canaan, or the circumstances which he came into being with the Hand.  He was told his parents tried to sell him to slavers, but Curio took him instead.  Rhaef had great respect for Curio.  That was until he returned from Persephone one evening to find him dead, strangled in his armchair.  Menon's personal guards soon came in, and after an unsuccessful attempt to explain himself, and the shootout that followed, Sorandash managed to escape.  He is now on the run from the Burnt Hand, looking for who killed Curio.