(6531 IET – 174 AE) A brilliant and ruthless businessman, the Baron RSVdG Bajar built a mighty empire from the tiny desert planet, Mirage, where he had, as a boy, been exiled with the remains of his family, after the fall of the Incorporated Elysian Republic, which was neither heavenly, nor a republic. His first business, the enormously successful Crown and Sceptor, was a shipping enterprise. It soon began to gobble up the smaller businesses it dealt with and United Free Trade Planets, Ltd., was born. This company/kingdom includes Seven Planets, its satellites and mining belts, Hydrangea and several other resort planets scattered about the galaxy, the Onolos, and a number of uninhabited worlds that were stripped of their resources and left drifting like pockmarks on the face of Mother Void. The Baron’s strange and violent death is still a mystery. He was found early one Alpha, sitting in his courtroom on Mirage. A sprig of rosemary had been potted in the bowl of his pipe. A child’s report card with every subject marked “failed” had been pinned to his jacket. Certain of his vital organs had been removed, individually wrapped in birthday paper, and placed in a krystal box on the Baron’s desk. Bajar was survived by a son, Kalif, and a daughter, Lucrezia. He left the two of them his huge estate, to be in shared equally and run jointly, “in the hopes that they will destroy itself like the monster they is.”