User:Smivs

A long time ago, in a Galaxy far, far away a young Commander known only as Smivs cut his teeth in a Cobra spacecraft trading goods and collecting bounties to earn an honest crust. He enjoyed this life for just a few brief years before disappearing, it seemed forever.
No one knew what had happened or where he had gone, but rumours were that his ship's C64 flight computer had failed on a mission leaving him stranded at the back end of nowhere.
And then, some twenty five years later he miraculously returned, older and wiser but penniless. Starting with a lowly Cobra Mk I he set about cleaning up the Ooniverse (and doing a nice bit of trade on the side). He slowly built up some funds which allowed him eventually to upgrade to a Python, and then after a while to a Boa Class Cruiser, until today when you will find him flying the Iron-Ass Boa Clipper Hakudo Maru.
People sometimes ask Commander Smivs (or Smivs the Brave as some friends know him) where he had been, what he had seen and done in the intervening years, but they never get an answer. The mystery, the enigma will most likely never be explained. All we know is that the Boy has grown into a Man, and he now strides the Ooniverse like a Colossus, banishing Evil, acting as a force for Good, and generally making loads of money and having a damn good time.

Image:- courtesy NASA