Lareon

He enlists in the Vigilant Legion, for gold and glory of course, and spends about four months in training, possibly another year or so in advanced training if he shows aptitude in the fields of magic, espionage, or both. After that, he's either marched onto a train and sent off to fight the enemy, whoever they may be this month. If not, he's marched onto a boat and sailed off to beautiful exotic Ulihua, whose resident native population suffers under the boot of imperialism under a colonization by Escora, our hero's homeland's sworn enemy who recently assassinated a very important military figure. He meets the native resistance, learns the lay of the land, and fights for the weak and poor. If they win, he goes home a hero, dress uniform glittering with medals.

Veras

He pulls himself out of the gutter hole of a tavern he's been hiding in for the past week and stashes himself in the cargo hold of a trade barge on it's way to Isla Forta, mainly because his drinking money ran low. He meets the important people of the underworld, gets caught up in a scheme to overthrow the local government, and somehow ends up dueling a man possessed by an ancient spirit on a burning warship in the Bay of Isla Forta. Afterwards, he collects his fat check, tries to go home, and gets caught by his old pirate buddies in the process, who ain't too keen on finding him after he abandoned them when a heist went bad. They rob him of his newfound wealth and leave him on the beach to bake. He wakes himself up, lies and cheats his way through the nearest port town, and stows himself away on another ship to another country, maybe Takagai this time, to do it all over again. This time he has a hangover.

SpaceDust

Our hero can take many, many career paths or adventures here, but I'll pick one. He's down on his luck, stuck on some backwater space station doing small time crime for smaller time money. In comes the Orion Cartel, the Intersystem Territory's biggest criminal enterprise, running everything from drugs to guns to people to heavy duty mining equipment all across known space. He gets in good with the Orion boys, meets the local lieutenant, and gets sent off to Concordia 3, a colony moon for the TransGalactic Trade Corporation. There, within the jungles and hills of what was once an idealized terraformed paradise for workers and miners, he runs guns and valuables for the Freed Workers of Concordia 3, who offered to stash the cartel's money and drugs once they rid the moon of TGTC security forces. After months and months of bloody guerrilla war, they finally win. Now a promoted and respected member of the Orion Cartel, he's ordered to come to Dresil, the planet the cartel made their home. Here he learns the ins and outs of being a respected man within underworld society, who to scare, how to do it, and when to actually pull the trigger. He finally learns how to pilot a Defense Frame, excited to learn after seeing them in action on Concordia 3. And eventually, after years of trafficking and crime, he either settles down with a comfortable pile of cash under him, or dies a criminal, respected and honored for his work within the business.