View source for Comm-Link:Lore Builder - Two - Murray Cup Racing

While it’s totally cool to suggest characters that may be ancestors or relatives of the character you want to play in [[Star Citizen]], understand that any connection you establish in these fictions won’t directly apply to your character to any tangible effect. Using last week’s topic as an example, you probably shouldn’t say that your character is a nine-time [[Murray Cup]] winner and the best pilot in the universe, as it won’t confer any bonus/perk/reputation/[[UEC]] etc. to your character when the game goes live. In short, all characters are starting from the same place in the universe; create accordingly.

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Of the many individuals that have won the coveted Murray Cup since its inception, few are surrounded with as much controversy, or have proved to be as inspirational, as [[Fabis Capaldi]]. Born with Rauk’s Syndrome, a rare form of autism believed to be associated with a species of [[Terra system|Terra]]’s native flora, Fabis was reliant on round-the-clock care to help him perform even the most basic of day-to-day tasks. Despite his difficulty with the mundane, Fabis possessed a savant-like gift for mathematics, with a genius-level grasp of complex geometry. As well as math, Fabis’ other love was simulations, and to his family’s surprise, in the week leading up to his twenty-third birthday, Fabis was crowned the 2792 Terra-Net sim-racing champion.

Due to his condition he was legally prohibited from operating even a basic ground car, but the media frenzy that arose due to Fabis’ unusual situation soon saw him given the opportunity to fly a real spacecraft (under the strict supervision of an instructor in an empty volume of space). Fabis was observed to be able to compute complex geometrical vectors more effectively than the then-current standard of NavCom, and he cleared the course set for him in a time that remains unbeaten to this day. Jumping onto the media bandwagon, he was immediately offered the opportunity to race in the Murray Cup, sponsored by Primestar Racing, who saw in him the makings of a lucrative champion. This controversial arrangement was discussed and disputed in the media across the Empire for the following month, but once Fabis was given the thumbs-up by the racing safety commission, history was set to be made. Fabis took part in only one race (2798 [[SET]]) during his ‘career’ and won by a previously unthinkable 30 seconds in a ship that was deemed mediocre at best. The following year the Murray Racing Board introduced a rule that forbade anyone not in possession of a full pilot’s license from entering the competition, abruptly ending Fabis’ racing career. Fabis passed away in 2834, the first Grand Champion of Tera-Net sim championship wins, and still retains several sim-racing records to this day.

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[[Maddox Holloway]] was born to a working class family that continuously struggled throughout his youth to stay afloat. His parents worked hard to put food on the table and keep Maddox and his three siblings happy. When his parents separated in his teens, Maddox chose to live primarily with his father, who had just gotten a job on an assembly line piecing together high tech space flight simulator pods. It was through this fortunate access to these space pods that the young Holloway cut his teeth on space avionics. He’d never flown an actual starship until a week before the Murray Cup race that he would come to eventually win. What put this particular space-ace into the record books however, was that Maddox was born with a condition that left him blind in the left eye and nearly completely blind in his right.

When asked what fueled his passion for the way he flew in that fateful race, Maddox replied simply with. “To make my father proud.” Sadly, however, his father had passed away a year before the race, but it was easy to see that that only empowered the young pilot even more. He was labeled a “mad man” to even fly the race, but after his Murray Cup victory, he became known as “Mad Holloway.”