Commander Nicolas Stryker

Early Life
Despite a heavily documented official early life, little is known of the history of one Nicolas Stryker. Born on Boros Prime, one of many Fortress worlds modelled after the eminently succesful example set by Cadia, he was a prescribed child of two Naval signals officers serving on a system patrol ship. After serving his 10 years in the 412th Borosian Rifles, he left the service with the rank of Staff Sergeant and signed on with the armed merchant freighter Shadows of Intent.

From here he disappears from official Munitorium documents. Whether this is an oversight on the behalf of the Munitorium or not is yet to be determined, but he reappears several years later in local court records on the Agri-World of Boonhaven (Segmentum Pacificus), up on brawling charges. The records state he was serving in the personal army of the Rogue Trader Captain Tobius Morgan, registered at Hydraphur (capital of Segmentum Tempestus). From here he disappears once again.

Later Life
The Rogue Trader Captain Morgan himself disappears 3 years later, when his ship transmits a distress call while over the Death-World of Menazoid Epsilon. The ship crashed, and it was another 2 years (sidereal time) before a rescue ship arrived. When the Hire Power arrived it found only a single survivor, a man claiming to be Nicolas Stryker. Scarred both physically and mentally from his ordeal on the planet's surface, he refused to talk about what happened to his employer and entire crew. If the number of times the crew of the Hire Power was attacked by eldritch entities while planetside is any indication, no-one wants to know too much what he endured.

Following his rescue he was dropped off at one of Macharia's orbiting stations, and quickly signed on with the mercenary company known as "The Gravediggers". They served under various Rogue Traders and in several conflicts, most only rumoured in official records, until recently, when they were listed as 'destroyed' following an ambush by Eldar raiders. Shortly afterwards Commander Nicolas Stryker washed up on the shores of Kerberos Station, with no company to command, and nothing to his name but his gun and the armour on his back.

History on Kerberos
Newly arrived on Kerberos station, Stryker is actively recruiting, seeking to rebuild his old mercenary company under a new name: Sons of the Tempest. In the meantime he accepts contracts from whoever has the throne gelt.