Backstory

Born Silas Kovic in the crushing depths of Furyan's lower crust, 'Grime' earned his moniker not just from the permanent layer of neutronium dust etched into his pores, but from the dirty, impossible jobs he survived where others perished. For decades, he was a cog in the Red Sun Dominion's resource extraction machine, watching kin die of lung-rot and collapsing shifts. His resentment calcified into a diamond-hard resolve, leading him to help found The Iron Veins.

While publicly he preaches the gospel of labor rights and kinetic resistance, his private life is consumed by a discovery he made twenty years ago: a fractured data-slate found in a collapsed tunnel that predated the Dominion's arrival. It contained fragmentary star charts referencing Anganagyr and a cache of 'Golden Gear'—terraforming tech capable of turning Furyan into a paradise, or a fortress. He hides this obsession carefully; The Iron Veins are hardened materialists who view ancient myths as distractions. To them, he is the pragmatic commander of the Crimson Gorge; in truth, he is a treasure hunter seeking the ultimate weapon to buy his planet's freedom.