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| - The spacers who frequent the bars and spaceports of the Outer Colonies have a saying: "Every cat has nine lives, but Tobias Lensky's got more because he's stolen the lives off of every other cat he's ever met." In a galaxy defined by alien warlords and armored supersoldiers, few ever suspected that the scruffy, unassuming spacer sitting a few stools down from them at the bar was actually one of the wealthiest men in human history. The fact that his lifetime of monumental achievements went largely unnoticed by society and historians alike did not irk Tobias Lensky in the slightest; if anything, he found his unsung state of affairs as amusing as he found most of the goings-on in the galaxy he helped to shape. During his untold decades of investing, acquiring, and scheming his way to the top, Tobias saw empires rise and fall, conspiracies convalesce and unravel, and entire planetary systems burned away by war and the inexorable march of time. Through it all, he lived life as a game, playing with money and lives as easily as his fellow spacers played cards. Though few history students would ever know his name, Tobias Lensky's successes (and failures) would prove to be the foundations for countless galaxy-shaping factors, from the criminal empire he founded to his ambitious daughter and warring sons. Tobias Lensky built himself a monumental legacy with little more than his own iron will, a shadowy pillar of the galactic underworld.
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