Roldão Brandt was a Mesan citizen and slaver working for the Jessyk Combine. In 1922 PD, he was in command of the slaving vessel Luigi Pirandello. His ship docked at Balcescu Station in the eponymous star system, secretly taking aboard two Mesan Alignment scientists who had been evacuated as part of Operation Houdini. Just when the ship was on its way to leave the system, a strike force of the Torch military entered the system and the frigate Denmark Vesey came after the Luigi Pirandello. Lieutenant Commander Tunni Bayano of the Royal Torch Navy forced Captain Brandt to strike his wedge and warned him that he would exeucte his entire crew if any harm came to even one of the slaves aboard his ship.