Adus started his carrier as a Space Marine aboard the Anhur-Class GFS Telephus. During a routine patrol, his vessel intercepted a garbled, untranslatable signal set on repeat. The location of origin is traced to the nearby Zessa System. Fearing it to be either a distress beacon from a ship lost in the area with an encrypted signal to prevent Pirate access to its message, or that it is instead a purposefully-faked signal set out by Space Pirates as a sinister trap to good Samaritans, the captain decided to set course for the system and check it out.