Fendris was a corrupt Alliance federal agent who moonlighted as a mercenary with Lt. Womack and Skunk. Their proper jurisdiction was the Silverhold Colonies, in the Silverhold System, but they abused their powers outside their jurisdiction to complete illegal jobs. One such client was an illegal organ-smuggling enterprise. It was through this business that he encountered Tracey Smith, who was to be a courier. However, when Smith absconded with the organs he was meant to transport, Womack, Skunk, and Fendris tracked his "corpse" through the Allied postal system to a bustling space port where the post official Amnon worked. Womack and his two men docked their heavily-armed ASREV at the space port mere seconds after Serenity and her crew departed with Tracey's drugged—and seemingly lifeless—b