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 ====== SAGAN BELMONT ======
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 ===== Race and Faction =====
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   * **Born:** 2598, aboard the spaceship [[last_frontier|Last Frontier]]
   * **Affiliation:** Independent Citizen of the [[free_state_of_settlers|Free State of Settlers]]
-  * **Official Occupation ([[beta_age|Beta Age]]):** Former owner of [[belmont_timber_and_haulage|Belmont Timber & Haulage]]
+  * **Official Occupation ([[beta_age|Beta Age]]):** Former owner of Belmont Timber & Haulage
   * **Current Occupation:** Unemployed laborer
   * **Place of Residence:** [[morningstar|Morningstar]]
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 ===== Background =====
-Sagan Belmont was born aboard the [[last_frontier|Last Frontier]] in Bay 07. From early childhood he struggled with a severe reading and writing disability. Although the Last Frontier possessed highly advanced medical and educational technologies, neither was able to overcome his condition. Among teachers and technicians a saying slowly emerged:
+Sagan Belmont was born aboard the [[last_frontier|Last Frontier]] in Bay 07. From early childhood he struggled with a severe reading and writing disability. Although the Last Frontier possessed highly advanced medical and educational technologies, neither was able to overcome his condition. Among teachers and technicians a saying slowly emerged: //"The boy can understand anything but he can't read it."//
-''"The boy can understand anything—but he can't read it."''
+Because literacy remained a prerequisite for nearly every profession aboard the ship, from engineering to security service, Sagan never qualified for higher education at [[last_frontier_university|Last Frontier University]]. Instead he received official disability status and spent much of his youth performing supervised maintenance work.
-Because literacy remained a prerequisite for nearly every profession aboard the ship—from engineering to security service—Sagan never qualified for higher education at [[last_frontier_university|Last Frontier University]]. Instead he received official disability status and spent much of his youth performing supervised maintenance work.
+Everything changed on [[day_zero|Day Zero]]. The crash of the Last Frontier transformed practical craftsmanship from an overlooked skill into one of the colony's most valuable assets. With robots destroyed and automation largely gone, settlers suddenly needed people who could fell trees, repair machinery and build infrastructure by hand.
-Everything changed on [[day_zero|Day Zero]].
-The crash of the Last Frontier transformed practical craftsmanship from an overlooked skill into one of the colony's most valuable assets. With robots destroyed and automation largely gone, settlers suddenly needed people who could fell trees, repair machinery and build infrastructure by hand.
 Sagan moved to [[morningstar|Morningstar]], where he found work as a logger at the [[fogwood_sawmill_inc|Fogwood Sawmill]]. During the settlement's first difficult years he worked alongside another young laborer named [[rogan_sokolov|Rogan Sokolov]]. Long nights beneath the floodlights of Fogwood forged a quiet friendship based on hard work rather than words.
-In early 2627 Sagan founded **Belmont Timber & Haulage**, a small logging and transport company operating one manual labor bot, two freight wagons, several [[hoos|Hoos]] and two employees. His reputation quickly grew. Throughout Morningstar he became known as a dependable contractor whose word could be trusted.
+In early 2627 Sagan founded "Belmont Timber & Haulage", a small logging and transport company operating one [[manual_labor_bots|Manual Labor Bot]], two freight wagons, several [[hoos|Hoos]] and two employees. His reputation quickly grew. Throughout Morningstar he became known as a dependable contractor whose word could be trusted.
-For the first time in his life, Sagan felt that he truly belonged.
-That changed when the mysterious entrepreneur known only as [[j_w|J.W.]] approached him with what appeared to be the largest timber contract Morningstar had ever seen.
-Belmont Timber & Haulage supplied enormous quantities of hardwood for the construction of J.W.'s isolated forest compound. Sagan invested nearly everything he owned into fulfilling the contract, hiring additional workers and expanding his operations.
-When the final shipment had been delivered, J.W. refused payment.
-Communicating exclusively through handwritten notes delivered by intermediaries, he claimed the timber failed to meet contractual specifications and demanded substantial price reductions. Sagan refused.
-The payment never came.
-Unable to repay loans, wages and suppliers, Belmont Timber & Haulage collapsed within months. His wagons, manual labor bot and equipment were repossessed. His employees were forced to seek work elsewhere.
+For the first time in his life, Sagan felt that he truly belonged. That changed when the mysterious entrepreneur known only as "J.W. ([[jareth_wyrick|Jareth Wyrick]]) approached him with what appeared to be the largest timber contract Morningstar had ever seen. Belmont Timber & Haulage supplied enormous quantities of hardwood for the construction of J.W.'s isolated forest compound. Sagan invested nearly everything he owned into fulfilling the contract, hiring additional workers and expanding his operations.
-Soon afterwards, nobody in Morningstar would hire him anymore.
+When the final shipment had been delivered, J.W. refused payment. Communicating exclusively through handwritten notes delivered by intermediaries, he claimed the timber failed to meet contractual specifications and demanded substantial price reductions. Sagan refused.
-Whether through fear, influence or quiet pressure, J.W. had made sure Sagan's name disappeared from every list of potential contractors.
+The payment never came. Unable to repay loans, wages and suppliers, Belmont Timber & Haulage collapsed within months. His wagons, manual labor bot and equipment were repossessed. His employees were forced to seek work elsewhere. Soon afterwards, nobody in Morningstar would hire him anymore. Whether through fear, influence or quiet pressure, J.W. had made sure Sagan's name disappeared from every list of potential contractors.
 Overwhelmed by debt, humiliation and alcoholism, Sagan slowly withdrew from society, convinced that the compound built from his timber had become a monument to everything J.W. had stolen from him.