The Rainbow Connection
Born in 1979, Yanos Solong's childhood was marked as one of the last in the Old Republic. While all over the world the Empire continued its decades-long campaign of world domination, within its borders many experienced only the welcoming arms of their nursemaid, cable TV. So it was with Yanos—born into a loving home with two normative human parents, he still was drawn in more closely by the electronic babysitter. He was unfortunately weaned fairly early off the cable teat, but the satisfaction of the VCR machine provided nearly as strong a fix. Yanos learned to navigate between this world and the next through those plastic tapes, and soon, through books as well. Even before he was able to read the words printed inside his books, Yanos had already memorized the pictures and the stories they told him.
As Yanos explored billions of worlds he found a home in every one. Traveling through foreign lands, he detected the Hands and Minds of the Makers behind these worlds. Through primordial memories, older than time, of seeing Kermit the Frog and Admiral Ackbar manipulated by their puppeteers, Yanos connected the understanding that Jim Henson was Kermit, as well as the Creator of The Dark Crystal, into a desire to emulate that heroic figure; to find the Rainbow Connection. After passing through many rabbit-holes on his quest, he chose a new one: New York City, the Behemoth, spanning many dimensions, the gateway of worlds.
Nova Control
In hopes of gaining passage to the port of New York, Yanos signed on as a mail freight courier in the Nova Systems Empire, a burgeoning galactic organization based around arcane systems of credit transference. As a largely independent contractor unbeholden to military regulations, Yanos found himself free to spurn the Empire's forces, repeatedly carrying out raids against the luminously incompetent Darth Scarf, culminating in the rescue of one Douglas Reich, a slave to the hive-mind Nova1Sonomi in the Fleet of Bill van Fleet. Yanos smuggled Douglas to safety, but was unable to escape himself, and returned to a small asteroid unknown by the Nova command in the hopes of discovering a new way to New York City. It was then that Yanos received a transcoded message from an old colleague, the esteemed Lance Cardigan.
New Dominion
Lance sought shelter in New York as well, and had concocted an elaborate plan to freight all his lab equipment himself, and required only one thing to complete it: a pilot, in the form of Yanos himself. Thus, the transcoded message; and thus was begun a saga too large for one telling, of the quest for a New Dominion. At the end of this saga, Lance and Yanos found themselves neighbors, and ready to begin the next phase of their activities.
