Level 50 crafter and armed merchantman Captain, Brit Faction, Tattered Flags Clan, currently playing Naval Action in the PvP Global server. Coasting in the Carribean and off the coast of Central America in early 19th Century, building skills and trading while alert to pirates and rum runners and prizes, sailing with sealed commissions from London and New York.

Behind the keyboard is a long-time (five decades) simulation gamer (Avalon Hill, Sid Meier et al), enjoys deep, complex microeconomic and macroeconomic simulation, as well as 'real life' finance, economics, history and military history and simulations. Fan of Dorothy Dunnett's House of Niccolo series of historical novels (trade, finance, warfare, politics. lust, envy, greed and power) and Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels of life in the 19th century Royal Navy around the time of the Napoleonic Wars.