The Flight of the Black Petunia (Event)

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When Fribolt was a young boy, his father took him on his first space-cruise ship, the SS Bolter, infamous at the time for being built to withstand a pummeling from meteors. When his father wasn’t looking, Fribolt would disappear to explore the ship, fascinated with the engineering being these vessels. His father was in fact a ship captain. He took Fribolt on multiple voyages, even after retiring as he ended up running a shipping company after working his way up through the management ranks with sheer experience alone.

His father’s company lost popularity very rapidly and got to a point where the company was purchased and absorbed by Max Capricorn Cruiseliners. His job was reduced from his senior position and was eventually lost when he got too old - his dream of giving the company to Fribolt was over. Fribolt decided regardless to work for Max Capricorn Cruiseliners, a company whose main demographic was Sto but had branches elsewhere, such as the X-icsosin company that was now owned by Max. Firbolt worked here, always hoping to one day make it its own entity, and slowly yet steadily, it was working. The release of the BH-Class cruisers were a tremendous scientific breakthrough, almost more popular than the SS Titanic’s storm drive engine.

Fribolt continued with projects, smaller scale than the BH-Class ships, but were successful nonetheless. Max seemingly disappeared around this time, appearing only as holograms to board meetings, and Fribolt had overheard those senior to him that they overthrew him from his own company, and rebranding efforts had opened up opportunity for the subsection that is X-icsosin to be sold back to Fribolt. It would be the Titanic disaster that sealed the company’s fate.

Max Capricorn Cruiserliner’s reputation sank after his plan was revealed to the public of Sto that he had attempted to destroy the planet known as Earth as well as the ship with all the passengers on board. Very few survived, among those businessman Rickston Slade, and Alonso Frame -- the only crewmember to survive the tragedy. With the company fighting to stay afloat, Fribolt took his company back for cheaper than he was originally expecting to pay and moved all of his assets over, including the BH-Class triplets.

X-Cruisers, as it was renamed to, launched with tremendous success, quickly filling in the void that Max Capricorn’s company left behind.

Following the SS Black Dahlia disaster, Fribolt would face heavy scrutiny, as his perfect technology faltered causing many lives to be lost. After many months of investigations and lawsuits, Fribolt stepped down from the company and seemingly disappeared for several years, wherein the company was co-run by a few brothers who never quite seemed to elevate the company above its glory days.

Many of Fribolt’s old friends would consider him a different man when he came back. Gone were the days of the warm, innovative family man. He seemed… colder, more ruthless? He took his company back, but was a lot less sociable.

It was a surprise to many when they found out that Fribolt would actually be on board the SS Black Petunia’s latest voyage, and with more tickets available than normal, one would think this was a voyage very few could possibly forget.