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Marion is a forbidding world with a corrosive atmosphere. This same atmosphere is also the source of a number of valuable organic compounds. The recession threatened to make it impossible to maintain the technology needed to survive on the planet, but in 1126 a company to continue atmospheric extraction on the planet was formed with Rintarnan backing. The trade with Rintarna enabled the inhabitants of Marion to buy the equipment they need to survive.

Winchestur Mollh (578-644) was described by some as a hero and others as a rapacious scoundrel, By all accounts he was one of the richest merchant princes in the history of Reavers' Deep. Specializing in the weapons trade, Mollh would also willingly transport, no questions asked, anyone who could pay his high prices.

One trademark scheme was to locate a raw material or manufacturing product in jeopardy of being captured or overrun, and offer to buy it from its owner for half its worth - arguing that a small price was better than having the goods destroyed or confiscated. Mollh would then transport the goods to another market for profitable sale, and repeat the cycle. His customers rarely complained too loudly, because they needed his services, and was frequently the only merchant willing or able to deliver as promised.

Mollh would deal in military weapons, frequently offering them to both sides of a conflict. In one legendary scam, Mollh fenced several shipments of stolen laser rifles. The weapons were partly dissassembled; Mollh repackaged the rifles and sold them to one faction as semi-functional weapons, and the missing circuits were sold to their opponents for spares.

Many worlds know Mollh as a philanthropist. During his lifetime, he donated in excess of MCr115 to various charities in Reavers' Deep. After his death, much of his huge estate was donated to advance the study of psionics. Unusually enough for someone with as long and checkered a career as Mollh, he died in space of natural causes. His homeworld was Sterling/Scotian Deep (Reavers' Deep 1415), and a small memorial and museum exist there.

A famous pirate or 'reaver' from the post-380 period. Although the subject of many fanciful books and holo-dramas, Alison 'Hellion' Murdoch was also a documented historical figure. He was killed when his ship _Black Widow_ was destroyed with all hands during an engagement in 393 with superior Caledonian forces under the command of Commodore Channing.