{"data":{"id":18873,"title":"Portfolio: Cousin Crow's Custom Crafts","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/comm-link\/spectrum-dispatch\/18873-Portfolio-Cousin-Crows-Custom-Crafts","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-links\/18873","api_public_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/comm-links\/18873","channel":"Undefined","category":"Undefined","series":"Portfolio","images":[{"id":26463,"name":"source.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/media.robertsspaceindustries.com\/weozjmuuh3hwh\/source.jpg","alt":"","size":843046,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2019-09-19T15:49:32+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/26463","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/26463\/similar"},{"id":27893,"name":"Cousin-Crows-Lighting-Pass.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/media\/3vi6gidnvjjm9r\/source\/Cousin-Crows-Lighting-Pass.jpg","alt":"","size":5202520,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2021-10-05T10:04:11+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/27893","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/27893\/similar"}],"images_count":7,"translations":{"en_EN":"This portfolio originally appeared in Jump Point 9.10.\nWhen Cousin Crow\u2019s Custom Crafts opened its new flagship store on Orison in 2949, the event was so massive that the Providence platform registered a record-setting number of controlled bursts to maintain its proper altitude. People packed the store and overflowed up the stairs in both directions, overrunning the Crusader Discovery Center and Covalex store. Crusader Security considered ending the raucous event early but worried about how the already rambunctious crowd might react. As culture reporter Sabastien Frost remarked, \u201cHalf of Lo spent their life savings to attend this thing, and they aren\u2019t leaving until all the booze is gone.\u201d\n\nThe store was built out of a series of old repair bays that had formerly been used to maintain Crusader\u2019s fleet of cargo haulers. The open design allows customers to see ship customization in action. Yet for the opening extravaganza, these repair bays held classic ships, or pieces of them that showcased Cousin Crow\u2019s most famous mods and paints. \u201cEach ship you see is part of my story. Part of what got me here,\u201d recounted Nampo Vasko, or as he\u2019s known under his more popular moniker \u2018Cousin Crow,\u2019 before pointing to a small piece of the first Kraken Privateer, \u201cFor example, that\u2019s the ship that made all this possible.\u201d The shop features a triptych of vibrant graffiti-style murals that pay homage to Vasko\u2019s home neighborhood of North Block in New Junction. Designed by friend and frequent collaborator \u2018Tufo\u2019 Donato, the murals are meant as both a reflection of where Cousin Crow started and a reminder that no matter how much his life has changed, a part of him remains the same kid from the wrong side of New Junction.\n\nLO DOWN\nBorn in New Junction (Lo, Corel system) in 2883, Nampo Vasko spent his days raising hell with friends instead of working on his Equivalency. He would later state that his primary education came from the smuggling runs his mother took him on. Seeking to pay off the debts accrued from her gambling addiction, Nampo\u2019s mother would frequently sneak contraband in and out of New Junction. Nampo\u2019s role on these trips would be to provide a cover story and act as a distraction if any authorities paid their ship unwanted attention.\n\nWhen Nampo was twelve, his mother suffered her biggest loss wagering on the Murray Cup. In order to pay her debt, she agreed to \u201cloan\u201d Nampo to a local Banu criminal souli. The Banu put him to work on a wide variety of tasks, but Nampo fell in love with stripping ships for parts. It was through this work that Nampo would acquire the first ship he ever attempted to repair himself. That 2894 Cutlass was featured prominently at the opening event, with a sign describing it as \u201cthe ship that made Cousin Crow fall in love with ships.\u201d Even after helping pay off his mother\u2019s debt, Nampo became a regular at the Banu chopshop and grew more and more entangled with New Junction\u2019s criminal underworld. Nampo continued to work on ships and absorbed the Banu philosophy that no design was sacred, and everything could be improved to look or work better. He created ship liveries for fake companies, modified internal layouts to build smuggler\u2019s holds, and more. Yet as Nampo grew, so did his ambitions. Seeing the amount of credits smugglers made compared to chopshop workers, Nampo assembled a group of friends and stole a Constellation. Under Nampo\u2019s direction, the group reworked it into a smuggling ship and used his underworld connections to do small runs. A replica of that Connie\u2019s smuggler\u2019s hold was on display at the opening and described as \u201chis first failed design\u201d for not properly concealing contraband. In 2905, Advocacy, operating on an anonymous tip, arrested Nampo and his crew for smuggling and sent them all to a rehabilitation facility.\n\nBECOMING COUSIN CROW\nNampo found prison life both excruciatingly mundane and terribly dangerous. As his friends fell into gangs, Nampo instead used his boisterous and affable personality to survive. His jet-black hair and ability to float between groups earned him the nickname Cousin Crow, \u201ccousin\u201d being slang at that facility for someone who could be trusted. After hard work earned him an early release, Nampo returned to his North Block neighborhood. He scraped together credits by doing ship repairs and modifications for people he met through connections made in prison. Since they all knew him as Cousin Crow, he went with the name when opening a small ship customization shop in 2924.\n\nCousin Crow\u2019s Custom Crafts grew into a North Block sanctuary where folks could hang out safely. Though he stayed on the straight-and-narrow, Cousin Crow happily and expertly tricked out ships to be as audacious or inconspicuous as their owner desired. Often he hired friends fresh out of prison or looking to leave the outlaw life to work at his shop. The most notable being \u2018Tufo\u2019 Donato, who would go on to design some of the company\u2019s most famous liveries and the graffitistyle murals currently adorning the Orison store.\n\nThe original shop\u2019s reputation slowly spread and attracted customers from outside the Corel system. Cousin Crow\u2019s big break came in 2942 after partnering with a luxury tourline company to modify an old Genesis Starliner into the ultimate party ship. A massive marketing campaign saturated spectrum with images of the starliner and made Cousin Crow\u2019s a name in ship conversion circles across the empire. A piece of that party ship was also on display at the store opening described with the ad campaign\u2019s infamous tagline, \u201cSo much fun, it shouldn\u2019t be legal.\u201d\n\nNot long after, Drake executives invited him to visit their headquarters on Magnus. There they showed Cousin Crow plans for their first capital ship and offered him a chance to make an exclusive livery for the launch. Cousin Crow countered with an even bolder idea. Over the years, many of his clients had hired him to convert their ship\u2019s holds into Banu-like marketplaces. Rather than have to do an after-market retrofit, how much better would it be if he could work with Drake directly? The executives loved the idea and soon the Kraken Privateer was born, sealing Cousin Crow\u2019s reputation as one of the premier conversion shops in the UEE.\n\nSoon, Cousin Crow found himself successful beyond his wildest dreams and with more credits than he could ever spend. He became a connoisseur of high-end street fashion, a generous patron of his favorite artists, and a classic ship collector. He also poured credits into his business by drastically expanding his shop in North Block and hiring friends and family at sky-high salaries to curb any lingering temptations to running afoul of the law.\n\nIn 2944, following his recent success and his earlier impressive \u201cparty ship\u201d starliner conversion, Crusader Industries reached out to Cousin Crow to see if he was interested in overseeing its engineering team responsible for converting branded starliners to customer specifications. As part of the deal, Cousin Crow negotiated for a flagship store on one of Orison\u2019s most heavily trafficked platforms.\n\nFrom wild child to wildly successful entrepreneur, Cousin Crow has become a beloved hero to North Block residents for achieving success without turning his back on where it all began. A feat he achieved by adapting to any situation and seeing the potential for change in himself, other people, and most importantly ships.","de_DE":"Dieses Portfolio erschien urspr\u00fcnglich in Jump Point 9.10.\nAls Cousin Crow's Custom Crafts im Jahr 2949 seinen neuen Flagship-Store auf Orison er\u00f6ffnete, war das Ereignis so gewaltig, dass die Providence-Plattform eine rekordverd\u00e4chtige Anzahl kontrollierter Spr\u00fcnge registrierte, um die richtige H\u00f6he zu halten. Die Menschen str\u00f6mten in beide Richtungen die Treppen hinauf und \u00fcberrannten das Crusader Discovery Center und das Covalex-Gesch\u00e4ft. Der Sicherheitsdienst von Crusader erwog, die l\u00e4rmende Veranstaltung vorzeitig zu beenden, machte sich aber Sorgen, wie die ohnehin schon ausgelassene Menge reagieren w\u00fcrde. Wie der Kulturreporter Sabastien Frost bemerkte: \"Die H\u00e4lfte von Lo hat ihre Ersparnisse ausgegeben, um an dieser Veranstaltung teilzunehmen, und sie gehen erst, wenn der ganze Schnaps weg ist.\"\n\nDer Laden wurde aus einer Reihe von alten Reparaturhallen gebaut, die fr\u00fcher zur Wartung der Frachtschiffe von Crusader genutzt wurden. Das offene Design erm\u00f6glicht es den Kunden, die Schiffsanpassung in Aktion zu sehen. Bei der Er\u00f6ffnung waren in diesen Reparaturhallen klassische Schiffe oder Teile davon ausgestellt, die Cousin Crows ber\u00fchmteste Modifikationen und Anstriche zeigten. \"Jedes Schiff, das Sie sehen, ist Teil meiner Geschichte. Ein Teil dessen, was mich hierher gebracht hat\", erz\u00e4hlte Nampo Vasko, oder wie er unter seinem bekannteren Namen 'Cousin Crow' bekannt ist, bevor er auf ein kleines St\u00fcck des ersten Kraken Privateer zeigte, \"Das ist zum Beispiel das Schiff, das all das hier m\u00f6glich gemacht hat.\" Der Laden ist mit einem Triptychon aus lebhaften Wandbildern im Graffiti-Stil geschm\u00fcckt, die eine Hommage an Vaskos Heimatviertel North Block in New Junction darstellen. Die von seinem Freund und h\u00e4ufigen Mitarbeiter 'Tufo' Donato entworfenen Wandbilder sollen sowohl die Anf\u00e4nge von Cousin Crow widerspiegeln als auch daran erinnern, dass, egal wie sehr sich sein Leben ver\u00e4ndert hat, ein Teil von ihm immer noch derselbe Junge von der falschen Seite von New Junction ist.\n\nLO DOWN\nNampo Vasko wurde 2883 in New Junction (Lo, Corel-System) geboren und verbrachte seine Tage damit, mit seinen Freunden die H\u00f6lle hei\u00df zu machen, anstatt an seiner Gleichwertigkeit zu arbeiten. Sp\u00e4ter stellte er fest, dass er seine Grundausbildung durch die Schmuggelfahrten seiner Mutter erhielt. Um die durch ihre Spielsucht angeh\u00e4uften Schulden zu begleichen, schmuggelte Nampos Mutter h\u00e4ufig Schmuggelware in und aus New Junction. Nampos Rolle bei diesen Fahrten bestand darin, eine Tarngeschichte zu liefern und als Ablenkung zu fungieren, falls die Beh\u00f6rden unerw\u00fcnscht auf ihr Schiff aufmerksam wurden.\n\nAls Nampo zw\u00f6lf Jahre alt war, erlitt seine Mutter ihren gr\u00f6\u00dften Verlust beim Wetten auf den Murray Cup. Um ihre Schulden zu begleichen, erkl\u00e4rte sie sich bereit, Nampo an einen lokalen Banu-Verbrechersouli \"auszuleihen\". Die Banu lie\u00dfen ihn f\u00fcr eine Vielzahl von Aufgaben arbeiten, aber Nampo verliebte sich in das Ausschlachten von Schiffen. Durch diese Arbeit erwarb Nampo das erste Schiff, das er jemals selbst zu reparieren versuchte. Diese 2894 Cutlass war bei der Er\u00f6ffnungsveranstaltung prominent vertreten und wurde auf einem Schild als \"das Schiff, das Cousin Crow dazu brachte, sich in Schiffe zu verlieben\" beschrieben. Selbst nachdem er geholfen hatte, die Schulden seiner Mutter zu begleichen, wurde Nampo Stammgast im Banu Chopshop und verstrickte sich immer mehr in die kriminelle Unterwelt von New Junction. Nampo arbeitete weiter an Schiffen und \u00fcbernahm die Banu-Philosophie, dass kein Design heilig ist und alles verbessert werden kann, damit es besser aussieht oder funktioniert. Er entwarf Schiffsbemalungen f\u00fcr gef\u00e4lschte Unternehmen, ver\u00e4nderte die Innenaufteilung, um Schmugglerr\u00e4ume zu bauen, und vieles mehr. Doch als Nampo wuchs, wuchsen auch seine Ambitionen. Als er sah, wie viel Credits Schmuggler im Vergleich zu den Arbeitern in der Werkstatt verdienten, stellte Nampo eine Gruppe von Freunden zusammen und stahl eine Constellation. Unter Nampos Leitung baute die Gruppe das Schiff zu einem Schmuggelschiff um und nutzte seine Verbindungen zur Unterwelt, um kleine St\u00fcckzahlen zu produzieren. Ein Nachbau des Schmugglerraums der Connie war bei der Er\u00f6ffnung zu sehen und wurde als \"sein erster misslungener Entwurf\" bezeichnet, weil er die Schmuggelware nicht richtig versteckt hatte. Im Jahr 2905 verhaftete Advocacy aufgrund eines anonymen Hinweises Nampo und seine Crew wegen Schmuggels und schickte sie alle in eine Rehabilitationseinrichtung.\n\nCOUSIN CROW WERDEN\nNampo fand das Leben im Gef\u00e4ngnis sowohl entsetzlich allt\u00e4glich als auch furchtbar gef\u00e4hrlich. W\u00e4hrend seine Freunde in Banden gerieten, nutzte Nampo seine ungest\u00fcme und freundliche Pers\u00f6nlichkeit, um zu \u00fcberleben. Sein pechschwarzes Haar und seine F\u00e4higkeit, sich zwischen den Gruppen zu bewegen, brachten ihm den Spitznamen Cousin Crow ein, wobei \"Cousin\" in dieser Einrichtung ein Slangbegriff f\u00fcr jemanden ist, dem man vertrauen kann. Nachdem er sich durch harte Arbeit eine vorzeitige Entlassung verdient hatte, kehrte Nampo in sein Viertel North Block zur\u00fcck. Er kratzte Kredite zusammen, indem er Schiffsreparaturen und -umbauten f\u00fcr Leute durchf\u00fchrte, die er durch seine Verbindungen im Gef\u00e4ngnis kennengelernt hatte. Da sie ihn alle als Cousin Crow kannten, nahm er diesen Namen an, als er 2924 eine kleine Werkstatt f\u00fcr Schiffsanpassungen er\u00f6ffnete.\n\nCousin Crow's Custom Crafts entwickelte sich zu einem Zufluchtsort im Nordblock, an dem sich die Leute sicher aufhalten konnten. Obwohl er sich an die Regeln hielt, baute Cousin Crow gerne und fachm\u00e4nnisch Schiffe so um, dass sie so verwegen oder unauff\u00e4llig waren, wie ihr Besitzer es w\u00fcnschte. Oft heuerte er Freunde an, die frisch aus dem Gef\u00e4ngnis kamen oder das Leben als Gesetzloser hinter sich lassen wollten, um in seinem Laden zu arbeiten. Der bekannteste von ihnen war 'Tufo' Donato, der sp\u00e4ter einige der ber\u00fchmtesten Bemalungen des Unternehmens und die Graffiti-Wandgem\u00e4lde entwarf, die heute den Orison-Laden schm\u00fccken.\n\nDer Ruf des urspr\u00fcnglichen Ladens verbreitete sich langsam und zog Kunden von au\u00dferhalb des Corel-Systems an. Der gro\u00dfe Durchbruch gelang Cousin Crow im Jahr 2942, nachdem er sich mit einem luxuri\u00f6sen Touristikunternehmen zusammengetan hatte, um einen alten Genesis Starliner in das ultimative Partyschiff umzubauen. Eine massive Marketingkampagne \u00fcberschwemmte das Spektrum mit Bildern des Starliners und machte Cousin Crow's zu einem Namen in Schiffsumbaukreisen im ganzen Imperium. Ein St\u00fcck dieses Partyschiffs war auch bei der Gesch\u00e4ftser\u00f6ffnung ausgestellt, beschrieben mit dem ber\u00fcchtigten Slogan der Werbekampagne: \"So viel Spa\u00df, dass es nicht legal sein sollte.\"\n\nKurze Zeit sp\u00e4ter luden ihn die Drake-F\u00fchrungskr\u00e4fte ein, ihr Hauptquartier auf Magnus zu besuchen. Dort zeigten sie Cousin Crow die Pl\u00e4ne f\u00fcr ihr erstes gro\u00dfes Schiff und boten ihm an, eine exklusive Lackierung f\u00fcr den Stapellauf zu entwerfen. Cousin Crow konterte mit einer noch k\u00fchneren Idee. Im Laufe der Jahre hatten ihn viele seiner Kunden beauftragt, die Lader\u00e4ume ihrer Schiffe in Banu-\u00e4hnliche Marktpl\u00e4tze zu verwandeln. Wie viel besser w\u00e4re es, wenn er direkt mit Drake zusammenarbeiten k\u00f6nnte, anstatt eine Nachr\u00fcstung vornehmen zu m\u00fcssen? Die F\u00fchrungskr\u00e4fte waren von der Idee begeistert und schon bald war der Kraken Privateer geboren, der den Ruf von Cousin Crow als einer der besten Umbaul\u00e4den in der UEE besiegelte.\n\nSchon bald war Cousin Crow erfolgreicher als in seinen k\u00fchnsten Tr\u00e4umen und hatte mehr Geld, als er jemals ausgeben konnte. Er wurde zu einem Kenner hochwertiger Stra\u00dfenmode, einem gro\u00dfz\u00fcgigen M\u00e4zen seiner Lieblingsk\u00fcnstler und einem Sammler klassischer Schiffe. Au\u00dferdem steckte er Credits in sein Gesch\u00e4ft, indem er seinen Laden im North Block drastisch vergr\u00f6\u00dferte und Freunde und Familienmitglieder mit himmelhohen Geh\u00e4ltern einstellte, um jegliche Versuchung, mit dem Gesetz in Konflikt zu geraten, zu unterbinden.\n\nIm Jahr 2944, nach seinem j\u00fcngsten Erfolg und dem beeindruckenden Umbau seines \"Partyschiffs\", wandte sich Crusader Industries an Cousin Crow, um ihn zu fragen, ob er daran interessiert sei, das Ingenieurteam zu leiten, das f\u00fcr den Umbau von Marken-Starlinern nach Kundenw\u00fcnschen zust\u00e4ndig ist. Als Teil des Gesch\u00e4fts verhandelte Cousin Crow \u00fcber einen Flagshipstore auf einer der am st\u00e4rksten frequentierten Plattformen von Orison.\n\nCousin Crow hat sich vom wilden Kind zum erfolgreichen Unternehmer entwickelt und ist bei den Bewohnern des North Blocks zu einem beliebten Helden geworden, weil er erfolgreich war, ohne dem Ort den R\u00fccken zu kehren, an dem alles begann. Eine Leistung, die er vollbrachte, indem er sich an jede Situation anpasste und das Potenzial f\u00fcr Ver\u00e4nderungen bei sich selbst, anderen Menschen und vor allem bei Schiffen erkannte.","zh_CN":"This portfolio originally appeared in Jump Point 9.10.\nWhen Cousin Crow\u2019s Custom Crafts opened its new flagship store on Orison in 2949, the event was so massive that the Providence platform registered a record-setting number of controlled bursts to maintain its proper altitude. People packed the store and overflowed up the stairs in both directions, overrunning the Crusader Discovery Center and Covalex store. Crusader Security considered ending the raucous event early but worried about how the already rambunctious crowd might react. As culture reporter Sabastien Frost remarked, \u201cHalf of Lo spent their life savings to attend this thing, and they aren\u2019t leaving until all the booze is gone.\u201d\n\nThe store was built out of a series of old repair bays that had formerly been used to maintain Crusader\u2019s fleet of cargo haulers. The open design allows customers to see ship customization in action. Yet for the opening extravaganza, these repair bays held classic ships, or pieces of them that showcased Cousin Crow\u2019s most famous mods and paints. \u201cEach ship you see is part of my story. Part of what got me here,\u201d recounted Nampo Vasko, or as he\u2019s known under his more popular moniker \u2018Cousin Crow,\u2019 before pointing to a small piece of the first Kraken Privateer, \u201cFor example, that\u2019s the ship that made all this possible.\u201d The shop features a triptych of vibrant graffiti-style murals that pay homage to Vasko\u2019s home neighborhood of North Block in New Junction. Designed by friend and frequent collaborator \u2018Tufo\u2019 Donato, the murals are meant as both a reflection of where Cousin Crow started and a reminder that no matter how much his life has changed, a part of him remains the same kid from the wrong side of New Junction.\n\nLO DOWN\nBorn in New Junction (Lo, Corel system) in 2883, Nampo Vasko spent his days raising hell with friends instead of working on his Equivalency. He would later state that his primary education came from the smuggling runs his mother took him on. Seeking to pay off the debts accrued from her gambling addiction, Nampo\u2019s mother would frequently sneak contraband in and out of New Junction. Nampo\u2019s role on these trips would be to provide a cover story and act as a distraction if any authorities paid their ship unwanted attention.\n\nWhen Nampo was twelve, his mother suffered her biggest loss wagering on the Murray Cup. In order to pay her debt, she agreed to \u201cloan\u201d Nampo to a local Banu criminal souli. The Banu put him to work on a wide variety of tasks, but Nampo fell in love with stripping ships for parts. It was through this work that Nampo would acquire the first ship he ever attempted to repair himself. That 2894 Cutlass was featured prominently at the opening event, with a sign describing it as \u201cthe ship that made Cousin Crow fall in love with ships.\u201d Even after helping pay off his mother\u2019s debt, Nampo became a regular at the Banu chopshop and grew more and more entangled with New Junction\u2019s criminal underworld. Nampo continued to work on ships and absorbed the Banu philosophy that no design was sacred, and everything could be improved to look or work better. He created ship liveries for fake companies, modified internal layouts to build smuggler\u2019s holds, and more. Yet as Nampo grew, so did his ambitions. Seeing the amount of credits smugglers made compared to chopshop workers, Nampo assembled a group of friends and stole a Constellation. Under Nampo\u2019s direction, the group reworked it into a smuggling ship and used his underworld connections to do small runs. A replica of that Connie\u2019s smuggler\u2019s hold was on display at the opening and described as \u201chis first failed design\u201d for not properly concealing contraband. In 2905, Advocacy, operating on an anonymous tip, arrested Nampo and his crew for smuggling and sent them all to a rehabilitation facility.\n\nBECOMING COUSIN CROW\nNampo found prison life both excruciatingly mundane and terribly dangerous. As his friends fell into gangs, Nampo instead used his boisterous and affable personality to survive. His jet-black hair and ability to float between groups earned him the nickname Cousin Crow, \u201ccousin\u201d being slang at that facility for someone who could be trusted. After hard work earned him an early release, Nampo returned to his North Block neighborhood. He scraped together credits by doing ship repairs and modifications for people he met through connections made in prison. Since they all knew him as Cousin Crow, he went with the name when opening a small ship customization shop in 2924.\n\nCousin Crow\u2019s Custom Crafts grew into a North Block sanctuary where folks could hang out safely. Though he stayed on the straight-and-narrow, Cousin Crow happily and expertly tricked out ships to be as audacious or inconspicuous as their owner desired. Often he hired friends fresh out of prison or looking to leave the outlaw life to work at his shop. The most notable being \u2018Tufo\u2019 Donato, who would go on to design some of the company\u2019s most famous liveries and the graffitistyle murals currently adorning the Orison store.\n\nThe original shop\u2019s reputation slowly spread and attracted customers from outside the Corel system. Cousin Crow\u2019s big break came in 2942 after partnering with a luxury tourline company to modify an old Genesis Starliner into the ultimate party ship. A massive marketing campaign saturated spectrum with images of the starliner and made Cousin Crow\u2019s a name in ship conversion circles across the empire. A piece of that party ship was also on display at the store opening described with the ad campaign\u2019s infamous tagline, \u201cSo much fun, it shouldn\u2019t be legal.\u201d\n\nNot long after, Drake executives invited him to visit their headquarters on Magnus. There they showed Cousin Crow plans for their first capital ship and offered him a chance to make an exclusive livery for the launch. Cousin Crow countered with an even bolder idea. Over the years, many of his clients had hired him to convert their ship\u2019s holds into Banu-like marketplaces. Rather than have to do an after-market retrofit, how much better would it be if he could work with Drake directly? The executives loved the idea and soon the Kraken Privateer was born, sealing Cousin Crow\u2019s reputation as one of the premier conversion shops in the UEE.\n\nSoon, Cousin Crow found himself successful beyond his wildest dreams and with more credits than he could ever spend. He became a connoisseur of high-end street fashion, a generous patron of his favorite artists, and a classic ship collector. He also poured credits into his business by drastically expanding his shop in North Block and hiring friends and family at sky-high salaries to curb any lingering temptations to running afoul of the law.\n\nIn 2944, following his recent success and his earlier impressive \u201cparty ship\u201d starliner conversion, Crusader Industries reached out to Cousin Crow to see if he was interested in overseeing its engineering team responsible for converting branded starliners to customer specifications. As part of the deal, Cousin Crow negotiated for a flagship store on one of Orison\u2019s most heavily trafficked platforms.\n\nFrom wild child to wildly successful entrepreneur, Cousin Crow has become a beloved hero to North Block residents for achieving success without turning his back on where it all began. A feat he achieved by adapting to any situation and seeing the potential for change in himself, other people, and most importantly ships."},"links_count":0,"comment_count":23,"created_at":"2022-09-14T02:00:00+00:00","created_at_human":"3 years ago"},"meta":{"processed_at":"2026-04-25 19:10:28","valid_relations":["images","links","translations"],"prev_id":18872,"next_id":18874}}