Editing Chance Raschen (section)

===Pre-Starfleet History===

Chance originally had no intention of joining Starfleet, but he did have a strong sense of "for God and Country", so he became a member of the Irregular Federation Forces. When the Cardassian-Federation War started the couple agreed that T’Lela return to Romulus when Chance received a government commission, or Letter-of-Marque, to attack assorted types of enemy shipping throughout the war. Chance was also commissioned to provide logistical support to special units assigned to some of the Federation’s more clandestine interests; plus some of the larger, military campaigns. 

The Federation Irregular Forces was a type of militia that consisted of privateers and mercenaries hired to augment the Federation Starfleet and the Marine Corps and were required to wear an identification patch on their right arm; their motto was “Auxiliary Power Redefined”.  While serving in the I.F.F., Chance decided to use a pseudonym and the name he chose to use was “Chance Temerarious”. 

Throughout the war there were only two instances where Chance showed the unrelenting, ruthless viciousness of a bounty hunter.  The first occurred while escaping a Cardassian Prisoner-of-War compound. An Andorian named Thrall admitted to murdering T’Lela during his attempt to escape in Chance’s ship, the Star Hawk, alone and leave his fellow escapees behind. A Klingon Colonel known as Kree-ton, thwarted Thrall’s plan.  In his fury, Chance beat the Andorian to death with a spare piece of pipe. Chance then took T’Lela’s remains to Romulus, and placed her lifeless body at her father’s feet. After Chance told him how T’Lela had died and how he avenged her death; her father placed a hand on Chance’s shoulder saying “I thank you, my son”. 

The second was at a Cardassian starbase designated Echo Bravo-454; it was there that mere moments after the Cardassians surrendered the base to teams of the I.F.F.; the Klingons, lead by Colonel Kree-ton, felt their honor was slighted and attacked their I.F.F. allies. During the retaliation against the Klingons, Chance led a team that captured a B’rel class Bird-of-Prey and used it to help destroy Kree-ton’s ship which was a Vor’cha class battle cruiser. 

Within a week after the Cardassian-Federation War was officially declared at an end, all Letters-of-Marque' were made null and void. Any of the privateers and mercenaries that decided to join Starfleet or the Marines Corps was welcome to do so and “In appreciation of meritorious wartime service” was allowed to continue wearing the patch of the Irregular Federation Forces on their uniform. [[Image:StarWolfFlag.jpg|thumb|left|200px|''Irregular Federation Forces- "Auxiliary Power Redefined"'']]

After the war, Chance still had the Star Hawk and continued to serve the Federation as a privateer, providing the same kind of logistical and combat support for assorted missions that he did during the war. He also kept using the pseudonym Chance Temerarious, which had become his alter ego. 

He spent some time taking part in a Starfleet Intelligence program dubbed Project: Scarlet Pimpernel; in which the mission was to rescue Federation citizens that were detained from behind enemy lines by any means necessary.  Chance was later sent to protect Federation interests by fighting in the wars between the Ferengi Alliance and the Orion Syndicate. First he fought for the Ferengi against the Orions; and then again the following year for the Orions against the Ferengi.  


After several years of being regularly sent to go along Federation borders and attack any non-Federation shipping until Starfleet was able to reestablish the balance of power in those areas, Chance became very dubious as to the merits and stability of the Federation.  It was about the same time that Admiral Rodrigo Doenitz started “moving the pieces” to become the Federation President.  He had one of his intelligence agents, a Romulan exile named D’rajevon, reconstitute the Irregular Federation Forces and approach Chance, as well as others, with new Letters-of Marque which allowed them to attack only specified targets within the Federation and any targets of opportunity outside Federation borders to include territory held by the ‘rebellious’ 52nd Fleet.  Chance was also given the code name: Stellar Pilgrim.

Chance hit a point in life were he decided that he wanted to become a ships captain in the shipping division of his family’s company, Impetuous Industries; but his mother and grandfather dissuaded him on the facts that his past privateer activities would hurt the company in foreign territories.  So they recommended that he should join the military in order to regain at least some legitimacy, and pay his debt to society before becoming employed by the family’s firm. Chance agreed and contacted a Starfleet recruiter on Vulcan.