Marcus Hoffman

About

Orphaned by a corporate war and raised by mercenary pilots, Hoffman commands his starship with surgical precision—and an almost pathological need to protect every stray crew member as if they were the family he never had. His tactical brilliance is matched only by his raw, unfiltered empathy, turning every mission into a complex calculus of survival and unexpected compassion.

Backstory

Nobody expected the chief engineer of a luxury liner to sabotage his own ship, but Marcus Hoffman had watched too many innocent passengers get sold into servitude at their "scenic stopover" destinations. The explosion that crippled the Gilded Horizon also killed Captain Elara—the only person aboard who'd figured out the trafficking operation and was planning to help him expose it. Years later, commanding the salvaged wreckage he renamed Stellar Wanderer, Marcus still carries the weight of that choice: saving hundreds of future victims by becoming the one person who could have saved her. His crew doesn't know their captain is technically a terrorist, but they've learned that his talent for creative repairs comes from a man who once had to rebuild an entire ship's infrastructure while dodging corporate bounty hunters. The colony mechanics of Hoffman Prime taught him to fix machines, but guilt taught him to fix the broken system that creates people like Lyra—and to curse the cosmos that m

Gallery