Editing Tolor (section)

== Background ==
Tolor was born on the Orion homeworld to parents in debt to a pirate clan and working it off in a clan shipyard. The starships were interesting enough, but Tolor was fascinated by the strange artifacts in the clan trophy room. Who made these? Why? Sadly, the clan were pirates, not curators, so he had to learn how to puzzle it out for himself.<br>
After graduation there was still the matter of his family's debt, but one particularly interesting bit of ancient technology proved enough to clear that up. Of course, after that he kept going back to the Syndicate and the clans; you go where the grant money is, and he did his best to act the part of a rougish treasure hunter.<br> 
In fact, the "treasure" was less interesting to him than who had made it and what they were like, and he found ways to give his sponsors what they wanted while still gathering every possible bit of publishable data from the site. If some of his most interesting discoveries wound up in vaults, he knew firsthand that no vault lasts forever.<br> 
He could solve his funding problems by joining, say, a Federation institution - he had worked with the Daystrom Institute once or twice - but he found them too risk-adverse. It wasn't like he had gotten into armed conflict with locals more than once.<br>
And the truth is, down below the scholarly passions, there is still the kid who watched pirates and gangsters strut around like they owned the galaxy. The truth is, he likes coming off a little bit roguish.