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Development of the drive was rushed under TriOp, which contributed to the system failures aboard the Von Braun years later.

Seeing the profit in Marie Delacroix's theories regarding faster-than-light travel, Korenchkin hired her into the company, giving TriOp an exclusive monopoly over interstellar travel for the forseeable future, and himself even more leverage over the UNN. Korenchkin exploited his new brands and leaned on his UNN contacts to relax technology restrictions. Even then, rumors spread that Korenchkin was ordering hits on uncooperative statesmen. Korenchkin, now CEO of the re-licensed TriOp, became known as brutal, difficult, demanding, and intimidating to his employees. With his millions in wealth, Korenchkin bought 51% of TriOptimum's stock, effectively buying the company. Incidentally, around this time, TriOptimum was in its death throes after the Citadel Station incident. Around 2092, Korenchkin ended his underground career. While Korenchkin and his employees' operations were known by the authorities, the UNN could not gather sufficient evidence to link it to him personally.Īs the years passed, law enforcement became more difficult to subvert. To his guilt, his employees would endure show trials and be sentenced to capital punishment. Many of these hackers, such as Veronika Red, would take the fall for Korenchkin. The job attracted many teens, mostly 10 or 11 years old (the oldest, barely 19) of vulnerable socioeconomic status. Despite his cutthroat line of work, Korenchkin despised taking lives personally, leaving his underlings to the task.Īs law enforcement shifted to cybernetics, Korenchkin hired any hacker willing to go behind the law. Without leaving physical records, Korenchkin soon became vastly rich. He avoided meeting his employees in person, preferring to keep two or three "layers" of anonymity between them.

Korenchkin possessed an eidetic memory, serving him well as he could avoid generating a paper trail. The latter would provide Korenchkin with classified military technology, which he would then sell to the highest bidder. Most of his clients belonged to the black market, or were corrupt UNN personnel. Petersburg and continued his criminal career in New Atlanta. Korenchkin was born in Russia and grew up working as an illegal dealer of arms and electronics.