Early Background: Raised in the lawless Gamma quadrant of Sirius Theta. His family lived at the mercy of local crime barons.

Education/Training: Spent much of his youth working in junkyards and on board salvage vessels. Finally received formal training as an engineer after joining the local System Defence Corps.

Career:

• Spent 6 years with Sirius SDC, and became chief engineer aboard the SDV Sledgehammer defence boat.
• Transferred to Confed Navy at the beginning of the Reclamation War (3530 SA).
• Spent several months as an Emergency Procedures instructor on Terra, before being removed for inappropriate conduct.
• Awarded the Terran Cross of Valor and several other distinctions for exceptional bravery, mostly during extreme damage-control incidents.

SolSec Assessment:

• Has been tried as a civilian criminal twice and court-martialed three times.
• During time in Sirius SDC, accused of arms trading to Terran rebels and trafficking military-grade plutonium.
• During Naval career, court-martialed twice for assaulting fellow navy personnel, and once for the murder of a suspected Imperial spy.
• Rutland’s volatile personalty seems to be tempered best when he has control over his environment. He does not function well under the command of anyone but the XO or Captain.