Guild Master Boris Von'telsin
Supreme leader of the awesome Merchants Guild, Boris Von'Telsin is renowned for his cold calculations, indomitable patience and smoldering anger; he is a man one simply does not wish to cross. Boris was born in the Shylas sector, an area of space a vast distance from the Sphere that was at the time controlled by a powerful multi global Mob cartel. Having survived a violent childhood Boris spent his early years as a hit man for the Descan family. Finally as several world leaders united together to take down the Descan family Boris was sent to eliminate them, the job however was a setup, Boris was going to be used as a scapegoat, the wanted killer being handed over to get the leaders to back off. But something went wrong, Boris was too good, he actually managed to kill several of the leaders before realizing the trap, evading arrest and making off with a vast some of the Descan families money before finally disappearing underground. Boris Von'Telsin vanished for over 20 years, in secret he had invested large sums of money into various corporations in the Shylas sector until he finally controlled most of the market, then used the vast sums of money those corporations brought to buy off world presidents. When Boris Von'Telsin reappeared it was violent and bloody, the Descan family had been engaged in a long standing feud with several of Boris's corporations, suddenly a massive government crack down occurred, due to Telsin's manipulations of World Presidents, at about the same time all Corporations stopped there dealings with the Descan family, the Mob cartel was arrested and bankrupted in the same blow. In the aftermath Boris expanded his merchant network, eventually joining with and ultimately assuming control of the mighty Merchants Guild. In recognition of his successful coup the former Guild master stepped down from The Nine allowing Boris Von'Telsin to take his place.