Son of wealthy minor nobility Koresh Khan. Father was a wealthy industrialist and Unionist who kept the family on Amar Prime and his mother was a Minmatar Mistrress named Vash. He is a bastard but was the only male child of his father so he was sent to the Imperial academy and set up as a pod pilot. His father was killed by Guristas when his yacht was seized. during secret diplomatic mission into null sec. Instead of joining the ministry of war Cygnus left and went to null sec to pursue revenge on the Guristas. After years of laying waste to scores of Guristas he found his revenge and blood lust sated. Cygnus returned briefly to the Ministry of war before joining a corporation operating in Minmatar space working under contract to the Sisters of Eve. When the corporation went bankrupt he was left alone to seek work as an enforcer for the Brutor. Upon learning of the fate of the Emperor he knew his place was back home so he returned to the ministry of war,