Caught in the malfunction of a warp engine when still a baby, he was damaged before a proper clone scan had been done. Cataracts now cover his eyes rendering him blind. As compensation, though, he turned inwards and has become a master of interfacing with cybernetics, allowing him to use the capsule's sensors as his own eyes.

In a RL world where there is so much violence and strife, we have but to look at the behaviour of people in games like Eve to understand why this is. Absent a fear of punishment, without some big brother hanging over their heads, a large percentage of people choose to be assholes, choose to be greedy, choose to do only that which will benefit themselves the most, without regard to what it does to others. Sure, this is "only a game", but it gives us insight into what people really feel is acceptable and proper and what they feel is improper.