Shadow Brokers / SBX

Years ago, when human technology allowed for an explosion of industry in space, every corporation on earth with a healthy balance sheet began space operations. Soon popular planets and systems became very crowded as spacefaring services became numerous, leading to a saturated market and fierce competition.

A former Navy logistics captain with the pilot handle “Killjoy” saw the situation and decided that while popular places were overserved, vast reaches of space were underserved, due to the danger of operating in those areas.

His Navy logistics experience had taught him how to procure and move resources into and out of hostile places. He also had a sense of where to procure hard to find items that select customers would pay a premium for.

With the help of some retired Navy friends, he founded the company Standard Billing Exchange, or SBX, borrowing the old meaning for “billing” in the sense of a cargo billing, modernly referred to as a manifest or bill of lading. But this was a name-on-paper, and in any context outside of official channels he called the company Shadow Brokers.

Utilizing their Navy training, Shadow Brokers would do hauling, trade, procurement, and manufacture in the most hostile places. A strategic employment of escort, QRF, and escape and evasion tactics allowed them to operate in relative safety despite these conditions. Also with these danger levels, Shadow Brokers enjoyed minimal competition and maximum profits.

After Killjoy passed on, the company was sold to a security company who wished to utilize the Shadow Brokers knowledge of hostile space security tactics in their own operations.

Many key agents and brokers in Shadow Brokers didn’t approve of the merger, particularly since it led to a shutdown of manufacture and hauling operations, and immediately created a new charter to continue the Shadow Brokers name and operations.

In order to fund the remade company a wealthy heir in the Shuban family agreed to be their principal underwriter and another company named Beltane secured the charter, resulting in the name Shubin-Beltane Exchange, still SBX. Again outside of official documentation everyone in the org knows it as Shadow Brokers.

The current leader of SBX is Leovinis Avorias (flight name Expressman).