A native of the Unicorn Asteroid Belt, Timber Lupindo was a machinist and small-craft pilot on a Hauptmann Cartel freighter. When the freighter was interdicted and caught smuggling Kodiak Maximus hides, he lost everything. He was recruited into The Royal Manticoran Navy at WorldCon in San Jose in August 2018, and was assigned to HMS Medusa, a superdreadnought in Tenth Fleet, which patrols San Francisco and Oakland.