The Forgotten Sentinels / TFSX

The Forgotten Sentinels: A Shadow-Bound Timeline
1. Birth of the Echoes (2548 UEE)
After Ivar’s Crown: When Messer seized absolute power, splinter groups formed in the dust. A handful of ex-Marine scorched by UPE’s brutality and Tevarin refugees displaced by the Ascension quietly slipped off the records and founded TFSX on a forgotten moon in the Vega system.

First Moves: Rather than open diplomacy or grand rescues, they trafficked stolen UEE Navy supply manifests to pirate cells on Regulus II, funding their budding operation in complete secrecy.

2. Ghost Fleets of the Border Wars (2575–2585 UEE)
Vanduul Distraction: While the UEE fleet scrambled at the front, TFSX sold “private military solutions” to colony governors—offering arms and intel without asking questions. Their ships never bore the Sentinel emblem; they were the unmarked raiders who’d vanish as Vanduul clouds rolled in.

Reputation: Whispers of untraceable strikes—one night a settlement’s grain stores are blown, next day orphaned bio-synths turn up on the black market—tied back to contracts brokered through back-alley brokers.

3. Profit in the Messer Collapse (2792 UEE)
Civil Unrest Exploited: As the Messer dynasty bled power, TFSX shifted to high-margin smuggling. They moved contraband arms and illicit tech through the crumbling trade lanes—delivering exclusive “disaster relief” shipments to warlords in exchange for entire mining runs of precious ore.

Low Profile: Never claimed credit. When a cargo of Tevarin relics hit the Stanton black markets, Sentinel involvement was an unfounded rumor—just the way they liked it.

4. Underworld Brokers in the Golden Age (2840–2880 UEE)
Factions and Favours: During the boom, they quietly orchestrated corporate sabotage—planting cyber-worms in Archon data-vaults, tipping off insider traders on Helios lines. No public face, only dead-drops and ledger entries in encrypted caches.

The Bazaar Myth: Tales of a “Floating Bazaar” in the shadows of Tressa circulated: a one-night-only black-market exchange where the price for attendance was always blood or data.

5. Tevarin Restoration—A Double-Edged Game (2921–2930 UEE)
Secret Deals: TFSX brokered clandestine “compensation” pacts: megacredits exchanged for UEE senators quietly voting against Tevarin autonomy. Publicly they posed as mediators; privately they funded reconstruction efforts only to seize reconstruction-grade infrastructure under shell corporations.

Outcome: Tevarin enclaves gained reprieve—but TFSX ended up owning the mineral rights under swathes of their reclaimed worlds.

6. The Idris Files and Blackwater Whispers (2945–2946 UEE)
Covert Ops for Coin: Contracted by a black-budget Admiralty cell to recover data from a missing Idris, Sentinel teams slipped into Xi’an space under forged Alliance credentials. They stole more than just data drives—dark archives on UEE biological-weapon experiments now seed wild conspiracy theories.

Never Acknowledged: Admiralty papers quietly disappeared; TFSX ledger shows a single entry: “Project Idris—Credits Received.”

7. Present-Day Puppeteers of the Grey Zone (2955 UEE)
Faces in the Shadows:

Mercenary Chameleon: One week they bolster Vega colonists against raiders; the next they slip arms to those same marauders under a different shell corp.

Logistics Overlords: TFSX controls Phantom Freight Lines—a ghost fleet that hauls contraband, foodstuffs, and weaponized drones between unregulated jump points.

Industrial Syndicate: Through cut-rate “reconstruction” contracts, they operate clandestine factories on scarred worlds, churning out arms, mining drones, and illicit cyberware for the highest bidder.

Banking & Bond Schemes: They run off-book financial networks—laundering megacredits through faux charities, rigging planetary bond markets, and triggering flash crashes to buy up distressed assets.

Piracy Rings: In the unpoliced sectors beyond Stanton and Pyro, Sentinel-backed corsair squadrons stage “random” raids on merchant convoys—coldly profitable chaos with no fingerprints.

Information Dealers: Anonymously drip “compromising data” on corp executives and UEE senators to blackmail markets—selling both the leaks and the “solutions” to bury them.

Ultimate Agenda: They’re not empire-builders nor saviors—they’re the Verse’s quietly beating heart of turmoil: fueling wars, profiting from reconstruction, and owning the very credits everyone fights over. Under “MrSHADOW”, TFSX ensures that whenever the galaxy trembles, they’re the ones cashing in on every side of the conflict.