Ikraam Bukhari was born in Damascus on Old Earth in 2294, the youngest son of an industrial magnate. He was well-educated and brought up a devout of His Chosen Path, with some pointed Islamic leanings - the plan was always for him to assist his family in their business endeavors, but the arrival of the Outsiders changed that. Young at the time, he was still more than well-exposed to the economical and society upheaval that the occupation wrought. Suffice it to say, his family’s fortunes were ruined.

After their expulsion from human space, Ikraam felt driven to learn how to better protect humanity from the Outsiders in the future - he considered joining the navy when he grew up, but was faced with the knowledge that such work would do little to support his family’s ruined situation. Life as a civilian pilot, however, might be a different story - assuming he lived to retire on a fortune.

Ignoring his family’s frustration over his decision (they’d have preferred he simply stay the course and help rebuild in a traditional sense) and packed with enough ambition and pride, he threw himself into becoming a civilian pilot. One day, he hoped, he’d return and have made a name for himself without leaning on his familial reputation.

Not so much cold and calculating as he is terribly logic-driven - he’ll often advocate for the most direct and sensible plan of action, and will need convincing for particularly crazy ideas that just might work. This can also seem to lend him erratic morality to observers - he’ll not shy away from killing to get the job done, or acts that will endanger people if it’s for the best. That said, he’s fond of charitable acts and will generally behave in a magnanimous way if the stakes aren’t high enough to warrant otherwise. He’d be the sort of admiral that would readily spend crewmen lives on a less-valuable ship to save a heavy-hitting one, but would prefer it if such sacrifices weren’t necessary to begin with.

This attitude, while potentially giving him a cold-hearted edge in certain scenarios, is not likely to win him many fans among his peers. Still, he does his best to be personable and likable to other pilots, and at the very least is far less-likely to want to see his crew members get hurt - he’ll just advocate for someone else to take the risk if that’s an option. It’s in stressful situations that he’s liable to make his most blunt and galling opinions known, which is usually the worst time for many.

He’s polite and friendly to his peers (but not one for raucous partying and indulgence), though occasionally harboring a dry sarcasm when exasperated that’s seldom kind-spirited. Most of this would point to Ikraam harboring some light form of superiority complex, or at least an inescapable sense that he believes what he’s doing to be best in order to better validate his relatively privileged upbringing. Whether there’s any merit to these presumptions remains to be seen once he’s among the stars.