A Topolian child’s entire youth is consumed by inculcation that instills the Entwine’s values of peripatetic migration and integration with other species. This concept of “Outbound Flight” is the cornerstone of the Topolian social value system and serves as a defining right of passage into adulthood. With few exceptions, every Topolian departs the Entwine and enters a period of galactic wandering before deciding on a culture and nation into which they will integrate. For Creed, that decision led him first to the Precentor Tetrarchy and, later, the Nexonian Republic.

During his early wandering days after leaving the Entwine, Creed came across a hidden human enclave within the Tetrarchy that was deep in the fold of the Sullan Order’s teachings. The young Topolian became enamored with the group’s ideological perspective, working for a time at a local academy and absorbing the teachings of ancient human republicanism. His tenure came to an abrupt end when the enclave was discovered and decimated by Precentor forces. Although Creed managed to escape, it was a brutal firsthand lesson in the violence by which the intense factionalism among the remnants of humanity manifested itself.

Once more without a home, he journeyed to the Nexonian Republic, where the Order’s influence was not only openly permitted, but welcomed and embraced. Rather than returning to a scholar’s life, however, Creed was driven to enlist with the Nexonian Fusiliers in the hopes that he could redeem his failure to defend the Order’s enclave by helping to defend the Republic. During the Nexonian Trial of Succession, he fought valiantly in numerous campaigns, even if often on the losing end. By the time Creed was promoted to Polemarch, the war had turned decisively against the Nexonians. But Creed and many others opted to fight on, embracing asymmetric guerrilla warfare in response to the encroaching Precentor war machine.

During a raid on a Precentor outpost, Creed and his forces were ambushed, only barely escaping when an allied Nexonian force arrived and shuttled them to Gregos Alpha to recuperate. While there, Creed befriended Drake, who had just taken over the planet’s governorship and was attempting to manage an escalating refugee crisis. Recognizing Drake needed help, Creed offered his forces to help stabilize the planet and has remained in Drake’s service ever since.