Fernán has always been a physically and mentally gifted soul: beautiful, smart, a dreamer, thin and dextrous. But he was lazy: school learning and the traditional "job" have always been boring and for the dull of the world. He took to forgery - easy, given his natural gift for languages and his affinity for art. These skills coupled with his ability to charm bits of critical information out of people led him naturally to some white collar crime.
Being the dreamer, he decided eventually to "go legitimate" and hire on with the merchants. He proved to be a natural pilot, with intuitive spatial sense and excellent reflexes. Unfortunately, he faced discipline problems regularly, and was expelled after he was found trying to blackmail an officer (he got away because he quickly found a way to blackmail, in turn, the officer who threw him out).
He has returned to his questionable ways, and now works as an civilian importer and information broker, supplying those who live on the stations with goods on the egde of regulation. He takes great pains to keep a legal pretense, however.