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==Rogue Trader Lord Crado Zutash==
{{Topquote|Money, dear boy, money!|Crado Zutash}}

Nothing turns the average Rogue Trader’s eye like a bit of wealth. Among Rogue Traders in the Cloudburst Sector and Circuit, Crado Zutash is the one viewed with the most envy by his peers. Zutash has a positively uncanny ability to find valuable salvage, from armor to whole starships. He has led expeditions into the darkness between Imperial worlds for over seventy years, seeking treasure and glory, and he has found both. Zutash sunk the notorious pirate Light Cruiser Robber with nothing more than his two frigates and some cleverness, only a few months before his father died and left him his Warrant.

Other Traders eye Zutash with a mixture of awe and suspicion, not because of any criminal conduct on his part, but because he seems to be able to perceive things others can’t. He has found ships thought lost for centuries in heaps on alien moons; he found and escaped the Eldar ghost ship Elrenoss, and he was the one who discovered the ruins of the Rak’gol warship Unglok on the edge of the Oldlight Exo-zone. Zutash has actually built up his fortune faster than Walsh has, despite Walsh’s greater connections. He is a frequent and welcome patron of the Grand Anchor; he has contributed multiple shipwrecks to their collection. Like most of the Rogue Traders in the Sector, Zutash has a single ship from which he commands his assets. Unlike most other Traders, he also uses a personal deep void platform to cache his treasures between missions, and stages his fleet from there. He also has a mansion on Celeste, as many Rogue Traders do.

Zutash is a heavyset man with a preference for expensive clothing, and never travels without an extensive retinue – warriors for the field, beautiful women around the home. He has clashed with Lord Sector Quintus on jurisdictional mediations between his own House and the Adeptus Mechanicus in the past, but he hasn’t forced the issue. He knows the Adeptus Mechanicus is too valuable in his own efforts to alienate completely. He doesn’t like Quintus, and the feeling is mutual.

Lord Zutash does get along better with one person: his son Fox. Fox is a treasure hunter in his father’s employ, and usually travels with him on his missions, learning the secrets of the acquisitions trade. The two men are inseparable, which is especially remarkable given that neither can remember who Fox’s mother is.

When in the field, Lord Zutash travels clad in a great Power Lifter he has reconditioned with what he earnestly hopes to be the flashiest possible gold plating job ever applied to a powered exoskeleton. He finds that it capably distracts potential enemies from the team of cameoline-clad snipers that usually follow some distance behind him. He usually arms himself with an Inferno Pistol and a Power Sword, just to show off that he can afford them.

The Zutash family is one of the oldest families among the Rogue Trader houses in the Cloudburst Sector, but it only became one of the richest after Crado took over. The house has been able to survive as long as it has because it had over one hundred smaller businesses bringing in wealth from the freight lines and Circuit Outposts. However, by the time Crado took the family Warrant from his own father, he recognized that that was not why his family had been gifted a Warrant. Rogue Traders are supposed to be bold and opportunistic explorers, not just merchants. He shook some ships loose from their other obligations and struck out into the voids of space, seeking glory. His story could have ended there, in ignominy or silence, but instead he returned seven months later, with a captured hoard of ancient technology secured in his holds, and his rise to power assured.

Zutash flies a number of ships when his quest calls for it, but his preferred vessel is the Endurance class warship Bargaining Position. He has given it expensive and thorough upgrades, from its armor materials to its engine power, as well as refrigerated cargo holds for perishables.