Max’s family background is that of a long history of traders, a tradition which began on his homeworld and, as they ruthlessly expanded, continued to the far flung reaches of the galaxy. His family was brought into disrepute by a rogue trader, Schurke Fuhrmann, when one of their joint business ventures ended in what was deemed to be heresy. Despite their protestations of innocence, and the rogue trader’s clear involvement, the Inquisition deemed that the family needed to be purified. Every child for 3 generations was ordered to serve in either the Adeptus Arbites or the Imperial Guard as penance.
Maximillian was sent to the Adeptus Arbites, and served with distinction from his early days, participating in several key justice actions. During the action which saw him elevated to police sergeant (second class) Maximillian lost his eye to a near miss from a cultist armed with a long rifle who had downed his partner earlier in the engagement. Ignoring his wound, Max moved up to the heretic’s position, neutralizing the threat before taking up the enemy weapon and eliminated several other significant threats to the operation swiftly and efficiently. His issued riot shotgun lost in the melee with the sniper on his rooftop perch, he retained the long rifle which had claimed his eye and his partner’s sidearm with which he had slain the cultist and, after his recuperation, he received that same rifle, reconsecrated and sworn into service of the Arbites. He swiftly progressed through the ranks of long riflemen in the Arbites of his sub-sector, earning the honorific “Scharfschütze” and the rank of police sergeant (first class).
It was the deed which earned him this rank which also brought about his first personal contact with the Inquisition. His shot, which ended a rebellion threatening the entire sub-sector before it could truly gain momentum, was the shot which saved the life of then Inquisitorial Acolyte Agmund Silfverskiöld. It was after Agmund had been elevated to the rank of full Inquisitor, that he returned to the sector and recruited Maximillian as one of his personal retainers.
Maximillian has several different augmetic eyes which he can use, his ‘battle-eye’, named by Max in his usual forthright manner, incorporating a range-finder and a laser sight to aid his efforts in combat and surveillance. He never fails to go into battle with careful planning, camouflaging himself according to extensive research into the terrain. Max harbours a special hatred for Rogue Traders, due to the fact that it was a Rogue Trader who attached the taint of heresy into his family name. This has jeopardised several operations, when Agmund’s band has happened across the Schurke Fuhrmann, the heretical Rogue Trader that Max and his family thought to be dead. Max would react like lightning-fast, never giving the man time to explain or approach, and yet he always seems to be foiled. Deep in the slums of Baden-Baden, an ornamental flight of birds crossed his line of fire; on the fields of Ahrweiler the glint of Max’s scope was seen by Schurke, giving him time to throw a bodyguard in front of him to catch the round, before activating his displacement field and disappearing. Due to these failures, Max is becoming increasingly bitter towards Rogue Traders in general, becoming unreasonable and aggressive around all but the few who have earned his trust in service to the Ordos.
In the course of his service in the Arbites, Maximillian has come into contact with several Xenos breeds, who he finds particularly repulsive. His first contact was with a Kroot mercenary working for a gang on a border world. Max received a ragged scar on his face when the monster ambushed him in his hide, an ambush which he just managed to hold off until another member of the band managed to slay it. This encounter shook Max to his core, having never encountered a Xenos breed before. Now, when he comes across any form of Xenos in his service to the Ordos, he relives the clacking of the sharp beak, the tearing feeling as his face was opened to the bone, and most of all the cold fear he felt as he looked into the Kroot’s alien eyes and saw what he thought was his imminent death.