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Magrath Family History
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Considered one of the oldest human families on the planet Avidon, the Magraths were able to prove that they were among some of the first colonist to arrive on the planet. It was during this time that this first generation of Avidon Magraths began to stockpile their wealth. They would accomplish this through shrewd trading with the other local colonist. This meant that nothing was off the table when it came to a negotiation and it was even documented that the Magraths bartered with their sons and daughters are merely another tool to use in these proceedings.
It was well known that even the children of the Magraths had their own cunning minds. This was seen in a recovered diary of a young woman who was married off for the deed to a substantial parcel of land.
Date: [Illegible]
“I was put on the bargaining table today by my father as a means to get a hold of a vast tract of land that he had his eye on for quite some time. The young man I am to marry is not as sharp as some of the other gentlemen that I’ve run across; though this just means that he’ll be all the more easier to use to further my families own name. I’ve already been able to convince him to even take on the Magrath name and to give up that silly last name of Starwatcher. It’s for the best as this means that we’ll no longer have any kind of trouble from that family since after all I am marrying their only son.”
Deals and trades such as this were nothing more than another tool in a very large chest of tricks that the Magraths employed. Among them also being the use of assassins, kidnaping rival family members, along with blackmailing and extortion to get what they want. This would all culminate in the Magraths owning most of the land around the Magrath Plantation. With so much land and so little family members to work on it, they began to hire slavers to bring them the needed slaves.
In time the Magraths would ensure that they remained entrenched on the planet Avidon. To this end they continued their deals with newer colonists that arrived, as well as striking deals with more prominent families and humans that were passing through the starport.
