Hermes Fox

First scion of a wealthy family, Hermes was born from a marriage between an Intaki diplomat and a Gallente admiral. He was expected to accrue further standing for the family by pursuing similarly prestigious professions, but during his time at the University of Caille he became a Minmatar liberation activist. Hermes bought and crewed a Rifter, which he named Ambassador, and began life as a privateer and courier for the Tribal Liberation Front.
The crew was made up of itinerant hires, but Hermes proved to be an excellent pilot and commander. Each spacer that signed up felt genuine friendship from the rookie captain, and most extended their contracts multiple times before other circumstances would force them to leave. This lead to Hermes proving a thorn in the side of the 24th Imperial Crusade.

For most capsuleers, death at the hands of a mortal-filled Rifter would be a non-issue, and the bounty placed on Ambassador was a pittance to them. But not two years into his campaign, Hermes was hounded by an Amarrian capsuleer who took particular umbrage with her temporary death at the hands of a cloneless crew.
The Amarrian came at the frigate with a fleet of destroyers. Hermes was able to defeat her forces, but the enemy and her allies had prepared an army of clones in the system and returned with more destroyers, again and again. Hundreds of millions of ISK, nothing to the capsuleers, was being thrown at the lone Rifter. Unable to escape the attrition, Ambassador was smashed to pieces and the capsuleers left satisfied. If they had committed more attention to the wreckage though, they would have noticed the figures floating among the frigate's remains were not frozen corpses, but the whole crew safe in EVA suits.

Hermes knew that capsuleers, even with their godlike powers and vast assets, were not the only ones that could affect change in the universe. But the Amarrian display also taught him that with only himself and his friends, he'd never muster enough firepower to withstand or produce such an onslaught. Upon rescue, he signed up with AIR and undertook the procedure to become a capsuleer - but vowed to treat those who maintained the functions of his ships as human, not mere microbes of his metal bodies. On operations he must remain in his pod, though he maintains a relationship with every person who joins his crew.
On leave they cheer for the unusually humble egger in his jar: The Pickle of the People.