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We build up in order to defeat Kroiz, our arch-rival, who is building up a fleet himself to come and get Burrows.

But who is Kroiz? He's the "privateer extraordinaire" who tries to intercept your weapons delivery for Lynch to Siva, Rikel.

From a forum post:

Lynch: At the end of the game he's at a mining base, can't remember the system... West of Troy. He's not as rich as he was, anymore; he *sells* you a wipe of your records for 100,000 credits; like small time business for a guy that probably used to deal with millions of credits per day. He's lost the quest for steltek technology, he lost his bodyguard, and he lost Tayla. And he seems to have lost his former home-base: New Cons. And maybe he would have moved to Bronte HQ in New Det, but he seems to have lost them too. Now, his biggest problem in life, the way HE saw it, was Menesch. Now Menesch is dead, he should be prospering!, shouldn't he?

There's a new kid in town, I say.

That being Kroiz, who took over Menesch's biz while pushing Lynch's territory back to the West. Another post:

spiritplumber:

Well, because having a formerly minor rival survive an encounter and come back powerful AND thirsty for revenge is a space opera staple. He could have a mechanical eye or something.

myself:

You're right, spirit; I found references and he IS in fact killed by Burroughs. If you don't kill him at the first jump-point, he supposedly attacks you now with 5 demon escorts before you reach your destination. BUT, we're going to have a very expensive, "Stealth Ejection Seat" among the upgrades, right Spirit? He obviously had one, otherwise you would have seen him. And he hid behind an asteroid until you flew away, and then made his way to Eden, where he underwent plastic surgery to his face. Of course, retro surgeons don't believe in technology, so now he wears a mask. Yep, Kroiz used to do that run of weapons supposedly going to Siva, but that's what Lynch was supposed to believe. Kroiz was associated with Menesch, but doing business with Lynch as well. Lynch had contacts with weapons manufacturers in New Det, but Kroiz didn't. So, he'd actually head for Rikel, but change course and use the jump point from Rikel to Eden. He'd tell Lynch he'd been delayed by Kilrathis or Retros. It so happened that Lynch ran into his customer from Siva that was supposed to have received the weapons and apologized for the delay in the last shipment. The customer thought he'd take advantage of the mistake and get a free shipment, and, rather than tell Lynch the hadn't placed an order recently, pretended barely contained impatience and said they were still waiting for it. Lynch though Kroiz had stolen the weapons, and the rest is history.

captin cocksniff:

We wanted to have a powerful rival as the "main" plot. This rival has to hate you, and of course has to be powerful. In the game you meet 4 privateers, seeling i think he flys a talon so he can't be that good, somehow was connected to lynch (it seems he worked for him but messed up) you kill him, Raoridan who you kill when working for tayla this would fit in with tayla trying to kill you first, after that failed she sent you to lynch. Gavorak (Spp), who you kill working for the ES he is crazy, and finally Kroiz, who for me is the best candidate, lynch describes him as working for a "rival", and he knows his name, which sugests that kroiz was his rivals equivilent Miggs (lynches bodygard), so he was powerfull and skilled, and very close to the big boss (who would be mesnuch). your histroy of this was nice.