[@DarkStar]The problem with this scenario is the Dreq pilots we're scrapping with are members of the OSU military; professional soldiers. Very few of them, in their right mind, would deliberately surrender themselves to a mercenary company; especially one under contract from a corporation based in the nation they're in conflict with. For all they know, we'd be just as likely to kill them outright than to haul them off to the SL. And since they're military personnel, they can't up and leave the service and sign on with a company; it doesn't work that way. I guess if they tried, the OSU would just track their FRAMEs down and then we'd have the military breathing down our necks.

If you still want to go with an OSU angle, you could be a former soldier or employee who left [i]before[/i] the start of the RP to join the Panthers - either a late-arrival trainee or a standing Panther member coming back from some personal leave.