While the Sand War intensified throughout the third line of defense, not everyone concerned themselves with the suffering taking place.
For some people, the latest developments opened up many opportunities ordinarily inaccessible to them. In particular, the lawless pirates and exiles of the frontier found it incredibly easy to sneak into civilized space amidst the chaos.
Already, plenty of sons and daughters of the frontier managed to blend in with the waves of refugees.
While it was easy for pirates to be mistaken as refugees, it was not as easy to assume a brand new identity, especially one that was more notable than the norm.
A specialist in identity falsification had to intervene in order to form a false identity with as few loopholes as possible.
Calabash happened to be someone who possessed the skill, knowledge and connections required to forge a reasonably foolproof identity.