The Blackhawk is a derivative of the Voidhawk, created by a Rogue Edenist called Rubra. Rubra turned his back on Edenism, taking his share of his families sizeable fortune and left  to set up his own personal business empire ( Magellanic Itg) based in the Srinagar system. Rubra’s small transport fleet quickly expanded into just about every business arena, construction, mining, manufacturing and finance.

 Rubra had felt confined by the consensus of Edenism but deeply missed the Edenist Bitek which he felt to be greatly superior to the traditional

With his Bitek Habitat germinated then settled Rubra had both the platform and the expertise to turn his attention to the creation of his own form of Bitek Starship.

The development of the Blackhawk genus, though less mysterious than that of Valisk, has no documented history. The involvement of several key Bitek firms that operate from Tropicana (the only Adamist world which allows Bitek) is well know, but they have jealously guarded all information regarding their contribution.

manufactured technology of the Adamist environment he had settled in.He desired so strongly to regain access to Bitek that he gambled everything, his entire business on a project to create his own Bitek habitat. Nobody actually knows where he got the DNA sequencing from, or whose expertise was responsible for its reconstruction, The scale of such a task is so enormous that many believe that Rubra must have stolen the information while still operating within his family business, skilfully hiding the theft from the habitat and his family.