Kraken was a well-known and feared river pirate on the waterways of South Asia when Firefly called him to aid Stormfront. He specializes in disturbing shipping lanes in the major ports of the world along with standard sea-borne hijackings. The Mako is his personal seacraft which he mans with his own rag-tag crew for most normal missions, though specialized missions result in a crew comprised of only Stormfront members.
His mask is worn to cover the effects of an wound from earlier times which caused the loss of his left eye and his nose.