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Byrne Faraday was the father of Kay Faraday and a prosecutor who worked with detective Tyrell Badd on cases involving the Great Thief Yatagarasu and the Cohdopian smuggling ring. This eventually culminated in a trial in 2011, in which the defendant claimed that he was the Yatagarasu, which resulted in the deaths of both men.

Through their investigations of the smuggling ring, Faraday and Badd found that the Amano Group was financing the ring. Cece Yew, an Amano Group employee, was the only witness that they had to prove this, but she was murdered before she could testify. However, a security camera in Yew's apartment caught the killer with the murder weapon, an employee of the Cohdopian Embassy named Manny Coachen. When Coachen was put on trial for the murder, Faraday prepared the security video as decisive evidence, but agents of the Amano Group stole the tape, and thus Coachen received a not guilty verdict due to a lack of decisive evidence. After the trial, Yew's sister Calisto accosted Faraday and Badd, blaming them for failing to convict her sister's killer. Faraday and Badd then realized that there were some people who simply could not be touched by the law, and vowed to bring down the smuggling ring from outside of the courts. 

Some time later, Faraday and Badd encountered Calisto again, and the three of them formed a persona known as the Great Thief Yatagarasu. The Yatagarasu became known as a vigilante thief, dedicated to exposing illegal corporate dealings by stealing evidence from various companies and sending it to the media. Faraday aided the Yatagarasu's operation through his knowledge of disabling security measures, which he had gained from prosecuting criminals, as well as a device called Little Thief, which helped the Yatagarasu to plan heists. Over the next three years, the Yatagarasu went on to bring down many companies affiliated with the smuggling ring, but were unable to find the organisation's head. As a cover, Faraday and Badd placed themselves into every investigation into the Yatagarasu as "experts" on the thief. Badd also used his position as a detective to hide all evidence relating to the Yatagarasu. Meanwhile, Calisto attracted the attention of companies wanting to be protected from the Yatagarasu./

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