13 Degrees of Separation (98 page)

Everett:
Electronics tech 2
^nd
class

Bryan
Kelley:
Medic and owner of several
coonies.

Galiet:
Senior wife of Bailey. College student.

Sylvia:
Second wife of Bailey, Bonobo, pregnant
with Fiben when Irons leaves Destiny. Bridge officer.

Clennie:
Bridge officer, third wife of chief
Bailey.

Miss
Mayfair:
Head of the Pyraxian diplomatic
delegation. Shrewish woman.

April
O’Neill:
Red haired reporter for Knox news
with a love of yellow jumpers. Love interest of the admiral.

On
Agnosta:

Cheetahra:
Neo Cheetah medic. Former member of the
Anvil cat clan.

Nana
Jersey:
Elderly woman, grandmother of
Billy and Pidge.

George
Custard:
Leader of the Agnosta delegation.
Avid reader, mayor, w/ largest book collection on the planet.

Jim:
Delegate, former mayor.

Chumly:
Farmer, aide to other Agnosta delegates.
Works as a manager in a store George owns.

Doc
Wallace Waley:
Balding Dentist, former
pirate slave. Returned to Agnosta on Destiny.

Maggie
Lu Kasey:
Friend of Nana Jersey. Former
Pirate slave returned to Agnosta on Destiny. Became the outspoken leader of
former slaves. In her 20's.

Vesuvian:
A giant adult Vesuvian near the growing space port.
Several juvenile Vesuvians from Destiny joined it to form a small colonial
forest.

Briev:

The
Red Queen:
Psychotic older power hungry
woman.

Triang:

Neo
cats:
A group of Neo cats from Pyrax who
traveled there on Destiny with the admiral. They are led by Hera and Asia.

Kiev
221:

Captain
Robert Chambers. Wife Cora:
Captain of the
Kiev 221.

Toni
Chambers:
17 year old adopted daughter of
the Captain. Transferred to the station to become a news reporter and anchor.

1
^st
mate John Henry Warner:
Son of the
Warners. Named after the admiral. Xo of the ship. He'd been married before his
wife left him and the ship over a forced abortion.

Chief
engineer and second mate Quinna O'Mallory:
Hard
charging Irish woman bent on repairing her ship.

Yvonne:
Assistant chief engineer, mother of deceased Art.

Esmay
Suarez:
chief navigator 3
^rd
mate

Jeremy
Blackhawk:
chief helm officer, Native
American descendant.

Hir'ruk:
Veraxin Chief logistics officer

M'Runi
: Veraxin communications tech.

Blur:
Telerite purser

Q’Bert:
Naga security officer

Numiria:
Neo jackal doctor. Husband is chief of sanitation Neo
Hyena
Lobo.

Lieandra:

Captain
Yen ‘Kelly:
Veraxin Captain. Old, past his
prime but eager to help in order to improve his ship and unload some of his
excess passengers.

Antigua
Prime:

Cybers:

Yan
Fu + wife Hishina Fu:
Leaders of the
pacifist and old guard parties.

Kenny
Kennet:
Lawyer, follower of the Fu's.

Averies:
Dilettante and self taught programmer of
cybers.

Sid
and Emily Berkheart:
Directors of Human
resources.

Doctor
Megan Trask:
Head of the medical
department.

Ron
and Rachael Steward
: Neo bears, 1 grizzly,
1 half human half black bear. Life Support managers. They like Averies trained
themselves to run and repair what they could after the station went dark. They
usually give their council proxy to the Fu's to vote since they are so busy.

Doctor
Templeton Myers:
Head of science and
R&D.

Ribber:
Gashg gardener. Signed over his proxy to Yan Fu before
resigning from the council. He is a pacifist, preferring to attend to his
garden over dealing with people.

The
Warners, 1
^st
Lt Taylor Warner and ensign Rasha Warner:
Sleepers awakened over 100 years ago. Their son is the
exec of Kiev 221. Both have been placed in the reserves and are currently the
system naval commanders.

AI:

The
muses:
all class one dumb AI

Clio:
historian/researcher. repurposed to manage
the first fusion reactor.

Euterpe
and Terpsichore:
Music and Dance: air
heads, entertainment coordinators and directors

Thalia:
Muse of comedy: recovered. Rebuilt.

Urania:
Astronomy: science. Found and recovered.
Brought online.
Assistant to doctor Myers in science and teaching.

Mnemosyne:
Memory computer management Smart AI. Took a lot of her
higher functions down to keep system running. Did permanent damage to herself.
She has to be reintegrated as each fragment is recovered. She is an
experimental civilian AI.

Tribal
leaders:

Romeo:
Terran male.

Y'ru:
Veraxin, old but wise.

Juliet:
Terran female. Genie descendant.

Sheriff
Derrango:
Curly handle bar mustache, old,
silver hair, beady eyes. Laid back attitude. Has a wife, kids, and grand kids.

Deputy
Barney Fife:
Nervous gangly 1
^st
deputy. Terrible shot, very by the book person. The Sheriff frequently uses him
as a foil to get others to accept his directives.

General
Staff On the station:

Savo
and Petunia:
Primate Neo chimp security
officer and Neo gorilla space worker. Transferred from Kiev 221

Howi
and Shari:
Tribal members. Neo chimps.
Both have become welders on the station.

Sparks
and Regina:
40's something couple
transferred from Kiev 221. Sparks is an electrician, Regina is a SBA training
to be a nurse.

Mr.
Freeze and Ezri:
Freeze is a lifetime
friend of Sparks. Partner, HAC tech. Ezri is his wife; she is a RN and surgical
nurse. 1 adult child left on Kiev 221.

Ralphie
and Alice:
50's couple bartenders from
Kiev 221. Adult son left in charge of bar on Kiev 221. Own Ralphie's bar and
grill and Alice's nail salon.

Gwen,
Riff, and Torg:
Tauren engineers who
transferred to the station from Kiev 221.

Doctor
Kraft:
Sleeper from Kiev, specializing in
implant surgeries. Dr. Kraft is old, a former teacher of implant tech.

Antiguans:

Governor
elect mayor Jeff Randall and his wife Sandra
:
Politically charismatic couple set on changing their world. 2 daughters,
Ramona/Kylie, age six and four.

Epsilon
Triangula:

In
Hazard:

Sheriff
Rosco Coltrain
Medium hieght and build,
black hair going gray on sides, muttonchop side burns, mustache,  wears a black
duster over sheriff uniform. Black western cowboy hat. Full of bluster.
Tolerated by mob and people despite Hodges schemes. Sister Lulu is married to
Hodges.

Deputy
Roy Rogers:
straight shooter from Crater
city. Has boyhood Neo friends
Bullet
an Alstatian deputy in Crater city,
and Game warden friend white neowolf
Phantom
. Like the other deputies he
wears an English constable uniform instead of western wear to distinguish them
from their boss.

Deputy
Cletus Hodges
-distant cousin to Boss
Hodges

Deputy
Ianus:
Another deputy of Hazard, straight
shooter.

Duke
boys/family: mentioned. Best moonshiners in Hazard and on
planet.

Chief
of county Judge Albert
(tall lean, dresses
in western wear)

Fat
Larry
- replaced fat Tony.
Larry
Lazarrian
. Two bit mobster. Serves as a front for Boss Hodges.

Biscuits
n Books:
Two small time thugs. Both
work(ed) for Lazarrian. Biscuits is a bruiser, sadist, sociopath. Books is
smarter and leaner.

Boss
Hodges:
true ruler of the mob and
politics. county commissioner. he gets a cut of everything. married to sheriff
Coltrain's fat sister lulu. Fat guy. Wears white, disproving the theory that
only the good guys wear white.

Huey
Hodges
: Skiny version of Boss Hodges.
Younger, not quite as good at scheming as he thinks he is.

Tori:
13 year old crop duster pilot. Father is a lush. (ID4
hero) mother is dead.

Bobby
younger brother and mechanic gets infected and dies

Xani
youngest sibling to Tori. Keeps house and helps her brother.

Nohar
yellow tiger:
Neo tiger, aged, former army
ranger with the 501st. artificial arm, eye, ear, leg and implants in his
abdomen. all from near miss of a plasma weapon.

discharged
due to injuries and lack of facilities to fully repair him... and a growing
claustraphobia related to ships and space stations.

He was
picked up as a sleeper sixty years ago. aged, with missing fur. ranger tattoo
on left bicep. Right fang is aluminum and titanium, lips on that side curled by
damage.

He
works as a private detective. Irons repairs implants.

Hank
McCoy:
blue Neo lion, engineer/mechanic/
tech wizard. lives in bar and does work for various people. works in bar for
room and board. absent minded but brilliant. also cheap. frequently does work
for the challenge.

Medic.

Kong:
silverback gorilla, owner of Kong's grill
and bar. Acts as his own bouncer sometimes.