Jethro 3: No Place Like Home (84 page)

Riley:
Sergeant, Marine armorer. Older armorer, can't hack the black. Former EVA suit tech on Anvil. Before that Riley was an armorer on many worlds, making his way from one world to the next as needed. Friend of Major Forth. Sergeant Riley is a bit of a tinkerer, almost as much as his protégé Ox.

Ensign Stephanie Drum:
Human female JTO. Lead gossip on the ship.

Navigator Lieutenant Jared House:
Replacement of Lieutenant Yu. Human male.

Ensign Darion:
Junior helm human male

Sharif:
Communications rating. Female.

Lt Leo:
Sensory officer (Note, named for metal detecting Time Warner cable guy with his own TV show and YouTube show) Human male.

Chief engineer Saul Edinger:
Human, worked in the yard before transferring to Damocles. Replacement to Chief Chowler.

Fighters:

Lt Hang:
Senior scout leader

Ensign Ver'c Veraxin:
KIA in first engagement in New Andres system.

Other:

Navy Recruit Ida Sedric:
blue hair, female. Knows her stuff. Had worked on Antigua Prime in engineering as a power plant engineer. Cycled through the course and college classes fast.

Passed all tests. Graduated accelerated training as an E-2 Journeyman with an eye to bootstrap to officer rank.

Navy Recruit Bjoren:
machinist. Bumped into gear train, lost a finger and a thumb. Left in Pyrax.

Tech Miller:
Former E-3 spaceman, demoted to E-2 Journeyman. Pissed at Jethro for catching him out on deferred maintenance. Vowed to get even. Transferred to annex. Killed on Anvil.

Space apprentice Gerald Ford:
thirties, human, former refugee. Transferred from a passing freighter. dropped off to train in Pyrax.

Lieutenant Tr'j'ck:
Former ensign and JTO on Firefly. Prize captain of the prison/liner Oasis of Space XCIV. Transferred as XO of Xavier.

Anvil:

Lieutenant Governor and Anvil station governor Enrique Fernando:
An old hand at playing both sides of the game. Enrique will do what he does best, survive. Former XO of the station. Tough but pragmatic, politician able to compromise his ideals and honor to get things done. Human, black hair with a bit of salt on the sides. Crows feet. Bit of a dress-up queen, politician. Killed by an assassin before the next election.

Smithy (AI):
dumb AI turned “Semi” smart by Sprite, Proteus, and Firefly. Smithy is a plodder, focusing on keeping the command staff happy.

Judge Hershey:
Judge on the station. Renown for being above corruption and impartial.

Judge Farley:
Senior judge in the system, he helped to refine the Pyrax Constitution. He is tough, hard on crime and impartial to a fault.

Sheriff Trask:
Veraxin sheriff on Anvil.

Doctor Martel:
Doctor of genetics. Former genealogist on the station. She has taken charge of resurrecting the Ssilli and Malekian species. She transferred with them to Antigua.

Ensign Edna Chelsi:
Human female, reservist. Therapist and junior assassin in the assassin's guild. Killed by Jethro on Anvil.

Hrriss:
Young neolion. Manager of life support engineering on the station. Black mane, friend of Jethro and the other cats. He grew up with them. Related to the Matriarch. Killed.

The Matriarch:
Elderly Neo Lioness. She had been blinded by cataracts for several years before Admiral Irons directed the staff to repair her. She led the clan after the death of her son at the hands of Admiral Irons. She held no grudge. She went on to lead the clans of all the Neos, and eventually all alien species in the system. She coordinated efforts to repeal the Neo tax. Killed by Miss Persephone.

Commander (doctor) Nara Thornby:
Chief Medical officer of Anvil, also of the star system of Pyrax. Human, brown hair shoulder length, with a clean face despite being in her 60s. Smart, but growing into her role as an officer more each day. Before she had been reluctant to sign on, but now she likes the reserve officer status. She has also started the cataloging and resurrection project and is in charge of all medical personnel in the navy as G-9. Reservist, promoted to full Commander when Firefly returned to Pyrax after the battle of B101a1.

Matilda, Dean and Commander:
Grandmother and dean of Anvil college and San Diego academy. G-3 schools. Former secretary and mistress of a prominent businessman Mr. Malfoy. Canned for being
too old
. She has grown into both roles, as the dean of the civilian college and acting commandant of San Diego Academy. She is a natural organized person, able to turn chaos into order in very short order. Promoted to full Commander despite being on the rolls as a reservist.

Lieutenant Commander Montgomery:
Monty, human male. Spy of spies. G-2 intelligence. He had been reluctant to take the top role for some time. But the need and promotion finally convinced him it was necessary.

Commander Decius:
Centillian male. G-5 Personnel. A good officer but he frequently takes time off to attend to biological needs. A micro-manager. Promoted to full Commander.

Ensign Kamia:
Female AI of San Diego. Dumb AI brought online from a canned file sent on Firefly. Created like most of the AI in the system by Commander Sprite. She has a Native American form honoring the tribes around the San Diego area on long lost Terra. She has taken on the role of G-6 communications.

Lieutenant Jeremy Lavot:
Human Male. Young, 26. G-7 JAG. Acting Judge Advocate General. Smart, mature for his age but still in need of some seasoning.

Ensign Barry:
Named for a famous American naval founder. A dumb AI created by Commander Sprite and recently activated. The Ensign acts as the Annex AI as well as G-8 Logistics and the Resource manager of the Naval Yard.

Ensign Klink:
Human style Dumb AI, AI for the prison station. Wears a German stylized uniform with a monocle. Speaks with a German accent. Marine Intel officer.

Ensign Leopold:
Tauren style dumb AI of Bismark. Central AI of Bismark, one of three planned. The AI took on male Tauren form to honor to the origins of the ship. Leopold dresses in a German stylized uniform with a monocle and peaked cap.

Valdez family:

Senior:
Chief tug pilot and owner of the growing tug business.

Mother and children:
Mrs. Valdez is the glue holding the Valdez family together. Her brother-in-law is now serving as one of the assistant chief engineers of the station. Her sister is one of the heads of life support. Both they and their children know to be home by 6 sharp for dinner, as does Senior and her children. And woe any who forget to wash first or are late!

On Agnosta:

Cheetahra:
Neo Cheetah medic. Former member of the Anvil cat clan. Relocated to Agnosta from Anvil. Was the Omega of the Anvil cat clan like all cheetah. Now has a small clinic near the equator and was pregnant with a littler of kits.

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. He is being maneuvered into the role as governor of the system.

Jim:
Delegate, former mayor.

Chumly:
Farmer, aide to other Agnosta delegates. Works as a manager in a store George owns. Into cars. Quiet, seemingly thick headed but not.

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.

Lieandra:

Captain Pen'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:
Leaders of the pacifist and old guard parties. Asians from Earth. Hishina was an ensign in the Navy when she met her husband and fell in love. She resigned her commission and hid her former life from her husband. She has lived in his shadow for centuries, always supportive, even when Prime was in its darkest time. She started to come out of her shell a bit when the Admiral was on board. His mistreatment by her husband and his supporters wrankled and hit a nerve with her. She began to quietly support the admiral and after he left, the Yard Dogs. Her former rank and support for the Yard Dogs has come out into the open when the Horathian's attacked Pyrax.

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. They resigned from the station council in order to clear the way for someone younger. They will continue serving in their department.

Doctor 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. He committed suicide after the Horathians tore up his newly-restored gardens and parks.

The Warners, 1st 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