Plague Planet (The Wandering Engineer) (83 page)

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.

Striped neolion Rajar:
nephew of Nohar. young leo considering marines. screws up and
claws suit. Dies after accidental exposure.

Maggie
: Neo cougar bar made at Kong's. Interested in Hank. Acts as a
spie for Solaximara.

Neo chimp Jerry:
friend of Hank. "Cocky little shit" Motor mouth, source
and helper of Nohar

Medics:

Helen Richards:
Chief medical officer of planet. leader of medics Also known as
Director or Doctor.

44, green eyes. brown hair going to silver slightly. glasses when
reading. smart, tough but fair. short. young for her rank. She is leading
medics kicking and screaming back to modern medicine.

Nurse Marlone:
old school matron nurse. Assitant to Richards. Dresses in a
Victorian nursing outfit, white with a red cross and apron.

Prim and proper, crisp and neat even in a crisis.

Malcolm 1 and 2
: the Malcolm twins as they are called,
Malcolm Innes, and
Malcolm O'Reilly
. O'Reilly is a trauma surgeon, Innes is a general
practice. Both have black hair, though Innes has long curly hair. (Ares from
hercules) and a goatee. O'reilly has short striaight hair and a full beard.

Ted Zane:
Tall doctor. Glasses. Supportive of Helen. (modeled after doctor
from hospital show)

Doctor Ivanov
: fat doctor with glasses and goatee. Virologist. 50's, once was a
ladies man. smart. laid back.

Doctor Yusef Hadjiri
immunologist/cancer specialist. Tall rakishly thin man.

Doctor Kalif Omari
new resident (no specialty) volunteer officer

Doctor Gijis:
Veraxin endocrinoligist

Doctor Ramius
: rare naga doctor. Orthopedics

Doctor Sergei Chung
descendant of mongols surgeon. Broad face, asian eyes, fat nose,
sunny disposition. joke about possibly hawaiian or Samoan genes too.

Doctor Alexander Milinkov
immunologist

Doctor Paco La Plaz
-one of 10 virologists on the planet. Young Volunteer officer 24,
5 specialties. Child prodigee. Brown hair, clean shaven. virology, immunology,
micro surgery, endocrinology, neurology. Also basic skills in other fields.

Nurse Joy
: Bit of a bubblehead blond unless a patient is involved. has
incredible empathy. 2 long pigtails she sometimes forgets to braid.

Roger Emment:
Orderly

5 other nurses also volunteer for the Naval reserves.

Doctor Leslie Thompkins
:  60+ doctor in Gotham. Scrappy tough lady who lives in crime
alley and does business there. More of a mob doctor than a normal doctor.

Trisha:
blond small secretary at the metropolis general hospital admin
complex. Edict memory. nice and friendly to Helen.

Doctor Salt:
Black human male, crew cut, pilot as well as Doctor.

Doctor Sam Daniels
: Crusty gruff male human doctor, in his 40's. Virologist.

Doctor Robby Daniels: 
Virologist and disease specialist. Feisty red head.

Politicians:

Oman: governor
: fat, puppet governor. thinning hair, Wife Rosanne who is also
obese.

Morton:
Air director. tall, lean, old, but an idiot.

Nannook
: director of industry

Quertz:
Veraxin  director of travel

Deli Osiris:
chief of staff

Solaximara: red Neo cat.
designer red with a black mohawk mane and white underbelly and
eyebrows. Long and lean, with an almost too long torso.

He wears gold bead necklace shawl and gold earings with white and
yellow feathers dangling. Scowls a lot, talks with his hands.

He has upper and lower fangs and talks with a lips. Old, one of
the Neo leaders on the planet.

Ole blue: Real Name Cade Bane
assassin from the league of shadows,
the assassin's guild. Old, veraxin geneformed into cade bane form. Western
wear, tan duster, blue skin, fedora,