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by Hechtl, Chris


  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 1st 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,

  4 multifaceted eyes, 2 six shooters that shoot nanite gobbler bullets. feared for his ability and the nanites. has 2 true arms on sides that wrap around torso under vest.
r />   the true hands do the real shooting. heavily augmented, can detect scans.

  later hired to kill Irons.

  Irons kills him just before leaving.

  Media:

  Jerry Richards: EDP reporter who tracked Irons down for series of interviews. Ex wife is Helen Richards.

  Perry White: editor of the Epsilon Daily Planet. (EDP). Wears a suit with vest.

  Lois: Senior reporter for the EDP, tough, gets into trouble.

  Clark: Senior reporter for the EDP, glasses, bumbles, nice guy.

  Jimmy Olsen: photographer for the EDP and occasional source. freckle faced short gangly photographer.

  Cat: Brunett, suave, sexy woman. Mousy minx, glasses, tease and flirt. wants to be a fashion/gossip reporter works as a secretary.

  Owens: reporter for the herald

  Parker: competing photographer for bugle

  Others:

  Wally Wart: aerospace engineer. (airplane mechanic) Short stooped over Human.

  Luke: Airbus pilot. Teenager with acne. Nutty driver usually.

  Doherty: sam Doherty, farmer. 50's. lives just outside Sin city, poe'd over hank and crew using site for drone.

  Dewey Keeper, portly short inventor/engineer/scientist. White hair, bushy white mustache, blue eyes and glasses. Dresses in a rumpled gray suit. walks with a cane with a snowflake on the pommel.

  Audrey Halfston, black hair, yellow dress, green bonnet. 40's. talker, user. used Irons to talk about stuff and charge him for drinks.

  Snorphlax: gashg sewer engineer of New Chicago

  Appendix:

  My blog:

  http://cyberforge3d.blogspot.com/

  Interesting web comics:

  http://www.schlockmercenary.com/

  http://www.vexxarr.com/Index.php

  http://www.sluggy.com/

  And I can't forget my friend Mechmaster's Dalek comic:

  http://www.mechmaster.co.uk/cg-lair/daleks_page1.htm

  My cousin's blog:

  http://bossymoksie.wordpress.com/

  Tech:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_DC-1

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_car_(aircraft)

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_on_a_chip

  http://liliputing.com/

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volumetric_display

  http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Hydroelectric+Power+Plant

  http://www.sainsmart.com/sainsmart-ss808-pc-on-a-stick-for-android-4-1-dual-core-1-6-ghz-a9-processor-1gb-ddr3-8gb-internal-storage-dual-wifi-module-on-board.html

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activated_carbon

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_vehicle

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_aircraft

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piper_PA-25_Pawnee

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piper_PA-36_Pawnee_Brave

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarm_robotics

  http://baibook.epfl.ch/slides/SwarmRobotics.pdf

  Medical:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_engineering

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluteus_maximus_muscle

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluteal_muscles

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_muscles_of_the_human_body

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outbreak

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endemic_(epidemiology)

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemic

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemic

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acute_viral_nasopharyngitis_(common_cold)#Transmission

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathogen

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovine_spongiform_encephalopathy

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_hazard

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazmat_suit

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_pressure_personnel_suit

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_disease

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_biology

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_gene_synthesis

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_engineering

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiviral_drug

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccination

  http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/human-biology/blood2.htm

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet_germicidal_irradiation

  http://io9.com/5988198/tuberculosis-and-leprosy-thrive-by-pretending-to-be-viruses

  Implants:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanotechnology

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-inflammatory

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunosuppressive_drug

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_electrode_implants

  http://www.uweb.engr.washington.edu/research/tutorials/woundhealing.html

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosthetics_in_fiction

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implant_(medicine)

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyborg

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroprosthetics

  http://www.mindcontrol.se/?p=7811

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_implant

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain-computer_interface

  Other:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Uniformed_Services_Oath_of_Office

  http://www.yourguidetoitaly.com/popular-foods-of-italy.html

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes_of_Sinope

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLEhh_XpJ-0

  Book: World-Building by Stephen L. Gillett copyright 1996

  Characters:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snidely_Whiplash

  http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?176083-N-75

  http://www.theoi.com/Ouranios/Asklepios.html

  Anthro:

  http://anthro-glamour.deviantart.com/

  http://pythosblaze.deviantart.com/gallery/8392936#/art/Solaximara-132378607?_sid=687e8abf

  http://teiirka.deviantart.com/art/Broken-319696610

  Sneak Peek:

  Here is a short (I did say short!) story titled Salvage. It introduces a new character to the Wandering Engineer Universe whom you will see in other short stories and in future books. The short story will be in 13 Degrees of Separation, a short story compilation. (I hope, I may have to break it into 2 books!)

  Salvage

  Senka system, Two years after the events in Fools gold.

  ...*...*...*...*...

  Sixteen year old Mairi Jersey swore again as she picked at the controls. It didn't due to take one's ire out on your own ship, bad things happened then. But she didn't know how to vent other than turning the air blue. She glanced at the heater in subconscious reflex as that thought hit her. Nope, just fine, 18 degrees C. She ran her hand through her blue hair under her knitted cap before resetting it on her closely buzz cut head. She was a spacer born and bred, she had no need for hair. Hair just got in the way, she just wished she was bald in times like this. Of course if she'd let it grow out like her mother she could sell it, but that was a pittance.

  She was also a bitter asteroid miner, she thought with a disgusted sigh. Here she was, out and about picking up salvage. She should be happy she realized, but the unfairness of the universe still bothered her. There really was no justice, even though she'd turned it somewhat to her advantage. Maybe, if she got back alive that was.

  A few months ago, a ship passing through had brought news, momentous news. News that effected their home system even though they hadn't known the full story four years ago. They all knew about the pirates, they rarely stayed long these days. Stories of the pirates passing through the system tended to annoy her, but at least they were just passing through now, not using the few and far between habitats as target practice anymore. Word of Irons and how he'd been picked up in their system angered her however.

  He should have been their find, their
sale to another group, or used to help benefit them! But no, some damn freighter jockey had literally stumbled onto his pod while being chased by pirates! Pure dumb luck! Sometimes she cursed the spirits for such things. Why could others get so lucky when people like her who desperately needed the luck had none?

  Her mother had pointed out that Irons had been here all along and no one had found him. That wasn't her point, she'd fumed. Trust her mother to see both sides of the situation. But her mother had been right, Irons was out of the system anyway. It wasn't like he'd return, not to a death trap of a system like this one.

  Now she fumed again, picking through the wreckage. She'd found some choice bits, stuff she'd packed onto her hull or marked for later retrieval. Digs... damn him, she had to be careful, he too had gotten wind of where Irons had been picked up. She checked the long range. He'd tagged her on her way out, she was sure of it. She couldn't go all evasive either, she'd had just enough juice and life support for a straight shot out. She couldn't linger long either, not unless she wanted to become a part of the funeral cloud.

  Uncle Edgar had provided some of the data, for his usual fee of course. She curled her lip in disgust. The man had no respect for family. None at all. Even when he had her work at the bar to pay for her mother's tab he still didn't cut her a break. He'd even charge her interest if the debt ran overlong. At least she had the data though, the course data from both ships.

  Edgar hadn't twigged onto what she was doing, or at least hadn't said anything out loud. He'd just watched her work on the problem on an old tablet. She was good with math and good with navigation. What she'd been after was what she'd thought of after she'd heard the story about Irons and gotten over her initial resentment. If Irons had been picked up... then maybe there was something else out there. Another survivor perhaps?

 

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