Thanks, Mad Jack!
Two more members of our rag tag crew:
RAUG
Name Raug Byrspawn
Species: Bacchan
Bio: Raug is a Bacchan, an alien species of wanderers and nomads. They used up the resources on their homeworld generations ago and have been wandering the spaceways ever since, always in search of their next fix. They’re culture is centered on the indulgence of one’s desires and they have a very open ideology when it comes to recreational excess. They are also one of the most creative and inventive species, their superluminal warp technology having revolutionized space travel across the galaxy.
Raug was indulgent even among the Bacchans, but his skills behind the controls of a striker vessel were legendary so he rose in ranks quickly within the Federation Navy. Abi was his gunner for countless missions and they saved each other’s lives on a number of occasions. The Breach Wars hit him hard. His home colony was among the first worlds to fall, he lost his parents, a husband, a son. Along with Abi, Raug retired, but he didn’t pursue mercenary life like she did. Raug established a neutral zone, a resort for all species to come and indulge themselves free from judgment. Abi recruits his services, needing a navigator she can trust implicitly for her journey with Null and X. He didn’t hesitate to accept, hoping to quell his perpetual boredom and curiosity over the Presence and X’s technology.
Abilities: Raug’s abilities come from his Bacchan physiology. Bacchan’s are notoriously hard to kill, having evolved incredibly durable bodies over generations of risk-taking. His body tissues are dense, but his strength levels are more or less in the normal range for a humanoid alien of his size. Bacchan’s also possess an accelerated immune system that can burn off all known toxins and suppress all illnesses. If heavily injured, Bacchan’s can enter a state of self-induced suspended animation called ‘The Sleep’ which slows their metabolic processes to a crawl and regenerates any damaged tissue.
In addition to his natural gifts, Raug is one of the greatest military pilots to have ever lived and he’s not a particularly bad shot.
UNIT 37
Name: Record Erased
Species: Original species unknown, carbon-based humanoid converted into Lunar Destroyer Class Wardroid
Bio: Unit 37 began life as a member of a humanoid alien race who inhabited a solar system along the Inner Spiral, closer to the center of the galaxy. This race was a casualty of the Blight Wars in centuries past, wiped out by the invading forces of the Blight, the first great darkness that hit this particular region of space. The Blight were a hive mind collective of techno-organic beings, who were obsessed with replacing any organic life they encountered. They would often use conquered planets as stock for their military, converting the indigenous life into vastly powerful Wardroids. When the war was over and the Blight vanquished, a few of these Wardroids remained, and have been employed as assassins and mercenaries for the last few hundred years by various cultures and political organizations.
Unit 37’s entire memory and sense of identity were erased upon conversion. After the war he was kept in cold storage and traded as a weapon among He eventually came into the possession of a slave trader with ambitions towards the Presence and was sent to hunt down Null. He almost killed Captain Abi until X tapped into the tech composing his body and shut him down. They were deciding what to do with him when his systems re-routed power. He would have been able to deliver a killing blow to Null had the Presence not been stirred to action by Null’s terror. The Presence invaded Unit 37’s mind, awakening his long lost consciousness and bringing his memories back to the surface. Unit 37 remembered the genocide of his people, the loss of his homeworld, his mutilation and conversion, as well as the countless atrocities he had committed since his memory had been erased.
Needing the extra muscle, and realizing that 37 had nowhere to go, Abi gave him a place on their vessel. He has yet to reveal his true name and identity to the team, still referring to himself as Unit 37, unable to reconcile the wrongs he has committed with his previous self.
Abilities: As a Lunar Destroyer class Wardroid, 37 is an incredibly sophisticated piece of military technology. His reaction time and reflexes are lightning quick and he can independently operate every component of his body, his computing power enhanced by the processors grafted into his brain tissue. He has no need of organic sustenance and his fuel cells absorb ambient energy from his environment. He can run without charge for up to a year.
His body is composed of a superdense metal alloy that can withstand temperatures extremes from the cold of the voice to the heat generated on the surface of a star. He has strength enough to rip into the even the most reinforced hulls and he is equipped with a number of weapon systems, including a long range plasma burst cannon mounted on his shoulder.
His only weakness is a severe case of survivor’s guilt and post traumatic stress disorder. Now that his identity and memory has been restored 37 is in a state of severe psychological imbalance.
