Non-Aligned Dramatis Personae

The Outback

These individuals are known to operate primarily in the shoal region known as the Outback, though they range as far as Solaria and the Badlands.

Miscellaneous Individuals

Hecate Maxwell Hecate is an ESPer, aged 48, trained in using her abilities primarily for mind-sensing, telekinesis, and combat augmentation. An exceptional combatant trained in wielding both energy and metal blades and most types of firearms, Hecate was once part of a mercenary outfit that diid security work in and around the Outback region. Disillusioned with the clientele of her employers, she left as soon as her service contract was up and became a lone wolf, a self-described "Ronin" who travels where the solar winds take her and accepts contracts and jobs on her own terms. Owner of a modified GTL-1500 Special Courier, the Sorceress, with modifications including a cloaking device and an automated drone crew overseen by the ship CompInt.

Strahl Crew

The Strahl is a modified YPA-4700 light transport with several unique custom modifications, including a cloaking device and a multi-phase hyperspace drive that eases travel in shoals, based on Collector hyperdrive technology. Armament is one Heavy Plasma Cannon and multiple Pulse Gun turrets with one Pulse Cannon emplacement.

Bartholomew "Balthier" Miedan

A former Royal Navy officer who has since turned to piracy and smuggling. Though an unapologetic smuggler, files on him indicate that his actual piracy is directed solely at other pirates, and more specifically those that behave in a fashion that clash with his own code of rogue-ish chivalry. Very much fits the image of a charming, swashbuckling rogue, particularly compared to the usual type of figure who operates in the criminal underworld. He captains, and flies, the Strahl.

Umarbacca

Umarbacca is a Bragulan who once served in a rogue Bragulan unit that made its living doing mercenary work in the Wild Space sectors. After the unit was tracked down and eliminated by the Bragulan Empire, Umarbacca was the only survivor by benefit of being rescued by Balthier. He has since served as the muscleman and first mate of the Strahl's crew.

Vanrya Franela

Vanrya is from the Dorei nation of Daxai, a daughter of a local merchant house manager. She attended flight school with an eye toward joining the Royal Navy as a fighter pilot but being caught up in a flight school accident as a result of someone else's negligence killed her admission to the Navy's Fleet Aviation School. After some time spent wandering and working odd jobs on the space ways she was recruited by Balthier to be his navigator and co-pilot on the Strahl.

Kaylee Keller

Hailing from the Empire Star Republic, Kaylee is considered one of the most skilled engineers in the Outback and there are few who can match her skill in maintaining an engine. She has a sweet and pleasant demeanor generally, though don't think she's an innocent wench or she's liable to surprise you. Generally considered to be the one responsible for cobbling together the Strahl's multi-phase hyperdrive to let it travel more easily through the shoals of the Outback and other regions of the known galaxy.

Dr. Andrew MacCulloch

A native Scotsman, and proud of it, Dr. MacCulloch had a thriving medical practice as an immigrant to the Solarian Sovereignty, until he made the mistake of spending more time tending to the lower-class victims of a car crash than the billionaire donor of the hospital he was gainfully employed at, who perished as a result of complications Dr. MacCulloch may or may not have managed to deal with. Fired and stripped of his medical license by a vengeful Solarian medical community while being sued into paupery by the donor's family, he ended up penniless, unable to even afford a ticket home, when he had a chance meeting with Balthier during a rather tight situation on Solaris. He has since found a home as the resident medical man on the Strahl, patching up the injuries that come from the activities of the adventurous crew.

Quinn Leeson

Quinn Leeson is an ESPer, trained in the fashion of the Chivalric Orders, once a member of the Order of St. Michael the Protector - the Catholic Church's organization for skilled ESPers willing to abide by the code of poverty, chastity, and obedience while acting to protect Catholic missionaries and communities in the seedy places of the known galaxy. As things went, Quinn was quite capable of the first two and last requirement, but in "obedience" he would lack, quarrelling with his superiors and acting on his own beliefs where he felt such was necessary. As a result he was eventually called to leave the Order. Traveling the dark places of the galaxy with only his robes and his Dorei-fashioned beamsaber at his side, he came to the attention of Balthier during a pirate attack on a small community in the Outback and was invited to dwell on the Strahl. Leeson accepted, reluctantly, and lives with the smugglers, kept aboard primarily by the occasional "good deeds" the smuggler performs during his travels in the known galaxy.

Marissa Moonbeam

She is of Solarian and Shroomanian descent, a member of a long and "distinguished" line of Shroomanian nobility that, at one point, ruled a small state in the Nova Terran continent of Veleria. Her role on the Strahl's crew is generally doing whatever she is instructed to do by Balthier, whether it's helping Kaylee with engine maintenance, acting as a nurse for Dr. MacCulloch, or manning a gun turret in a sticky situation. Marissa is generally Shroomanian in tendency, which is to say she is terribly eccentric to the point of bewildering her crewmates, particularly Vanrya, and still follows the "Odinist" faith of her ancestors.

Wild Space

Gamma-Sigma

[This information is classified TOP SECRET by CEID / the IBGV]

The Veil of the Phfor

The region of Shoals separating the Phfor from the Holy Empire of Haruhi Suzumiya and other polities. Connects directly to Wild Space.

The Empty Quarter

The region of Shoals that separates the two halves of Klavostan and is adjacent to the Ork home systems. The main hyperlane through here is known as the Malacca Straits and is protected by one of the most powerful space stations in known space, under Klavostani control.