Character Creation Chain

After losing both his hands in a Post Office robbery gone wrong when his cohorts dobbed him in with the Filth, Jack O'Gumper swore revenge on those rats. After he'd done his time and got out of clink, using the last of his cash, he went to see an underground surgeon specialising in cosmetic horticultural surgery and had two Denmoza Rhodocantha cacti grafted to his stumps. Jack O'Gumper was dead. He was now Cactus Jack.

Jack turned vigilante, hunting down the gits who'd grassed him up. He'd hide out in garden centres and tropical gardens, standing stock still in the cacti gardens holding his stumps in front of his face so he wouldn't be spotted. It was the perfect disguise.

The first one of the gang to fall was Gammy John, innocently looking for a couple of cintia to whack in his rockery, when KAWHACK! Down came something hard and organic upon his neck. Its bite was warm, but all Gammy John saw when he looked up was a cactus. As he tried to get up, the cactus came smashing down upon his face until he didn't get up again.

Next came First Class Molly, the insider who was to supposed disable the post office security systems prior to the job. Seemed she'd been squealing like a pig to the pigs themselves. She was out on a day trip to Kew when she was cut down. Found face down in the Temperate House. Hundreds of tiny stab wounds to the back. No weapon was found.

Last of 'em was Billy Bog Roll. He weren't in the strict sense a grass, but he'd escaped arrest when he'd been caught short after having one too many Frappuccinos that day. If he hadn't been in the bogs in the Dog and Duck down the road he might have been arrested, but such is life. Still, by this point Cactus Jack was crazed. He was more Cactus than man. Poor old Billy. Had the bladder of a balloon without a knot. After two cups of tea and a muffin in his kitchen one morning he headed straight for the throne. He sat down, getting ready to do his dirty business, when... well, you get the point. Billy certainly did.
 
Dr Elizabeth B. McGonnegagal, first female surgeon allowed to practice in the United Kingdom, predating Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and even the remarkable "James Barry" (Margaret Ann Bulkey) whose true sex is still a matter of debate.

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Barry_(surgeon)

How, then, has the illustrious name of Dr McGonnegagal been lost to history? Simply because her extraordinary medical talents came to the attention of the Good Folk, who took her away to their own realm, removing her accomplishments from the memory of humanity. Gone was her seemingly miraculous cure of the insanity plaguing George III, as well as his cataracts and rheumatism. Restored to nearly youthful vigor, the king lived to see his one hundredth birthday. This means, of course, that there was never the Regency period, and never a King George IV.

But that was before the Good Folk undid of all that, and took Dr McGonnegagal away. As far as I know, she is still the personal physician to King Oberon.

And that, dear children, is why we have Regency romances.

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Flare Rider Savit
 
Daughter of a Rodeo Queen and her Indian lover, F. Rider decided to escape the teasing at school by visiting her grandparents at their Elephant Tours facility and later became one of their best tour guides.



Tomman Gavin AKA Tommy Shotgun
 
Tomman Gavin AKA Tommy Shotgun

Tomman Gavin AKA Tommy Shotgun, gangster, hitman and professional gambler was most famous for two things. The first naturally enough was his weapon of choice, an ice pick taped to one end of a vintage mahagony hat stand. The second, that he always, always rode in the front passenger seat of the getaway vehicle.

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Griffin Halmeida
 
Griffin Halmeida

Griffin Halmeida is a compulsive liar and a professional conman, Griffin isn't even his real name. After decades of false identities and elaborate schemes, he longs to settle down. When he finally meet the girl of his dreams, he prepares himself for the most complicated con he's ever pulled so far.

Anthony Takeshi
 
Anthony Takeshi moved his left waldo slightly forward. The viewscreen showed him the singularity, a few thousand kilometers sunward from Jupiter Station, trembling as the grav fields controlled by his movements adjusted its position. "Don't blow it, Tony." Doctor Rai stood close behind him, her voice low and deep. Takeshi nodded, careful not to move his hands. They had one chance to send this microscopic chunk of Bose-Einstein condensate matter into the heart of an asteroid, working the magic that would transform the rock into humanity's first starship.

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Vrai Saral Trae
 
Vrai Saral Trae came to the Earth on a SpaceSkooter that his Dad bought him. There were supposed to be folks there to meet him, other Squinthkillians, but Vrai sat for hours and then days waiting at the spaceport coffee shop and nobody showed up. Eventually Vrai realized that he had taken a wrong turn at Aldebaran and that he was on the wrong planet. They all looked the same, these outlying backwater orbs.

Jude Mirani
 
Jude Mirani leaned against the blurry 3-D poster of some old movie star and closed his eyes. The drone of a neocafe ballad drifted through his mind. The place smelled clean. Everybody was tripping on designer sense sharpeners with no side effects, just a sharp, clinical aroma that reminded you of the low orbit lab where they were made. Hell, they were giving the stuff to babies now, turning out quiet, polite kids who knew too much and spoke too little. It made you yearn for the good old days.

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Saraka Chon
 
Saraka Chon

Saraka Chon was born in New New Delhi,after the Unrest*,by in vitro fertilization.
*yes ,i know ,speaking about the Unrest is strictly forbidden,but people need to know
Her early life is shrouded in mystery.
the few C59 carbo/nanofiles that survived the Unrest mention her killing people,without specifying the who,how,or why.


It is rumoured she hacked the Worldfund source code* when she was 12 and sold it to the Slightly LEGAL KAZAKH HACKERS(YES,those people).
(*reputedly by deconvoluting the DTL format with an old branch- and - bound algorithm and using pre World War five ENCEPHALON,no less)



she majored at NOVY PROSPEKT University in Terraforming ecology,specializing in anaerobic processes in atmospheric chemistry.


When she was sixteen,the political scientists of TitanProtectorate recruited her as a Paradigm Designer/Cultural engineer
She had an aptitude for predicting largescale cultural and political change that was uncanny,but which made her feared in some quarters.
After she learned that it was the TitanProtectorate which killed her mother so gruesomely
(they administered Bub2 and Ebol@Gen after torturing her mother),she defected to the Paneuropean Mujahiddeen

Now i have to emphasize that the Mare Crisium Archive deny all involvement or responsibilty in the loss of files pertaining to Saraka Chon.

for all intents and purposes,she seems to have vanished out of all INNPlan records.
TitanProtectorate flatly deny having wiped the MCA records.

Her record of having been seen on Carbonaceous Chondrite OORT GFS2177 ,solar Quadrant U78-55,carrying californium possible fusion boms is unreliable.
TItanProtectorate's NOT SO SECRET POLICE* claim to have killed her,

(*as the Renaissance people have dubbed them,and the name HAS stuck,somehow)

ok gotta get some food from the fish & chips

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Ling Pei Leif O'leary
 
In the history of the 2nd Imperium, no law firm was more acclaimed (or notorious) than the firm of Ling Pei Leif O'Leary.

Formed through the merger of terrestrial property law specialists, Ling Pei Leif and the off world personal injuries firm O'Leary and O'Really, LPIO rode a wave of class action law suits and contingency fee agreements to become the fourth largest property owner in the Delevon Sector, and the De Facto government of 9 separate planetary systems.

At it's peak the firm had 714 offices, on 188 planets, supporting 9214 partners, and employing 309472 solicitors.
As rapid as was their rise however, the firms fall was just as spectacular.
In the year 456IC, the Emporer Clovan the Unflappable signed into law the 'fit and proper person test', requiring that all owners of legal title to planets, be persons (or beings) of 'honour, fairness and equity', the firm was unable to identify a single employee of the firm able to meet the necessary criteria, and their holdings passed into the hands of the Imperial Law Society.

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Hillary Bonn
 
Hillary Bonn is entirely unremarkable to behold. Her mousy hair is cut in longish layers and her wardrobe is mostly grey, with just enough colour here and there so as to preclude anyone mentioning that she wears none. In fact, everything about her is meant to aid in avoiding mention at all. Her speech is neither too loud nor too soft; neither too fast nor too slow. Her shoes are sensible and silent when she walks. Hillary has no hobbies of which anyone is aware. Her eyes aren't blank, yet neither do they make one think that she's particularly observant. She has a vaguely ageless quality. Younger people assume her to be old and boring. Older people see her as a lackluster youth. In fact however, Hillary Bonn is over seven thousand years old, and she's long since lost count of how many names she's had before this one.

Jimmy Stone
 
Jimmy Stone has been sentenced to death.
Jimmy has killed two people in cold blood,albeit in an unusual way.
The remains of the bodies of his victims were found scattered over several CityGloms,with neat little post-its glued to the various remains.
The post-its contained phrases like: ""2214,Goa Islands,virus warf." or "2665,Tharsis,school,24 incl.teacher"
Among the more intriguing were :"AH,bunker,suic." and "EG,Japan,1945,mid air,just before drop"

Jimmy,high IQ,parttime petty criminal,addicted to both Synaptol(Reg.Trademark) and GABA Cascade Ergolin(illegal in the Northern Hemisphere Republic)even refuses the usual Redemption resurrection procedure.

Jimmy suffers from the delusion that dying enables time travel....


Mahana Wounded Fox
 
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He didn't know he'd be triggering a mass exodus with his little stunt. Mahana Wounded Fox was of ancient Roma/Amerindian stock, born without arms on the last of the old Martian mining colonies to parents with no interest in raising a cripple. Fitted by his owners at MMC LLC with servoprosthetics and left to fend for himself in the harsh economy of a failing world, Mahana predictably fell in with a disreputable pack of hackers and thieves. When from stolen components he cobbled together a warp-capable flight suit and ran away from home at the age of 15, he left a crater where his hutch had been. It didn't take long for the rest of his extended family to piece together from scraps of notes and packing manifests what he'd built and jump off-world themselves in huge numbers, giving birth to the very first familial swarm. Even now, they wander the galaxy in search of their savior.
 
Jurell Bason was almost known as the greatest writer of comedic sketches in the history of the Milky Way galaxy. It is estimated that his witty scribblings would have elicited trillions of laughs on billions of planets. He was slated to be inducted into the Writer's Hall of Fame on Ganymede and a ten-foot tall gold statue was due to be erected in his honor, but Jurell failed to show up, same as he had forgotten to write the hilarious monologues for which he was almost best-known.

Dr. Zig Cheescornham
 
Dr. Zig Cheescornham, animated character created for the Snack Squad Super Saturday Smash Show (1973), resulted in an unexpected situation. The comic supervillain's weapons of choice were fatty, sugary, salty junk food hurled at the good guys, who responded with fresh fruit and vegetables. Kids found the Bad Doctor much more appealing than the Nutrition Team (Mister Vitamin, Mineral Woman, and the Fiber Twins.) This was not good news for the Universal Broadcasting System, who had promised to balance their countless advertisements for sweetened cereals and artificially flavored chips with gentle propaganda for healthful foods. Unfortunately, children loved the character and increased their demand for tasty, dangerous treats. The series was cancelled after six episodes and forgotten until it was recently released on DVD. The FCC requires a warning label on it.

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Kamanameha Lemahe
 
Kamanameha Lemahe was the first major President of The Arctic Nation,which sounds somewhat counterintuitive.However,his great great-great-grandparents came from Greater Australasia and were among the first Maori to settle in Svalbard Dome.

He moved with an agility that belied his bulk,had an archaic sense of humour,and before he became president,was one of the first actors of The Arctic Nation that made it in Greater Hollywood 4(the one NOT in Namerica)y. His main wife was the famous emocaster Homeobox var. Notochord Alizarin Red S stain(the same one who later abandoned him for,of all people,Wayfarer Zeta Camelopardis). His secondmost important wife was Head Honcho of Pacific Proteins,SEASIA division.After she died,she joined the Kuiper Belt Governance Unit.
Lemahe died only four times,unfortunatelythe last death being permanent.That was one of the major tragedies of that century.Beside the total aridifcation/desertification of Europe,of course.But that is self-evident
Most people(at least the Model Five ones)will remember him fondly as "Cold" Ka, the man who overturned the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation,using coolant from fusion generators,making Arctic Nation what is is today.
The phrase "wet and cold sir,as you very well know" is wrongly attributed to him.



"pretty" Polly Audemard
 
Ah, Polly Audemard, affectionally referred to as "Pretty Polly" or "Pretty" by her friends. She was a vivacious young girl of about 19 years, always on the lookout for fun and mischief. Her nickname was well-earned, as she was by far the most beautiful girl in her village. She had a tall, athletic build, flowing blonde hair, and facial features that could melt the heart of even the most hardened man. Unfortunately, while the gods had smiled upon her in the looks department, they had not seen fit to equip her with an intellect to match. Her ineptitude often made her the target of jokes, and the other women in the village were particularly cruel to her, being jealous of Polly's ability to draw all of the male attention in a given area. However, she was strong of spirit, and for the most part she was able to shrug off the insults.

Tragically, Polly passed away shortly after her 25th birthday, while attempting to rescue a goldfish from the town well.

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Abernathy McCrayhorn
 
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Abernathy McCrayhorn was the village idiot in the small village of Moronski in Cretania. Early in life he learned to shout gibberish into a hollow log, which could be heard miles away, and suddenly Abby found himself with an audience, albeit mostly other idiot villagers, and he bore down and practiced hard, perfecting his crappy craft. The townspeople were quite jealous when the Abster was signed to a major record label, and they pelted him with detritus and rubbish on the way out of town but he just larfed.

Theonicus McBucklack
 
Theonicus McBucklack waddled into town on the back of a giant sloth. It was an economy clone, and it tottered and swayed with every step. Still, it was better than walking, or riding on a machine. The good citizens of Falberton expected their new mayor to arrive in style, and that meant organics. McBucklack adjusted his monocle, straightened his cravat, and descended from the lazy beast to the scattered applause of the townfolk. Being drafted to serve as the human caretaker for a community of obsolete robots wasn't the easiest job in the world, but somebody had to do it.

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Carlotta Montoya de Sierra y Lopez
 
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