Scalpel
Name Scalpel
Gender Male
Race Vilani
Age 34
Homeworld Crete (rich asteroid), Vland SubSector, Vland Sector.
Racial traits None
UPP 486C97

Skills

  • Computers - 1
  • Deception - 1
  • Slug Gun - 1
  • Engineer (Life Support) - 1
  • Medic - 1
  • Diplomat - 1
  • Mechanic - 1
  • Pilot (spacecraft) - 1
  • Physical Sciences (Chemistry) - 1
  • Sensors - 1
  • Social Sciences (Sophontology) - 1
  • Stealth - 1
  • Carouse - 0
  • Comms - 0
  • Diplomat - 0
  • Investigate - 0
  • Persuade - 0
  • Space Sciences - 0
  • Stealth - 0
  • Survival - 0
  • Trade - 0
  • Zero-G - 0

Equipment

  • Communication device TL10
  • Handheld computer TL 12
  • Rope
  • First Aid Kit
  • Snub Pistol - 10 rounds of ammo
  • Free Trader (5 ship shares) Mortgage : 144,744 Cr per month.

Weapons
Name : Snub Pistol
Attack DM : -3
Damage : 3D6 - 3

Cash
- 2,000 Cr (owes to Pi Radians)

History

  • 2 terms as research scientist.
  • 2 terms in merchant marine. Mustered out with a mortgaged Free Trader.

Eight years ago a lab assistant bio-physicist was hounded off of his homeworld by moralists incensed by his experiments with using transgenic brain tissue grafts to dull the pain responses among the terminally ill. Persecuted for creating half-human 'monsters' from patients whose consent was dubious at best, the lab assistant shipped off with the merchant marine, assumed a new identity as "Scapel," and began servicing the black market for genetic tweaks and biological oddities. It's not the life he would have chosen for himself, but life takes you to strange places, and "Scalpel" gradually found his moral standards growing ever looser.

Though the authorities view Scalpel with distaste - and may in time take punitive action against him, if he ever becomes a big enough criminal operator to merit their attention - he is not necessarily the cold-hearted villain he seems to be. Scalpel is intensely opposed to restrictions on humaniti's body of knowledge, and finds the cultural taboos of the Imperium a blight on the species. His experience with government and the legal system has largely been negative - in his view, the entire "Establishment" is built on coercion and guilt - and daydreams of creating his own Pocket Tyranny, a depraved utopia as a mordant reflection of the Imperium to act as a laboratory to breed a better humaniti.

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