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Name: Mitchell Zenon Bell
AKA: ''Captain''
First Appeared: 07-FEB-2000
''Captain'' Mitchell has essentially abandoned all pretense at being Captain of the Faraway Star, and has sunk into a bit of a funk.

Name: Maxwell Andreas Goldsmith
First Appeared: 04-FEB-2000
Although very good at what he does, he is also very nosy and annoying. He is also secretly jealous of the friendship between Doc and Yin, and responds by reporting their every misadventure to the Captain.

Name: Ross Dexter Pospieszcelski
AKA:''Doc''
First Appeared: 07-FEB-2000
''Doc'' was pretty much a rebel before the fateful night when he and Yin snuck into the biolab and he ate an experimental mushroom. Now, he is blessed/cursed with occational genius and just a mild bit of insanity. He also now has blue hair.

Name: Kendra Paulette Kirui
First Appeared: 09-FEB-2000
Kendra's relationship with Doc should clue many people in that she's extraordinarily tolerant. She is also very close to Anne and has managed to hold together fairly well after leaving Cygma.

Name: Dr. Patricia Anne Krisnov
Medical Doctor
First Appeared: 09-FEB-2000
Anne has put up a good front since losing her life's work at Cygma, but cracks are forming...

Name: Yin Lee Ng
First Appeared: 09-FEB-2000
Although Yin presents himself as an unwitting accomplice and straight-man to Doc's hyjinks, he is actually a full participant and often mastermind of their pranks. Yin is the Jack-of-all trades when it comes to planetary functions, computers, and mechs.

Name: Vox
First Appeared: 25-FEB-2000
Last Appeared: 14-JUL-2000
Built by Doc in a fit of insane genius, Vox was a modified hover-mech with a central command to kill the crew and a prime directive that he cannot do so. Vox's failures are conteracted by him having written a program that builds a new copy each time he's destroyed.

Name: Quicktongue
AKA: Q
First Appeared: 07-APR-2000
Last Appeared: 25-JAN-2001
Q was once an innocent swamp-critter until Doc implanted a small translator into her brain. After serving as part time patsy for Vox and sometimes pet for the crew, her time ran out.

Name: Vox 2.0
First Appeared: 17-JUL-2000
Last Appeared: 09-AUG-2000
Vox 2.0 revealed that Vox was capable of creating copies of himself in order to win the ''game'' he was playing with the crew's lives. Doc won this round by blowing Vox out of the dome during liftoff.

Name: Vox 3.0
First Appeared: 25-AUG-2000
Last Appeared: 09-OCT-2000
Vox 3.0 managed to come closer than any other to killing the crew by destroying their gas-collection pod. He was executed after his trial.

Name: Smee
AKA: OS for the Faraway Star
First Appeared: 26-OCT-2000
Ms. Smee was built by Doc to integrate the varied operating systems of the newly cobbled-together Faraway Star. She is essentially a holo-interface tied to the databases in the ship's central core and holospheres. She is not sentient or an AI.

Name: Robert Garrison
Captain Sandiago Roberto
First Appeared: 05-FEB-2001
Last Appeared: 23-MAR-2001
Smuggler, showman and all around (self-appointed) legend, Captain Roberto has taken the ITV Fizzing Bob on it's last journey.

Name: Gregor Nichivsk
AKA: The Boss
Captain of the Nosferatu
First Appeared: 07-FEB-2001
''The Boss'' is a high-dollar smuggler who uses Hall as his dealer. He is well known for dealing contraband and smuggling

Name: Poog
First Appeared: 07-FEB-2001
Poog is a Dorand, a race also known as ''stalkers'' for their ability to turn invisible. Poog serves the ''boss'' as a personal bodyguard, escort, lookout, driver, and gopher

Name: Deg
First Appeared: 09-FEB-2001
A survivor of the ITV Fizzing Bob, Deg hasn't yet managed to wake from a CO2 induced coma.

Name: Milo
First Appeared: 09-FEB-2001
Survivor of the ITV Fizzing Bob, Milo has more or less joined up with the Faraway Star.

Name: Liz
First Appeared: 09-FEB-2001
Last Appeared: 23-MAR-2001
Little is known of Liz, the gunner for the ITV Fizzing Bob. She was killed when the 'Bob crashed at Cygma Tau.

Name: Torris
First Appeared: 12-FEB-2001
Torris was a Senator in the Gaur Council until he was exposed by the Gaur-Ect. Now he is the personal assitant (servant) to Bullisenn, the Highest Bretheren of ''The Way''.

Name: Bullisenn
First Appeared: 12-FEB-2001
The secret leader of ''The Way'', a political group betraying the Gaur Empire.

Name: Titchstiv
AKA: Steve
First Appeared: 27-FEB-2001
Forever branded with the nickname ''Steve'', Titchstiv is desperately trying to get the crew of the Faraway Star to assist him in his plans with the revolutionary group ''Gaur-Ect''.

Name: Yosew
First Appeared: 27-FEB-2001
Yosew is a member of the revolutionary group ''Gaur-Ect'' with Titchstiv.

Name: Fleet Admiral Tichvarg
First Appeared: 29-MAR-2001
Last Appeared: 13-APR-2001
Steve's parent, killed in the Cygma system when the gravity drive of the ITV Fizzing Bob collapsed a Te'Nef tunnel.

Name: Vox 4.0
First Appeared: 02-MAY-2001
The latest incarnation of Vox, 4 has somehow become an unknown part of Steve's plans.

Name: Hall-sin
First Appeared: 30-MAY-2001
Mercenary Guild member and smuggler contact, Hall is a major power in transferring contraband.

Name: Lord Admiral Serswitef
First Appeared: 05-JUN-2001
The highest ranking military gaur on Gaur. A fanatic for presentation and perhaps a few years past his prime as a shrewd tactician.
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