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Language: Cartan

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Alarian rank:   Senior Enlisted personnel, a non commissioned officer.

First Appearance:  Disconnect

 

Character: Shelby Pickett

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Rank:  Captain Junior grade

Affiliation:  Earth Unified Fleet (Stranger)

Assignment: Fleet Intelligence Operative

1st Appearance:  Disconnect

Description:  Human female, blonde, blue eyes, young. Freckled Nose

Nickname:  Unknown

Hobbies: Unknown

Background: Mississippi Pre-American Civil War, rural upbringing, later discovered her father ran away from a battle.  Was partnered with Sid before he became the only Fleet Intelligence Operative to go renegade.

Writing Background:  Staying with major characters having a civil war leaders last name,  Hood, Grant…

Character: Solomon

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Rank:  None

Affiliation:  Formerly of Earth Unified Fleet (Stranger)- Supplemental Ship

Assignment: The Maple Leaf Express

1st Appearance:  Disconnect

Description:  Positrontic Brain

Nickname:   Sol

Hobbies:

Aliens: Fantan

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Race:  Fantan

First Appearance:  Disconnect

Description:  A race that acts as administrators, clerks, and functionaries for the Alarian empire.  Trusted by the Alarians to handle weapons in a limited fashion.   Physically similar to humans.

Item: Flavian Spice

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First Mention:  Disconnect

First Appearance:  Disconnect

Description:  Flavian Spice is a narcotic, used in medical procedures but also abused.    Fumes are released at a higher temperature unless not brought up to the local temperature slowly, which in Alarians and other humanoids can cause paranoia, disorientation,  and erratic violent behavior.    Can be used as a trade or barter instrument.

Writing Origin:  Thought of the Kessel Run smuggling spice in the Star Wars Universe.

Aliens: Bieste

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Race:  Bieste

First Appearance:  Disconnect

Description:  A race that have an innate ability to understand any language once they hear it, and are also a race with great empathetic abilities.  Discovered by the Alarains and enslaved by them due to their pacifist nature, sold into slavery for their abilities and used primarily by rich Alarian traders and politican.   Golden skinned, very much like humans, typically blonde hair.   Thinner and less muscular then humans.

Aliens: Alarians

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Race:  Alarian

First Appearance:  Scouts Out

Second Appearance:  Disconnect

Description:  The Alarians originators of the collaboration the Horde; brought the other two races together.  The Alarians are directed by a guiding philosophy of good old fashion greed and lust for power achieved by conquest, dictatorships, and raping a planet of its resources whether they were animal, vegetable or mineral.  Black, dark blue or green hair.   Black teeth.  Black blood.   Blue spit.

Writing Origin:  Based on the blue aliens, the Gamilas, in the starship Yamato series that I watched as s kid.

 GamilasAdded the tattoos based on the Maori tribal tattoos, but more angular, like the Alarian bone structure.  maoritattoo

 

 

Aliens: Kalukan

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Race:  Kalukans

First Mention:  Scouts Out

First Appearance:  In the short story Recover and Discovered by a team lead by Faith Westlock  (mentioned as doing an economic study in Disconnect)

Description:  A race of pure scientists, insect like aliens,  emotionless at least to humanoids,  society cloaked in secrecy to outsiders,  even the Alarians do not know where their home world is.

Writing Origin:  The other end of the spectrum from the Stetonians, hyper dependent on tech.   

Location: Portogee

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First Mention:  Disconnect

Significance:  Planet where The Maple Leaf Express landed and Arthur hit Levimap with a snowball after she made fun of him for slipping on the ice while he observed the ore being unloaded.

Description:  None

Location: Alarian Frontier  planet.

Character: Betty Sawyer

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Rank:   Lt. J.G.

Affiliation:  Earth Unified Fleet (Stranger)

Assignment:  Fleet Intelligence

1st Appearance:  Disconnect

Description:  Human female, approx. 20 years old, blonde.

Nickname:  Unknown

Hobbies: Unknown

Background:  Unknown might be Australian.

Writing Origin:   Name adapted from Mark Twain characters , Becky changed and added with the last name of the main Character Tom.