Free Lunch

Character: Blue

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Rank:  Rescue Technician One

Affiliation: Earth Fleet One,  Temp. assignment to Earth Unified Fleet (Stranger) for training.

Assignment:  Rescue Runner- Free Lunch out of the Clara Barton,  2nd Squadron.

1st Appearance:  Q Runner

Description:  Human female.

Nickname:  “Blue”

Hobbies: Unknown

Background:  Raised in an orphanage but knows who her parents are.  Hair is dyed permanently blue, hence the name, that is all the name she will tell the crew.  A bit brash and believe sex is no big deal.  A bit Claustrophobic in suit.

Character: Adam Bielski

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Rank:  Medical  Technician One

Affiliation:  Earth Unified Fleet (Stranger)

Assignment:  Rescue Runner- Wooden Nickle out of the Clara Barton,  2nd Squadron.  Temporary Assignment on the Free Lunch.

1st Appearance:  Q Runner

Description:  Human male, Northern European,  Dark Hair,

Nickname:  Unknown

Hobbies: Unknown

Background:  Polish from 14th Century, paper maker, lived outside of what would later become Warsaw.

Charcter: Sven Olsen

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Rank:  Rescue Technician One

Affiliation:  Earth Unified Fleet (Stranger)

Assignment:  Rescue Runner- Free Lunch, out of the Clara Barton,  2nd Squadron

1st Appearance:  Q Runner

Description:  Human male, Northern European, tall and blonde.

Nickname:  None

Hobbies: Loves food.

Background:  Swedish Potter from Oslo, 1852,  quiet.

Charcter: Jill Brown

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Rank:    Medical Technician One

Affiliation:  Earth Unified Fleet (Stranger)

Assignment:  Rescue Runner- Free Lunch, out of the Clara Barton,  2nd Squadron

1st Appearance:  Q Runner

Description:  Human female, blonde, 17 years old when awoken, petite.

Nickname:  None

Hobbies:

Background:  Youngest member of Free Lunch crew snatched when she turned 17 in 1859 rural PA fifth daughter to a farming family,  Quaker,  initially very scared of Lt. Clark.

Character: Gwenevie Bedel

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Rank:    Medical Technician Two

Affiliation:  Earth Unified Fleet (Stranger)

Assignment:  Rescue Runner- Free Lunch, out of the Clara Barton,  2nd Squadron

1st Appearance:  Q Runner

Description:  Human female, blonde, 18 years old when awoken, tall and thin

Nickname:  Gwen

Hobbies: Reading, Beatles Fan, loves debating.

Background:  Born along the French Rivera to a Literature professor; father and a mother who was a nurse.  Snatched from the year 1967.  Father was a communist and she is too.

Character: Jhon Rhee Kim

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Rank:    Ensign Co-Pilot/2nd in Command

Affiliation:  Earth Unified Fleet (Stranger)

Assignment:  Rescue Runner- Free Lunch, out of the Clara Barton,  2nd Squadron

1st Appearance:  Q Runner

Description:  Human male, Korean, 18 years old when awoken.

Nickname:  Unknown

Hobbies: Marathon Runner

Background:  About to join Korean Army in 1930, Father a Col. in Cavalry, very strict on son.  Kim very by the book, even though there is no book for The Stranger Fleet.  Not very comfortable with blood.

Character: Maxwell Clark

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Rank:   Lt. junior grade.  Pilot/Commander

Affiliation:  Earth Unified Fleet (Stranger)

Assignment:  Rescue Runner- Free Lunch, out of the Clara Barton,  2nd Squadron

1st Appearance:  Q Runner

Description:  Human male, black South African, early 20’s.

Nickname:  Max

Hobbies: Boxing and Soccer

Background:  Two years in at Agricultural College of Somalia when plucked by Outfitters.  Very laid back, knows about Sgt. Xaviers activities but looks the other way.   Has relationship with another Pilot/Commander of the Rescue Runner  Patsy Curtis, commander/pilot of the Motown Mercy.

Character: Phillip A. Xavier

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Rank:   Rescue Tech 3/SGT

Affiliation:  Earth Unified Fleet (Stranger)

Assignment:  Rescue Runner- Free Lunch, out of the Clara Barton,  2nd Squadron

1st Appearance:  Q Runner

Description:  Human male.

Nickname:  Philly

Hobbies: Gambling.

Background:  From Florida, small town 1962, father was a shopkeeper when sober, inherited business from  his father but Phillip’s Mom really ran the business,  Phillip doesn’t drink but does gamble and is trying to juggle two girls at once,  Barb a same rank peer on a Rescue Runner and Melissa a Medical tech on an ambulance crew from the Squadron Command ship.  Short and powerfully built, red hair.

Character: Patrick “Paddy” Murphy

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Rank:   Warrant Officer

Affiliation:  Earth Unified Fleet (Stranger)  Rescue Runner Five of Ten, 2nd Squadron

Assignment:  Free Lunch of the Clara Barton

1st Appearance:  Q Runner

Description: Tall, thin, with thin red hair.

Nickname:  Paddy

Hobbies: loves talking about boxing, baseball

Background:  Immigrant to Brooklyn when he was five,  wanted to be a fightfighter but was turned down due to flat feet, was a shopkeeper,  taken from 1929, loves to talk boxing w/Clark,  younger brother became Golden Gloves in 1930.  In charge of all medical decisions on Free Lunch.  Decides level of treatments of each patient based on resources of Auto-docs.  Wears Brooklyn Dodgers hat whenever he can.  Plays catch with whoever will.  “old man” of the crew at twenty-five

Writing Origin:  An amalgamation of all the fine Physician Assistants I knew in the Army.   

William Christopher-Gomer Pyle
Think taller but just as thin as William Christopher. Red hair as well. He was thirty five, a little old to be a Private in the USMC.

Item: The Table

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First Mention:  Q Runner

First Appearance:  Q Runner

Description:  The Table is a human sized body scanning device for exact sizing of fitted Environmental Suits.  First demonstration when Paddy from the Free Lunch is injured and treated, in the process his suit is destroyed and a new one needs to be made.