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Character: Jim Clark
Rank: Captain Sr. Grade
Affiliation: Earth Unified Fleet (Stranger)
Assignment: Star Digger, Deep Space Mining Frigate, Support Squadron.
1st Appearance: Scouts Out
Description: Human male, Red curly hair with a full red beard. tall and powerfully built but not overly muscular, just wiry. Wears cowboy boots with his duty uniform.
Nickname: Tex
Hobbies: Growing Tobacco and smoking cigars.
Background: Ten Years older than Leo Grant, Drilled for oil in Texas, Mined for gold in Alaska. Had a German Shepard named Hero.
Writing Background: Based on my maternal Uncles, one of which was named Jim, but really just a homage to all of them. Strong, steadfast men, I love all of them. None of them from Texas and none of them were ever miners or prospectors.
Locations : End Rocks (or Rocks End)
First Appearance: Disconnect
Significance: A mining/trading post.
Description: A barely habitable planet had large mining operation at one time, but located in a poorly charted asteroid belt. Lawless Area, not claimed by any Alarian Clan.
Location: On the furthest edge of Alarian claimed space.
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