The Outfitters Universe:

Ships: The Star Digger

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Affiliation:   United Earth (Stranger) Fleet

Designation:   Deep Space Mining of United Earth Fleet Support Squadron

Class:  X Ray Class

Personnel:   450

Support Ship:   None

Tender: Deep Space Survey Vessels

Commanding Officer: Sr. Captian Jim Clark

Positrontic Brain:  Unknown

First Appearance:  Scouts Out

2nd Appearance:  Unknown

Ships: Black Cat

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Affiliation:   United Earth (Stranger) Fleet

Designation:    Long Range Reconnaissance and Attack Ship,  13 of 15 of the 2nd Squadron

Class:  Bravo

Personnel:   13

Support Ship:   The Endurance

Tender:  Two Shark type fighters

Commanding Officer:  C.J. Mallory

Positrontic Brain:  Unknown

First Appearance:  Scouts Out

2nd Appearance:  None at this time.

Ship: Iron Te

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Affiliation:   United Earth (Stranger) Fleet

Designation:    Long Range Reconnaissance and Attack Ship,  1 of 15 of the 2nd Squadron

Class:  Bravo

Personnel:   13

Support Ship:   The Endurance

Tender:  Two Shark type fighters.

Commanding Officer:  Unknown

Positrontic Brain:  Unknown

First Appearance:  Scouts Out

2nd Appearance:  None at this time.

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.   

Character: Michael Methverin

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 Rank:  Technician Six

Affiliation: United Nations Fleet Social Services Branch

Assignment: Peace Questor

1st Appearance:  Scouts Out

Description:  Human Male,  thin almost sickly,

Nickname: Unknown

Hobbies: Unknown

Background:  Vegetarian

Item: Auto-Doc

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First Mention:  Scouts Out

First Appearance:  Scouts Out

Description:  The Auto-Doc is an medical evaluation and treatment device.  A cabinet like device used able to fit humans and treat them for all major and minor injuries and conditions.  The more serious the injury or condition the longer a person must remain in the device.  Built on the B.E.D. device.   Auto-Docs are found on most Charlie Class ships and above.