Trying to figure out what my incarnation would be here.... Hrmmmm....
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After a somewhat lackluster, but highly educational tour of duty in the US Navy, Benjamin Rhodes handwaviumizes an old Mazda B2500 extended cab pickup into a viable spacecraft and calls it the Scrappy Doo Express (for the truck's seemingly dogged determination to punch over its own weight). With his trusty AI companion, Asuka Shikinami-Langely, they have started out as couriers, leveraging his truck's cargo capacity to great effect. However, given their militaristic backgrounds, they are starting to become somewhat restless.
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Given my own mischievous leanings, I'm wondering if Mal's contingent wouldn't mind having Ben around. He'd still be fairly fresh from the Navy, with a bevy of useful skills like using and maintaining small arms, crew served weapons, and major caliber guns. His experience would also include explosives ordnance handling, storage and inventory; maintenance of damage control equipment (emergency lighting, fire fighting equipment, and even fittings such as doors, hatches, scuttles, valves, and dampers of all sorts); shipboard firefighting, mass casualty, and first-aid; and last (but not least), hazardous materials management (big guns need lots of grease, oil, and paint).
Non-handwavium quirks include:
- Unwitting Ninja: an uncanny ability to sneak up on people, even unintentionally. (For real - I have to wear something jangly if I don't want to surprise the hell out of someone.)
- Mildly Autistic: while not diagnosed, he suspects this as he tends to distance himself from the 'human factor' in many things. While it makes him seem like an asshole at times, it is useful at others when an objective eye is needed.
- Human Gyrocompass: excellent sense of orientation, though at times a weakness as he is sensitive to movement. Can take several days to readjust to free-fall if he spends more than a month in a gravity well.
- Slow is Steady: a preference for quality over quantity. He will use all available time for a project to achieve the best possible results, even going as far as to experiment.
- Stubborn: as a mule. If you cannot provide incontrovertible proof, then he is going to stick to his guns. With concessions, though, he can be persuaded to compromise.
- Better Mousetrap: always looking a better way to do things.
- Engineer Inside: mechanically inclined and excellent at troubleshooting. If he fixes it, it will stay fixed longer and run smoother.
- ADD: looses track of things easily. This has enforced a certain degree of organization that can appear obsessive-compulsive from a distance.
Thoughts?
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After a somewhat lackluster, but highly educational tour of duty in the US Navy, Benjamin Rhodes handwaviumizes an old Mazda B2500 extended cab pickup into a viable spacecraft and calls it the Scrappy Doo Express (for the truck's seemingly dogged determination to punch over its own weight). With his trusty AI companion, Asuka Shikinami-Langely, they have started out as couriers, leveraging his truck's cargo capacity to great effect. However, given their militaristic backgrounds, they are starting to become somewhat restless.
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Given my own mischievous leanings, I'm wondering if Mal's contingent wouldn't mind having Ben around. He'd still be fairly fresh from the Navy, with a bevy of useful skills like using and maintaining small arms, crew served weapons, and major caliber guns. His experience would also include explosives ordnance handling, storage and inventory; maintenance of damage control equipment (emergency lighting, fire fighting equipment, and even fittings such as doors, hatches, scuttles, valves, and dampers of all sorts); shipboard firefighting, mass casualty, and first-aid; and last (but not least), hazardous materials management (big guns need lots of grease, oil, and paint).
Non-handwavium quirks include:
- Unwitting Ninja: an uncanny ability to sneak up on people, even unintentionally. (For real - I have to wear something jangly if I don't want to surprise the hell out of someone.)
- Mildly Autistic: while not diagnosed, he suspects this as he tends to distance himself from the 'human factor' in many things. While it makes him seem like an asshole at times, it is useful at others when an objective eye is needed.
- Human Gyrocompass: excellent sense of orientation, though at times a weakness as he is sensitive to movement. Can take several days to readjust to free-fall if he spends more than a month in a gravity well.
- Slow is Steady: a preference for quality over quantity. He will use all available time for a project to achieve the best possible results, even going as far as to experiment.
- Stubborn: as a mule. If you cannot provide incontrovertible proof, then he is going to stick to his guns. With concessions, though, he can be persuaded to compromise.
- Better Mousetrap: always looking a better way to do things.
- Engineer Inside: mechanically inclined and excellent at troubleshooting. If he fixes it, it will stay fixed longer and run smoother.
- ADD: looses track of things easily. This has enforced a certain degree of organization that can appear obsessive-compulsive from a distance.
Thoughts?