Captains and the cast

Clans are institutions. These two chapters give the galaxy faces.

Captains

Captains are named NPCs of a clan - a person a crew can meet, deal with, and make an enemy of. A captain has personal Values, roams a system, and has one dramatic hinge: Rival when: - the standing threshold at which they stop being a character you talk to and start being a character who hunts you.

## Captains

### Mara Dusk (mara)
---
Clan: veil
Title: the Lanternless
Values: fearsome 40, violent 30, resourceful 20
Flies: Torgoth
Roams: 5, -4
Rival when: standing < -20
---
The Veil's sharpest knife, said to have cut her own name out of the
Combine's convoy rolls. She keeps accounts, and she always collects.

standing here means the captain's personal opinion of the player - cross Mara enough times and the Rival when: line makes it a vendetta.

The cast (Lifeforms)

Cast members are comms characters - voices on the radio. A cast member with no location is hailable anywhere: your recurring narrator, dispatcher, or mystery voice.

## Lifeforms

### Harbormaster Quill (quill)
---
Face: terran
Roles: lantern
Scene: quill_hail
Color: #ffcc44
---
The Combine's unflappable harbormaster - the voice that has talked a
thousand freighters through the dark, and does not intend to lose yours.

Face: is terran / male / female (a random face of that kind); Scene: names the dialogue scene that is this character's voice - which is the next page.

Passengers

A cast member with a Pickup, a Deliver to, and a Pays becomes a passenger - offered for transport at one station, delivered to another:

### Brother Calen (calen)
---
Face: male
Roles: civilian
Pickup: -4, 2
Deliver to: 5, -4
Pays: 500 credits
Scene: calen_hail
---
A quiet pilgrim paying convoy rates for passage into Veil country, of all
places. He does not say why, and he pays in advance.

The passenger who is not what he seems

Give a passenger a Sabotage: sensors, weapons line and he damages those systems mid-voyage until the crew confronts him. Use sparingly; the first betrayal is drama, the third is a pattern.

Next: Dialogue - the words.