Post by The Master on Aug 3, 2011 21:00:02 GMT -5
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Name: Saflan kal-Thra Dingum
Aliases: Mate Saflan. Saflan the Bloody, Scourge of the Atropos Reach.
Age: Somewhere between 60 and 80. The vagaries of relativistic and temporal travel, the lack of a universal reference point for time, anagathic drug treatments, and heavy drinking have left him uncertain as to his exact age.
Species: Human. Believe it or not.
Planet of Origin: Valeria. 34th century CE (14th century Anno Atomic)
Occupation: Mercenary. Space (and time) pirate. Gunnery officer aboard the Slyther. Dalek/non-Dalek liason officer. Dalek Irkk's straight man.
Physical Description: Homely is a good word. Ugly might be pushing the point a little. He stands about about 1.2 meters tall, but looks shorter due to a broad, heavy-boned frame. His legs are short and thick and his arms are normally proportioned for his height, giving him a simian appearance. The appearance is not minimized by a bull neck and heavy jaw and brow ridges and a flattened (and broken multiple times) nose. He wears his black hair long and in a pony tail, his eyes are amber and slitted (thanks to a biotech upgrade he picked up a few decades back), and his face (and, to be honest, the rest of him) is scarred.
History: Saflan doesn't talk much about his history. It's known he's from Valeria ('How else d'you think I got this fearsom bod?") and that he had a parents there ("My ma always said I'd turn out to be no good. Told me that the day I strangled her. She never did know when to shut up."). When he does tell stories about his youth, the details vary wildly from telling to telling.
The probabilities are that Saflan jumped ship on a merchant freighter around the age of 15. He drifts in and out of the historical record for about a decade, mostly appearing in police blotters and security camera footage. It is known that he served as a mercenary in a series of brushfire wars between Noish Taragalla and the High Court of New Avalon, as an extortionist for the Boskone Pirates, and as a freelance mineral prospector in Ganama Theta.
He reappears as the Captain of the pirate ship Mirabella, which left a trail of blood and destruction across the Atropos Reach. At the height of this part of his career, he commanded a fleet of a dozen raiders, and became such a threat to shipping and colonies in the reach that the Anglican Navy spent a year and a half hunting him down. His fleet was destroyed with all hands presumed lost.
He reappeared again in the company of the mysterious Irkk, one of the Pirate Kings of New Tortuga.
Additional Medical Information: Valeria is a planet with three times the gravitational pull of Earth. As a result, Saflan (like all Valerians) is incredibly strong by normal human standards, and can soak up a fearsome amount of punishment. Under the dismally weak gravity of Earth he can leap tremendous distances, lift large objects, twist metal bars into knots, and generally perform remarkable feats of strength. On the down side, the normal atmospheric pressure at sea level under Earth's gravity is fairly thin by his standards, and hypoxia is a constant threat if he exerts himself. To aid with this, he carries a compressor - which looks something like an asthmatic's inhaler - to help get decent amounts of oxygen.
Saflan has also had a number of biological and cybernetic enhancements made to his body over the years. He can see in low-light conditions like a cat, he has a backup heart in his abdominal cavity and systems to help rapidly suppress blood loss due to severe injury, can increase his reaction speed and pain tolerance through the use of specialized glands implanted throughout his body, and has claimed to be able to spit neurotoxins.
He's also a sociopath. Just so you know.
Name: Saflan kal-Thra Dingum
Aliases: Mate Saflan. Saflan the Bloody, Scourge of the Atropos Reach.
Age: Somewhere between 60 and 80. The vagaries of relativistic and temporal travel, the lack of a universal reference point for time, anagathic drug treatments, and heavy drinking have left him uncertain as to his exact age.
Species: Human. Believe it or not.
Planet of Origin: Valeria. 34th century CE (14th century Anno Atomic)
Occupation: Mercenary. Space (and time) pirate. Gunnery officer aboard the Slyther. Dalek/non-Dalek liason officer. Dalek Irkk's straight man.
Physical Description: Homely is a good word. Ugly might be pushing the point a little. He stands about about 1.2 meters tall, but looks shorter due to a broad, heavy-boned frame. His legs are short and thick and his arms are normally proportioned for his height, giving him a simian appearance. The appearance is not minimized by a bull neck and heavy jaw and brow ridges and a flattened (and broken multiple times) nose. He wears his black hair long and in a pony tail, his eyes are amber and slitted (thanks to a biotech upgrade he picked up a few decades back), and his face (and, to be honest, the rest of him) is scarred.
History: Saflan doesn't talk much about his history. It's known he's from Valeria ('How else d'you think I got this fearsom bod?") and that he had a parents there ("My ma always said I'd turn out to be no good. Told me that the day I strangled her. She never did know when to shut up."). When he does tell stories about his youth, the details vary wildly from telling to telling.
The probabilities are that Saflan jumped ship on a merchant freighter around the age of 15. He drifts in and out of the historical record for about a decade, mostly appearing in police blotters and security camera footage. It is known that he served as a mercenary in a series of brushfire wars between Noish Taragalla and the High Court of New Avalon, as an extortionist for the Boskone Pirates, and as a freelance mineral prospector in Ganama Theta.
He reappears as the Captain of the pirate ship Mirabella, which left a trail of blood and destruction across the Atropos Reach. At the height of this part of his career, he commanded a fleet of a dozen raiders, and became such a threat to shipping and colonies in the reach that the Anglican Navy spent a year and a half hunting him down. His fleet was destroyed with all hands presumed lost.
He reappeared again in the company of the mysterious Irkk, one of the Pirate Kings of New Tortuga.
Additional Medical Information: Valeria is a planet with three times the gravitational pull of Earth. As a result, Saflan (like all Valerians) is incredibly strong by normal human standards, and can soak up a fearsome amount of punishment. Under the dismally weak gravity of Earth he can leap tremendous distances, lift large objects, twist metal bars into knots, and generally perform remarkable feats of strength. On the down side, the normal atmospheric pressure at sea level under Earth's gravity is fairly thin by his standards, and hypoxia is a constant threat if he exerts himself. To aid with this, he carries a compressor - which looks something like an asthmatic's inhaler - to help get decent amounts of oxygen.
Saflan has also had a number of biological and cybernetic enhancements made to his body over the years. He can see in low-light conditions like a cat, he has a backup heart in his abdominal cavity and systems to help rapidly suppress blood loss due to severe injury, can increase his reaction speed and pain tolerance through the use of specialized glands implanted throughout his body, and has claimed to be able to spit neurotoxins.
He's also a sociopath. Just so you know.
