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[O - E01] An old friend

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Location: E01 - Donwarr
Tags: Civil Building


Dramatis Personae:

Spoiler

Octan

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Pombe
Courageous, wise, and a gentleman extraordinaire, Pombe leads his intrepid team of explorers on adventurous adventures, in the name of profit for the Octan corporation and its shareholders.  His list of achievements is long, from mentoring the now super undercover Octan explorer, Isabel Novak, to destroying all the cacti on New California, to rescuing Octan employees captured by aliens in Sinden's Run and recovering their pants from the dastardly "jeans stealers".  He credits his success to his following in the footsteps of his explorer idols, Lu Caslaug-Hing and Wick Nole, even though Wick Nole is really an engineer.  Despite Pombe's accomplishments, he still somehow gets reported to HR consistently by Dr. Danielle Long, whose ship, the O.C.S. Axle, Pombe and his team have taken residence aboard.  His sister, Pombie, is a special forces agent for the rival M.A.N.T.I.S. corporation.

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Ethel Alkylhal
Originally from Mitgard, where she grew up on a farm and developed animal husbandry skills, she failed to find employment as an adventurer there and ended up wandering the spaceways looking for a job.  She initially was turned down for the temporary hire position as Pombe's apprentice, which was given to Eshey, because Ethel showed up to the interview in her traditional Mitgardian attire and not something Octan regulation approved.  Due to the alien fleet crisis, Pombe reached back out to her and offered her a permanent position on his exploration team.  Her preferred armaments are her trusty battle axe and shield.  Ethel tends to distrust technology and is extremely vulgar.  She also loves to eat sausages.  Commander of the O.C.S. Nut III.

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Hombre

 

 

 

 


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Sue Damoness
Sue was an ace pilot with Galaxy Squad's red team, having tallied numerous combat kills against the invading buggoid aliens.  She was discharged honorably after deciding to leave Galaxy Squad after a certain incident.  Immediately, she was courted by potential employers who wanted her skills as a pilot, but she decided to take up Pombe's offer, due to her intuition regarding Pombe's personal agenda: she didn't think he had one.  Astute, but laid back, she often just goes with the flow in daily situations, but her habits learned from the military crop up from time to time with regards to adherence to protocols.  She does take piloting seriously and enjoys the freedom that Pombe gives her regarding piloting decisions for the team.

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Normal Guy/Beautiful Man
Normal Guy just sort of showed up one day and started following the crew around the Axle.  Pombe, with his keen sense of observation, noticed this, and realized that he needed to help find Normal Guy a girlfriend, so Pombe brought him onto the team.  Since then, Normal Guy has been an indispensible member of the team, completely understanding the nature of the exploration situations and assisting Pombe better than anyone else.  While the other team members seem unnerved by Normal Guy's presence, Pombe's high praise of Normal Guy have led them to keep their thoughts to themselves.  Always caring for Eshey, he sacrificed himself to protect her from a hostile alien creature and was resurrected as Beautiful Man.  Commander of the O.C.S. Head.

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Ishmael Haverly
A former Merchant Confederate starfighter pilot and leader of Cobra squadron aboard the Betsy May.  Though she adheres strictly to combat protocols and utterly respects the chain of command, she prefers to be called by her first name whenever addressed personally.  She was the one who spotted a space whale during a routine CAP and reported it to Pombe and Eshey.  As a Merchant Confederate pilot, she collaborated with Octan by submitting starfighter designs and test piloting the prototypes.  She was hired by Pombe and is now an Octan employee and commander of the O.C.S. Nut I.

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Bruce Vayne
A former Merchant Confederate starfighter pilot whose personal fighter is the T.U.M.B.L.E.R., short for Takeoff Ultra Missile Ballistic Laser Emergency Roustabout, which Eshey mistakes for a missile tank.  As a Merchant confederate pilot, he operated out of the Betsy May, a light carrier class capital ship.  In one incident, he was out on patrol looking for Zoid slaver activity when he crashed into an asteroid in the Fascini Cluster.  Fortunately for him, Eshey and Pombe managed to rescue him and his T.U.M.B.L.E.R. from alien space ducks armed with knives that are indigenous to the asteroid.  Like Ishmael Haverly, he has collaborated with Octan by submitting starfighter designs and test piloting the prototypes.  He is now an Octan employee and commander of the O.C.S. Sack.  His alter-ego is Tabman, since he always buys the drinks.


Kawashita

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Ava Gato
A Kawashita inter-corporate relations officer who shared Kawashita technology with Octan alongside Kawashita engineer Alexander Vandangant.  Ava also stayed aboard the Axle and worked with Eshey on exploration assignments for a while when Pombe was busy debriefing a Kawashita marketing and sales team on Jurin II.  Competent and honorable, Ava assisted and followed Eshey's instructions, highly praising Eshey to Pombe upon his return.  She has since returned to Kawashita to continue her other assignments.

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Shaniqua Yamamoto
A former Galaxy Squad Red Team pilot under the command of Sue Damoness, Shaniqua now works for Kawashita coordinating the Kawashita Underground Racing Circuit, or KURC for short.  She encounters a disruption to her operations when Ishmael Haverly shows up as a racer and dominates the KURC, and Shaniqua resorts to asking her former commander, Sue, for help.  Her boyfriend is Alan Bobby Johnny, who runs the M.A.N.T.I.S. fitness club "GUNS" on Forring.


M.A.N.T.I.S.

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Isabel Novak/Sammy Nelly Typhi
Deceased.  Sammy Nelly Typhi was a M.A.N.T.I.S. special operations agent who infiltrated Octan as apprentice explorer, Isabel Novak, to get close to the famous explorer Wick Nole, even though he's an engineer, to learn Octan corporate secrets.  Instead, she was assigned to Pombe, where she languished for two years under his mentorship.  Finally having had enough, she used a special Octan exploration assignment to fake the death of her alter ego and to head back to M.A.N.T.I.S. space to report of her failure.  Unfortunately for her, her spaceship had a malfunction due to the engines being only attached by a single stud, and she was forced to crash land on the planet of Xerillian.  Pombe found the remains of her wrecked spaceship and sent a report back regarding Isabel's status.  Octan special forces agent, Jebediah O'Reilly, and his team were dispatched to take care of Sammy once and for all, ensuring Octan secrets would not make it back to M.A.N.T.I.S..

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Pombie
A natural leader with an eye for talent, Commander Pombie is the head of an elite crack special operations team for the M.A.N.T.I.S. corporation.  She has gained a reputation for taking employees that would otherwise be considered misfits and outcasts, identifying their talents, and molding them into terrifyingly efficient operatives.  Her leadership style is brutal and cold, but nevertheless, her team are completely loyal to her because she took the time to identify and acknowledge each of their individual aptitudes after they were dismissed by others.  Her brother, Pombe, is an explorer for the rival Octan corporation.

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Cassandra
A powerful psychic with the ability to take over and control the bodily actions of multiple minifigures at once.  She acquired this ability as a test subject during one of Big Sal's "employee weaponization" projects for M.A.N.T.I.S., but was rejected and discarded because she did not develop the ability to shoot lasers out of her eyes, or mouth, or hands...or from anywhere really.  Unwanted and suffering from depression, she dwelled in the basements of M.A.N.T.I.S. corporate buildings, subsisting on vending machine food, sleeping in conference rooms, and showering in gym locker rooms, until Pombie discovered her by chance and recognized her talent and brought Cassandra onto her team.  Since then, Cassandra has been utterly and completely loyal to Pombie, referring to Pombie as "mistress" and obeying her commands without question.

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Neko-chan
A girl who is half minifigure and half cat alien.  She grew up with her mother, and never knew who her father was.  Because of her beauty and lithe gracefulness, she was hired by Kawashita to be a spokesmodel for their products.  She proved to be hugely popular with Kawashita's customer demographic, driving up Kawashita profits astronomically through her marketing efforts.  Despite the success and fortune she earned as a spokesmodel, deep down, Neko-chan felt exploited by the Kawashita corporation, who she felt only wanted to use her for her looks.  Really, all she wanted to do was to hit others with her huge and impossibly heavy hammer, which is she able to produce out of seemingly nowhere.  One day, she ran away from home, and fled to the Andromeda Galaxy, where she felt no one could find her and she could hit anyone she wanted with her hammer.  Unfortunately, she quickly used up her fortune dining on fish expensively exported to Andromeda and became destitute.  Neko-chan was discovered in the slums of Torresta by Pombie, who recognized her talents, and offered her employment where she could hit people with her hammer.  Neko-chan happily accepted and has been loyal to Pombie ever since.

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Simon...I mean, Mephistopheles, lord of the 1337 H4XX0Rs
A geeky and awkward teenager who was recognized as a prodigy in computer programming early on.  Unfortunately, his abrasive personality, combined with his social awkwardness, led him to being kicked out of one team to the next.  Pombie took him onto her team realizing that she needed his talent, but was initially unsure of how her team would handle him.  Being a hormone driven teenage boy, he, of course, was caught trying to peep on the attractive girls of the team, Cassandra and Neko-chan.  However, instead of having to issue some sort of disciplinary action, Pombie realized that the ladies could handle themselves.  Cassandra simply made him punch himself in the genitals repeatedly until he passed out and Neko-chan destroyed the harddrives with his porn collection with her hammer.  Since then, he's behaved himself and so long as he's referred to by his proper name, he'll follow Pombie's commands.  Oddly enough, he has shown no interest in either Commander Pombie nor the other woman on the team, Scooter.

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Scooter
Scooter is the team's pilot, though she wasn't originally trained as a pilot.  She started out as a low level M.A.N.T.I.S. administrator, dealing with employee training documents.  Quiet and awkward, she mostly just kept to herself and did her job.  An avid videogamer, anime and manga junkie, and dedicated cosplayer, she was just working to support her hobbies.  She was reassigned to Andromeda and during her trip out, she was incidentally placed on the same shuttle as Pombie.  During the journey, the pilot of the shuttle had a sudden heart attack and died.  Because of her experience playing space simulators, Scooter recognized the controls of the shuttle and took over and safely navigated the shuttle through a freak asteroid storm.  Pombie, amazed at what she saw, commented that Scooter piloted the shuttle "like a leaf on the wind" and promptly offered her a position on her team as a pilot.  She has served proudly as the pilot of the team ever since.

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Balthazar von Habibi
Vice president of M.A.N.T.I.S. ultra-super-secret operations.  He's in charge of running the secret M.A.N.T.I.S. drape factories.

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Gregory aka Origameister
A M.A.N.T.I.S. employee who suffers from "resting angry face".  While he did not gain any abilities from Big Sal's "employee weaponization" projects, he did develop the ability to fold paper really, really, really fast from experiments conducted on him by the Zoid.  Married to the alien hottie, Lois.

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Lois
An alien hottie found on Arium Minor by Eshey, Pombe, and Gregory.  She works as a regulatory compliance officer for M.A.N.T.I.S..  Married to the Origameister, Gregory.

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Alan Bobby Johnny
Runs a M.A.N.T.I.S. fitness club on Forring.  Currently dating Shaniqua Yamamoto, coordinator of the Kawashita Underground Racing Circuit (KURC).  BUT FORGET ALL THAT, HAVE YOU SEEN MY GUNS?!?!


Natco

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Eshey Reeshia Kolai/Evilshey
CEO of Natco.  Eshey was formerly Pombe's second apprentice at Octan.  Prior to joining Octan, she was a popular deejay and an absolute beast on the turntables.  She applied to Octan, because she wanted a more stable income.  She was taken on by Pombe as a temporary hire, despite not having any previous corporate industry experience, because she showed up at the job interview in Octan regulation approved attire.  A remarkable sharpshooter, Eshey eventually became a permanent employee at Octan and started her career with a lot of promise, but then became a disappointing underperforming employee for a long period of time.  Recently, however, her performance improved as she eventually "got it".  After Pombe's disappearance during an experiment with Dr. Long, Eshey started to realize that Octan was losing its ability to compete in the market, due to stifling adherence to protocols and best practices, and a corporate atmosphere that discouraged out of the box thinking.  She decided, with Tracy the alien custodian, to leave Octan and start the evil corporation, Natco, and now serves as its CEO, Evilshey.

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Tracy
CSO (Chief Sanitation Officer) of Natco.  Found on Donwarr by Pombe, Eshey, Lois, and Gregory, Tracy is an alien who feeds on the fecal matter of others.  To facilitate this, she built toilets to collect feces from which she feeds.  She was hired as a custodian by Pombe for Octan, but left with Eshey to form Natco when it was clear that Octan was losing its edge.


Zoid Mafia

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Joey Lucchese
Deceased.  An enforcer for Don Maggiano who has a severe dislike for the Octan corporation due to Octan's aiding the Merchant Confederation, which the Zoid raided for slaves.  Slain by Hombre on Forring during a battle at New Fredericksburg.

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Mugsy
I'm Bugsy.

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Bugsy
Um...I'm Mugsy.


Other

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Normal Guy/Beautiful Man's Mother

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Normal Guy/Beautiful Man's Father
 

Previously:
http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?/forums/topic/147086-o-f09-the-rise-of-natco/
http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?/forums/topic/146960-o-f03-z-on-forring/


Currently...


<whip crack>


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<whip crack>


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<whip crack>


++INCOMING PRIORITY TRANSMISSION++

++AUTHENTIFICATION SUCCESSFUL++

++PRIVATE SECURE LINE ACCESS GRANTED++


<bzzt...crackle...bzzzzzt...shhhhhhhh...bzzt>


21919675692_c536106499_t.jpg     Hombre?  Hombre, are you there?


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21919675692_c536106499_t.jpg     Yes, it's really me, Hannibal.  I'm alive...in a manner of speaking.  I need your help.

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21919675692_c536106499_t.jpg     I knew I could count on you.  Meet me on Donwarr at these coordinates.  Beware that there is a heavy M.A.N.T.I.S. presence nearby.  And understand that you...might not...recognize me in my current form...


Later, on Donwarr...


32829125031_d5e0dd2a47_t.jpg     Thanks for meeting me here.  Others are also on the way, but the favor I'm asking of you requires a bit of discretion.

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Hannibal is copied off goatman's design.


32829125031_d5e0dd2a47_t.jpg     As I already told you, parts of me are scattered throughout the various corporate networks.  Somehow, the memory fragments of my more intimate experiences ended up on a M.A.N.T.I.S. network which is backed up on a server in a nearby base.  This body is not capable of sneaking in and retrieving those files undetected and the only one I can trust with such matters is you.

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32829125031_d5e0dd2a47_t.jpg     Coincindentally, Callahan is also being held prisoner at this M.A.N.T.I.S. facility.  This allows us to kill two birds with one stone.  The others and I will provide a diversion for you as we break him out.  Once you have the memories, make your way through the facility and join us as we extract.

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32829125031_d5e0dd2a47_t.jpg     This means a lot to me.  Thanks.
 

Spoiler

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Comments and criticisms are all welcome!

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Whatever facility Hombre is at in the initial pictures is somewhere I want to visit! :grin:

 

I like how you guys are tying the stories together. Great collaboration! Always good to hear from Hombre! :wink:

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