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My first day on Mani Stations gave me a first-hand perspective on how regular people live in the verse. I quickly learn that keeping a space station up and running takes a lot of skull-work mixed with dirty, backbreaking labor on the best of days. That only gets worse when you have hitmen coming after you on top of everything else.

If that wasn't bad enough, Engineering work barely pays a decent living wage. The financial situation only gets worse when you have to repair armor and replace ammo on top of everything else. Luckily, DarkZero is good at making friends in low places. If he's smart, he'll more than make up the difference.

It doesn't hurt that hitmen usually have decent gear to sell. Between that and their bounties, they're a good way for a moonlighting Bounty Hunter to get ahead of the game. That is, if he let their ambushes catch him off guard.

Too bad Zero is about to find himself drowning in a whole different set of problems.

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​​Core Group:
Braidborn – black rough-cut hair, almond eyes, scraggly beard. High School friend playing Vindicated Guild. IRL name – Robert, 5’10” Supgenus Human, Class – Engineer, Engineer focus on Syntheticist with some Cybernetician due to Dark asking him. Named is Combat Drone: Bullseye and his Melee Drone SmashBro.
 
Cornpone – brown clean-cut hair, blue eyes, clean shaven. Big goofy guy. High School friend playing Vindicated Guild. IRL name – Jeff, 6’7”. Playing a Fergenus, Class – Splicer focused on physical upgrades.
 
Chutzpah– light brown short hair, brown eyes, clean shaven. Thin lanky guy, high-pitched voice when he laughs. Good player and nice guy but easily gets excited. Sticks to people like white on rice to pay them back for messing with him. High School friend playing Vindicated Guild. IRL name – Seb, 6’1”. Playing a Neogenus, Class – Space Jockey – Mass Hauler that switches to Privateer
 
DarkZero – dark brown short-cut hair, hazel eyes, goatee. First guild leader of Vindicated Guild. Handle was DarkStar in WOSS. IRL name is Andrew (Drew) Whittaker, 5’9”. Playing a Solgenus, Class – Rim Runner focused on Pioneer.
 
Killroy - clean-cut black hair, dark brown eyes, clean shaven. Serious player, easily gets upset, thinks he plays better than he does. Bad at the start but good in long game. High School friend playing Vindicated Guild. IRL name is Damian, 5’7”. Playing a Supgenus Human, Class – Technomancer focused on Metamancer.
 
Nyla – brown shoulder-length hair, blue eyes. Friendly and flirty but can be a raging bitch when people piss her off or kill her. High School friend playing Vindicated Guild. IRL name is Jasmin, 5’4”. Playing a Solgenus, Class – Scout focused on Assassin.
 
Rayden – bald headed, blue eyes, hard as nails tough guy when people get in his face. A little bit of an asshole but a good friend who likes to joke hard. High School friend playing Vindicated Guild. IRL name – TJ, 5’7”. Playing a Solgenus, Class – Trooper focused on Marauder
 
Shen’Aar – sandy-blonde pixy hair, green eyes. Easy going and flirty but loves hunting down PKers and bullies. Top player for First Person Shooters and Flying. High School friend playing Vindicated Guild. IRL name is Kristi – short for Krystal, 5’7”. Playing a Solgenus, Class – Physician focused on Combat Medic.
 
Mani Station – (Areopoli outpost):
Keishara – level 42 - Neogenus Female – Physician – Inner Sphere - In charge of Medical Station on outpost. Two story building made from prefab concrete. Long light-blue hair, violet eyes. There is a Clone Warranty Terminal outside the Medical Station. This is where the Surgical Stations are located.
 
Bruvoug - level 45 – Neogenus Male – Fixer – Outer Sphere - with limited Engineering skills – green eyes, dark brown hair in a ponytail, clean shaven, wearing greasy blue coveralls runs Bruvoug’s Salvage two story building made from prefab concrete with several Quonset huts around it and a junkyard – Sex android named Sierra - Ships most of his product to Vanquisher Base where his brother fixes everything up and sells it in his shop. Has an artificial womb that he’s growing a Neogenus baby boy. Their teammate and Bruvoug’s brother Dworig are on repairing and shipping the stuff worth to sell from Vanquisher Base. Bob is a Heavy Ranged Warbot that fires a plasma assault rifle. R.O.G.U. Autonomous Robotic Ore Gather Unit.
 
Sierra – level 45 – Sex Android owned by Bruvoug – Runs a used clothing store off of Bruvoug’s Salvage called Back on the Rack. Quonset hut. She has bio-alloy weave components and default molded synthetic plastic. Pretty white-blonde thin hair, glowing blue eyes (red glowing eyes when in combat), young eighteen to twenty year old body, head is female, neck, shoulders, and upper arms are armored robotic parts, a fleshy large humanoid rack and abdomen in the front, hands are fleshy, the back and ribs are mechanical components, the waist has a distinctive mechanical division between the fleshy part that is covered by some tight leather pink short-shorts, while the lower legs are mechanical components that end in feminine-styled armored boots. Light-blue tub-top with a white rabbit holding a large gun with the words, Murder Bunny over its head. She calls Bruvoug – Bru for short. Artificial womb – young male named Kokrac.
 
Surus – level 48 – Fergenus Male – Trooper – runs Bob’s Diner one story prefab concrete building and E-Sheep Motel that’s a Quonset hut – has a metal frame combat droid named Bob. Baby named Grabus.
 
Bob – Warbot, level 46
 
Vigilant Security Solutions in the Areopoli Administrator building
Gimmac – level 55 – Neogenus Male – Has a squad of five that he’s in charge of the outpost’s security. His members also offer lower-level class training along with a weapon and armor repair shop. They are not responsible for securing the various bases and warehouses all over the planet or any security outside the immediate areas of the outpost. Sex android named Zalith. Owns a Griffin Heavy Corvette named Mandelora Sunset. They’re also the Bounty Hunter Representative for the outpost. All class training is conducted via Bounty Hunter Guild Rates. Located in a large rundown three story prefab concrete building. There’s a large warehouse behind it where they keep their ship.
 
Lars – level 53 – Solgenus Male – Space Jock - Outer Sphere – With Gararaz and Ayen when Gararaz messed with Zero.
 
Eritmel – level 51 – Neogenus Male - Scout - Outer Sphere -
 
Dale – level 49 - Solgenus Male - Physician - Outer Sphere -
 
Ayen – level 50 – Supgenus Female – Technomancer - Outer Sphere -  With Gararaz and Lars when Gararaz messed with Zero.
 
Gararaz – level 51 - Fergenus - Trooper - Outer Sphere – bald headed, tattoos on face, 6’6”, large muscular arms and shoulders, thin waist, wearing thick medium armor with a large assault rifle on his back.
 

 
ExtortionQueen Kara - Chaotic Order - Random Player who joined Terminus. Bushkitty Romp - guild leader. PKer guild.
 
Terminus Mothballed Fleet Base name – Fort Henderson
 

 
Mani Station
Prescott – level 100 – Solgenus Male - Areopoli Administrator – was initially sponsored by the Alibar Syndicate faction with one of their mining mega-corps.
 
Sam  - Marshal’s New and Used Spacer Mart - Trainee Ring / lower level - ask for Sam – lanky Neogenus, long greasy brown hair, darting brown eyes, and sourly personality.
 
Corporal “Savage” Hawk – pilot that picks Zero up from the outpost.
 
Commander Nathanael – Mani Station Boss
 
USL Griffin – Local destroyer – Captain Matheus – older Solgenus male, black hair with gray highlights, hard face, crisp uniform, clean shaven, 6’2” with hard blue eyes.
 
Frank (Franky) – Bartender for Ringers. He is a Neogenus RingWorker. Place is near the main Cargo Bay.
 
Administrator Smith – Administrator of lower ring, Solgenus, man.
 
Attaché Lieutenant Leon – Works under Commander Nathanael for the station.
 
Foreman Hank – Fergenus – it - Lower Ring Foreman of Materials Construction Department for fabricator use aka 3d printers.
 
Engineer Pete – One of the Materials Construction Department’s Engineers that Zero saved.
 
Neth’s Second-Hand Shop (refurbished engineer components)
 
The Viridian Prism Casino – Death Dealer affiliate gang called Snuff Heads
 
Groot’s Quick Mart - Fergenus
 
Craven Hawk Mercs: Blake Knight, Dexter Hunt, Leon Bean, Max Lambert (Boss)
 
Air Vendor: Singh (dark dusty skin) kid, male, think from Indian decent.
 
Work Crew met on first Mission: Billy is leader.
 
Supervisor Rory - Main Cargo Bay – man, Neogenus
 
Maning Station Chief Engineer Finley Ruiz
 
Nick - level 42 - Engineer – Neogenus – bigger male – One of the guys captured by the pirates hiding on Mani Station.
Billy - level 41 - Engineer – Neogenus – young-looking male – One of the guys captured by the pirates hiding on Mani Station. (Was beaten when asking if they were going to allowed to leave alive or not)
Axel - level 44 - Engineer – Neogenus – bigger male – One of the guys captured by the pirates hiding on Mani Station.
Erik -  level 45 - Engineer – Neogenus – male – One of the guys captured by the pirates hiding on Mani Station.
Jennings – Mani Station Administration Dispatcher – male – Supgenus - blackmailed by Death Dealer sub-group Snuff Heads that his children (he has two) will be murdered or kidnapped if he didn’t comply with their threats.
 
Bounty Hunter Representative Spencer – Mani Station Brance office on middle ring near the central shaft.
 
AS Hau Yi – Cargo ship heading out with Zero and Gimbal as crew from Mani Station. Captain Owen Gill.