Appearance: Elf, Long white hair, usually tied back to highlight the ears which are tattooed with silvery designs. Silver blue eyes. Where's accentuating colours, silver, white, blue, green, purple. Cares about how he looks and preens regularly.
Type: Elemental, KoSherkin (Shapeshifter) Elf
History: Has family somewhere but not really interested. They're all a bit... boring the way they obey all the rules as if their lives depended on it. Always had an attraction to space - most beautiful chaotic thing there is. Just like fire. Learned to pilot by filling arcade simulators with coins. Never cared for formal training - more exciting this way. When the salvage ship needed a pilot he boasted all the runs he'd been on. They never checked if he'd actually piloted a real ship before... He kind of needed to get away in a hurry too. The cop husband of his latest conquest was getting too close for comfort. Of course licences are for law abiding/properly trained folk so he'll have none of that! He's actually not too bad at flying but has been known to occasionally scrape the paint work which he doesn't like being reminded of.
Attitude: Loves pretty things almost as much as breaking the rules. Will sometimes go out of his way to break a speed limit or restriction. Will always go into somewhere marked as 'no admittance'. Knows everything and everyone else is wrong.
Sex: Male. Straight. Plenty of it please! Nothing is more attractive than a beautiful married woman - though he certainly won't turn down other people's fiancees, girlfriends, or single women. Love 'em and leave 'em. Probably has a couple of illegitimate kids about the place.
Relationships: Good. There was the fight with Sully last year when he stole his girlfriend, but that was years ago! Really they're best buds. Except when Sully goes a little batty at full moon. Twister is a blast and a half, the Prof makes beer only drinkable in Dwarven shape and Wincey Quincey would be a waste of space if he didn't happen to be a really good fixer. Plus he attracts some pretty girls eventhough he's gay.
Appearance: Human. Tall and thin. Dark features. Wears black a lot. Shades, leather, tries to look tough and cool.
Type: Minor Elemental, Lycanthrope, Human, Werebat.
History: Mom kind of went crazy when her baby boy turned into a bat one full moon. Abandoned in a cardboard box under an air hockey table. Found by cop (Cherub?). In teenage rebellion years he joined a group of pirates - Pirates of the golden eye. They threw him out because of all the bat droppings (and general incompetence - he let a highly ransomed prisoner get away). But he knows his way around, mostly. When the salvage crew needed a navigator, the price was right. They were offering a free ride away from the pirates. And they even let him put a perch in his room for hanging upside down.
Attitude: It's a tough job being so cool but someone has to do it. Hangs around all the seedy bars and is sure he fits in. Loves heavy metal rock music. Doesn't like bright lights, hence the shades. Generally easy going but will sometimes have flares of temper when things don't go right. He's right, the others are wrong and that's just the way it is.
Sex: Male. Straight. Yes please. Will go all out in wooing a girl but as soon as he does, one of two things tend to happen - she finds out about the bat things and runs screaming, or Gill steals her away, then dumps her.
Relationships: These people accept him and his inherent battiness and that's a good enough reason to stick around. Gill is his best friend except for when he's trying to steal his girl. There was the big fight last year when Gill stole his latest one true love but they're over that now. Honest. Damn shapeshifters... Twister is wicked cool for a 'bot but a little scary sometimes. Prof is a bumbling idiot but he knows where all the best stuff is and he makes good beer. Wincey Quincey is an idiot and it's cosmically unjust that all the girls love him and he wouldn't even know what to do with them! Bet he's gay.
Appearance: Old crumbly dwarf. Meticulously kept long grey beard.
Type: Demihuman, Dwarf.
History: A real fixer. Can fix anything it seems, particularly good at scavenging missing pieces from one vehicle for another. An engineering wiz. Used to teach at Io University until a misunderstanding with a female student or five had him thrown out and his beard shaved. Now this is his operation - salvaging crashed vehicles. He's surrounded himself with the best pilot, navigator, young talent money can buy. And since he's heavily in debt, that's not a lot. Funny how each time he picked someone up they were on the run from something... Oh and he makes the best beer in the galaxy.
Attitude: He's the oldest and therefore the wisest. Good nose for salvage. And beer. One of the prices for being a genius is ppl don't always understand him or give him the respect he deserves. But he'll show 'em!
Sex: Male. Straight. Any race will do. Amusing to watch the kids in their attempts to woo women - nothing like the skill he has! Will often show them just how it's done.
Relationships: They're a strange bunch but they're his crew. Having a shapeshifter comes in useful at times, even if Gill is likely to get them all killed one day with his annoying habit of bending every order he's given. And stealing people's girlfriends. Sully is a good heavy to have around. Except at full moons. Twister is his greatest achievement to date. Brilliantly, flawlessly programmed robot that can twist any metal in any way possible. Let's no one tell him otherwise. Quincey (Sonny boy) is almost as much a genius as he is! Took him under his wing and will teach him everything he knows. The boy is a little shy with the girls but he'll soon get over that.
Appearance: Humanoid. Metallic. Maybe a little rust here and there.
Type: Robot.
History: Built by the Prof. Asimov who? Doing no harm to humans is all well and good, but who is really 100% human these days? Now if he could just twist that few % out of them... Can twist anything into any shape. Even if it doesn't want to.
Attitude: Things look better twisted.
Sex: Mmm... Robot tottie...
Relationships: For not-quite-humans they're okay. The shapeshifter and the bat are WILD! The folk to party with. Prof is a bumbling idiot but his creator so what can you do? The kid needs a puppy for a pet, not a robot. If you could just twist him a little... but Prof seems to like him. Pity.
Appearance: Young early 20s. Very cute. Dresses casual (vanilla!) by day. By night...
Type: Human
History: Always been an engineering genius, completely underappreciated in his time. Applied to Io Uni and took test. Those idiots failed him! Well, he was too good for them anyhow. The Prof took him on board and gave him a job fixing things. Which he does well.
Attitude: The others are idiots. He's the smartest. If they'd stop following their testosterone for a moment they might actually learn something too.
Sex: Male. Straight. All the girls seem to like him - which really annoys the others. But he's not interested in the distractions. None f them are smart enough. Maybe some day for the future of the galaxy he'll marry a smart girl and procreate - it would be a shame not to. But cheap meaningless sex is for cheap meaningless people.
Relationships: They're a bunch of idiots but he's stuck with them. Gill is a poncey fairy pain in the butt with no respect for order. Sully is cool. If only Prof would stop calling him Sonny Boy! And stop treating him like he knows nothing. Twister is the coolest and his best friend. Robots rock. None of that human bull. What's most annoying is they never listen to him and he's always right!