Joelon Tomcufcik

Joelon Tomcufcik is an employee of the Keeler Trust and Companies and a primary character in the Free Worlds short stories "Triton Lyra" and "Aerona." He's an ambitious male human in his mid-to-late twenties, with a pattern of leopard-like spots on his arms, legs, and back which is a genetic trait common on his homeworld Iota Arae. His boss, Bernadette Keeler, nicknamed him 'Spots' for this reason. 
Prior to working for the Keeler Trust and Companies, Tomcufcik was a Ranger in the Iota Arae Special Forces, and a graduate of the Farnham Business Academy on Iota Arae. He left his homeworld in pursuit of wealth and got as far as the Chrysaor StarLock in Pegasus before running out of funds. 
He took a number of temporary jobs, mostly in technical functions. One such temp job positioned him as the assistan to Kuster Massey, the Director of Operations in the Lyra Sector for the Keeler Trust and Companies. Impressed by Tomcufcik's performance, Massey hired him as his personal secretary and moved him to Loki. Massey was later transferred to run Keeler Trust and Company holdings on the planet Key Lyra, his own homeworld. 
Tomcufcik was then invited on a four-year-long journey to the remote Triton Lyra system to assist Bernadette Keeler on a business deal that involved supplying armaments to the system in exchange for the right to broker the system's abundant reserves of 'Pandorum,' a mineral critical to the Faster Than Light drives used in interstellar spacecraft. The mission put him in considerable peril, and he was rewarded with a promotion to Bernadette Keeler's inner circle of "deputies." ("Triton Lyra")
Tomcufcik was subsequently dispatched to Aerona on a seemingly straightforward mission to courier entertainment modules that turned out to be something else entirely and led to his arrest and interrogation by Aeronan authorities. He was eventually able to turn the deal to his advantage. ("Aerona") 
He has three male siblings who reside on Iota Arae. He has a romantic relationship with an interstellar flight hostess from Maru colony.
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