Tennessee Bolgeo

Tennessee Bolgeo was an employee of Ustinov's Exotic Pets, Inc..
== Biography ==
In the early 16th Century PD, he posed as a scientist who held the Kerry Gilley Distinguished Chair of Xeno-Anthropology at Liberty University in the Chattanooga System, and came to the planet Sphinx in the Manticore System on a Paulk Grant to study the newly discovered treecats. In reality, he was on Sphinx to determine whether the creatures could be sold a valuable pets. However, he also had patrons in Manticore who were more interested in proving that treecats were not really sentient.
He eventually caught a dozen treecats with special automated traps, but was caught by Stephanie Harrington when trying to bring in the thirteenth one. Her treecat friends set a hexapuma loose on him, but Harrington killed it in order to get Bolgeo alive. He was taken into custody, awaiting trial for poaching. ()
He was indicted for poaching and conspiracy to smuggle exotic animals off-world. He pled guilty to both crimes and asked for community service. He served two years in prison and an additional eight years of supervised probation when he did indeed do community service. In fact, he used his not inconsiderable skills as a xenobiologist and served as a consultant for the Sphinx Forestry Service, working specifically at his own request with treecats. He eventually became a frequent visitor to Bright Water Clan and came out of a well-earned retirement to be an expert witness testifying in support of the Ninth Amendment when it was drafted forty T-years later.
He also became a close personal friend of Stephanie Harrington. ()
== Legacy ==
While he remained in the Star Kingdom, he founded one of its larger yeoman families, a family that would boast thriving branches on both Sphinx and Gryphon by the 20th Century PD. In all, over a dozen Bolgeos, commissioned and enlisted, would serve in the Royal Manticoran Navy by 1905 PD, including Lieutenant Brandy Bolgeo. ()
Bolgeo, Tennessee