Katy

## Overview

* Katy was a member of the Skaine Codex Consortium.
* Her full Skaine name translates to “Madame Ass-Chomper.”
* Katy joins the Lone Wolf Squadron escaping from her former business partners, recommended to Beau Ward by Tabitha. Beau gives her 2 rules:
	1. Never cheat your own team.
	2. Never cheat someone who cannot afford to lose what you’re taking.
* Katy sees dealing, even cheating as just another deal to beat an opponent. It isn't personal.
* Skaine's have Murphy's Law. If something can go wrong, it will go wrong known as Gra’nathem’s Maxim.
* Katy enjoys the thrill of the trade. It’s not about the money. It’s about getting much more money than the next guy in a trade. It’s a game, and I want to see how much there is to make before I check out. And along the way, she making all of the Lone Wolves independently wealthy

## Summary

### Lone Wolf Squadron

#### Marshal the Stars

Tabitha introduces Katy to Beau with a strong recommendation to respect her and keep her safe.

Katy reestablishes the Outpost Station as a trading center, taking raw materials and goods from the service and trading with the passing freighters.

#### Battleflight

The Federation has left the Squadron with a mission but scant, if any funding. Katy is under pressure to use her wheeling and dealing. Acquisitions seldom are straight line but involve multiple layers of trading going back from the ultimate goal through other individuals who has something the next person wants.

Katy realizes her mates in the Squadron have gotten over her being Skaine and accept her as a full member, something she finds surprising and gratifying given the general view of Skaines in the Federation.

Katy finds out the Consortium knows about her trades building up acquiring more fighter craft for the Squadron. They are buying up a few of her key needs in order to block the trade. Beau gives her permission to run a strike on the warehouse that is holding the material with Squadron members and Sgt Hale's ground forces. Given she jumped from civilian to lieutenant when Beau brought her in she has never had the responsibility for team in an activity where some of the team mates could be injured or killed.

Zarek, the new leader of the Consortium is informed the funding for the Lone Wolf Squadron is in large part due to Katy. He puts a bounty on her to stop the funding and revenge for her actions against the Consortium.

The Squadron makes an assault on the Ydra hoping to end the Skaine effort in the system and free the remaining colonists. Katy's fighter is incapacitated and she is captured by the Consortium.

#### Attack Wing

Katy is being held in a cell where her only contact is Kratch T-467. T-467 is defective and could not mesh with his fellow cybernetic clones. He is ostracized to guard duty by the Kratch Brethren and looked down upon. Katy names him Teefer, befriending him to the point they play checkers which she frequently wins.

Teefer is assigned as **Katy**'s prison guard. She slowly gets him to treat her as a friend. He is lonely and she gets him to see her as his new "group". When the other Katch guards Teefer realizes he will miss Katy and for the first time in his life his organic eye sheds a tear.

Zarek plans to have Katy executed as the entertainment for a meeting of all the Skaine Factors in the area, both as punishment to her and a lesson to others. The plans are leaked by Nort, over-captain of the factory ship Yrda through information broker Jex to the squadron.

Beau Ward calls Tabitha for help retrieving **Katy** from the Skaine Codex Syndicate. Tabitha is unavailable but sends Nickie to halp with the effort.

Nickie with Meredith and Durq arrive just as they have narrowed down the location where **Katy** is being held. They find is about to executed as entertainment for a gathering of Skaine Factors almost immediately. They infiltrate the site with Durq acting as a Factor, Charli and Nickie as his arm candy. Once inside they take out the guards and leave with Katy and Teefer, a defective Kratch that Katy has befriended. They escape to the spaceport after hijacking a tour bus, giving the tourists a shoot-out filled wild ride to the spaceport, Based on Teefer's help during the escape Charli welcomes Teefer the Squadron.

#### Interstellar Justice

Katy pilots *Warren's Chance* aka *Chance* to a ambush point where the squadron is ready to attack a group of pilots. Chance is an old ship, used hard and unfortunately is disabled by the pirates first shot. Charli gets the main drive back on line just in time to avoid the pirates boarding. The squadron takes out the pirate fighters and captures the shuttles. They turn the shuttle over to Liko Three, but keep the prisoners as they suspect the colonists would summarily execute them, a practice the Marshals discourage.

#### Frontier Law

Beau is suspicious of the Skaine connection to the raiders they are fighting. Katy goes with Grady. Charli and Jex to Uuru. Through Jex she finds out the Skaines have betrayed Nort. He has been captured by the Beorlok and have scheduled a pick-up. They get the information back to Beau who gets to the rendezvous before the Skaines and save Nort.

While on Uuru, Katy had lined up three meetings on the southern continent. One was with a connection who claimed to have a particular root vegetable, zoog, prized by Skaines for its mild euphoric properties when consumed in small quantities. It was hard to cultivate anywhere but on the Skaine homeworld, where it was tightly controlled by the clan who grew it. If a source here on Uuru could produce even minuscule quantities of the product and she could corner the market, it would set the marshals up to make a very nice profit. That could cover operational expenses for a month or more at their current level of cash flow.

The damage to the Tortu is extensive. The only significant part that cannot be is the main fusion bottle for the reactor. The ship is so far out of production there are no new parts available. However, Tabitha took out a similar ship during her battle against the slavers and the reactor was safely shut down so the rest of the ship could be parted out. Katy goes with Charli and Nort posing as archeologists studying the indigenous people of the Graber System. They are able to get the reactor despite being attacked with bow and arrows by the indigenous Chin people.

## References

1. ↑ Davis, Jamie; Anderle, Michael. Marshal The Stars (Lone Wolf Squadron Book 1) (p. 57). LMBPN Publishing. Kindle Edition.
2. ↑ Davis, Jamie; Anderle, Michael. Marshal The Stars (Lone Wolf Squadron Book 1) (p. 70). LMBPN Publishing. Kindle Edition.
3. ↑ Davis, Jamie; Anderle, Michael. Marshal The Stars (Lone Wolf Squadron Book 1) (p. 152). LMBPN Publishing. Kindle Edition.
4. ↑ Davis, Jamie; Anderle, Michael. Battleflight (Lone Wolf Squadron Book 2) (p. 158). LMBPN Publishing. Kindle Edition.
5. ↑ Davis, Jamie; Anderle, Michael. Frontier Law (Lone Wolf Squadron Book 7) (p. 91). LMBPN Publishing. Kindle Edition.
6. ↑ Davis, Jamie; Anderle, Michael. Frontier Law (Lone Wolf Squadron Book 7) (p. 84). LMBPN Publishing. Kindle Edition.