TFL/Crew

The crew of the *Almighty Dollar*, a Wren-class fast tramp freighter rebuilt as a smuggler and blockade runner.

## Player Characters

Ben
Jeff is an alpha geek and a pragmatist. He loves making better things from inferior things, getting at information he should not be able to access, and being paid to do so. His aversion to physical confrontation heavily informs his use of remote systems and preference for conducting business virtually. He is dedicated to the welfare of the crew, but has a bit of a jealous streak; he appears to not like anyone better at hacking than he is. He really does not like getting into fights, often saying "If we need to shoot, we've already messed up".
Jeff works as the Chief Engineer.
Curtis
Elru Skoz is a fairly typical Slug - slimy, cowardly, and greedy - but with an unusually pleasing voice and significant psionic powers. He used his family contacts to underwrite the purchase of the *Almighty Dollar*, and now needs to use his business skills to make crazy amounts of money to avoid defaulting and being sold into slavery.
Elru is the ship's official Master and works a shift on the command deck.
Eric
Alifred Dixon is a former CSU cosmine drummed out of the Corps for brutality. He spent some time as a freelance troubleshooter and joined in with the *Almighty Dollar* to make a lot of money.
Alifred controls the ship's gun during combat. He also works as the ship's steward.
## Partners

Dex
*formerly Kiva's character*
Dex is a former Solar League Defense Force spacer and helmsman. After mustering out, he worked his way out to the Fringe doing legal and illegal jobs, building a reputation as an ace pilot who can be relied on. He worked with Alifred, Elru, and Jeff on various jobs, and eventually joined their partnership to buy the *Almighty Dollar*.
Dex is the ship's astrogator and pilot for critical maneuvers. He also works a shift on the command deck.
## Hirelings

### People

Claudia Hayes
Claudia is an old friend of Dex's from the Solar League. She is a calm, collected, and reserved woman with dark brown skin, long black hair, and blue eyes.
Claudia is the ship's sensor operator during critical maneuvers. She also works as the third shift operator on the command deck.
Glurshu
A Slug engineering technician hired on New Panama. Glurshu is fully licensed and accredited. Glurshu is always happy to gamble, especially in low-stakes games.
Kamal Yuriy
A human engineering technician hired on New Panama. Kamal is fully licensed and accredited, but is slightly unusual in that he does not have an implant computer and must resort to AR/VR gloves and goggles.
### Low-Sapience AIs

SERA
SERA is the reference for the low-sapience AI that monitors the ship's systems. It is technically an advanced Clarke system with an advanced personality emulation layer. It normally speaks with the voice of a husky, contralto human female and uses a VR/AR avatar of slender, blonde woman in the ship's uniform. When the holoprojectors are working, SERA prefers to project its VR avatar sitting in the environmental control station on the command deck.
SERA works around the clock to monitor operations on the *Almighty Dollar* and handles routine correspond and other secretarial tasks. It can helm and astrogate the ship, control the guns, and teleoperate the internal robots to provide limited repairs and maintenance if no one else is available for the task.
Bandit
Bandit is the advanced Clarke LAI that is Jeff's companion and ally. Bandit normally operates a raccoon-like petbot cybershell.
### Non-Sapient AIs

Like all modern equipment, the ship has thousands of non-sapient AIs performing routine tasks. Most of these AIs have no meaningful personality emulation layer but perform routine tasks with typical competence.

### Watch, Quarter & Station Bill

#### Command Deck

* Conn - Elru/Leadership Skill?
* Pilot - Dex/Piloting Skill?
* Sensors - Claudia/EO Skill?
* Comms - Elru/EO Skill?
* Main Batteries - Alifred/Gunnery Skill?
* PD Batteries - SERA/Gunnery Skill?
* EW - Jeff/14 [Hacking 15] (Alt/Bandit/11)

#### Engineering Plant

* Damage Control Lead - Jeff/15
* Damage Control Team - Glurshu/12 & Kamal /12

## Vehicles

Almighty Dollar
A highly modified *Wren-class* light freighter, of 3,611 tons nominal mass. The engines and power reactor have been upgraded for more thrust and better Hyperfactor of 102; additional reaction mass tank allows faster Realspace transits. A variety of additional energy weapons gives it teeth to discourage pirates. Finally, the greatly reduced cargo hold includes a great deal of nearly undetectable smuggling holds. At normal loads, the ship masses 5,821 tons and can accelerate at 1G.