Tc'aarlat

## Overview

* 2 Legged but born into a wealthy 4 legged family
* Former smuggler and money-launderer for the mob

## Tc'aarlat learning human idioms

Tc'aarlat is trying to learning human mannerisms (shrug shoulders, wink) and idioms. They seldom are successful and his malapropisms often go uncorrected. Noted malapropisms are:

* Don't look a gift whore in the mouth.
* Birds of a feather fuck together!
* Does the Pope shit in the woods?
* A bitch in time saves nine!
* Great minds drink alike!
* Leotards don't change their spots.
* You can't make an omelet without breaking a few legs,
* You snooze, you bruise!
* Beauty is in the eye of the bee folder.
* Keep this up and you'll very quickly start to rub me off the wrong way!
* Don't put all their eggs in one bastard.
* The penis is mightier than the sword.
* I'm such a sharkshooter!
* You don't teach your grandmother to fuck eggs,
* Loose nips sink ships,
* The more, the murderer!
* I could go for some sex, drugs, and Tootsie Rolls.
* I'll be as good as mold.
* I'm putting my fuck down!
* Kill two birds with one phone.
* Pervert in the course of justice.
* My life is a classic case of rags to bitches.
* Go ahead, skunk, make my day.
* That thing is two sandwiches short of a dick pic!
* Let’s cock ’n’ roll!
* No shit, Sherwood!
* This isn’t a screening of Fecal Weapon.
* It was just the feet of the moment.
* Let the cock out of the bag!
* What’s wrong, Jack? Solo twaddle you too much as a babe?
* Why do you have to trudge this up again?
* It looked like you had it handheld.
* That was a once in a blue tune shot!
* I’m shocked we’re not eating up daisies.
* You big sad bag.
* We’re gonna be sitting fucks.
* I’m cool, man. Like an ice boob,
* I say we treat ‘em to the whose gown and find out why.
* We’ve been making enemies left and tight.
* if that kind of life floats your goat.
* I’m the guy that licks the ass of bad people.
* Let’s not beat the bush to death.
* You rub my carapace, and I’ll itch your back.
* So far, so squid.
* You’ve got a historical colonoscopy with this guy.
* I’m not playing with a full load of bocci balls.
* I just hope this isn’t a wild Bruce chase.
* You bastard. Fuck you and the whore you rode in on.

By one of the Yollin mobsters

* We’ll butt her off at the pass.

## Summary

### Shadow Vanguard

#### Gravity Storm

Tc'aarlet is co-owner of the frieghter ICS Fortitude with Jack Marber, bought with money he stole. He was a scandal to his wealthy 4 legged family because he only had 2 legs. He was sent to a boarding school with other 2 legged children, but he was smaller than most and had to succeed by using his wits, not his strength. By the time he left the school he was the underground who could acquire that anyone desired that was not allowed.

The crew (Tc'aarlet, Jack, Adina and Mist) go to Alma Nine after the president is murdered. The suspicion is the murder is because she has committed to have Alma Nine join the Etheric Empire. While there the investigation is complicated as a scientist working on the weather control system creates a weather and gravity storm over grief that his wife's death is not being publicly mourned. The nanobots causing the weather and gravity are being controlled by a computer that is password protected by the scientist (who committed suicide) with his wife's DNA. He has hidden the body but they recover a bloody knife from the kitchen and end the storm. At the funeral ceremony they discover the vice president is a member of Dark Tomorrow and arrest him.

#### Lunar Crisis

Draven saves the ICS Fortitude when as he delivers the Pegasus II the Fortitude is attacked by a missile. The Vanguard has just saved a group of children from slavers and believe that is the source of attack. Even with saving them Tc'aarlat takes an immediate dislike to Draven. However, after another attack when they are headed to Taglen to hunt down a violent criminal, Vimor Malfic, who has escaped from the prison moon of Persha to the decadent moon of Haan. The team tracks down and ultimately kills Malfic while also take out a corrupt religious leader who is fleecing his congregation while convincing some members to commit ritual suicide.

#### Immortality Curse

Tc’aarlat had instantly known who it was attempting to blow up the ship and everyone on board: his former ”brothers” in the Gan’barlo family, almost certainly on direct orders from the very top of the mob.,
Tc'aarlat and his best friend Kinlort had started at the bottom of the family, running errands and eventually making collections. Unfortunately Kinlort began a relationship with the boss' daughter La'sood. On a shipping run they were intercepted by masked gunmen who murdered Kinlort remarking "Lover boy" making sure Tc'aarlet this was a bogus theft to cover for killing Kinlort. Tc'aarlat continued working for the mob, rising until he was in a position to embezzle enough money to by the Fortitude. Gan'barlo feels he lost face and doesn't want monetary payment, he wants Tc'aarlet dead and if that means everyone on the ship he doesn't care. Tc'aarlat bargains the location of the Joxxan Cathcadium mines for him and his crew's freedom.

The team handles multiple issues. First they take out a drug lord who has been needs to be curtailed. Then they go to an mining asteroid and stop the abuse of the indigenous people by the mine owners. Afterward they are requested to visit Astone to give Bethany Anne's condolences to the queen on the death of the consort.

In her grief Queen Lapis Lazuli has asked her lead scientist to develop a cure for death. Unfortunately the cure turns her subjects into zombies who attack and infect each other. As the "cure" spreads she makes the ultimate sacrifice and detonates a bomb that floods her province with lava, protecting the rest of the planet.

#### Ultimate Payback

The Shadows continue to attack the Don Gan'barlo's organization to cut off his money flow. They bluff the Don's accountants to steal information and money. The meet Meemar, a Balgarian, who is fleeing the mob because she stole a datachip with their organizational data on it. She wants to exchange it for brother Meemo, who is essentially a slave with other Balgarian coders working on the mob's software. After meeting the Shadows, she changes strategy and offers the chip to them if they will help save her brother.

The Shadows capture 2 of the Yollins who were chasing Meemar. Gunth'calaat and Ben'delon are subjected to decades of Sesame Street videos at Jack's request to Solo. That and the fact the Shadows didn't outright kill them and the Don will leads them to help the Shadows.

The Shadows find the Don's lair at the Yollin embassy, another sign to Tc'aarlet about how corrupt his people are. The Shadows blast their way into the embassy using a Jean Dukes Special Thunderbolt. The hackers hear the attack and Weedard uses his hacking skills to shut down the security systems including the shackles holding the hackers in place. He also turns in the automated gun system on the guards. Using the datachip Meemar had recovered, Adina downloads information off the servers and begins salvaging server parts to take back to the Fortitude. As they leave Adina destroys the Don's area in the embassy, another blow to his organization.

Then Nathan sends the team to planet Miseria to try to help stop a civil war between the 78th Movement and the Cold Faction arguing of what temperature to set the global climate control to. One faction wants it at 78 degrees Fahrenheit, the other 62. This factors into the attack on the Don because he is selling arms to both sides and has interest in escalating the war, not ending it. As the Shadows arrive on Miseria they are immediately engaged by Cold Faction and with Solo offline due to Adina's upgrade effort the Fortitude is shot down. The Cold Faction has also received a shipment of powered armor and is rapidly overtaking the 78th movement troops. The mob representative to the 78th uses the Cold Faction victories to push the 78th to also purchase armor. What neither side knows is the armor is defective and if heavily used explodes.

Bounty hunter Shi'Tan has also been sent by Nathan to Miseria. He teams up with Shadows and the Yollin ex-prisoners to end the war.

#### Alien Genocide

The Shadows are sent to Renesta to help the Enkelites adjust to the planet. The Enkelites planet, Fruling, had become a battleground between two other races. The planet was being destroyed and the Enkelites, as members the Empire were rescued and were being moved to Renesta which would need minimal terraforming to meet their needs. The planet is outside the Empire so the Shadows are considered a good alternative to resources directly associated with the Empire.

The environmentalist Bon Noh belives there is life on Renesta and blocks the Enkelites and Shadows from terraforming. The Shadows risk their lives to gather the single cell lifeform and are allowed to settle the planet. Shortly afterward there are 50 savage deaths of the Enkelites. The team finds out there is a race called the Onbir who have hidden themselves in status for over 16,000 years. Their robotic guards lead by Designate One consider all other forms of life a threat. After the Fortitude destroys most of the guards Jack convinces Designate One that the galaxy has advanced beyond the Onbirs and unless he backs off the mountain fortress will be destroyed. The best alternative is to wake the Onbirs and have them live with the Enkelites in peace. The awakened Onbirs not only agree, but are appalled by the deaths caused by Designate One and work to reprogram him.

In the midst of working with the Enkelites Tc'aarlat finds love with one of them, Wo'Pet. She is frightened by his violent Yollin side but sees the good in him. In addition, the elders are zenophobic and essentially want to ban the affair. Her son, Imis, thinks of Tc'aarlat as a cool hero and wants to emulate him. Ultimately the couple agree to be a couple with a long distance relationship. While he wants them to be with him, they agree Wo'Pet and Imis will stay on Renesta and Tc'aarlat will come back to see them.

The crisis solved, the Shadows plan to go rekindle their effort to eliminate the Don and his crime family.

#### Family Reunion

Naka-Lee, a Mutanaraian, has developed a control collar to keep Wechsalbalg wolves controlled and in their wolf form. Benjamin offers to bring her Adina because of Adina's ability to partially change and defeat the suppressing medications. The reason she has the need is someone acquired one of the Pod-docs and modified a bunch of willing volunteers before anyone noticed it was happening. The resulting weres are weak compared to the Empire weres.

Adina has found out her Uncle Yousuf died, the only person in her family who was still attached to her has died. She is grieving the loss of the last of her family life. Her father, Usman, does come to the funeral and praise Yousuf for taking care of Adina. Adina rejects his offer to reconcile.

Naka-Lee turns out to be the cause of the drug crisis on the station as well as the werewolf problem. She has imprisoned Don Gan'baro and taken over his drug empire and is using the werewolves to supplement her enforcers. Naka-Lee has also been impersonating the Don, Kirandeep and Briona, the later two in order to trap Adina. Naka-Lee actually killed Yousuf to lure Adina to the station. Naka-Lee wants to clone Adina's ability to reject the suppression drugs into her werewolves as well as use Adina as a personal pet. After trapping and experimenting on Adina, Naka Lee freezes her and takes her her escape ship.

The team attacks Naka-Lee's planned escape ship which releases Adina. Draven had talked to Adina about being a werewolf. That she shouldn't try to control the wolf, but to be with the wolf as a partner. When Adina does go after Naka-Lee she is in control. The team does capture Naka-Lee as well as taking out her organization. Draven also kills the Don when he tries to escape releasing Tc'aalat from the bounty and the debt involving the Don.

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