Disco Volante

***Disco Volante*** *("Flying Disc")* is a prospecting company headquartered on the *Endeavour* and led by James Goode.

## History

### Background

#### Founding

The company's origins date back to the friendship between James Goode and Cole Miller. As young citizens of the U.C., they were instructed to enter military school for several Earth-months upon reaching their eighteenth birthday. Little is known of their time there, but by their 20s they were both working professionals: Goode had joined the SPACECOM Navy, first as a soldier before becoming a pilot and cartographer, while Cole joined the Transport Union as an engineer. They occasionally met up on space stations across the Settled Systems and worked together on several salvage jobs between deployments. By the late 2460s, however, they had drifted apart and lost contact.

In 2470, the ship that Goode was serving on, the *Archduke*, suffered a malfunction that led to a pion rocket exploding and destroying the ship. Goode was in his fightercraft at the time of the incident and crash landed on an abandoned planet when his ship was shredded by debris. Goode survived the crash but was left with no food, water or other supplies, and his oxygen supply was dwindling. He was lucky enough to stumble across an undamaged container, within which was a rover filled with packaged food and water. For the next 55 days he drove across the desolate planet towards the distress beacon of the *Archduke*, scavenging oxygen from the various damaged lifeboats that littered the planet. He finally reached what remained of the ship's bow and fired a distress beacon, but SPACECOM did not answer. He passed out from hypoxia just as a H.N. Sovereignty Patrol ship touched down on the planet; the doctor on board, Harley Burton, only just managed to save his life.

Having somehow survived his ordeal, Goode abandoned SPACECOM, believing that they had purposefully abandoned him to cover up the malfunction in the new pion engines. He purchased a small ship and tracked down his old friend Cole Miller, who had grown disillusioned by the corruption within the Transport Union. Together they founded *Disco Volante*, a prospecting company loyal to no one but themselves. In need of a ship, they went to an auction and purchased the heavily modified *Endeavour*, the last remaining Space Shuttle from the 20th century.

#### Adventures

Goode and Miller's subsequent adventures as "*Disco Volante*" allowed them to gather a small but tightly-knit crew. First they recruited Nyoka Wingsknight, a former Twin Moon pirate, whom they rescued despite her trying to rob them for ship parts.

At Goode's behest, the company later recruited doctor Harley Burton as their medic; Burton, the doctor that had saved Goode after the *Archduke* incident, was initially reluctant but accepted their offer when *Disco Volante* exposed the corruption of her commanding ranger.

## Members

* James Goode - captain
* Cole Miller - engineer, first mate
* Nyoka Wingsknight - soldier, combat technician
* Harley Burton - doctor, medic
* Myra Beach - technician
* Tennyson - analyst, technician
* AVA - system core, astrogator
* Marvin - M.U.S.E
* Unknown number of contractors

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