Captain (All Hail the Sky Demon)

*You may be looking for a captain in the Alae Republic Army.*

*"Ignore the red flashing lights! They just mean you're alive!"*
―The Captain, *All Hail the Sky Demon*

A **Captain** was the ambiguously named unelected leader of a space pirate vessel in the Amitu System, and was the kidnapper of the Seventeenth Doctor.

## Biography

The Captain joined a small cargo-stealing crew as a teenager, and plundered, blackmailed and bullied his way to the top of the chain of respect in various piratical circles by the time he was in his mid-20s. He became the captain of various crews over the years, and commanded several expensive spaceships that saw a great deal of action. His almost unbelievable success allowed him to live in luxury compared to almost all other Li-Tomans, and those that dared join his crews tended to prosper greatly.

However, for mysterious reasons, he cut off all contact with other pirate crews and decided that he and his newly-isolated crew would embark on a madman's mission to the planet Kamdo, where he planned on meeting the God of all pirates, the Sky Demon.

Before leaving, he felt the need to replace his recently deceased maintenance officer, who was recently executed for conspiring against him. He ordered the capture of "anyone who looked like they knew what they were doing", and two pirates thus inexplicably took the Seventeenth Doctor at gunpoint back to the ship.

During the trip, the Captain became fascinated by the Doctor, who was unusual even by his standards. He regularly attempted to converse with his captee, in an attempt to understand him, but the Doctor retained his chirpy but evasive act as he waited for a chance to escape back to Li-Toma. Nevertheless, the Captain continued to probe at the Doctor, even if he himself could not understand why exactly he was.

Just prior to landing on Kamdo, the Doctor had deduced that they were not, in fact, going to visit the Sky Demon on a whim as the Captain had made out, and with great difficulty managed to identify the elusive Makov as the cause of the bizarre excursion. The Captain did not take the news that he had been manipulated well. He attempted to attack Makov in a fit of rage, but Makov simply retaliated by setting the ship to crash into Kamdo. (TV: *All Hail the Sky Demon*)

The impact was lessened somewhat thanks to the effort of the Captain and the Doctor, but the ship was still considerably damaged and several of the crew, including the Captain's right hand man Jaeger Steward, were killed. Makov, after a sudden change of heart, took the Doctor and the Captain together to the Shravana, with the intention of pushing them in purely to see what would happen. The Captain, dedicating his actions to the deceased Jaeger Steward, tried to wrestle his stolen gun from Makov, to no avail, and he was shot - his body falling into the Shravana's domain. (TV: *The Sky Demon Can Wait*)

## Personality

The Captain had an *obscene* power complex. While he didn't micromanage every single aspect of life on board his ship, he expected every single thing to be exactly perfect and to his personal standards. It was, after all, *his* ship, and he would make that clear to everyone on board, crew or otherwise.

He didn't enjoy the company of anyone he thought incompetent or foolish, and any major mistake could have a crew member severely punished. But this seemed to betray something else deep below the surface - he took the utmost care to never go too far. The Doctor noticed the Captain's tendency to verbally berate his shipmates to the point that they felt lucky to get away from their mistake alive, while rarely actually enforcing any kind of actual punishment. He regularly stopped himself from striking particularly irritating employees, showing a conscience he desperately tried not to let bleed through his boisterous persona.

He showed a particular soft spot for second-in-command Jaeger Steward, who he actively tried not to punish, as much as Steward made that particularly difficult. The Captain treated him very oddly, threatening him with death on a regular basis while still allowing him one of the most prestigious positions in the ship's hierarchy. This unusual relationship suggests that there was potential the Captain saw in Steward that he wanted to see come out, so, seeing him as almost a pet project to tinker with, tried his best to bring Steward into his own. This was unfortunately unsuccessful. (TV: *All Hail the Sky Demon*)

The Captain's reaction to Steward's death supported the idea that there was more to his view of the subordinate than met the eye. Uncharacteristically, he seemed almost shaken by the sight of Steward's body, and with the Doctor as witness, swore revenge. When it came to Makov's actions, the Captain was more angered by the unnecessary death than he was by the reveal he had been conditioned to fly to Kamdo.

Goals set by the Captain tended to be done rigorously, quickly, and with maximum efficiency and explosions. When the Captain set his sights on plunder it would end up on his ship whether he was alive by the end of it or not. The same was applied for the mysterious trip to Kamdo. Even when aware that the real him never wanted to visit the place, he still itched to go out and explore the surface despite the Doctor's protests that it was simply Makov's conditioning. (TV: *The Sky Demon Can Wait*)

## Appearance

The first thing people generally noticed about the captain was his height. Standing at two metres tall, he towered above anyone else on board his ship. Aside from this, he resembled an average middle-aged man with white hair, and a scraggly grey beard. He regularly wore enormous flowing coats that exaggerated his already broad shoulders, and owned many pairs of extravagant boots that made him seem even taller than he naturally was (TV: *All Hail the Sky Demon*). When faced with a potentially life threatening situation, he donned a black tricorn hat. (TV: *The Sky Demon Can Wait*)