Hatch

## Overview

* Hatch can multi-task using all 8 of his legs at the same time. However he keeps this secret from others so he doesn't appear more alien than he already does.
* Hatch has an extensive car collection. They’ve been spread out in different places throughout the galaxy, but when They moved onto Ricky Bobby he figured they should all come together.
	+ Hatch built a replica 1964 Shelby Cobra one in 10 Earth months after studying the Empire database about the car.
	+ A 1948 Ford Deluxe Convertible like the one raced in Grease.
	+ Julianna acquired a Stutz Bearcat for him
	+ Bugatti and Volkswagen bug
	+ A blue 1966 Corvette convertible.
	+ 1976 Cadillac Fleetwood Sixty Special Talisman
	+ A gray DeLorean.
	+ Dodge Charger 440 Magnum,
	+ '69 Red Corvette Stingray and 67 GTO
* Hatch has 6 wives and 15 children. All of the children are grown and on their own now. They stay busy with school and work, he still keep tabs on them.

## Activities

### The Ghost Squadron

#### Formation

Hatch was the original designer and engineer of the Q-Ship. He became frustrated with other Federation/Empire engineers second guessing him and left leaving behind his one prototype. Lance Reynolds resurrected the program and while the Federation engineers built a second version it did not meet the performance of the original. Lance has Eddie and Julianna recruit him, Julianna having an advantage of already knowing Hatch and having his respect.

#### Evolution

Knox is injured in a Brotherhood attack on Onyx Station and cannot join the Squadron on the mission to Nexus. He wanders into Hatch's workshop and seeing a set of parts laying out puts the turbo pump together without seeing blueprints. Hatch realizes Knox is a natural mechanic and offers Knox the role as Hatch's apprentice.

#### Impersonation

Cheng Sung, one of Hatch's collaboration partners from the past, is find incoherent at a facility where the Federation secures weapons and capabilities they do not want available, some of them even to their own forces. Hatch thought Cheng had died but actually had been abducted by the Saverus who had found out about the device and wanted it.

Cheng and Hatch had created the Tangle Thief, a transport device based on quantum theories of entanglement. The Thief could instantaneously transport a item between two points. The problem was the Thief created tears in the universe that leaked lethal radiation. Destroying it would have been too dangerous. We were afraid it might have fatal repercussions so it was sent to Area 126.

Noffke, Sarah; Anderle, Michael. Ghost Squadron Omnibus: The Complete Series (p. 747). LMBPN Publishing. Kindle Edition.

## References

1. ↑ Noffke, Sarah; Anderle, Michael. Ghost Squadron Omnibus: The Complete Series (p. 302). LMBPN Publishing. Kindle Edition.
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7. ↑ Noffke, Sarah; Anderle, Michael. Ghost Squadron Omnibus: The Complete Series (p. 714). LMBPN Publishing. Kindle Edition.
8. ↑ Noffke, Sarah; Anderle, Michael. Ghost Squadron Omnibus: The Complete Series (p. 711). LMBPN Publishing. Kindle Edition.
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12. ↑ Noffke, Sarah; Anderle, Michael. Ghost Squadron Omnibus: The Complete Series (p. 71). LMBPN Publishing. Kindle Edition.