Jaws MacTaggart

**Captain Jaws MacTaggart** (born **Keiko Kaizoku**) is the lead protagonist of *Space Pirate Captain MacTaggart*, and one of the main characters of the *Tails from the Federation* franchise as a whole.

### Relatives

* Kumiko Mori (Sister)
* Kyoko Mori (Niece)
* Taiho Mori (Nephew)
* Finbar MacTaggart (Husband)

### Affiliation

* Galactic Liberation Front (current)
* Stellar Federation (former)
* Hinode Self-Defence Force (former)

## Persona

Jaws MacTaggart is the Captain of the
pirate cruiser *Stellar Typhoon*. She
is the *Captain MacTaggart* of the series' title, and it would be fair to say
that she is the main star.

Being
the Captain of the *Typhoon*, Jaws
holds a great deal of responsibility, but she never lets this go to her head.
She is very kind and caring towards her crew, and always has their best
interests at heart. However, she accepts that sometimes she has to be hard on
them to succeed, but she rarely loses her temper at them.

Though
Jaws can come across as menacing at first due to her appearance, she's actually
very friendly, if a bit silent and stoic sometimes. However, other times she's
as energetic and excitable as a schoolgirl, especially when it comes to
something (or *someone*) she's
passionate about. This does not mean that Jaws isn't a force to be reckoned
with, of course. When challenged, she'll easily relish the chance for a fight,
especially against the Stellar Federation.

It's
possible that Jaws' fiery personality stems from her being descended from a
Hinode shogun clan, who were well known as the de facto rulers of the former
Hinode Empire, and also as famous warlords. This also means that Jaws is very
good with a katana.

Though
we rarely see the *other half*, Jaws is
happily married to Finbar, a raccoon from the Scottish/Canadian-settled Procyon System.
They met back in 2986, when Finbar was transferred to the same ship as Jaws.
After a few years of procrastination, Jaws plucked up the courage to propose to
Finbar, and they've been together ever since. Jaws loves Finbar dearly, and
though they do have the odd bicker now and then, they're always happy to help
each other through difficult times.

## Physical Description

Jaws stands at nearly four feet in
height, with a top heavy build. She has blue eyes (well, *a* blue eye) and coal black hair.

Jaws'
main distinguishing features are a gold tooth, an eyepatch over her right eye
(which is merely for show) and an artificial right arm (which is not). Her
actual arm was lost in a katana duel with her arch rival *Princess Midori*. She was able to have a new arm constructed by her
niece, Kyoko Mori.

In
more recent years, Jaws has added retractable claws to this paw, which can be
activated á la Wolverine. These claws can be used for fighting, but are
generally employed as a scare tactic. Jaws' favourite thing to do with them is
to reveal one claw at a time, while naming each one as a reason that she
shouldn't be messed with.

Other
physical features include a burning silver tip on her tail, and a similar
silver mark over her patched eye. These identify Jaws as a descendant of the
famous *Howaitoshadō Clan* of shoguns,
the famous warlords of former Imperial Hinode, whose members had the same
silver tail tip.

Jaws
wears a variation of the Stellar Federation Military uniform, but with some
casual touches, like a pair of skinny jeans. A large trench coat adds to her
imposing appearance, and it also covers her artificial arm. Her paw is covered
by an old biker's glove, whenever she wants to surprise her enemies with it.
Somewhat unnecessarily, she sometimes wears a pair of sunglasses during
confrontations with her adversaries.

## Background

Keiko Kaizoku
(as Jaws was known back then) was born in the Port of Minato, a city on the
planet Tenchō, in the Hinode Cluster. She's the second oldest of five children,
being born 34 minutes after her twin sister Kumiko. Growing up throughout the
60s and 70s, Keiko considers her childhood to be the zenith of her life so far.
Not even the arrival of three new siblings (Kenji in 2964, *Koso-Koso* in
2970, and Kenta in 2976) could dampen her spirits.

In school, Keiko was *alright*
(not bad, but not good either). She was the *Arthur Daley* of the
classroom, conning her classmates out of their money, for school supplies and
junk food, among other things.

When
Keiko wasn't stirring up trouble at school, she had aspirations of a career in
the Stellar Federation Military Police. By the time Keiko had left high school
in 2981, the imminent threat of war meant that there was a sudden recruitment
rush in Kokoro City, which Keiko gladly took advantage of.

### Joining the Federation

Keiko signed up
for the Hinode Division of the Military Police, and underwent rigorous
training. After her training was completed in 2983, by which time the Third
Galactic War had kicked off, Ensign Keiko Kaizoku was posted onboard a battlecruiser,
the *HDS Ōshan Akuma* (*Ocean Demon*), after a short period aboard a
minehunter, the *HDS Sutera Kushi* (*Star Comb*).

It was around this time that Keiko
first started wearing her famous eyepatch. Ostensibly, this was to assist with
the adjustment to darkness when moving from light to dark areas of the ships
she worked on, but in actual fact Keiko wore it in tribute to the hero of her
teenage years, *Captain Harlock*.

In 2986, the *Ōshan Akuma* was
sent out on a patrol deployment in the Procyon System. During a routine
embarkation at the Glenfalcons base on Procyon VI, Keiko-by now a
Lieutenant-happened to literally bump into one Finbar MacTaggart, a rather dashing local raccoon who also happened to be a Lieutenant in the Military Police. Keiko fell in love with him at once, being taken by his cool-headed charm (and his Scottish accent), and it didn't take long for Finbar to confess
that the feeling was mutual.

As luck would have it, Finbar was to
be transferred to the *Akuma* (along with a few other personnel) from his
frigate, the *HMCS Mull Of Kintyre*
during the embarkation, so the happy couple were not doomed to be apart. Finbar
joined Keiko as a commanding officer on the *Akuma*, and their
relationship blossomed (of course, the pair didn't allow their love for each
other to overshadow their duties...). Any worries about cultural differences
were evidently quelled, with the promise that they would teach each other the
ways of their respective cultures.

Incidentally, the embarkation was
immortalized in a training film for the Military Police, and Keiko herself can
be seen at various points.

### Marriage

The Third Galactic War finally came
to an end on Christmas Day 2991, and among other things it meant that Finbar
and Keiko (both now Lieutenant-Commanders) could relax a bit. They were both given a
month's leave to recuperate from the War, and in that time Keiko saved up to
buy an engagement ring for Finbar. However, it wasn't until the end of 2992 (a
full year to the day since the end of the War) that she finally plucked up the
courage to actually propose to him. Obviously, Finbar accepted the proposal,
and by February 2993 they were happily married.

The 90s were a quiet decade for the
newly married MacTaggarts, with only the odd coup d'état or civil war to keep
them on their toes. The turn of the new millennium passed without much thought,
and even the outbreak of the Fourth Galactic War in 3001 wasn't anything to
sneeze at. However, it was four years into the war, in 3005, that things began
to take a turn for the worse.

### The *Green Fox* Incident

In June 3005, Captain Keiko MacTaggart was sent out to capture Princess Midori, the heiress to the throne of the terroristic Midori Empire, who'd broken out of prison with the help of a bogus Red Cross official. On paper, the mission sounded quite easy, but as it was to turn out, the task was *much* easier said than done. Over the course of four months, Keiko tried time and time again to catch Midori, without success.

It was around this time that Keiko's vicious bite, cold heart and bountiful track record earned her the nickname of *Jaws*, coined by Princess Midori, and later adopted by her family, friends and adversaries.

Things came to a head in September 3005, when Jaws finally managed to capture Princess Midori. She would have succeeded in having her locked up or executed, had it not been for the intervention of a Midori-controlled luxury cruiser, who freed the Princess, and left Jaws to contend with her irate superiors.

After her constant failure to capture this single criminal, this incident was the final straw, and Jaws was stripped of her command and sent into exile (the only alternative being execution). Finbar voluntarily deserted his position to be with his wife, as did Lieutenant Leslie Kennedy, a young squirrel from the Sorados Cluster who had loyally assisted Jaws during her last few years with the Military Police.

### The *Stellar Typhoon*

It was after Jaws' dismissal that Finbar
revealed his true colours; he was also a Captain in the Galactic Liberation Front, a resistance movement against the Stellar Federation. He secretly commanded a small, ex-Federation prototype battlecruiser, the *Stellar Typhoon*, operating it under the guise of a space pirate
ship. Wishing to get her own back at the Federation, Jaws agreed to join Finbar
as the Captain's Assistant.

After several months of fighting
alongside her husband, Jaws ended up gaining full custody of the *Typhoon*, though it's unknown under what
circumstances. In any case, Finbar was not there when, in the winter of 3006,
Jaws came under attack from Princess Midori again. The battle culminated in
Midori reaching the bridge of the *Typhoon*,
and duelling katanas with Jaws.

Midori ended up chopping Jaws' right
arm clean off, but unfortunately for her, Jaws was ambidextrous, and so was
able to simply carry on and win the fight.

At some point prior to this, Finbar had had his own arm chopped off by a rival space pirate by the name of Captain Darkblade (as Jaws recalls, '*I broke Darkblade's heart, Darkblade broke Finbar's arm**').* Jaws decided to take a leaf out of her husband's book, and have an artificial arm of her own constructed. She called upon her teenage niece, Kyoko Mori, who'd been studying robotics at her
school at the time, to construct such a device. The arm was an unusual rush job
for Kyoko, who completed it in time to give it to Jaws as a Christmas present.
Impressed by her niece's speed and skill, Jaws took Kyoko on as her resident *tech-girl*, employing her services to
create several gadgets to use on her enemies, as well as to maintain and
improve the *Typhoon's* various weapons
and systems.

Between then and 3009, life was
relatively quiet for Jaws, with only the odd crisis to break up the monotony. But then in that year, Jaws conducted one of her regular *raids* (which were actually conducted goods transfers in disguise)
on a freighter from Procyon VI. One of the crew members she captured was a young technician named Alasdair Geddes. The young raccoon had grown tired of his dreary existence in the city of Glenfalcons, and begged for Jaws to take
him away from it. Realising that Alasdair's technical expertise (and his apparent liking for Kyoko) could be of use to the crew, Jaws gladly accepted his pleading, and the events that followed on after that are well documented...

## Trivia

* Producer Jordann Edwards hinted that Naoko Mori (of Absolutely Fabulous, Doctor Who, and Torchwood fame) would be ideal for this character, as he vows for authenticity in terms of voice casting.

## Images of Capt. Jaws

The Captain displaying her secret weapon. (artwork by Jake Elmer)Jaws stands and contemplates the vastness of her Galaxy (artwork by Jordann William Edwards)"I'll give you five reasons not to fuck with me! One...two...three...four...FIVE!" (artwork by Jordann William Edwards)Diamonds are a girl's best friend...especially if she's a pirate girl! (artwork by Jake Elmer)Jaws MacTaggart drawn by Mark Alexander Smith