I'll flesh out how Malik joins the No Refunds later, but at the start of this campaign, we have the following relationships:
Lynwood is good friends with Eaaia.
Eaaia is apparently an inseparable buddy with Dr. Teag.
Dr. Teag is somehow related to our erstwhile Captain.
Lando, our engineer, is somehow a competitive rival to Malik (school rivalry across the stars?)
And Malik is secretly jealous of the good doctor.
Random rolls on the PC relationship table, then picking or random character assignment.
We also have to have 3 life events; fortunately character generation does do that in Cepheus and Mongoose generation (one of the part of the systems I really like as it does allow for creativity outside my normal stuff. Another reason I really like Traveller: random character generation can bring to life a character I never would have designed or point picked).
Malik, the titular hero of the story, has an attachment to a stuffed beaked monkey doll he has had since early childhood. It is stuffed into his travel bag most of the time. He has also brought down not one, but two, political leaders during his journalism career. Additionally, he has been mugged. And he does have a life-long friend made in childhood (I know, we've got four now for Malik)
Lando, the engineer, has been jailed for a crime he did not do, actually hung out with the right kinds of people in college (and finished his graduate degree: this is where the jealousy part above should have played out; alas, it did not). He also has a secret addiction. Now the question is - addiction to what? Drugs, gambling, porn? Its so secret I don't even know!
Eaaia, the steward/broker/cargo master, has had some legal experience with her mother's merchant service, carried out some secret task for her previous captain, which while not rewarded with a promotion, did get her some ship shares. Finally, she feels as if she had made some terrible mistake and fears repeating that. Dropping out of college, perhaps?
Robard, the doctor, harbors some resentment for being blamed for the deaths of his crew during a decompression exercise while in the Navy. He has earned a very prestigious award for his research. His third life event was someone sabotaging his work, forcing him to leave the research group.
And our erstwhile Captain Lynwood Laux? I still need to roll him up. But I am thinking, perhaps a pirate trying to go straight? I'll roll up some pirate characters and see if any fit.
"Hi Lynwood, what do you want to be when you grow up? A pirate you say? How cute!" Little do they know...
And if I go that route, the ship payments may end up being a bit less as perhaps the No Refunds is really a pirate corsair...we shall see.
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