Name: Matsuro Hishou
Rank: Civilian
Age: 23
Class: Pilot
Level: 1
XP: 0
Health: 3
Dexterity: 5
Agility: 6 (+1 = 7)
Strength: 3
Intelligence: 5
Psyche: 4
Initiative: 5
Skills:
Pilotting - Level 6 - Free
Starship Familiarity
History:
Matsuro Hishou was born on a planet whose only remarkable features were fractionally lower than earth gravity and that 96% of its surface is covered by a freshwater ocean. Almost everyone born there learns to swim in the temperate waters long before they can walk.
This upbringing has resulted in a population possessing exceptional spatial awareness, if at the cost of a slight degradation in skeletal and muscular strength due to the lower gravity.
Matsuro's passion for machinery started at a young age, his parents were deep sea oceanographers and with little to do to entertain himself while his parents studied the planets unique current systems in their submersible, he took, as small children are wont to do, to dismantling things and seeing how they worked, what surprised his parents were that such items usually resurfaced the next day, the only signs of damage being superficial scratches on the casing.
When he was ten, his parents started taking him on dives with them, but the wonders of oceanography didn't seem to interest him anywhere near as much as the high-tech submersible in which they made their dives. At age 13 after constant badgering his parents allowed him to try his hand at pilotting, teaching him the basics near the surface and gradualy getting deeper and more complex. By the age of 14, he could pilot the submarine as well as his parents.
Seeing their sons interests lay in fields other than ocean research, Matsuro's parents paid for him to recieve flying lessons. Nothing particularly fancy, just sub-orbital craft (Ocean research obviously not paying well enough to pay for lessons in space flight). During these lessons he made friends with the ground staff and further demonstrated his knack for mechanics, seeming to absorb information about mechanics like the unique species of sponge, his parents had recently discovered, absorbed water.
At age 18 he decided to leave his parents and go and join the United Nations Space Navy as a pilot. Although a little hesitant about his leaving for a career in the military, he assured them that he had no intention of becoming a career man. Planning to leave as soon as his tour was over and move onto civilian pilotting. And so he left, promising to keep in touch.
As planned he enrolled in flight academy, quickly proving to be exceptionally talented, if a little weak at high-G planetary flying. Two months prior to graduation from basic, Matsuro recieved news of his parents death, apparently their submersible had suffered a mechanical failure, both the engines and life-support cutting out and leaving his parents to asphyxiate in each others arms. Matsuro quietly dropped out.
He drifted aimlessly for several months, paying for passage onboard ships with his limited technical knowledge, which continued to grow as he learnt from the experience permanent crews. About a year after his parents death, Matsuro fell in with the kind of people his parents warned him about. Small time mercenaries crooks trying to make it big with some light smuggling, he seemed a pretty handy guy to have around, being an able pilot and a fair mechanic to boot. He was hired to do a single job, a short in-system run in a small one man tug. It went perfectly and he was hired to do another. Quickly he found himself sinking into the mire of criminal life.
Two years passed, then he was caught. Luckily, he had known one of his arresting officers from the academy who was able to broker a deal for him. He testified against the other criminals, and he went free. After much hesitation and council he agreed. The trial went smoothly and all the other outlaws were arrested and jailed. Matsuro was placed into a witness protection program.
Two months after the trial, Matsuro disappeared completely. He returned to a life of paying for rides with his technical skills, gradually drifting towards the galactic fringe, where his skills became more and more valuable...