Jed Calvert
Job Title: The Captain
Gender: Male
Age: 35
Nationality: New Texan
Department: Command & Drive-Room Staff
Life-form:
Player or NPC?: Player
Physical Appearance
Jed is a tall lanky man who is a lot stronger and tougher than he looks. Although he lacks large rippling muscles, Jed makes up for it with his air of crazed unpredictability. He has been known to fight hand to hand with men twice his strength but win out of sheer dastardliness.
He has a wizened face that makes him appear a lot older than his years, which also gives him the rough look of a man who has been living in the wilderness for years. He shaves less than he washes, every ice age.
Despite his position of power as Captain on the Blue Dwarf, Jed is always seen in a scruffy leather overcoat, ragged flannel shirts and a cowboy hat. He has a constant grimaced face that makes it impossible to tell whether he is in a good mood or not, if he is you’ll get a friendly slap on the back, if not you’ll get a slap in the face. With a knife.
Jed can always be seen with his hand laser-pistols, which he carries in two side gun holsters. He is rumoured to even wear these guns to bed and sleep with a pistol under his pillow. This is not true, under his pillow he has a loaded shotgun.
Personality and Interests
Jed Calvert has been known to grind his coffee with his teeth and boil the water with his own rage. When Jed is in a bad mood, everyone on the ship will be warned to never go near him on fear of death.
Coming from the harsh dessert planet of New Texas, Jed has developed a thick skin in his attitude to people, and isn't much of a people person. He has developed the personality of a cowboy on the old Western Frontier, tough, wild and unpredictable. He speaks in an old fashioned cowboy slang and in his spare time relaxes on an electronic rodeo horse.
It is far to say that Jed has a take-no-shit attitude to being a starship captain. He is very strong willed and in negotiations with aliens or other space dwellers, there are NO negotiations.
Jed Calvert does not go hunting, Jed Calvert goes KILLING. He is not afraid to get down and dirty on away missions, normally hoping to kill as many people as possible.
Jed takes care of his own, this includes his crew and people he likes, but ultimately he is a selfish individual out for himself. He is always looking for a quick buck and searching for any dodgy deal or trade he can get to better himself. He has a long history of trading with nefarious characters, with no morals about what he trades, and doesn’t care who he screws over to get what he wants.
Above all, Jed likes to have a good life. He likes a good ol’ thigh-slapping hootenanny where he will drink more moonshine or liquor as humanely possible. He is never one to hold back, especially in conversations when he will confidently speak his mind, no matter the consequences.
History
Jed grew up on the planet of New Texas. From here on his history is vague, as he has been known to tell a million stories about his life, and all of them are questionably true.
Sufice it to say Jed has lead a life of smuggling and corruption until he joined the Space Corps, bribed his way to Captains position, and then furthered his life of smuggling and corruption - this time doing it on a salary.
The events that lead to Jed becoming Captain of the Blue Dwarf are complicated and involve time travel. It all started when the Earth was destroyed by the Hymenoptera, Jed was Captaining the JMC Fools Gold. Instead of transporting refugees away from Earth, Jed has stocked up on moonshine to sell for a fortune after the Earth was no more. But Jed's crew didn’t like this and rebelled, leaving him alone and naked on a dessert planet. Jed soon found a way off the planet, and took a few odd jobs before finding himself Captaining a ship of refugees from the destroyed Earth, whose wet and inexperienced crew were in desperate need of Jed's no-shit Captains skills. Until Jed again faced mutiny by attempting to use the ship to smuggle some pillaged gold, and found himself fleeing in a very damaged ship that was leaking lethal radiation. A dying Jed Calvert then got rescued by the Blue Dwarf as they were going back in time to save the Earth, allowing Jed to see persuade his past-self not to make the stupid mistakes he had some in the past few weeks. Jed, of course being the stubborn man he was didn’t like being told what to do and killed his future self, although a small amount of conscience did make him change his future.
Instead of fleeing Earth with smuggled moonshine this time, Jed crashed his ship the JMC Fools Gold into the Hymenoptera mothership and met the crew of the Blue Dwarf, aiding them in their mission to destroy it.
Jed was made Captain of the Blue Dwarf a few weeks later, having a personal familiarity of the area of space the Blue Dwarf was being sent to.
Favourite Sayings
"Yee haw!!"
"Don't go wakin' snakes you featherheaded loco, or I’ll get mad as a peeled rattler on yer ass and ride your rawhide like a bucking bronco!"
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