The Cyber Pirates 1
The Cyber Pirates are the rogues of the skyways; a patchwork brotherhood of misfits who live by code, not creed. They make their home in the drifting shipyards of the upper currents, where neon lights flicker against hulls patched with brass and bone. Each member of the crew is a world unto themselves; killers, dreamers, lovers, and liars bound by the promise of freedom and the thrill of the score. Their ships carry the hum of stolen engines and the scent of rum-soaked rebellion. To cross paths with them is to gamble with fortune itself, and fortune favors those bold enough to cheat.
Calder “Greyjack” Scrimshaw
Scrimshaw is the ghost in the crowd; quiet, polite, and utterly lethal. His every movement is deliberate, his every word weighted with care. Beneath his calm exterior, though, lies the precision of a predator honed by years of silent work. His “walking stick” conceals a collapsible plasma halberd capable of cleaving steel, though few ever live to see it deployed. He doesn’t kill for pleasure, nor money, but because it’s the one thing he’s ever truly mastered, and he believes mastery, in all things, is its own morality.
Bonnie Clive
Bonnie is chaos with lipstick and bruised knuckles. She can charm a room with her grin or flatten it with her fists, depending on the mood, and she’s in many moods at once. A born scrapper and a lover of life’s extremes, Bonnie drinks hard, fights harder, and laughs through the pain. Beneath her bravado, though, there’s a sharp wit and an even sharper loyalty; when she calls someone a friend, they’re family. Most nights end in either a bar fight or a song, and she’s happiest when it’s both.
Harvey Bearman
A cigar-smoking enigma with a fondness for cheap whiskey and expensive hats, Bearman is part brute, part bard. His origins are a mystery; a genetic experiment gone rogue, a wanderer from another dimension, or maybe just a cosmic joke. Whatever the truth, he wears it lightly, preferring to gamble, tell stories, and swindle fools rather than dwell on existential questions. Though his size and face make him an easy target for stares, his easy laughter and quick hands make him the heart of any crew he joins. Beneath all that fur and flesh, there’s an old sadness, but he hides it well behind smoke and swagger.
Oren Wayland
Oren is the philosopher-pirate, a romantic in a tattered coat, drawn ever toward the horizon. Where others see rust and wreckage, he sees relics and riddles worth chasing. He and Bearman are inseparable; Oren supplies the schemes, Bearman supplies the muscle, and somehow, they both survive. He’s a collector of stories, maps, and scars, wandering from port to port like a scholar of chaos. Every mystery he solves seems to lead to another, and though he claims to be running toward something, everyone suspects he’s running from something else.
Clutch-Eye Vargo
Built for war but reborn as a connoisseur, Vargo is a machine that feels too much. His array of optical sensors gives him perfect situational awareness, an advantage in battle, and a curse in peace. Once a bounty hunter without peer, he now hunts rare artifacts and lost artworks with the same deadly efficiency. To him, beauty is proof that life, organic or otherwise — has meaning. But even amid his quiet appreciation, there’s a violence that never left him; when provoked, the art lover becomes the art of destruction itself.