The long strange trip

Merv Dobry

Credo city air/raft taxi driver (Regina/Regina) {Vagabond R2 2 terms / Worker ½ term R0 – employee of Chu’s Taxis}

Merv Dobry

Description

 Has a beaked monkey called ‘Critter’, which he keeps in his cab

Bio

Credo city air/raft taxi driver (Regina/Regina) {Vagabond R2 2 terms / Worker ½ term R0 – employee of Chu’s Taxis}

 Has a beaked monkey called ‘Critter’, which he keeps in his cab

“I been a spacer – had enough of that, for certain-sure! Took on a few odd – very odd! – jobs. Was a belter – an ice miner – for a while. That’s a lonely life, cracking ice on some dirty snowball, for hydrogen to fuel some ship’s power plant. I don’t know how they take it, year in-year out. The boredom! The drinking!”
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“Joined a salvage team next, thought I’d see a bit of glamour! We ended up in Zircon system, diving into a gas giant, after some old wrecked navy cruiser – or what was on it… I got lucky then, I tell you; my vacc suit ruptured. I nearly died, had to be medevaced back to the ship and was unconscious for a week. Affected my lungs badly, it did, never been right since. Anyway – the survey team? They didn’t come back… And they had the ship’s boat, so the crew waited a day or two after they lost contact, then took the ship off. Luckily they dumped me at a starport hospital first. I heard they took that ship and turned pirate…”
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“I get on well with my supervisor, I’m a hard worker, but I gotta be careful of Mr Chu. Hadn’t been in the job two weeks before I’d dented one’v his taxis! Lucky to keep my licence, I was. Thanks so much for not making a fuss about me getting us lost… Here, we’ll halve the fare, right?”