Bea'key

Bea'key, Loose Cannon

Name:	Bea'key
Species:	VY'KEEN
Pronouns:	She/Her
Primary Guild:	Mercenaries Guild
Facet:	Gadget Facet
Facet Title:	Loose Cannon
Status:	Active

I am Bea'key, a Gek born with a Vy'keen soul! I was told the tales of Travellers from the moment I hatched, and those stories made me yearn for a life among the stars. That yearning is the reason I found my blood-brother Bo'gus, and together we shattered the cages of who we were told to be and followed our hearts to become what we are!

Biography

This is my tale, and I will tell it myself!

I was the smallest cheeper in my clutch, and not good at being a Gek. I dreamt of starships, and space, and heroic battles. These are forbidden pursuits among my birthclan if not done for the glory of units. I quickly learned to mask my strangeness to avoid discipline and disgrace. No one knew of my invisible wishes, but I was considered odd all the same.

As I grew, I made a name for myself delivering delicate goods on foot. These tasks took me far beyond the elders' watchful eyes and satisfied my thirst for adventure. My home planet's frequent storms meant no one questioned why I was gone so long, why I came home so scuffed and dirty. It was the perfect cover. I spent much of those adventures lost in thought, tinkering with scrap, and reading. Reading anything I could find.

The first person I told any of these secrets to was Bo'gus. Bo'gus was a neighboring Vy'keen set apart by his fellows, the type who is kept at a distance unless they are being tormented. Somehow we discovered we were having the same recurring dream. That was when I knew we were soulmates, destined for something grand together!

We found a cave far away from our family encampments and began stockpiling our treasures. Bo'gus sneaked in crops and other plants to tend to. I dragged in salvaged technology and studied starship schematics. He gave me my Vy'keen name, and we bonded as siblings. All of this was kept from the tyranny of the High Command and the Trade Federation! We promised each other that one day we would escape our planet forever and live a life as pirates, free and answering to no one.

And then, one day, we had our chance. A crashed ship I'd been repairing was ready to fly, and Bo'gus had grown enough food to feed us for a long journey. We were already beyond our planet's atmosphere and celebrating our escape when a sudden phenomenon split our ship into two copies of itself -- Bo'gus in one and me in the other -- and threw us into separate areas of the galaxy.

At least, that is what I think has happened.

Now I finally have my life of adventure, but I do not know what has become of my partner and friend. When I get frightened I remind myself that he can survive alone just as well as I can, and that I know in my gut he's alive. We will find each other again. And when we do, we will tell such glorious tales that Hirk himself will smile at our great deeds!

Personality

I am a Gek by birth, but I've inherited nothing from my kin but my stubby legs. I am a wrench-turner, fascinated by starships. I am brave, and I am silly! Now that I'm free of my the Trade Federation's oppression, I live life to the fullest by laughing, singing, fighting, and dancing my way through the galaxies!

I choose my adventures by the seat of my pants and make no true alliances. I may help you one day and be gone the next. But this is never out of meanness. In fact, I am as likely to share Grahgrah with a competitor as I am with a friend! I simply swim as the current takes me, turning down any path that seems exciting or interesting. If the stars align and we benefit each other, then I am grateful, and we celebrate our time together. If they do not, then there are no hard feelings, for it is no one's fault but the tide.

Relationships

I count many as my friends, but there are those I consider family.

• Bo'gus: Bo'gus and I were born into the same colony and treated as outcasts. We became blood siblings, protecting and supporting each other until we made our great escape!

Relation to the Atlas

I know the tales of Travellers well, and so I know what the Atlas is believed to be. I myself had thought the Atlas was only a legend, some fragment of Korvax religion. But now I am not as sure. It is only a feeling, but this mysterious entity might have been what split Bo'gus' and my ship and threw us across spacetime.

Maybe it is also the reason behind our shared dream...?

Photo Gallery

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  My rifle!

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  My ship!

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  An engineering task!

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  A victory!

Assets

Multitools

Multitool	Name	Type	Class	Status	ExpandDescription
	Hrardron's Neutron Silencer	Rifle	B	Currently Owned	I don't remember how I found this rifle. Was it on a station? In a shelter? I often forget details like this. What I do know is that I saw it, it suited me, and I took it!

Ships

Starship	Name	Type	Class	Status	ExpandDescription
	Hopes and Dreams	Fighter	C	Currently Owned	Oh, the Hopes and Dreams! I have repaired it twice: once when Bo'gus and I were planning our escape, and then again after it crash landed. It sits in my freighter now, a reminder of our slim beginnings and soaring triumph.
Starship	Name	Type	Class	Status	Description
	Geross's Transporter AX5	Shuttle	A	Currently Owned	I found this shuttle as a crashed wreck while wandering a dusty planet. I loved it immediately. Its colors matched my armor, and it was even short and squat! We were meant to be. It needed a great deal of repairs, and I was thrilled by the challenge. My success further proved that I have found my calling. Now I will teach even pirates with fighters to respect the chubby silhouette of the Transporter.

Bases

Base	Name	Planet	System	ExpandDetails and History
	Basdus Colony	Lumecula Minor	Imenqi-Aim	My first scrape! It is built in a cave on a desert moon with chilly nights and a beautiful starry sky. This humble nest is named for a Vy'keen word that usually means "to return," but can also mean "to do again," "to do over," or "to reinvent."

Freighters

Freighter	Name	Type	Class	Status	ExpandDetails and History
	(null)	TYPE	CLASS	Currently Owned	Commander: Woi Navigator: Baluxard Grah! Grah! Grah! I saved this freighter from a pirate attack, and Captain Woi handed its command to me on the spot. Woi recognized my Vy'keen soul and knew that our entire crew we would achieve greatness together!

Frigates

Frigate	Name	Specialization	Class	Traits	Status	ExpandDetails and History
	DSE-8 The Makogano Calculator Deep Space Surveyor	Exploration	A	Exploration Specialist (+15 E) Expert Navigator (-2% D) Interstellar Signal Array (+4 C) Aggressive Probes (+1 C)	Owned	Captain: Engineering Entity Smo Crew Mood: Thoughtful Notes: Leaky
	SV Pillar of the Hashibu Merchant Cruiser	Trade	A	Stowaway Botanist (+2 E) Trade Specialist (+15 T) Radio Telescopes (+3 E) Propaganda Device (+4 T)	Owned	Captain: Captain Amyanyunc Crew Mood: Strong Willed Notes: Unusual Engines
	DSV-9 Ihamu Mobile Supply Platform	Support	A	Robot Butlers (+3 T) Support Specialist (-15 $) Advanced Power Distributor (-6 $) Metal Detector (+2 I)	Owned)	Captain: Scholar Entity Vetskyvi Crew Mood: Sanguine Notes: Korvax Crew
	MV-7 Okamiash's Decree Industrial Hauler	Industrial	B	Negotiation Module (+2 T) Industrial Specialist (+15 I) Ultrasonic Welders (+6 T)	Owned	Captain: Chief Scientist Entity Motren Crew Mood: Strong Willed Notes: Rat Problem
	DSV-4 Naminant Mining Vessel	Industrial	C	Industrial Specialist (+2 T) Economy Scanner (+1 T)	Owned	Captain: Operator Entity Nurlatyr Crew Mood: Changeable Notes: Ownership History Missing

Other Equipment

I have been finding many interesting plants while I explore, and I've been carefully saving them for Bo'gus.

• Fresh Rotlily Clippings: A genetically engineered plant, ready for propagation. Sample appears to have 10 mutated genes.
  • Root Structure: Desiccated
  • Nutrient Source: Carnivorous
  • Notes: Rapidly Mutating

• Gooey Sproutlings: Approximately 800 years old. This sample looks unnaturally clean, as if all other life that came into contact with it has burned away.

• Swampfruit Pollen: A genetically engineered plant, ready for propagation. Sample appears to have 5 mutated genes.
  • Root Structue: Regular
  • Nutrient Source: Buried Treasure
  • Notes: Potentially Medicinal

• Congealed Moss: Approximately 438 years old. From the obvious care taken in delicately packing away this sample, one is forced to presume that the huge number of insect corpses that surrounded it were not present at the moment of burial.

• Germinated Loveherb Cuttings: Approximately 343 years old. Great care should be taken to keep this sample from contaminating other habitats, particularly given the speed at which this plant appears to be spreading across its container.

• Bloody Herbs: Approximately 282 years old. The sample, apparently dormant during its long confinement, has begun to slowly but definitely bubble, as if stirring to life...

Research

I've never thought of anything I do as "research." I'm a starship mechanic. I love ships and I learn everything I can about them. Does that knowledge become "research" when I write it down?

Personal Logs

// BEACON-NOTE: // Bea'key, please upload your personal logs at your earliest convenience.

Guild Affiliations

I pride myself on making dangerous delivery runs and pirate raids, regardless of which guild posts them. I take the missions that fill my heart and lungs! The politics behind them don't concern me.

Atlas Keepers Affiliation

After I lost Bo'gus, I began broadcasting a message. Every night I sing an old song he sang for me when I was small and afraid, and send it into space. That is how the Beacon-Entity found me.

When BE extended their help, how it broke my heart that it was not Bo'gus! But still I hold on to my hopes.

I don't yet know what part I will play in the Atlas Keepers, but the Beacon-Entity accepts any mechanical data I beam to them, and they asked me to think of a name for their future group of engineers. I have decided on Gadget Facet, because it rhymes. And so, it is done!

Discoveries

Systems & Planets

Bea'key's Starchart

Important Events

• The Phase Phenomenon: This is my name for the strange event that split our ship, the Hopes & Dreams, into two copies of itself. It's not very catchy. I'll ask Bo'gus if he's thought of a better one, when we find each other again...