As children lost, we blunder through the grand wilderness of the online, bumping shoulders with beast and bandit and on occasion, other living souls.
We can never understand them, nor they us, nor could we ever hope to. We can only glimpse to their nature, however horrible or delightful it may be, and imagine. Some people take less imagination than others.
This thread is for us all to chronicle such souls, so we have some evidence that they ever existed, that they were ever spared a thought.
Grath ro’Gehn Tovahk, the Gorn Trucker
I have started playing Star Trek Online while I am fucked-up on painkillers and in recovery for a minor surgery (resolving a slipped disc).
While this 2010 game has devolved into the worst kind of FtP predatory gambling baffonery, @iguferon has helped get me situated and find the appealing underbelly of this mossy log. It’s name is Drosana station, it is an old, abandoned TOS Federation starbase that was taken over by Ferengi opportunists and is now the coolest spot in the quadrant. It has a dabo table. It is haunted by space ghosts. Here is where I see all the best players.
Grath the Space Trucker’s backstory paints a tragic tale of one of our brave enlisted lizardmen who lost his entire family to “a stupid ambush” and left it all behind to haul freight:
Bax, Tortured Stoic of the Risa Pleasure Planet
Now Bax would have us believe some absolutely horrid shit has befallen him, and yet, I find him here on the beaches of the pleasure planet Risa, throwing it back in a BIG way for lohlnut favor points. I am heartened to see that it is indeed darkest before the dawning of the risan sun…
His ship is named after a late gun-tuber Paul Harrell, who seems like a reasonable enough guy despite a bunch of videos about home defense and how to survive a shootout behind a car etc etc
Caroline West Stampede, the Crazed Queen
Caroline West Stampede, quite unlike her ship’s namesake and father(??) Vash the Stampede, is a super mean and vicious mirror-universe sadist who-
.... wife of vash the stampede .....
WIFE of Vash the Stampede??? I never got the sense Vash sought to pull the baddest of bitches in the multiverse but man time and trail can change a man I guess
Sosha, the Emerald Enchantress
I need her.
M’Iscusi, the (De)constructor, the Mind Wanderer
M’Iscusi is the person I kind of expect to be fully half of all players, and that might actually be the case, but she is the first to articulate this into her bio.
