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[color=#FFCCCC][color=#FFCCCC]-The Urchins-

-Floorboard-



The leader and organizer of the Urchins, Floorboard is known to be many things - A mechanic, a pirate, a miscreant, a sociopath, a stoner.

While not very much of his earlier life is known, it is known that he appeared on Barrier Gate as a stowaway some 3 years ago, at the age of 14. Within his first year, he developed a terrible synth weed addiction, and ended up being forced into menial maintenance jobs on the stations internal systems, supporting both his life and his habit.

One day, however, after working a rather long shift in the ventilation system, he saw an opportunity - a seemingly unattended Starblazer, sitting out on a then-unmonitored landing deck. Working quickly, and making good use of his expertise in ship mechanics, he wiped the ships access codes, replacing them with his own neural net registration number. Before the owner could come back, he took off in it.

After several hours of looping about the station, working out the ship's controls, he touched back down, in a seperate bay.

At that moment, a spark of inspiration hit him.

The next day, he skipped his shift in maintenance, using his newly-acquired vessel to set out for COrtez. After loitering around the jumphole's exit for a few hours, another vessel came into view.

It was a small freighter, a Rhino - and it spelled destiny for Floorboard. He confronted it, knocking out it's systems with one of the fighters spare disruptors, and demanding everything it had. The freight pilot, terrified by the reckless nature of his flying, purged his cargo hold and cruised back into Cortez space.

Floorboard quit his job.

After several months of plundering the minor freight vessels drifting around Cortez, he eventually met up with another kid, calling himself Slide. The two quickly struck a partnership, and, within the first few months of their operation, had two more pilots at their side - Crack and Krunk, as they called themselves. And, thus, the Urchins were born.

Floorboard is known to be rather distrusting of many, even some members of the Urchins themselves. However, despite his paranoid tendencies, he's noted as being rather assertive, clearly defining his role as Watcher. However, his violent tendencies can sometimes get a hold of him, and many a trader has found an early death at his seemingly misplaced rage. He's also rather submissive to his synth weed habit, using the steady profit of plunder and smuggling to support it.

-Slide-



Slide is pretty much the typical Urchin. He's "about fifteen," claims to smoke weed (but probably doesn't), and is a real brat.

The organizer of most of the Urchins' long-term money making strategies, Slide puts together drug smuggling deals, sorts out how to get parts for new ships and making repairs to current ones, and pretty much gets things done in general.

More specifically, he tells people how to get things done. Slide's not a procrastinator, but he's pretty lazy. He sits back and tells people how to be mean, mostly. He prefers to let others do the dirty work while he reaps the benefits, and he does that very well. His past isn't really something he talks about, and Floorboard doesn't seem to care much, so he doesn't either. One of the few Urchins that has earned Floorboard's trust, he's what the Urchins call a "Maker" - the people that run the show, make the cash, buy the weed, sell the guns, and build the ships.

Probably one of the most notable features about him is his remarkable capacity for holding his liquor - he's got a heavy drinking problem, but it doesn't often manifest itself in a negative capacity for him or the Urchins - at least, it hasn't yet..

Donnie "Danger" Barnes

Donnie is a hyper little misfit who was thrown out of his house at the age of 8 for who knows what. He's every annoying thing you could imagine from a little cocky backstabber.

He was initiated into the group after he beat up a fifty year old man with nothing but a latex glove and a snorkel for 5 credits.

His skills include distracting authorities, annoying transports until they pay ransom, interrogation, and flying a bomber will decent skill

He's known to be a hoodlum and a troublemaker in the urchins, his favorite thing is to smash things so he stole a Roc to fulfill his desires. His brazen and foolhardy endeavors earned him the nickname "Danger". Donnie has little to no sense of self preservation.

-Simon "Crack"-



Simon, more commonly known amongst the Urchins as "Crack," is an odd one. Due to a rare genetic defect, his muscles have great difficulty developing, and he is almost completely defenseless in any physical altercations.

A true electronic genius, he is, like Slide, essentially of doing any sort of physical labor; despite this, he absolutely lives for adrenalin and "the thrill of the chase," as he calls it.

Also like Slide, he's not particularly malicious, though he can often be cruel to others as a habitual defense mechanism. He's well known for doing nearly any drug he can get his hands on; that is, excepting cardamine, as he realizes he couldn't afford a steady supply of the expensive gene-altering drug.

Constantly either on some sort of obscure drug or drinking incredibly strong coffee, Simon has earned himself the nickname of "Crack," given his constant jitters. It is rumored he operates on approximately five hours of sleep a week. He regards sleep as a waste of time, preferring piracy, coffee, and attempting to imitate the exploits of the Lane Hackers as more worthy pursuits.

As one of the few technologically-minded Urchins, he pretty much wires up anything more complicated than a long-range transmitter for them, and claims to have suggested the name "the Urchins" to Floorboard. Crack frequently calls Floorboard "Floory," and is the only Urchin who's capable of getting away with such. Given his status as one of the original crew, and the most technically capable of them all, he finds himself exempt from Floorboard's frequent, violent rages.

Claiming to be an expert in small arms, Crack generally refuses to touch them, as, again, much like Slide, he prefers to stand back and let other people do the dirty work.

-Krunk-



People listen to Krunk.

Krunk is, as the name suggests, big. He is most definitely malevolent and excessively. cruel, except to those few who earn his trust. Not intelligent in the least, he's generally incapable of doing much more than helping to pilot Slide's or Simon's ship and beating the gehenem out of people.

Incredibly large, he finds himself unable to even open the cans of soda he's so fond of with his sausage-sized fingers. Fortunately for him, however, Simon is always around to help Krunk, as they worked together on Planet Los Angeles before finding their way into space.

Taking up a good 3/4ths of the cluttered cockpit of Slide's ramshackle vessel, a beaten-up and worn-down Moldy Crow, he's the natural-born gunner of the ship - with Slide as the pilot and Crack's lightning-fast fingers finding and targeting the weakest points of the enemy's ship, Krunk indeed is a formidable foe when behind the controls of the hard-hitting guns of the vessel truly held together by duct tape, elbow grease, and blind luck.

He worked with Simon as a real urchin and thief on Los Angeles. They made a great duo, with Simon hacking into the simple electronically-based locks of most apartments, and Krunk holding the inhabitants still as Simon rumaged through their goods. Most were so terrified of Krunk's appearance they never even called the police, out of genuine fright of the notion of the return of the hulking monstrosity known as a child.

Krunk, though having the full trust of Simon, has not yet, and probably never will, earn the trust of most of the rest of the Urchins. He's simply too big and stupid, and rightfully makes others feel uneasy. Floorboard and Slide in particular have seemed very distrustful in the past, though they've (unsurprisingly) never yet vocally questioned him about it.

Krunk, though known by most as a total idiot, is indeed unintelligent, but is far from being "stupid" - possessed of great common sense, moreso than the rest of the testosterone-fueled, idiotic Urchins, he often sees a logical way out of overwhelmingly bad situations, a fact which has so far occasionally managed to impress even Simon at times.