IGE - Cygnus Sullivan Briggs.

1. Cygnus Sullivan Briggs.1

2. Mongrel the best word for me, gutter trash of uncertain parentage and questionable legitimacy. Never kept track of my years, but two score will do. 2

3. No Diviner me. Been to the edge and peeked over on more than one occasion, but found only more nothing and come back. 3

4. Spacer born and raised. Dropped in a hold of “Sweet Ella May” and likely as not conceived in the head. 4

5. Space travel is a daily facet, unless we banged up or circling a drain.5

6. Trader, salvager, and if the notion takes me, smuggler, privateer and mercenary. 6

7. Spitzers, flares, or my own two hands; makes no odds to me. Clean or dirty if the coin is right. 7

8. Mindbender? Leave it out. 8

9. “Sweet Ella May” a tramp cruiser that was once navy surplus, but is now more salvage than anything else. Came into my hands after “Father” Hines got cycled without a suit. 9

10. Schooled in the engine room, educated in a below-deck drinking hole, made a man in the gennel round back, and won my first promotion in a gin lane knife fight.10

11. Little bird told me.11

12. Brute strength, base cunning, and a ten inch hog. 12

13. Same as any. Only blood and guts beneath this skin. 13

14. Merrick’s and a vacuum tan. 14

15. One man’s psychopath is another man’s problem solver. 15

16. Gin and doxies.16

17. Not a thing. 17

18. Two score now and I’ll not make three. Merrick’s will get me if no one else does. 18

19. What would life be without the unexpected?19

20. (Merrick’s is a slang term for Osteo-giantism. A combination of poor quality calcium supplements and long periods at excessive G force causes excessive bone growth. The early stages manifest as a thickening of the bone structure, but later stages lead to loss of mobility and paralysis, and eventually death.)20

(Vacuum tan is a slang term for Vacuum induced Vitiligo. Prolonged exposure to hard vacuum causes a loss of skin pigmentation, and an expansion of veins making them particularly prominent. Quite often accompanied with ruptured capillaries in the eyes, creating a permanent bloodshot effect.)21