<div class="floatright">(https://i.pinimg.com/564x/a0/42/97/a0429768a1b37bcb7d5ae90678f6fcd9.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Sebastian "Honest John" Van Carlyle<br/><strong>Age:</strong>35<br/><strong>Sex:</strong>Male<br/><strong>Height:</strong>190cm<br/><strong>Physical Description:</strong>Sebastian is tall and slightly lanky, though he wears padding in his clothing and armor to give the impression of bulk he doesn't possess. His dark brown hair stays cut short with a full beard that he takes particular care to maintain.<br/><br/><strong>Personality Description:</strong>An exceptional social chameleon by nature, Sebastian has an almost compulsive habit of ingratiating himself with the people around him. At times he can even come across too strong, though he's quick enough to back off when his charm isn't reciprocated. Under the mask, though, he's quite bitter towards his life, full of self-loathing for his mistakes and resentment that his former employers can't let bygones be bygones. His old self could have imagined no worse fate than to be exiled from Terra forever; his new self has mostly grown to accept it but can't entirely hide the occasional hint of disdain as a Terran amongst the 'colonial' ingrates he depends on for survival. He drinks to dull the pain when it gets too much to bear, or paints what he calls 'abstract' art. Sometimes both at the same time, and whether the results are improved is a matter of perspective.<br/><br/><strong>Background:</strong>A lifetime ago, Sebastian was living the dream, or so he believed. An up-and-coming tech rep and salesman for O'Neil Yards, he had a comfortable home and decent income. He was debating which of his on-and-off girlfriends would be best suited for the wife of a middle management executive, and steadily saving to afford the lifestyle expected of an ambitious ladder-climber. A clandestine offer from what he thought was a competing faction inside O'Neil's cutthroat corporate political structure seemed like easy money - all he had to do was 'lose' a piece of experimental, cutting-edge tech on his way back from a demonstration. He even got paid, but when it turned out the client was a corporate spy from Irian Technologies his life disintegrated. O'Neil punished traitors with brutal efficiency, and Sebastian's only hope of survival lay in running as far from Terra as he could get.<br/><br/>In the Deep Periphery, he found a new calling for himself as a small-time smuggler. WIth a hardbitten crew of borderline-piratical rejects and a broken-down ship, he plied the lanes into and out of the various states at the edge of space. Guns, drugs, slaves - you name it, he would ship it for you at the right price; after all, how much harm could it do when your victims were colonial rubes? Somehow, the Hanseatic League disagreed when they finally managed to catch him. Faced with an extensive prison sentence, he instead jumped at the offer of a letter of marque with a conditional pardon waiting at the conclusion of his task. The scum who had been his old 'crew' were forgotten, already replaced by the new set of Hansean agents he'd be working with now.<br/><br/><strong>Sexual Tendencies and Preferences:</strong>By natural inclination, Sebastian is purely heterosexual. He is fully and actively willing to flirt with a prospective customer or mark regardless of their gender, though, if he judges it beneficial to him, though he's hesitant to go so far as to bed someone he's not honestly attracted to. Only for a really big score. Like, a huge payout.<br/><br/><strong>Player Ons and Offs:</strong><br/><br/><hr/><strong>Attributes:</strong>2,800xp<br/>STR: 3 (-1)<br/>DEX: 4 (0)<br/>BOD: 3 (-1)<br/>RFL: 4 (0)<br/>INT: 4 (0)<br/>WIL: 3 (-1)<br/>CHA: 5 (0)<br/>EDG: 2<br/><br/><strong>Traits:</strong>700 XP<br/>G-Tolerance (TP1)<br/>Gregarious (TP1)<br/>Attractive (TP2)<br/>Equipped 1 (TP1)<br/>Wealth 2 (TP2)<br/>Fast Learner (TP3)<br/>Dark Secret 1 (TP-1)<br/>Compulsion/Disdain for Non-Terrans 1 (TP-1)<br/>Compulsion/Alcohol 1 (TP-1)<br/><br/><strong>Skills:</strong>1496<br/>Acting 4 (96)<br/>Art/Painting 1 (24)<br/>Career/Salesman 3 (64)<br/>Disguise 4 (96)<br/>Forgery 4 (96)<br/>Gunnery/Battlemech 3 (64)<br/>Interest/Art History 1 (24)<br/>Interest/Terran History 2 (40)<br/>Language/English 3 (64)<br/>Language/German 2 (40)<br/>Language/Spanish 2 (40)<br/>Negotiation 4 (96)<br/>Perception 4 (96)<br/>Pilot/Battlemech 3 (64)<br/>Protocol 3/Corporate (64)<br/>Protocol 2/Hanseatic League (40)<br/>Protocol 2/Nueva Castile (40)<br/>Protocol 2/Umayyad Caliphate (40)<br/>Security Systems 1 (24)<br/>Sensor Operations 3 (64)<br/>Small Arms 4 (96)<br/>Stealth 2 (40)<br/>Streetwise 3/Hanseatic League (64)<br/>Streetwise 2/Nueva Castile (40)<br/>Streetwise 2/Umayyad Caliphate (40)<br/>Zero-G Operations 2 (40)<br/><br/><strong>Equipment:</strong><br/>ITEM - MASS - COST<br/>Pilot's Neurohelmet - 5kg - [free] 1200<br/>Combat Flight Suit - 7kg - [free] 3000<br/>Flight Gloves  - .5kg - [free]  20<br/>Flight Boots - 3kg - [free] 55<br/>Autopistol / Serrek 7875 - 400g - [free] 185 / 4<br/>First Aid Kit - mass - [free]<br/>Communication Gear - mass - [free]<br/>Power Pack x 2 - mass - [free]<br/>Recharger - mass - [free]<br/>Basic Tool Kit - mass - [free]<br/>Basic Field Kit - 5kg - [free]<br/>5x Extra Pistol Magazines: 15 CB<br/>Basic Lock Pick Set: 100 CB<br/>Disguise Kit: 1,000 CB<br/>Dart Gun: 40 CB<br/>Dart Gun: 40 CB<br/>20x Darts: 20 CB<br/>Power Pack x2: 10 CB<br/>Noteputer: 500 CB<br/>Formal Suit: 250 CB<br/>Dress Shoes: 50 CB<br/>2x Sets Spare Clothing (Underwear/Pants/Shirt/Socks): 50 CB<br/>10x Alcohol/Hard Liquor: 20 CB<br/>10x Alcohol/Mixed Drink: 20 CB<br/>20x Alcohol/Beer: 20 CB<br/>20x Alcohol/Wine: 20 CB<br/>Portable Refrigerator: ???<br/>Laser Sight (Autopistol): 25 CB<br/>Flak Jacket+Helmet: 125 CB<br/><br/><strong>C-Bills:</strong><br/>685 CB<br/><br/>4XP to spend