Skip Tracer
Skip Tracer
Medium Organic Humanoid (Human, Mutant, Psychic)
Appearance
Skip is a good-looking guy, athletic build with short, brown hair and intense, blue feline eyes, an oval, fair-skinned face, sharp, predatory teeth behind average lips, and a perpetual five o'clock shadow around that culminates in a mustache and a Van Dyke. However, he is a bit on the short side.
Personality
Of Irish and Italian heritage, he is as quick with smile as he is with a growl, both revealing his sharp teeth, and often uses his hands to emphasize what he says (especially if he is angry).
Special Abilities
Bl8ndsense, Danger Sense, Darkvision, Empathy
Background
Skip has always been a little odd, was often teased because of it. Yet, somehow, he always found a way to get the teasing to stop; his psychic helped to make them friends, or his sharp teeth scared them.
After high school, he was recruited into the Space Marines, who really wanted a psychic soldier. Unfortunately, he ran afoul of a corrupt company commander who just did not like the idea of a psychic around.
After a disasterous patrol at a distant outpost (he tried to warn the others what was going to happen, he went on record telling them those orders would likely get them all killed; he was right, and the only survivor), the commander found his way to get rid of Corporal Tracer. Court martialled for cowardice, disobeying orders, and "conduct unbecoming" (How does that work? He was enlisted, not an officer...), he was nearly thrown into the brig for a long time.
However, the commander, and his flunkies, were killed in a bizzare accident involving the re-entry of frozen human excrement dumped by an orbitting space station (Did Skip know this was going to happen?).
Without the testimony of his commander, Skip Tracer was given a general discharge with no veterans' benefits. Without a job, or benefits, he signed on to the first ship that would take him.