094: Ulf Vargsnev

ENTRY 094: Ulf Vargsnev

Principle only goes so far, even in the bioconservative Jovian Republic, and even the civic leaders must balance their philosophy against what is best for their people…and their children. Ulf Vargsnev was a sick kid with a host of genetic defects and long-term illnesses picked up from years of exposure to cosmic radiation and toxic byproducts of his mother’s chemical manufacturing complexes. Magda Vargsnev wanted a better life for her son…so she bought it. The process was supposed to be legal within the constraints of Jovian law, exercising several loopholes concerning the replacement of human organs by systematically replacing Ulf’s failing organs with transgenic material that did not qualify as human according to the Jovians’ meticulous stands. Over the course of eighteen weeks, Ulf Vargsnev was essentially remade, rebuilt in form and function. Then the clinic was raided.

As a minor, Ulf was not held responsible for his mother’s actions, and the court let him off with sterilization. However, the stigma of being transgenic in a bioconservative society stuck with Ulf; unable to obtain any better employment he took work as a biological waste disposal specialist, out of sight and out of mind of the majority of the Jovian population, and began to associate with the less prejudiced criminal elements that operated on the fringes of society.

COG	COO	INT	REF	SAV	SOM	WIL	MOX
23	18	19	21	19	27	18	-
INIT	SPD	LUC	TT	IR	DUR	WT	DR
8	1	36	7	72	40	8	60

Morph: Transgenic (Remade)

Skills: Academics: Biochemistry 42, Academics: Genetics 40, Beam Weapons 35, Blades 44, Clubs 44, Fray 44, Free Fall (Microgravity) 45, Infiltration 36, Interests: Jovian Republic 50, Interests: Transgenetics 50, Intimidation 45, Kinesics 45, Kinetic Weapons 44, Language: Native Finnish 91, Language: Norwegian 67, Language: Danish 55, Language: Swedish 56, Language: German 55, Language: English 77, Networking: Criminals 55, Perception 50, Persuasion 30, Profession: Waste Disposal 52, Scrounging 30, Unarmed Combat 44

Implants: Basic Biomods, Basic Mesh Inserts, Circadian Regulation, Clean Metabolism, Cortical Stack, Eidetic Memory, Enhanced Respiration, Temperature Tolerance, Toxin Filters

Traits: Addiction (Alcohol, Petals, Minor), Stigma (Transgenic)

Using Ulf Varsnev

In another habitat, another society, Ulf would be a valued member of society. However, in the Jovian Republic his abilities, skills, talents, and output are disregarded; as far as they are concerned he is a second- or third-class citizen, a barely human eunuch who is only suited to taking out the trash, and that he does begrudgingly. As an NPC gamemasters can take two basic tacks with Ulf: trapped by his life and making the best of a bad situation in the only habitat he’s ever known, or dying to escape but unable to scrape together the resources and favors to do it. Either way, he makes an excellent contact for the PCs, a friendly face within the Jovian Republic that knows a few things about operating on the down low. For a price, he can probably smuggle them anywhere they want to go by hiding them among the medical waste he carts around. Of course, given his history that price might range from breaking his mother out of prison to giving him a ride off this rock.