Name: Beauford "Bubba" T. Johnson
Description: Overweight middle-aged red-neck whose greasy T-shirt barely
  contains his beer gut.  Perpetually unshaven.  Space mechanic with no
  tolerance for formally trained engineers.  Not likeable, but necessary.
  Better NPC than PC.
Design: Steven Sharp


 30 pts    ST   13  thrust = 1d, swing = 2-1
 30 pts    DX   13
 20 pts    IQ   12
 10 pts    HT   11
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 90 pts

Speed  6    Move  5    Encumbrance - light(1)

PD 0   DR 0    Dodge = 5

Advantages and Disadvantages
 10 pts  Mechanical Aptitude (+3 bonus, our invention based on Math Aptitude)
 15 pts  Intuition (include +3 IQ bonus on mechanical problems)

 -5 pts  Tobacco addiction
 -5 pts  Odious Personal Habit: cigars
-10 pts  Jealousy (particularly of engineers)
 -5 pts  Stubbornness
 -5 pts  Overweight
 -1 pts  Slight intolerance, non-whites or aliens
 -1 pts  Uses laser torch for everything including cigar lighter
 -1 pts  Slightly lazy
 -1 pts  Gripes constantly
 -1 pts  Cheats at cards


Skills

 .5 pts  Brawling                  12
 .5 pts  Beam weapon (torch)       14
 .5 pts  Computer operations       11
 .5 pts  First aid                 11
  2 pts  Free fall                 13
  2 pts  Vacc suit                 12
  1 pts  Gambling                  11
  1 pts  Sleight of hand           11
  1 pts  Math                      10  (where he gave up on engineering)
  2 pts  Groundcar mechanic        15
  2 pts  Power plant mechanic      15
  4 pts  Jump drive mechanic       16
  2 pts  Space plane mechanic      15
  1 pts  Electric motor mechanic   14


Possessions

Laser welding torch (maximum 10 yd focus)
Miscellaneous tools
Supply of cheap cigars
Pornographic playing cards
normal playing cards
marked deck of playing cards
pinups
numerous baseball caps with humorous sayings
plus standard stuff everybody needs

Total points = 100

Background: Bubba was born and raised in Oklahoma.  He was always mechanically
minded, starting with groundcars when he was in his teens.  Having paid
little attention in school, he seemed likely to end up a car mechanic his
entire life.  He worked at a spaceport repairing ground vehicles and then
extended his expertise to spacecraft engines.  A hunch about a problem with
an unfamiliar shuttle engine on which he was supposedly only assisting the
ship's engineer impressed a ship's officer sufficiently that he was offered
a job and engineering training.  Unfortunately, he found math as difficult
as it had always been.  He found the work of a shipboard mechanic to be
more to his liking than his previous job, however.  He likes performing
continuing maintenance on the same equipment and is adept at cannibalizing
machinery to jury-rig repairs to more essential equipment.  The fact that
equipment he has maintained and understands completely frequently confounds
engineers accustomed to original specifications is an added benefit.