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Pickletroy
Archetype: Human Submarine Pirate
A veteran of many a surface sea battle, Pickletroy finally became
dissatisfied with riding on top of the waves and decided to give undersea
pirating a try. Now 85 years old, he commands the S.S. Seaweed, an odd
shaped submarine consisting of hull sections from at least four different
submarine classes. Still, The ship’s sturdy as a rock, heavily armed and
armored, and has managed to make it back to Pickletroy’s small, undersea
base after losing more than a third of its bulk. As for Pickletroy’s base,
well, it’s really just a pressurized, sealed Aresmaster installed with an
airlock and suspended beneath a rather nondescript buoy in the middle of
the Atlantic Ocean. God only knows how it got there.
Pickletroy and his crew of aging, flighty men are of no threat to anybody,
never attacking, and defending with as little retaliatory damage as
possible. Their only source of income is the money they obtain via the
tried and true method of surfacing their gargantuan submarine next to
recreational boaters, popping the hatch, and politely asking if the
boaters happen to have any spare change. The boaters - never really sure
whether or not this submarine from Hell is going to blow them away -
usually respond quite generously.
Darter
Archetype: Human Submarine Pirate
Darter absolutely hates people and would be perfectly happy if the world
suddenly ended without warning. This blonde, slim, attractive, highly
trained rigger never emerges from her small submarine, a solo model about
20 meters long with a small cabin and enough life support to keep Darter
comfortably submerged and away from people for up to one month. He method
of attack is to simply ram her heavily armored, needle like ship directly
through the hull of a target craft. She then uses robotic arms to grab
everything she can after which she simply pushes her craft backwards out
of the target ship and vanishes into the depths with astonishing speed.
Most of her hit and runs take a little less than a minute and a half to
complete and they rarely sink a vessel due to the relatively small size of
the actual breach.
The only time Darter surfaces is when she isn’t able to obtain enough food
from her targets or when the ship requires maintenance she can’t perform
herself. She still won’t leave the vessel however, and if she did it’s
unlikely she’d even have the strength to walk. The only thing Darter truly
enjoys is insulting people via her radio. Sometimes you can actually
prepare for one of her attacks simply by scanning for profanity on the
marine bands.
Translantic
Archetype: Dwarf Submarine Courier
Bitter and verbally abusive, Translantic is getting sick and tired of
people launching torpedoes at him. His high tech craft, manned by three
other bitter dwarves, has taken numerous beatings from people he has
attempted to deliver items or messages to. Most people aren’t expecting a
shiny, new, torpedo tubed craft like his to be delivering anything but an
attack. The fact is, Translantic’s submarine possesses no weapons systems
whatsoever.
Lately, Translantic has taken a novel new approach to delivering his
packages. He’ll first attempt a conventional delivery (i.e. hailing,
surfacing, etc). If the receiver tries to blow him up, Translantic will
then load the package into a unarmed submerged-to-air torpedo and land the
delivery directly on the receiver’s deck (usually painted with the message
“Here’s your goddamned package!”). While this causes a bit of damage and
the occasional injury, it is rare that the receiver tries to attack him
again, partly because they’re impressed by Translantic’s accuracy with a
torpedo, but mostly because they feel stupid about jumping the gun and
almost blowing up a package from their company’s CEO.
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