11/01/2006: "Space Operator"

I thought I'd start a set of Space Opera-type characters. Because everyone loves Space Opera! Me, for example. To start off, a captain-type. I like him, he's got a pretty unique concave face. He's probably the kind of captain who's addicted to every substance known to man and never sleeps, eats or mows the lawn, but obsesses over the ship and everything. He's a hardass, a louse, a renegade, but he still manages to perform heroic deeds and epic maneuvers. He's got a robotic hand, because it is prerequisite for coolness. It has six fingers, because it was made on an alien world where people have six fingers, so naturally their prosthetics would have six fingers as well.

I thought of giving him a unique weapon, something different from the usual blaster pistol or energy sword... but I don't know what yet. Or maybe he has an energy sword... a DESTINY sword... which was given to him by a group of mysterious priests, so he was all "I'm destined for great things!" but then the energy blade, which is powered by destiny, turns out to be this tiny switchblade in his hands. So he gets depressed at his lack of destiny and turns into a drunken bastard!

Anyway, he has to have a cool name. Something like... Spade Irons. Captain Spade Irons.