Kit Huibo

Kit Huibo is a Mechanical Technician who Moves Like a Cat. They are a player Free Agent in beacon space.

Traits and Appearance
Standing at roughly two meters, Kit is a quick and agile spacer most comfortable in micro-gravity. Several cybernetic systems are grafted to their spine: notably an enhanced robotic sleeve and an integrated communication array.

Some say that one should have "a plan to kill everyone that you meet," but that's not quite Kit's style. Instead they have plans to steal from everyone that they meet. They are no master criminal but having apprenticed under some, a suspicious and kleptomaniac mindset follows them through their travels.

Clothing
Kit wears utilitarian clothing and favors muted and pastel colors.

While working they don an old bottle-green boiler suit taken from a former employer. It is covered in a hodge-podge variety of patches and spills. A beige tin cloth duffle bag, oil stained and clanking, holds their tools close at hand.

Kit's everyday style consists of a pair of tan joggers, sleek ship boots, a light colored tank top, and a five-panel hat.

Biography
Born in the void of who-knows-where Beacons Space, Kit was the child of traveling merchants, or at least that’s what they claimed to have been; by all reports, Kit’s parents were con-artists and cheats. In their early teens, Kit’s parents transferred guardianship to Dean Nabytt, a friend and Ikarosi mechanic, so that Kit could apprentice with him. Through their adolescence, Kit learned the ins and outs of some of the sector’s fastest starships and became a master at squeezing into the tight confines of bulk-heads, ventilation ducts, and engines. The various sounds, vibrations, and rhythms of these machines are like a second-language to Kit.

Shortly before the completion of Kit’s apprenticeship Nabytt was arrested and convicted of several counts of embezzlement and fraud. As an unwitting participant in the shady dealings, Kit’s reputation and prospects plummeted. Uncertified and unable to work regulated and unionized jobs, they now ply their trade with the rogue Free Agents of the sector picking up odd jobs.

First Job: Nusantara Knick-Knack
Previously working on the periphery of the Penumbra repairing and upgrading the ships of enigmatic Free Agents, Kit was eventually approached to directly apply his skills by an Agent Handler code-named Chandler. Working with a small team, they charted a flight to the Nusantara system to recover an ancient Jitendran data core. The team tracked down the signal beacon from the supposed data core to a large capital ship being salvaged near the planet Puluhan. What appeared to be the data capsule was infact a decoy, planted by scavengers calling themselves Flight Armory Down. Having disrupted the capsule, a booby-trap set by the scavangers triggered a self-destruct sequence. The penumbra team just barely escaped the collapsing hulk and flew down to the moon below. A standoff between the intrepid free agents and Flight Armory Down, a scavenger gang of Putschjunta, culminated in one agent unleashing a strange animalistic power that made the locals chicken out. Kit mediated some tensions by improving one of the local hoverbikes and won an audience with the leader Iro Talon. Exchanging a pittance of Howl and a shiny spanner for the data core the free agents achieved their objective and requisitioned the improved hoverbike.

Kit acquired a scanner and a strange data chip. The hoverbike was given to another free agent on the mission and was later used in a speeder chase.

Free Agents: Nusantara Knick-Knack - A West Marches Cypher RPG Campaign - Episode 4

Second Job - Perfect Failure
Proven capable, Kit found work as part of a covert operation in a recently discovered planet of Sector-North. Tasked with stopping a semi-religious space flight, Kit and the team infiltrated the strange human society of Planet K. Planet K’s populace are nigh inscrutable, but thanks to the strange data chip Kit found on his last mission Kit miraculously was able to comprehend Valkaiian, the unique language and runes of the locals. The free agents inserted on the planet and began observations and investigations of the local culture and imminent rocket launch. A caste system denoted by various colored robes and environmental suits became apparent and thankfully a whim of the agents set them to be a position of moderate importance that allowed limited access to restricted locations. A two-pronged attack was planned to sabotage the rocket: poisoning the pilot and a surgical shot at the rocket’s fuel lines. The former resulted in a moderate disaster as the final administering of a toxin was bungled and a fighting retreat ensued. Meanwhile, the sniper shot of the rocket provided sufficient distraction for all agents to escape to their hidden shuttle.

Kit acquired several local holy texts and bioengineering manuals to translate and sell on the black market.

Free Agents: Perfect Failure - A West Marches Cypher RPG Campaign

Cypher System Mechanics
Mechanical
 * Knowledge and experience with a variety of machines and associated tools

Technician - An Explorer with the Tech Flavoring
 * Block: A defensive move
 * Fleet of Foot: Can move as part of other actions, run a long distance, or push themselves to both run and attack
 * Improved Edge
 * Tinker: (From Tech Flavoring) Allows Kit to modify a device to do something different

Moves Like a Cat
 * Greater Enhanced Speed
 * Balance: Training in balancing

Equipment Cyphers
 * Appropriate clothing
 * A Variety of Mechanical Tools
 * Everlight
 * Spanners
 * Wrist Computer
 * Shipboots
 * Throwing Spanners
 * Breather
 * Sea-Salt and Lime Tril-O-Bites
 * Ductape
 * 1) Comprehension (7): USED - Fluent in Valkaiian, the language of Planet K, and various Engines
 * 2) Putschujunta Scavenger Scanner (1): Eases locating known objects.
 * 3) Empty Slot: