User:Teeg

Daz McMooney has not had an unusual life. She was born into middle-class obscurity on what was then the gleaming new platform of Alpha 5, and although she always did well in school, she neither truly excelled nor dropped out. After graduation, she initially worked as a secretary for a travel agency. She quickly learned new skills, leading to new responsibilities, and within six months was spending as much time under the hood of a disabled Hades or plotting routes and flightpaths in the map library as she was behind the reception desk. She wasn't unusually good at or drawn to any of these tasks, but she was proficient at all of them, and she became a jack-of-all-trades.

Over time, management began sending her to other skylands, first as a courier, then to source materials and interview potential recruits, and eventually it just made sense to train her as a pilot as well. By completing some additional courses at Flight School, Daz became licensed to fly personal, commercial, combat and high-performance aircraft. (In true Daz form, she graduated in the 80th percentile: good, but not exceptionally so.)

Since graduation, Daz has accepted private charters and requests as well as trading on her own dime and accepting the occasional task from her previous employer. She cultivates no particular reputation, and is, in truth, an unexceptional pilot, but nonetheless has an excellent wins-to-losses record (over 4000 pirate planes downed for just 2 crash-landings herself) and has earned a tidy profit from trading on the side.

Crew
Abigale Tassel was the first to join the crew: initially a co-op student from Flight School focusing on commercial navigation, Abigale is now a permanent employee. Calm and stoic, she, like Daz, lacks natural ability but makes up for it through quick learning and original thinking, and has become a valued member of the crew.

Soo Song was actually loaned out to Daz by the travel agency, but Daz hasn't returned her yet. Soo has mastered the art of fair dealing, and is able to persuade even the most reluctant merchant to cough up a discount without stooping to begging or flattery. A woman of her word, Soo's arrival on a skyland is enough to generate a buzz in the local community: wherever she goes, profit for all parties is bound to follow.

Scurvy Dozen might be Daz's godson, but it's his competence as a mechanic and charming demeanour that justified the hire. "Curvy", as the rest of the crew tease him, can usually be found humming away in the bowels of the ship, in the local tavern surrounded by attractive young women, or standing in the cockpit behind the pilot, fingers cocked, shouting "PEW PEW PEW" at enemy planes.