Your Character — Duke Springer (R201B):

You begin play as the star smuggler, Duke Springer, a talented and experienced starship pilot who is having trouble being successful in legal commercial enterprises. You have a starship (Antelope-class), a speedy and versatile small merchant vessel that can be operated by just one person, a pilot-navigator like yourself. In addition, you are a qualified starship gunner (can operate the guns of your ship), but the guns are only Tech Code 1 (low quality). You are an excellent shot with smaller weapons, with a marksmanship of 5. After a rough-and-tumble life in many spaceports, bars, and back alleys your hand-to-hand combat is even better, with a rating of 6, Coming from a high-gravity home planet, and because of your life, your body is in excellent condition, your endurance value is 10. In addition to these characters, you have a Cunning rating (R202) which other characters do not. See E001 for complete details of your possessions at the start of the game.