Inter-galactic trader
‘Round about the same time Luke Studwalker disappeared, a new player emerged in the inter-galactic black market. No-one knew his real name, but he liked to be known by his nick-name “Studcrusher”. He traded tough, and played tough, and earned the respect, if not the trust, of the other black-market traders.
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And boy, did they have some firepower...
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He also commissioned a brilliant engineer, Felix Mindstorm, to create the ultimate robot for him. Well Felix may have been brilliant, but his attempts were, to put it mildly, failures. Studcrusher, however, kept these early prototypes, telling his fellow traders they were useful for menial labour. Most people, however, seemed to think he kept them to quell the loneliness...
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The Soldier Inside
Secretly, though, Studcrusher knew what he really wanted - he was a born soldier, and was bitterly disappointed not being able to fight alongside his battalion against the Welshishish. Soon it was all he could think about, day & night, and he realised that if he didn’t do something about it soon, he’d go crazy. But he knew he couldn’t return to Briktoria...or could he?
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