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About Kustrek

Kustrek
(Type & subtypes: Humanoid Deoxyian Kasathan Vesk) Deoxyian biotechnician mechanic 1
N Medium
Init +3; Perception -1
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Defense SP 6 HP 12 RP 4
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EAC 14; KAC 15
Fort +2; Ref +5; Will -1
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Offense
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Speed 30 ft.
Ranged azimuth laser rifle +3 (1d8 F; critical burn 1d6)
Melee unarmed strike +2 (1d3+2 B)
Offensive Abilities combat tracking
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Statistics
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Str 12 (+1); Dex 16 (+3); Con 11 (+0); Int 16 (+3); Wis 8 (-1); Cha 10 (+0)
Skills Athletics +5, Computers +8 (1 ranks), Engineering +8 (1 ranks), Intimidate +1, Life Science +4, Medicine +11, Physical Science +7; (reduce the DC of Life Science checks to identify biotech augmentations or recall knowledge about famous biotech corporations and researchers by 5)
Feats Expanded Deoxyomorphism (vesk, natural weapons), Skill Focus (medicine)
Languages Common, Deoxyian, Draconic, Kasatha, Vesk
Other Abilities artificial intelligence, bypass, exocortex, memory module, holistic perfection (+2 Dex, -2 Wis), pragmatic paragon, deoxymorphic being (kasatha, four arms)
Other Gear second skin, azimuth laser rifle with 1 battery (20 charges), basic medkit, battery, computer (tier 1), consumer backpack, engineering tool kit, everyday clothing, flashlight, hygiene kit, mass produced tent, personal comm unit, r2es (10), toolkit (hacking), travel clothing, 43 UPB's

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Personality
Kustrek tends to be... intense, is perhaps the best word for it. He's either very interested in something or dismissive of it (and annoyed he has to deal with it). He can be rather brusque with people, though he makes some attempts to tone this down as he understands the need to get along with others.

Appearance
Kustrek looks like a lithe, athletic four-armed violet-skinned humanoid, with large claws on his four arms and a thick tail with small scales. Here is what his race looks like without any gene mods.

Background
Deoxyians are known for their practicality and their skill with genetic self-modification, but sometimes this combination produces and individual with an extreme fixation on self-improvement; individuals the more mainstream Deoxyians often derisively call 'gene hunters'.

Kustrek was one of these. From an early age he was obsessed with the idea of making himself more capable, whether through genetic modifications, cybernetics, or even magic. Of course, his home society was familiar enough with such individuals, and so took steps to cool his fixation... but instead of, as they encouraged him, taking the view that self-improvement was a means to an end rather than a goal in itself, Kustrek instead learned to hide his true intentions long enough to escape to the Pact Worlds.

Of course, even in the Pact Worlds his obsession would be viewed with alarm (and his... disregard for individuals' rights on their genomes would probably have attracted unwanted attention), so he continued to hide his goals. When he heard of an opportunity to depart to the edge of civilization and colonize a new world, he knew he'd finally found the chance he wanted to catalog some new, undiscovered genes and experiment with splicing them into himself.

He signed up to the expedition as a medic and mechanic (after splicing some vesk DNA into himself--claws would be a useful backup weapon on a backwater world), resigning himself to dealing with crude, frontier tools until he could order or produce more. Opportunity had to be siezed when it was present, after all.