Campaign of the Month: June 2014
Battletech (Farscape) : The New Breed
Captain Vesna Klamp
Owner of Klamp-G
Description:
Captain Vesna Klamp is a grizzled Belter, and creator of the Free Company “Hezeera Prospecting”, formerly based from the System – Cassandra. He is a Veteran Small Craft Pilot NPC, with skills in Prospecting, Computers and Streetwise. He owns and commands a K-1 Class Dropshuttle that has seen many decades of toil, known as the “Glass Throne”.
Fond of cards, hard liquor and striking it rich, he leads his small group in search of the great prize. He is very protective of his crew, but also very forgiving of his own failings. Even when he loses at cards, he takes it in stride. He is, in short, a hard man to dislike.
Bio:
Captain Klamp is a grizzled, bearded man with a black beard, gold teeth and a sensor patch covering his left eye, which he claims was lost in a brawl with Excalibur Corp security. A talented prospector, he has saved a goodly sum and continues to try and score the “big prize”.
Recently, Captain Klamp hired his ship and crew over to “The Factory” for transit out-system from System – Cassandra, and has entered a “Leash” contract to be couriers and transport personnel for the station. He and his crew remain loyal members of the station’s crew, having found work as the couriers of the station profitable and secure work. They run small cargoes on the side, and are occasionally given leave to try their hand at speculative runs in-system.
In mid-3028, Captain Klamp and his crew were detached from service on “The Factory”, and sent on a secret mission with * The Blood Raiders to survey System – Montour and the potential salvage found in the 309th AeroSpace Maintenance and Regeneration Group “The Boneyard”. They leaped at the chance, and happily left for a year’s tour of duty under the code-name “Operation – Urban Jack”. During this operation, he and his crew helped locate several mothballed vessels, including a Liberty-Class JumpShip, the “Cutter”; a Manatee-Class DropShip, named the “Meteor”; and four (4) Saturn-Class Patrol Ships, named the “Chain”, the “Clamp”, the “Clasp”, and the “Grapple”. They also located “The New Karachi”, an ancient and historic vessel.
Starting in early-3031, Klamp and his crew were regularly used as the primary resupply and contact force to * “Black Ice”, under the guise of prospecting missions to The Trojan Dominion of Cortez. This was maintained for many years, until the discovery of the main salvage office for 309th AeroSpace Maintenance and Regeneration Group “The Boneyard” by Iron Dingoes special forces in 3037. Starting in early-3038, following their acquisition of this information, the Captain and his crew were tasked with organizing a long-term salvage operation in the system, with the support of the local “Black Lightning” pirates, and created “Klamp-G” salvage in response. Their first order of business was to salvage the “Gold Explorer” Scout-Class JumpShip identified at the site, and moving forward use that vessel as their primary transport. Plans were to return in 3039 with that vessel and the Jumbo-Class DropShip “Kingfisher” in tow.
Klamp-G
Officially, the company works in micro-gravity salvage work as a public company, but is privately funded by the Dingoes as an auxiliary organization, with access to their supplies, equipment and technical resources.
His crew includes; Holst Ahlet, ship’s pilot; Aurora Jax, medic/navigator; and Marl Marcus, Chief Engineer. Sociable and happy enough with their lot in life, they’ve made good money under the command of the Iron Dingoes, but were still looking for that untangable something more.
Organized in 3038, the salvage company Klamp-G was started under the control of Captain Vesna Klamp and his crew. Based initially from his long-time K-1 Class Dropshuttle, the “Glass Throne”, their initial task was the salvage of the Scout-Class JumpShip “Gold Explorer” for future operations from 309th AeroSpace Maintenance and Regeneration Group “The Boneyard”. Renamed “The Glass Explorer”, it was assigned a collection of Iron Dingoes techs with a specialty in salvage work, along with a full collection of Power Armor – Workhound with the Spacehound equipment variant.
The vessel and its operations have since been instrumental in building the active trade fleet of Whippet Transport Lines, and has silently been spearheading efforts to bring “The New Karachi” on-line.