216: Friederich Alba

ENTRY 216: Friederich Alba

“Everybody’s game for tinkering with the basic building blocks of life, but then you try to tweak the exsurgent virus into an aerosol and ‘ooh, you’ve gone too far.’ Pussies.”
- Friederich Alba, on trial after the mass exsurgent outbreak on Junction

In every conflict, there are opportunists—jackals that scavenge the battlefields and play on desperation for their own profit at the expense of others. Friederich Alba has been called a jackal, and he wears a jackal’s face, but he prefers to think of himself as a daring and open-minded scientist, one willing to delve where others fear to tread. His area of specialization is the technology of the TITANs, and he is one of the main movers in the black market, trading in scavenged weaponry, robots, data, and even individuals infected with the exsurgent virus. Wanted by several habitats for the material he deals with, as well as various accessory charges involving violating quarantine zones and evading taxes and tariffs, the jackal-headed Friederich Alba normally keeps on the move, two steps ahead of his pursuers, using his network of contacts and business associates to help him plan his next transaction and his next experiment.

COG	COO	INT	REF	SAV	SOM	WIL	MOX
18	15	25	15	15	20	30	-
INIT	SPD	LUC	TT	IR	DUR	WT	DR
6	1	60	10	120	40	8	60

Morph: Synth

Skills: Academics: Genetics (Exsurgent Virus) 80, Academics: History (The Fall) 50, Academics: Neuroscience 50, Beam Weapons 27, Deception 40, Free Fall 33, Hardware: Robotics 40, Interests: Black Markets 50, Interests: Exsurgent Threats 40, Interests: TITANs Tech 65, Interfacing 35, Investigation 50, Kinesics 15, Language: Native German 95, Language: English 80, Language: Turkish 85, Networking: Criminals 75, Networking: Scientists 75, Perception 55, Profession: Black Marketeer 55, Profession: Smuggling Tricks 45, Programming 60, Protocol (Criminal) 35, Research 55, Unarmed Combat 36

Implants: Access Jacks, Basic Mesh Inserts, Cortical Stack, Cosmetic Modification (Jackal-headed morph based on statues of Anubis), Cyberbrain, Cyberclaws, Fractal Digits, Hidden Compartment, Mnemonic Augmentation, Nanoscopic Vision

Mobility System: Walker (4/20)

Traits: Armor (6/6), On the Run, Social Stigma (Clanking Masses)

Using Friederich Alba

A robotic Anubis that deals in TITAN-tech, Friederich Alba is intelligent but callow and mostly unprincipled and with very few scruples. He has made a niche for himself in dealing with TITANs-tech for collectors, and has one of the most extensive private databases of TITAN science and technology in the solar system. For any of these reasons, Alba might make a decent mid-level villain for the PCs to apprehend or foil, or someone they have to deal with or extract information from as part of a larger plot involving TITAN-based technologies. Player characters that don’t mind dabbling in the forbidden themselves might even seek him out to buy or sell some scavenged TITAN-tech. Because his goods are a limited market, Alba sets the price and tries not to veer from it—he’s not terribly good at negotiation, and knows it; if anyone tries to wheedle him down he’s more likely to walk away from the deal than to stick around and get fleeced.