Bosun Lamotte

Bosun Lamotte is a strange figure of a man: aged, in the outdated livery of a Unitas ship captain. Lamotte is known to appear here and there, invariably at drinking establishments, and pays his tab with small ingots of gold-doped zirconium oxide. He claims to be the last surviving crewmember of the Unwelcome Caller, a pirate vessel of some 50 souls that vanished somewhere in the Lister Radiation Belt shortly after making off with an emperor’s fortune from a Unitas treasury vessel.

A treasury vessel that carried, along with a system’s worth of taxes, a load of gold-doped zirconium oxide bound for the aeronautics factories of Ulas V.

Invariably, when he appears, he catches the eye of a rogue or two thinking him an easy mark. Invariably, they follow him from the drinking establishment—and, invariably, they are never seen again.

Accounts from those who claim to have shared a table with the man say the Unwelcome Caller rests, shattered, on some far-flung moon, where the airless terrain is scattered with gold from its burst hold. Others say the man is a specter, seeking the souls of those as avaricious as he was in life and claiming them for his own. Still others say Lamotte led a failed mutiny which cost the lives of each and every crewmate aboard save himself, to his design, and he now lives a kingly life on some paradisical world, venturing only to the gutters when the fancy takes him, to flaunt his ill-gotten wealth and escape yet again.

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The Humanverse

Locations	Astrapelago • Ospiron III • Haruspex Station • Tatchidaun • Bagger Station • 7-Proserpina • The Surata Orbital Habitat • Little Aether Stub
Factions	Unitas Consortium • Pact • Interhelios • OSSU • Obguago Dynasty • The Tekiya • Mycelial Fellowship & the Cassarot Fungus • Sigil - Pirate Group • Burning Torch - Pirate Group • NOVEX • Kentaro Upcycling • The Kleklax • Blackout • The Seen • Nowak Federation • Xenoculture 7-P • The Medusa Movement • The 7-Proserpina Xenomnemonic Schism • Void Front • The Surata Institute • The Cortez Familia • The 1-in-10 Hardjackets • ExTerm • Ron Cho’s Honchos • ZinZai • XCEL
Famous People	Tabari El-Shanawee • Danielle Chao • Prince Farquhar de Lioncourt • Tuton Jetz, Technocannibal • Mendes-3 • Auntie • Bosun Lamotte • Fang “Bloodhound” Xi • Alistair Grey • Ron Cho • Betty Boom • Doctor Mayi Dalá • Zenba Prime • Riyo Tagadi • Dame Christelle van Ledeghem • Mila Bauer • Codename RED SHIFT • Consuelo Kraja • Tempala Gita • Julian Cyrus • King Baby
Famous Conflicts	The Kihor Tertiary Moon Substat 12 Incident • The Dersig-Ardway Pursuit • The Dakova Grab • The Final Brawl at Fast Boy Floyd’s • The Faraz-Cantaffa Duel • Operation Absolute Zero • The Breakout from Lotus Glen Bodylock • Hostile Extraction: Axonik TransHelio • Special Report: Inside the Rakota Cartel • Raid on Starhauler Station • The 7-Proserpina Massacre • The Surata Orbital Habitat Attack • Destruction of Outpost Dector • The Star of Hibernia Hijacking • Hydroska Assault on Terminalia • Enkhbatchi Liberation • The Czerniak Long-Time Happiness Corp/Pasco Heliosphere Self-Determination Collective Internecine Conflict • The Peacoot War • The Razzaq Rothenburg Affair • Battle of Red Moon • The Horrigan Massacre • Operation Gravis Pax • Operation Indigo Hand

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