Kiko Tekada
Kiko is tiny and appears to be just out of her teens. She usually carries a hidden blade and has quick eyes and often a worried expression on her face. She can be found living in a seedier section of startown. She refuses to go aboard starships or into space. She often runs brokerage deals at a shady warehouse out of startown. Although not a gambler she can have none, some or lots of credits as she speculates on cargoes.
UPP: 6C8989-5 Age 32 Apparent Age 18
Str,Dex,End,Int,Edu,Cha-Soc
Merchant Sector Lines Terms 2 Sales Dept Rank: O3 Broker
Free Traders 1 Term Rank: O2 Third Officer
Skills: Blade-3, Broker-2, Carousing-1, Computer-1, Handgun-1, Liaison-2, Linguistics-1, Observation-1, Stealth-2, Steward-1, Trader-1, Unarmed MA 1, Zero G CBt-1, Zero G Wpns-1
Appearance: mixed Solomani/Vlani Human, Hair Dark, Eyes Gold, Height 1.59 m Weight 49 kgs
Estranged daughter of Adriana and Leopold Tekada. Cousin of Oswyn Tukera. Kiko was born on Vanejen and lived there for the first 17 years of her life. She has not been back there since.
As a child she hung around the small starport until a large merchant ship came and she received passage on a bulk freighter bound for Rhylanor. At Rhylanor she enlisted in Tukera Megacorp. A member of the Merchants Caste Kiko was recruited by Tukera Sales Dept.
She joined the Sales Dept and served well for two terms however (as unlikely as it seems) she transferred down to fledgeling line late during her second term. Kiko speaks Gangelic, and a local startown dialect (mixture of Chinese, Japanese, English, Spanish), and understands Vargr merc parlance.
She enlisted in March Lines (while they had just 4 ships commissioned during her third term and served aboard one of the Harriers as a Deck Hand and occasionally an Assistant Steward. Later she was commissioned and promoted to Third Officer when it was discovered that she was a skilled broker and acted as a shore liaison finding both cargos and passengers for the Harrier. She appeared happy in her new job however she was hiding a secret. She was still working for the Tukera family (if not the Megacorp) as an industrial spy.
She has contacts in the Vargr Corsairs, Tukera, and March Lines. Kiko was spying on Oberlindes Lines when she was doublecrossed by her Tukera Handler. She was forced to kill him with her blade and is now on the run from the law and Tukera. She booked passage to another system where she has remained until this day.
Killing her handler has resulted in Kiko developing a phobia of interplanetary travel. Kiko does not like starships or interplanetary travel (she knows how far Tukera’s influence ranges) preferring to keep both feet firmly on the ground. She sometimes employs Vargr Mercs as guards for her business dealings.
