The Charioteer Star Vessel Spittein Paulisch is a bulk trader operating the run from Cadiz to Malignatius, and from there to Istakhr and Aylon. The last few months has seen the Paulisch concentrate on shipping within the Al Malik sphere of influence. The ship's captain, a wily old trader, felt that traversing the Decados interface was a dangerous game. After meeting Sava Zuviev Decados, his intuition has turned into downright bias.
Lieutenant Carver is an officer aboard the bulk trader GSV Spittein Paulisch, and is in old friend of Teddy Valenti's. He is a stocky man, lacking neither the flair nor the ruthlessness to advance beyond his current station in the Guild. This suits Carver just fine, given what he has so far witnessed of the stresses of command and responsibility in the Charioteers. He assisted Teddy in gaining passage, along with Teddy's crew and Teddy's own vessel, to Cadiz via Malignatius, prior to the Zuviev Reunion.
A cheerful fellow, just over six feet tall, with pale blonde hair and bright blue eyes. He dresses in a slightly rumpled grey pin-striped suit over an eye-hurtingly bright Hawaiian shirt and wears a long leather coat for armour. An elaborate and carefully-maintained blaster pistol is worn prominently on one thigh, and he carries a slug pistol in a holster under his coat.
He is friendly and outgoing, with an easily likeable manner and enough good looks and charm to make just about anybody comfortable. He can’t sell fridges to Eskimos, but he could probably sell them ice-cream.
A humourless and long-suffering Charioteer pilot who keeps getting stuck with the PCs. He hates the company, hates the ship, and loathes having to time-share a bunk with Teddy. He does like the PC's vodka, though.
Xavier Diamond is a fictional Charioteer, the star of a series of sensationalist pamphlets and popular magic lantern shows. He is dashing, debonair and dangerous; a creature as comfortable wooing women as shooting the bad guys. Billed as "Agent 77", he is the most successful, yet often-fired agent for the Kilroys, the Charioteer's Guild secret service.
Sava has seen all the Diamond movies, and can quote some of the more memorable scenes verbatim.
Pol Sorley is a middle aged woman acompanying Sir Lexine Hawkwood on her travels. She is short, solidly built, and might be turning a little to fat; but she is still a fully-paid up member of The Muster, and bears the scars, arms and armour to prove it.
She is an Imperial Cohort, and her task in Sir Lexine's entourage is to not only serve as a bodyguard of sorts, but to raise support for the Emperor's Crusade amongst the Guild-folk she and Sir Lexine meet on their travels.
Charioteer Motels can be found at every major (and quite a few minor one, too) spaceport throughout the Known Worlds. They are universally squalid affairs, but nonetheless quite secure. Built close to shipping berths and slips, Charioteer Motels provide a handy, easy-to-find layover for itinerant pilots and other travellers willing to slum it in buildings that are often little more than shipping crates or abandoned hulls piled one atop the other.
An extremely flamboyant Charioteer. Brightly coloured, well-wigged, and possessed of dubious taste in makeup and perfume. He captained the Embrace from Malignatius to Istakhr.
He was a member of the Killroys, the Charioteer's secret service. He was murdered on Istakhr by Fraka Decados.
Teddy's mum, a member of the Courtesans Guild. She is distantly descended from one of the Li Halan vassal houses of Cadavus.
She's currently on Leagueheim recovering from a very nasty illness. She would probably be unimpressed by Teddy's current choice of friends.
A Charioteer of dubious honour. She was involved in the death of the Ill-Conceived Embrace's original captain. She got her head blown off by a sniper who was presumably in the employ of the Scravers.