Title:

John Starboard

Descriptor:
John Starboard
Fig. 1

John Starboard used to be a Mariner in Ocean Watch (the “servants of the sea”), trolling the coast on the lookout for people in distress. One day, in an attempt to help a group of sportsmen locate a school of silver–beaked tuna, Starboard came upon an assemblage of ships broadcasting offshore contraband radio under the banner CKNWR. He did not locate the fish, but he did quickly become embroiled in the doings of the pirates and before long was assisting them by piloting all around the Novice Coast with an antenna affixed to his sailboat in order to broaden the range of the signal.

After some months of this, the NBLG (they have an alligator emblem) cracked down on the operation and destroyed Starboard’s ship. After recovering from Hague’s Fever at the nearby hospital in the Tennis Islands, Starboard returned to Ocean Watch headquarters, was stripped of his command, and transferred to the Wilderland Beat.

After a springtime on the Beat, Starboard came across an abandoned, but unused, monorail depot 30 miles south of unincorporated territory. He set up a makeshift broadcasting terminal using a horizontal polarized antenna so that he could not be heard by prying ears, a technique he picked up from the CKNWR crew.