Bio for Zack Richards

Due to some e-mail problems that our 'member subscriber' (Frank Harris, aka Andrew Bowers) had, the biography for our newest crewmember Zack Richards was a little delayed. I hope his sudden appearance didn't shock too many people and remember not to confuse him with our other 'Zack'; Zack Jarvis.
 
 
name:- Zack Richards2)Male or female?Male3) Age of character324) The ethnic origin/nationality of character.German-Irish bloodlines/Born in New Los Angelos, USA.Height - 5'6"     Weight - 150 lbs     Eyes - brown     Hair - black     Build - slim, slightly muscular but no powerhouse     General description - a rather small man, Zack isthat fellow at the end of the bar that you almost immediatelydisregard as unimportant. Sporting a close-cropped flat-top andmatching Van Dyke beard, he would resemble a professionalwrestler . . . if he were about twice his size and not wearing wire-framed glasses.  Instead, he relies on his wit and his disarming grinto get him out of most fixes.Zack is (in his own mind) a jack-of-all-trades.  In actuality, he's>only marginally technically proficient (can change batteries withinthirty seconds of figuring out how to open the panel), but will tryto bluff his way through most anything.  So far, his luck has heldout and he hasn't been killed.  He'll try to identify a job thatrequires as little real technical know-how as possible and is poorlysupervised, then go all-out.personality and>interests.>>     Zack is generally a decent sort, looking for funmore than anything.>He's very quick in conversation, and has been knownto defuse possible>fights just by rattling off such bizarre nonsense thatthe opponents spend>the rest of the evening just trying to decipher what hehad really meant.>Of course, he's also had his nose broken a time or twowhen this tactic>failed.>     Zack finds it almost impossible to hold a grudge (atrait not shared by>the STCP) and has nearly been killed on more thanone occasion because he>greeted a mortal enemy with open arms.  More thanonce his associates have>had to save him from a fix he got himself into, andhe's always eternally>grateful . . . for about a day.  Then it all fades into thepleasant mush>that he refers to as his short-term memory.>     Zack is extremely loyal to his friends.  So much so,that he rarely>recognizes their sincere attempts to tell him to goaway and leave them>alone.>>character's history>Zack was a hovercraft rental agent in New Los Angelos until hediscovered a hand-held time/space transporter left in the back seatof one of the rentals by an undercover Space-Time ContinuityPolice agent. Activating it, he was snatched twenty centuries intothe future.  There he learned two things.  One - that the STCPfrowned on unauthorized use of their transporters.  And two, that thetransporter had a built-in AI named Cubie.  With her help, he escapedfrom the STCP holding cell and became a time fugitive.  They've beenon several misadventures, finally arriving (quite by accident) on theBlue Dwarf.Several time jumps back, Zack and Cubie were married.  Unfortunately,Cubie needs occasional rebooting at STCP headquarters, or shedevelops major logic flaws.  Zack and Cubie are blissfully unaware ofthis, so it has been coming as a surprise to Zack that Cubie oftentries to kill him when she's first activated.  Her time-jumpingcapabilities are also being affected, and she is currently incapableof transporting them anywhere . . . except STCP headquarters (a built-in homing safeguard).  Neither of them is interested in returning tothe clutches of the STCP, so they've decided to stick it out on theBlue Dwarf.Zack has never attended the JMC Academy, though he has rentedhovercraft to Academy grads, and thus feels more of a kinship to themthan he should.  He has never intentionally been on a starship,though Cubie has accidentally landed him on more than one.  It'spossible that he was actually on the Red Dwarf at one point, thoughhe's hazy on the whole affair.9) Favourite quote/ saying/ piece of advice?"So far, so good."  -  quoted from an optimist who had fallen off aten-story building and was passing by an open window on the thirdfloor.
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