Noah Scott

The Richest S.O.B. in Fenspace

Primary Writer: Rob Kelk
Game Statistics

Fenspace's handgun collector

Only a particular sort of Fan is able to be a firearms collector: He has to be willing to spend money on something that might never be used (the "collector mentality"). He has to have a paranoid streak to his personality, so that he'll want to collect weapons. He has to be wealthy enough to be able to collect something as expensive as exotic sidearms. He has to live in a place where the customs and rules allow private ownership of firearms, or be the person who makes the rules where he lives. He has to have a source, or a number of sources, for hand weapons. This narrows the potential number of known handgun collectors in Fenspace to one. And, yes, Noah Scott does collect sidearms. The Scott collection started as a pair of SIG Sauer P229s chambered for .357 Sig rounds (the US Air Marshals' pistol), intended for repelling hostile boarders of Noah's home. They were never used for that purpose. Noah still uses one of these (loaded with Glaser blue safety slugs) as his personal sidearm of choice; the other was lost in early June 2013 with Yoriko Nikaido. By mid-2013, his collection has grown to include over two dozen weapons, all of which are fully functional. The prize pieces in the collection, both on display in Noah's office, are a MB Associates Mark I Gyrojet (Kohran Li hand-makes ammunition for it) and a "Whistler Special" chambered for 9×19mm Parabellum. The largest piece in the collection is a H&K MP5K short 9×19mm Parabellum submachine gun, with the optional attache case with trigger built into the handle; Noah refuses to discuss how he obtained it, except to say that both Sora Hasegawa and Katz Schrödinger were there at the time. Noah also has a Nambu Taishou 14 Shiki Kenjuu kept in a sealed transparent-aluminium case (the case was made before the Senshi started selling transparent carbon); he refuses to let anyone open the case, or touch or scan the pistol. If asked, he says he's holding onto it for an acquaintance who left it behind after helping to build the original "ring" station.

Notable Mundane Attributes

• Filthy Rich - Has noticeable cash reserves, and owns his own corporation and a space station outright.
• What bureaucracy? Decent administrator.

'Wavium Abilities

None directly, but has built and immediately manumitted a number of 'wavetech AIs (skilled allies).

Quirks

• Oh, that bureaucracy - Needs to handle more paperwork than most fen do, on a regular basis.
• But this works perfectly well - Prefers hardtech over wavetech.
• No, it isn't all fun and games - Lives and works with many 'wavetech AIs, so has to tend to their (sometimes conflicting) unusual dependencies.
• Who hid my glasses this time? Nearsighted.
• I'm in shape; round is a shape - Noticeably overweight.
• But there's a new episode on... Poorly-socialized fan.
• Thank Ghu it's over; I'm going to collapse now - Incapacitating "post-combat shakes".
• Oh, it's mister moneybags - Reputation for being a "rich bastard" (partially deserved).
• Oh, $#!+ ... Take cover! Reputation for being dangerously trigger-happy (overblown) and bloodthirsty (deserved). Barred from some stations, discouraged from visiting areas inhabited primarily by pacifistic factions.
• Get a gun, already - Intolerant of Hidden Asteroid and other hand-to-hand-fighter fen.

Faction

Stellvians (de facto faction leader)

Preferred Transport

Noah prefers to remain on his station, Stellvia. When he must travel, he prefers his yacht, the Epsilon Blade.

Known Associates

The Stellvians, A.C. Peters and the crew of the Prometheus Forge, Jon Helscher (after the Grover's Corners launch), Katz Schrödinger (after SOS-Con), Haruhi Suzumiya (after SOS-Con, until May 2013), Mal Fnord (by e-mail only until April 2013)

Trivia

Noah is a not-particularly-melodic tenor. His birthday is July 7, 1964, which he shares with his favourite manga illustrator.

Stories

Noah has a notable or major role in the following stories:

• Log of the Long-Term Autonomous AI Experiment
• We don't need that hammer, Lucifer...
• Disturbing Implications of Land Rising Into the Sky
• SOS-Con: The Story Begins
• Entertaining the troops(?)
• The 2012 Season
• FTL Newsfeed 235
• The Fall of Crystal Osaka
• Spider Symposium Briefing
• With Liberty And Great Justice...
• Journeys through tarnished dreams
• Legend of Galactic Girls
• With This Station-Ring
• (tbc)