Ker
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Ker was born of wealthy parents on Psychlo. It was a very proud family and his mother gave birth to a litter. Usually a Psychlo litter is four, but in this case it was six, and it often happens that when there are that many pups, one of them is a runt. And in this case, the runt happened to be Ker. Not wanting the family disgraced, he was thrown out in the garbage,
only to be fished out by one of the household slaves and sent
underground to join a secret revolutionary organization of blue-colored
Balfan slaves. |
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Brought up by the Balfan revolutionaries, Ker was trained to steal things for them, as he could slip in and out of places, being so small. He was caught at the age of eight and was imprisoned and sentenced to hard labor, where he learned the ins and outs of criminality. At the age of fifteen he escaped prison and bought false identity papers, bribed an Intergalactic Mining Company clerk and got employed as a shaft man because he could get in and out of small places. Now forty-one, Ker works on Earth and has been assigned by Terl to assist Jonnie Goodboy Tyler in learning to operate the Psychlo minesite machinery for Terl's "special project." Termed a "geysermouth" for his incessant chattering, Ker has no friends and none of the other Psychlos at the compound bother to listen to him. By forging a relationship with Jonnie, he puts in motion major events that will affect the future of the human rebellion. |
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