>Secondly, I'm thinking that I'll say that all of you were 
>either in, or drafted into, the military service during the 
>5th Frontier War and all served on the same ship...a large 
>armed military transport...and have all been demobilized 
>together on Glisten. You all knew each other, at least to the 
>level of nodding acquaintances, from your time together on the 
>transport and have...more or less...decided to look for the 
>same type of job, so that you all ended up employed by the 
>Wonstar Trading Company isn't all that much of a surprise to 
>any of you.

Could Merinn have recently met the other PCs on Glisten, since she doesn't have a military background?

>So...look over everyone's character, and let's talk about it. 
>Do we need to alter the characters, change skill sets a around 
>a bit to give everyone a role? Let's decide on shipboard roles 
>so everyone has something to do. Remember, you're also 
>bodyguarding/minding a passenger that you have to get from 
>Glisten to Wonstar, too.


Merinn could take the engineering chief slot, but I don't see her being Captain - unless you insist ;-)

JR