St.
John Cranston
St. John (pronounced 'Sinjun', for those who don't know) was part of
Najaki & Cranston, a reputable if illegal partnership of assassins.
Affecting the manner of an Old West gunslinger, St. John has a psionic
relationship with firearms; he is always aware of the precise
trajectory of every gun in his vicinity at each moment. As such, his
ability to dodge gunfire and to place incredibly precise shots is
nothing short of phenomenal. Even when using his favoured Suprapistols,
which, while fast, don't pack as much of a punch as they might, he can
kill reliably and often deliver a surprising amount of damage to
vehicles. His other weapon, a plasma shotgun stolen from the Mafia on
his homeworld, is still more reliably devastating.
Following a semi-botched prison break, St. John and Asiko Najaki hired
on with a band of misfits who found themselves tearing across the
galaxy trying to keep ahead of the authorities, which necessitated an
ever-growing list of crimes. Finally, on a dead-end planety in the
middle of nowhere, they had enough of a lead to take the initiative.
St. John and his cohorts stole four spaceship engines, attached them to
asteroids, and monkeyed with the safety controls until the asteroids
could be made to emerge into realspace inside planets. Destroying
evidence on the planet of their arrest, their leader's home planet, and
the seat of galactic government, they tipped the galaxy into turmoil
great enough that they were able to ensconce themselves comfortably as
crimelords of half their backwater planet with the heat safely off...
...for a while, at least.