SpaceDog

Background
SpaceDog was born in space, on the planet of Alfa 177. He spent most of his youth chewing on the space-furniture and tracking nanodirt all over the hypercarpet. However, SpaceDog was a SpaceDog of adventure, as long as adventure could be reaonably comfortable and he could be assured of three meal tablets a day and a warm neobed to sleep in at the end of the technoday.

So he persuaded a passing spaceship officer to pick him up and carry him into the vast futuredepths of deep space, where he’d often be held by someone while observing teleporter accidents, the deaths of nameless ensigns, the discovery of new life and new civilisations, and boldly going where no spacedog has gone before.

Personality
SpaceDog is super chill, except when he’s chewing on the furniture, in which case, he’s not so chill, and more of a dangerous fluffy ball of teeth and claws.

He likes to be carried around, as he doesn’t get much of a vantage point from atop his short little spacedog legs. He generally accomplishes this goal by being really soft and comfortable to hold, which persuades people to pick him up and carry him around even when it makes no sense for them to do so. He’s said to have a calming effect on anyone holding him.

His greatest hobby and joy in life is people-watching. He just gets a real kick at watching folks scramble around, trying to reverse the polarity of the tachyon deflector couplings or whatever it is they’re doing that day. Being just a spacedog, he doesn’t know what a tachyon deflector coupling is, or why you’d want to reverse its polarity, but he just goes with it because it tends to result in a good show... more so when someone does it wrong and gets blown-up, electrocuted, crushed by debris, or mauled by the vicious bugblatter beast of traal.

Come to think of it, SpaceDog is kind of a jerk, but a fluffy, lovable jerk all the same.

Power/Combat
SpaceDog is a lover, not a fighter, or at least that’s what he’ll most probably tell you. In truth, he’s a rather mean little bugger and can probably bite your ankles off in the blink of an eye, if you should anger him by, for example, not dispensing enough meal tablets or failing to pick him up.

In combat, he relies mostly on his ability to move surprisingly quickly on those short little legs of his, racing across the floor like a furry torpedo, a torpedo designed to destroy anything below the knee by gnawing it to shreds. He can also impale people with that horn on his head, which would probably be kinda painful.

There’s a good chance that being bitten by him will give you some strange space-disease. He also has “mysterious spacedog powers”, but this is probably mostly related to being picked up.

Major

 * Xiangdeng Tiandao: SpaceDog is a regular attendee of Tiandao’s intergalactic nomic nights, despite the fact that he can’t play nomic very well. He mostly spends the time being held by someone and telling exaggerated stories of his space-adventures, which seems to amuse the Perspective Yaoguai to no end.

Minor

 * Rizer Starcharter: He once bit this man on the ankle, but was persuaded not to gnaw his legs off by being bribed with cookies.


 * The Crew of the USS Enterprise: He spent some time aboard their ship, but faked his own death to get away after determining that these folks are sort of crazy.


 * Zaphod Beeblebrox: SpaceDog didn’t vote for him, and doesn’t understand how this guy even became president.

Trivia

 * He enjoys long walks, which in his considered opinion are best performed by someone else, although if they’d carry him at the same time, that’d be totes cool.


 * His favourite flavour of meal tablets is Number 27.