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 ====== MARTIN “THE TINKERER” GAGNON ======
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 ===== Race and Faction =====
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   * **Born:** Aboard the spaceship [[last_frontier|Last Frontier]] (exact year unverified in public records)
   * **Affiliation:** Technical Partner to the [[office_for_special_operations|Office for Special Operations (OfSO)]]; rejected would-be lecturer at [[last_frontier_university|Last Frontier University]]
-  * **Place of Residence:** [[new_kourou|New Kourou]] — sleeps at his daughter’s home; in the Beta Age worked most hours in a camouflaged back-yard workshop behind the OfSO HQ
+  * **Place of Residence:** [[new_kourou|New Kourou]] — sleeps at his daughter’s home; during the [[free_state_of_settlers|Free State of Settlers]], he worked most hours in a camouflaged back-yard workshop behind the OfSO HQ
 ===== Background =====
-Martin Gagnon is a soft-spoken genius of the bench vise and coil winder. Once an aspiring lecturer at Last Frontier University, he was passed over after faculty deemed him “unfit for the lectern.” Ezrah Scherkenstein noticed what the faculty missed: a methodical, quietly brilliant DIY mind that could turn scrap into field-ready tools. She brought him into the OfSO orbit in 2626.
+Martin Gagnon is a soft-spoken genius of the bench vise and coil winder. Once an aspiring lecturer at Last Frontier University, he was passed over after faculty deemed him “unfit for the lectern.” [[ezrah_scherkenstein|Ezrah Scherkenstein]] noticed what the faculty missed: a methodical, quietly brilliant DIY mind that could turn scrap into field-ready tools. She brought him into the OfSO orbit in 2626.
-Through the Beta Age, Gagnon kept a **camouflaged workshop** in the OfSO’s back yard — a weather-stained shed that looked like a wood store from the lane and a jungle of jigs, presses, and micro-forges on the inside. There he fabricated **bespoke nonlethal weapons, armor, and investigative tools** for OfSO subcontractors, and he prototyped **supplemental tech** that extended Ezrah’s botanical forensics: pollen aspirators, seed-tag launchers, scent baffles, and Lumi trip-traps. He disliked titles; “Tinkerer” stuck because he never stopped.
+Through the [[beta_age|Beta Age]], Gagnon kept a camouflaged workshop in the OfSO’s back yard — a weather-stained shed that looked like a wood store from the lane and a jungle of jigs, presses, and micro-forges on the inside. There he fabricated bespoke nonlethal weapons, armor, and investigative tools for OfSO subcontractors, and he prototyped supplemental tech that extended Ezrah’s botanical forensics: pollen aspirators, seed-tag launchers, scent baffles, and [[luminofera|Lumi]] trip-traps. He disliked titles; “Tinkerer” stuck because he never stopped.
-After the Confederation’s founding, private skunkworks became legally awkward. In the Gamma Age he **retired** the shed, naps often, and claims his eyes “aren’t what they were.” But if Ezrah asks — and the cause feels right — the old magic returns at a kitchen table, late, with the lamps turned low.
+After the [[federal_confederation|Federal Confederation’s]] founding, private skunkworks became legally awkward. In the [[the_gamma_age|Gamma Age]] he retired the shed, naps often, and claims his eyes “aren’t what they were.” But if Ezrah asks — and the cause feels right — the old magic returns at a kitchen table, late, with the lamps turned low.
 ===== Roles by Age =====
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 ==== Gamma Age ====
-  * **Retired, Ad Hoc Maker:** No formal workshop; produces one-off prototypes **only when necessary**, favoring analog, low-signature designs he can assemble in a night from household stock. Frequently sleepy, always precise.
+  * **Retired, Ad Hoc Maker:** No formal workshop; produces one-off prototypes only when necessary, favoring analog, low-signature designs he can assemble in short period of time from household stock. Frequently sleepy, always precise.
 ===== Personality =====
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   * **Workshop Fabricator:** Given 1 hour and basic materials, can craft a single-use investigative tool (lock wedge, seal-impression kit, stealth tag, etc.) granting +2 to a related skill check once.
   * **Rapid Mod:** As an action, attach a situational add-on to a willing ally’s gear (e.g., shock-damp pad, line anchor) for the next encounter (+1 AC or advantage on one relevant check; DM discretion).
-  * **Quiet Step:** Gains advantage on Stealth checks **only** while moving through workshops, alleys, or cluttered service spaces he can “read” like blueprints.
+  * **Quiet Step:** Gains advantage on Stealth checks only while moving through workshops, alleys, or cluttered service spaces he can “read” like blueprints.
 ===== Motivations and Goals =====
 ==== Beta Age Motivation ====
-Prove utility through craft, not lectures; keep OfSO field teams equipped with safer, smarter tools; be home for supper with his daughter’s family.
+Prove utility through craft, keep OfSO field teams equipped with safer, smarter tools; be home for supper with his daughter’s family.
 ==== Gamma Age Motivation ====
 Keep his head down; pass on craft where it saves lives; answer Ezrah’s calls when the ledger and his conscience both say “yes.”
-===== Tactical Advice for Dungeon Masters =====
-Use Martin to gate powerful tools behind **time, materials, and favors** rather than coin. He excels at “one neat trick” items that reframe an encounter — a seed-tag launcher to track a courier, a stun-tether to end a chase nonlethally, a myco-laminate plate that tips an AC check. In the Gamma Age, make access the challenge: convincing a sleepy retiree to dust off the craft — perhaps by protecting his family or retrieving contraband plans someone stole from his old shed.
 ===== Ties & Relationships =====
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   * **Seal-Stamp Forensics Kit:** Reads heat and pressure variance on broken wax/soil seals for advantage on a single Investigation check.
-===== Public Presence & Availability =====
-  * **Beta Age:** Typically found in the back-yard camo workshop behind OfSO; late-night fabricator.
-  * **Gamma Age:** No standing workshop; **retired and often drowsy**. Will occasionally accept a **quiet, necessary** brief via Ezrah; prefers kitchen-table builds with minimal trace.
+===== Tactical Advice for Dungeon Masters =====
+Use Martin to gate powerful tools behind time, materials, and favors rather than coin. He excels at “one neat trick” items that reframe an encounter — a seed-tag launcher to track a courier, a stun-tether to end a chase nonlethally, a myco-laminate plate that tips an AC check. In the Gamma Age, make access the challenge: convincing a sleepy retiree to dust off the craft — perhaps by protecting his family or retrieving contraband plans someone stole from his old shed.
 ===== Related Pages and Further Information =====
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   * [[federal_library_of_new_kourou|Federal Library of New Kourou]]
+**Known Freelancers of the Office for Special Operations:**
+  * [[Lexa Rourke|Lexa Rourke]]
+  * [[Elias Kim|Elias Kim]]
+  * [[Rogan Sokolov|Rogan Sokolov]]
+  * [[Hana Lee|Hana Lee]]
+  * [[Kweku Amari|Kweku Amari]]