The Canteen of Sparkles:

INTRODUCTORY NARRATIVE:

Hello there! My name's Misty Melody Mane. You can call me Misty! I fly an absolutely fabulous ship, the "Canteen of Sparkles"! Okay, it's more like a barely-holding-together, run-down hunk of metal the shape of a Lego, BUT ... it was my daddy's ship before me, and now it is my ship! It may not exactly always hold "legal" cargo, but ... who cares? She can fly and she can hold shipment, what's it matter if it ain't legal? Laws are dumb anyway.

I may be a young'un, but I'm a bona fide genius. I'm a merchant mechanic who was self-taught to not only fly this heap of junk but maintain it too.

Huh? Oh, sorry if my appearance frightens you! He-ha! I know ... I'm brightly colored with big poofy colorful hair and I'm coated in sparkles as well! I just like cute, shiny things! I may be small too, but I assure you I am very much capable. Except when I am floating in empty space with no function on my ship. Ha-ha, ha-ha, ha ... ha ... help!

I stand at a solid 5 feet and 2 whole inches! I may have a higher, more enthusiastic voice, but I'm sweet as a button! But ... I can be very mean and very mischievous when I feel so inclined.

I am from a planet called Pixel way, way, way into the Beta quadrant, where laws are kind of meaningless. I'm not a bad person I'm just not exactly bound to being legal. I am one of the larger members of my race that traded in wings for height. On my planet we don't have trees or bushes like other planets might. We have mushrooms! Some as tall as giants, others as small as fey, and they all glow. We don't have technology like some other races, we have 'shroom power, he-he! Yeah, we have some that might have come from the wreckage of other ships that we've adapted, but it's the 'shroom's lights that guide us.

As for most of my stock-in-trade, it's just ... well, it's drugs, like hallucinogens like the 'shrooms, tee-hee!

Anyway, can't wait to meet ya! Kiss-kiss, chou!

Oh, yeah, forgot to mention details of my planet, Pixel. I mentioned that it has no trees or shrubbery. It does however have grass. It's more like a mossy mat on the ground, and is mint colored. We also have crystals that grow everywhere, even on the surface. There are crystals that are the size of shuttles that we call "lumina crystals". They reflect light and pulsate with energy and come in all sorts of colors, but the most common ones are cyan. But, you can get reds like granite or ruby, purples like amethyst, and even blood orange. Some are golden yellow like amber or citrine or paradot. And some are green like emerald. All the colors of the rainbow! And the 'shrooms showcase the same corresponding colors, depending on the mineral compound that causes such color.

Almost everyone of my race, the Pixeltrons, are either smugglers or miners or 'shroom farmers. We have to be, because the Ogres force us to. And, obviously, if you're a smuggler, you need a ship, and you have to maintain it yourself in order to keep it functional.

I hope this explains as much as possible! Love, Misty! XOXO