The Black Rock Eat & Jeb's has moved from its old spot in a grimy secondary concourse to a nicer part of town, right across from Misato's Cafe. Overly seasoned Kerbal cuisine is very popular with creatures that aren't really set up for chewing. One of the possible sources for Mystery Goo(TM) is the dumpster behind the restaurant.

Mack shouldn't be confused with Maxwell (oh, wait, that Zinogre fell victim to Deletionism. Sorry. He'll be back someday.) I regret not giving him a Schaft Security System shoulder patch, that would have been an amusing reference. Here, he's just a corpsec officer.

Black Rock is still your archetypally seedy space opera port city on the edge of forever, at one of the lagrangian points near a midworld. This probably results in slight occupational changes for a few of the characters, specifically Monroe. Tankaa refers to him as the "Vacuum Pirate" since he racks up a lot of EVA and work pod time at the Ceadeus Yard's cageworks.

Jason was a student from Base Yakima that Tankaa was assigned to mentor as part of an education and community outreach program. Since the tyrannosaur wanted help with anger management, Tankaa referred him to one of the few other pliosaurs he knew. This is somewhat experimental, he's noticed a distressing trend where tyrannosaurids progressively turn into BTL-slotting burnouts and wants to head things off at the pass. (Tankaa didn't introduce him to the other pliosaur, partly because I didn't know about them when I drew this, and because Tankaa thinks that they're terrifying.)

Tankaa is an employee of the power and life support company with the amusingly quaint advertisements. (And theoretically, they can't use Reddy since they're at least partially pubically owned, but eh, I like the thought of the McCarthyite creators spinning in their graves.) He's stuck mentoring theropods right now.

Napther is here...because I needed a fifth person in the image, and because he probably likes sauteed kraken larvae in akh. It looks like his handheld device has crashed. He's a lot more compact than he was the last time he was drawn as an anthropomorphic biped, and I'm pleased about my improved command of anatomy.

Mack Reinhardt © of lieutenanthawk
Monroe Quenton © of Toadstone
Jordan Derex © of Bellumsaur
Tankaa Kumawani © of me.
Napther © of savagingdragon