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1. #1Hunter Gratzner

   Keys: Hunter Gratzner

   Hunter Gratzner was a merchant vessel and combined freighter, owned by Hunter Gratzner Industries Inc. and hired by the New Oslo Shipping Corporation. The ship was insured by Chiroptera Insurance. While en route to the Tangiers System with 40 commercial passengers, it was damaged by a comet in the M-344/G System and forced to crash-land on one of its planets. The Hunter Gratzner consisted of a cockpit and bridge section, its engine column and a total of five mismatched cargo containers. Two of the forward containers held forty passengers, while the other containers held cargo and supplies. The Hunter Gratzner was equipped with numerous emergency features, such as drag fins to slow the ship in case of uncontrollable turbulence and a system that enabled the vessel to jettison excess mass, such as the cargo containers or even the engines in more severe circumstances. The ship was also served by a limited artificial intelligence, which automatically piloted the ship and was mostly answerable to the crew. The Hunter Gratzner was taking a roundabout route to the Tangiers system when it flew through a comet's tail and was badly damaged. With its captain Tom Mitchell dead and ship officers Owens and Fry left to take control, the ship began to plummet towards the nearest planet. Fry managed to jettison most of the ship before Owens stopped her, and the vessel, somewhat lighter and more controllable, was able to effect a crash landing that ended in a heated impact and a miles-long skid to a rough stop in the middle of the desert. The ship is like a towing vehicle, delivering different containers and passengers to different locations. Riddick described the trip as the Backroads, or a Ghost lane and "A long time between stops, a long time for something to go wrong." Paris P. Ogilvie called it traveling Coach. The ship was 22 weeks into its trip and 19 weeks from arrival, when it crashed. The trips total time was 41 weeks (over 9 months) of travel. An onboard computer system is somewhat present, aiding Fry in the crash and also choosing the planet for its oxygen information. Only 11 passengers and 3 crew members survived the crash.The ship runs on at least 10, 20-gig power cells, capable of being used on other vessels. Each cell weighs thirty-five kilos (approximately 77 pounds). The ship is named after two of its creators, Ian Hunter and Matthew Gratzner.

2. #2Earth

   Keys: Earth

   Earth is a habitable planet in the Solar System in the Milky Way galaxy. It is the homeworld of humanity before the development of space flight technology.

3. #3M6-117

   Keys: M6-117

   M6-117 is a desert planet in the M-344/G System. It is known for being the location of the Hunter-Gratzner crash and also for its strange position in the solar system in relation to the other celestial bodies in the system and the dangerous nocturnal predators that infest the planet. The planet is sandy and arid. There is little plant life and little water as well (although it rains during the rare "night" period of total eclipse). Most animal life has been exterminated by Bioraptors. There is barely enough oxygen in the atmosphere to allow human beings to breathe, and due to the lack of a normal amount of oxygen on the planet, most humans constantly feel out of breath and exhausted. The planet is located between three suns in the system and is in constant sunlight except during a lengthy total eclipse (some sources say the eclipse lasts a month; others say decades), when larger planets in the system block the three suns from the planet. During the eclipse, nearly all life on the planet is massacred.

4. #4Tom Mitchell

   Keys: Tom Mitchell, Mitchell, Tom

   Tom Mitchell was the captain of the transport ship Hunter Gratzner. When the vessel traveled through the tail of a comet while passing through the M-344/G System, Mitchell was killed in his cryotube leaving crew members Fry and Owens to land the ship on a nearby planet.

5. #5Greg Owens

   Keys: Greg, Owens, Greg Owens

   Greg Owens was the navigator of the Hunter Gratzner, and was killed after the crash landing of the ship on M6-117 (upon impact, he was impaled with a ship component, possibly a handle of some kind). He was the person that stopped Carolyn Fry from purging the main cabin, which held all of the passengers (by jamming a large tool between the airlocks doors of his compartment).

6. #6Carolyn Fry

   Keys: Carolyn, Fry, Carolyn Fry

   Carolyn Fry was the second class pilot of the Hunter Gratzner. During the eclipse on the planet M6-117, Carolyn was entrusted to lead the survivors of the crashed ship to safety before its inhabitants, Bioraptors, could kill them. A survivalist at heart, Carolyn found an odd kinship in the criminal Richard B. Riddick, who was intrigued by her survival instincts and desire to do the right thing at the expense of her livelihood.

7. #7William J. Johns

   Keys: William J. Johns, Johns, William Johns, William

   William J. Johns is a war veteran and mercenary who was trusted to track down Riddick after he escaped from Slam City. He captured Riddick and brought him to Butcher Bay, but upon discovering that he could not get as much of a reward as he wanted, helped Riddick escape. Riddick stabs Johns and leaves him for dead. Johns becomes a morphine addict after having it prescribed to him because of the wound, and then chases Riddick down while also avoiding other mercenaries on Riddick's trail. He eventually catches Riddick on the planet Aquila Major by killing two children and threatening to kill two more unless Riddick surrenders. He gets a seat on the transport vessel Hunter Gratzner, which crashes onto Hades. After the crash, Johns convinces the survivors to help him hunt down Riddick. Johns initially disbelieves Riddick’s claims of the bio-raptors. After their discovery, Johns makes a deal with Riddick, so they could work together to survive. Riddick ultimately betrays Johns when Johns decides to use Jack as bait for the bio-raptors, resulting in Johns and Riddick fighting. Johns is defeated and left to the bio-raptors, one of which attacks Johns and rips him apart.

8. #8Abu al-Walid

   Keys: Abu al-Walid, al-Walid, Abu

   Abu al-Walid was a Muslim Imam. With 3 young acolytes Suleiman, Hassan and Ali, he was on a hajj from the Tangiers System to his home in New Mecca on Helion Prime. Imam and his acolytes, unfortunately, took the ill-fated transport ship Hunter Gratzner. After the crash of the Hunter Gratzner, he and his acolytes remained faithful to their religion, but when the planet was locked in a total eclipse, the Bioraptors of the planet began to kill his acolytes one by one, testing his religious faith. Richard B. Riddick had no small part in this test, and he toyed with Imam during his crisis of faith, but the Imam soon became one of the few people who could be called something of a friend to Riddick.

9. #9Hassan

   Keys: , Hassan

   Hassan was one of Imam Abu al-Walid's acolytes who followed him on a religious Hajj and was a passenger on the Hunter Gratzner. He was killed on M6-117 by a Bioraptor, while attempting to run away from two other Bioraptors when it bisected him with its blade-like head. The three Bioraptors then proceeded to devour him.

10. #10Ali

    Keys: Ali

    Ali, a young Muslim teen, is the youngest of the group of survivors. He and two others were on Hajj with their Imam, Abu al-Walid. He also became close to Jack B. Badd. He was attacked and subsequently devoured alive by infant Bioraptors when he inadvertently woke them in the Coring Room of the small Geological Outpost T2 on M6-117. He was later buried near the settlement by Abu al-Walid.

11. #11Suleiman

    Keys: Suleiman

    Suleiman was one of Imam Abu al-Walid's three acolytes who accompanied him on a hajj to the Tangiers System on board the Hunter Gratzner when it crash-landed on M6-117. Suleiman was injured by a Bioraptor, which caught on fire when he dropped his makeshift torch. Suleiman was later killed by another Bioraptor who dragged him up a wall with it's tail, before presumably devouring him.

12. #12Jack

    Keys: Jack

    Jack ran away from his home on Taurus 1, stowing away on the New Oslo Shipping Corporation transport Hunter Gratzner. When the ship crashed on M6-117 the survivors found him in the wreckage. Providing him with the name "Jack". He idolizes Riddick, and shaves his head and wears goggles to copy his look.

13. #13Paris P. Ogilvie

    Keys: Ogilvie, Paris, Paris P. Ogilvie, Paris Ogilvie

    Paris P. Ogilvie was an antiques dealer. Despite his "Paris" namesake, he seems never to have set foot on Earth. He rented a double-container aboard the Hunter Gratzner for trip to Tangiers System loaded with rare furniture, fine tapestries and aged spirits. When the survivors tried to carry the power cores to the ship through the Bioraptors, Paris panicked and tried to run. He pulled the light loose making the remainder of the trek much harder for the other survivors. He died surrounded by Bioraptors in the dark. His cargo was insured by the Chiroptera Insurance for 500000 UDs.

14. #14Tangiers system

    Keys: Tangiers system

    The Tangiers system was a star system that included planets such as Tangier 3 the home planet of the Morachi and the Tangiers Penal Colony. Tangier 6 planet houses the Katlin Shipyards. Likewise, the solar system was the original destination of the ship, Hunter Gratzner.

15. #15Sharon "Shazza" Montgomery

    Keys: Sharon "Shazza" Montgomery, Montgomery, Sharon Montgomery, Shazza, Sharon

    Sharon "Shazza" Montgomery was the only daughter of the trillionaire Australian industrialist Robert Montgomery. She gave billions to militant environmentalist group, enraging her father. She became involved with aboriginal John Ezekiel which created a scandal. She shunned Earth and her inheritance and became a free-settler, prospecting claims on different worlds. One e-mag article refers to her "the woman who took the silver spoon out of her mouth --and started digging". Sharon was one of the survivors of Hunter Gratzner crash.

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