Name: Don Armando D' Orzaiz Type:Dardevil Allegiance:Sky Pirates Origin:High Class

Social:Intimidation (3) Style (5) Savvy (3) Subterfuge (3) Command (4) Etiquette (3,european manners ) Rapport (2) Animal Husbandry(3,falcons )

Mental:Awareness (3) Investigation (3) Navigation (4) Academics (4) Engineering (2) Linguistics (3) Drive (3) Pilot (6*)

Additonal notes:Spanish is native language. Speaks German, French and english with only a slight accent. He possess the Enhancement Legions

Equipment:Wears a reinforced flightsuit and reinforced clothing when not in the air. At times he is accompanied by a pair of very well trained hunting falcons.

Appearance/Clothing Tendiencies:Slim and trim with a long time fencer's build. Armando cuts a very dashing figure with his dark hair and dark eyes and his dueling scars. He can wear anything and make it look good. He is partial to tailored suits (filled with pockets for hidden weapons) people assume that he's royalty or a movie star or something.

House,Circle, Influence:Has a force of about 30 battle hardened pilots who would follow him into the mouth of hell itself and a large household of servitors in spain. He also has a few people scattered around europe who maintain his network of safehouses and caches. The Spanish goverment is terrified of him and refuses to even try to dislodge him. Armando reciprocates this relationship by not concentrating on looting and pillaging his homeland.

What has gone Before:Intelligent people know that the Orzaiz family fortune was founded on piracy. Wise people keep their mouth shut about it. Don Armando Orzaiz has followed in the tradition of his forefathers. Charitably they could have been called privateers. Not so charitably they could have been called cut throats and thieves.

Much of Armando's early life was shaped by sailing. He worked on his father's ship and during the evenings he would schooled by kidnapped tutors. When he was old enough he was packed off to university in germany to learn as much as he could and polish his allready prodigious fencing skills. it was here that he saw planes for the first and fell in love. Armando needs the wind in his hair.

Piracy is an evolving business and Armando realized that Aeroplanes were the wave of the future. As such he schooled himself in their use and hungrily looked for each advancement in the field he could discover. He schooled his men in piloting and aerobatic manuevers and they've managed to pull off daring raids on cargo and passenger planes in flight!

Naturallly this has caused him to run afoul of both Jake Stefokowski AND Baron Zorbo. Armando respects Stefokowski for flying ability but considers him a bumpkin boy scout with no real understanding of how the world works. Zorbo he hate with a purple blazing passion (it's mutual) because he considers him merely a talented technician and not a real pilot at all...plus he's insane.

Armando is a Pirate (albeit a very classy one) he doesn't have Jake's morals or Zorbo's misguided altruism. On occasion though he has allied himself with do-gooders if the cause would further spanish interests, If he was attracted to a female P.C. or if it would stick a spoke in Zorbo's landing gear. He might even leave you with your goods and chattels intact if he liked you or you were at least polite.

If Armando has a weakness at all it's for the fairer sex and while he'll probably never settle down, he can come off as a romantic and dashing figure. He swears he has never hit a woman (This is false but he was allways defending himself from a combat capable woman who sought to press that advantage.) Sadly, Armando doesn't believe in the concept of fidelity and since he's such a charmer he often lies to avoid hurting the feelings of the ladies involved.

While Armando does not possess the raw technical might that Zorbo posesses, he doesn't do to badly for himself. he has a large collection of planes of various types (also boats and cars and trucks....) His favorite plane to work with is still a single prop engine that he's bulletproofed but he can fly nearly anything. he also possesses a luxury passenger plane that he stole from an airline while it was in flight.

Armando find killing distasteful and does it only when absolutely necessary, when pressed or when enraged.

Story Uses: 

Unscheduled Detour: The players are on some plane going someplace in europe and all of a sudden the plane is fired upon by pirates. The men leap from fast single props and walk the wings until they've breached the door and then begin looting the passengers. A belaying line in clipped to the airframe and cargo goes sliding down the line. Then a pilot takes over the controls of the plane. and pirates begin off loading parachutes onto the plane. at gun point the pirate force the passengers to put on the parachutes and shove them out one at a time. (unless stopped of course.) If Armando takes a shine to a female character or a female NPC on board. He'll off load her to his private plane (again, unless stopped.)

The Enemy of my Enemy: The Players run into Armando while he's in the middle of some business. If the players are currently pursuing or causing trouble for Baron Zorbo, he will look at them astonished and say.... " Oh....Well why didn't you say so? Rafael! Render these people all my assistance. Good luck in your endeavors!"

Competitive streak: Armando likes most people and subscribes to his own skewed code of honor so at best he will consider the player characters a group of friendly rivals. he isn't scared of prison or death and he does enjoy playing little games with those he respects but doesn't share the morailty of. He might seduce your girlfriend just to see if he can do so...He'll be honestly puzzled if you get enraged over this. After all if she were true to you...then she wouldn't have let him do what he did right?