Malcolm Winters

Malcolm Winters (32) is one of the crew members in The Long Journey Home. Malcolm is able to pilot the lander with greater ease of control than other crew member candidates. Additionally he can use technical devices to repair the lander's hull.

Description
Test pilot Malcolm Winters is on loan to us from the United States Air Force, assisting our engineers on Lander designs. With his help, civilian training times have been reduced to just over a month, allowing every prospective member of the mission to adequately handle over 80% of predicted galactic terrain types.

Background
Captain Winters joins the mission from the US Air Force, after a distinguished career as both test pilot and systems engineer. While somewhat outspoken about the mission, you won’t find anyone at IASA arguing that he’s not the best man to both prepare and pilot the attached lander.

Winters’ main responsibility was working with the Daedalus engineering team to help create a reliable, multi-terrain lander capable of surviving 87% of hostile planetary conditions, while still being easy enough for civilian operation. Secretly though, he fears the success of the Daedalus mission as much as its failure. In his eyes, humanity is not yet even half ready for whatever lies out there in the galaxy. Once Pandora’s box is open, will we regret not leaving it closed? He joins the mission, because he is convinced that he improves the overall chances of success and that refusing would not cancel the Deadalus-7 mission anyway.

He is soft spoken and talks rarely. He has his suspicions about the likelihood of failure in the mission but carries on with a cool demeanor. If he is injured, he defers treatment to other crew members, showing either humility or trying to keep a "tough guy" exterior.

There are some indications that he has an affair with Kirsten Barrasso.

With some native creatures found on planet ruins, he seems to think of them like cute pets. Malcolm is a slightly cynic athletic guy who can use his survival skills to get advantages when exploring ruins. Also to salvage wrecks, he can be a good choice, since he can sometimes open doors without a Salvage Kit.

Malcolm is the fittest of all crew members. He brings his barbell, a deck of poker cards and a giant Teddy bear onto the ship.

"We're opening Pandora's box just being out here. God, I hope we can close it again."

Abilities

 * Celindion Device: Remove it
 * Chelodrisk: Feed it to get a Blue Shell
 * Gate Circuit: He destroys the last gate
 * Nakrafus: Feed it to get cuts
 * Plasma Flechette Launcher: Jury-rig it to get a Laser Array or burns
 * Scavenger Equipment: Jury-rig it to get a Personal Shield
 * Targetes Latifolius: Feed it to kill it!
 * Xaquindi Cocoon: Open it to get a Xaquindi Larvae

Item

 * Basic Replating: It provides a major lander hull repair.