Short Fiction · Character
Rudy Hartman
A hasty pirate who helped drag Andrea into the Plutonian mess, now trapped aboard Duncan's suicide cruiser with no exit but Pluto.
supporting
Also known as Hartman, Pirate Rudy Hartman, Hastily Hartman
First appearance: the secret of kralitz
As a supporting figure in Short Fiction, Rudy Hartman is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
Drunk and disheveled, Hartman prepares the blacked-out cruiser and explains the danger of Plutonians.
Hartman is the nervous third man in a hijacked cruiser, the one who reads the ship's weakness and the radium box before anyone else does. He helped engineer the scheme that killed Andrea, and now he watches Duncan's cold fury with the helpless dread of a man who knows he's riding to his own execution. His flinches and warnings sharpen the early arc's moral arithmetic: everyone aboard is complicit, and nobody gets to leave.
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- Breaking point
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- Closing
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