Ploob Mallarp (SPARKY)

Ploob Mallarp (SPARKY)
Original member of the Bedrock contingent of the Groomshi Defense Force, predecessor to the X-Team.

Origins
Originally a hacker who worked on a team with his father, a full decker who would physically jack into the matrix while Ploob just used a deck, Ploob Mallarp watched his father die on a botched raid on Groomshi Water and Power after they backtraced them and shut down power to their block, leaving his father's consciousness to die in the Matrix.

Ploob Mallarp went into a downward spiral, taking increasingly dangerous jobs with no regard for his personal safety and using the money to pay for even more dangerous addictions. He was eventually talked into the Groomshi Defense Force by a Groomshi named Mix Dakin.

Bedrock
Ploob Mallarp has a deep scar across the abdomen of his exoskeleton, which he earned by causing an explosive decompression in his Crotch Rocket while his gravitational dampener was out. He did this to destroy two Pykers pursuing him after he destroyed their Frigate in the Groomshi asteroid belt.

He spent two weeks in recovery in the medbay of Bedrock with Yosar Dax, callsign SCREWTOP, during which they developed a fondness that would become plot relevant later on.