Rogue's Gallery: Lucky Jack Russell

Rogue's Gallery: Lucky Jack Russell is the 39th biography in the Rogue's Gallery series, centering on Lucky Jack Russell. It was published in May 2016 in the Pirate101 Monthly Newsletter.

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“Subject: Lucky Jack Russell
Home: Marleybone
Weapon of Choice: Cutlass
Occupation: Adventurer

John “Lucky Jack” Russell was born on a dairy farm near the little village of Devon to Robert Russell, an ex-Royal Marine and Mary, a country doctor. Jack's father meant for the boy to join the service and become an officer, and Mary hoped her pup would take an interest in medicine. But Jack only had eyes for the sky. As soon as he was old enough, Jack arranged a berth as a cabin boy on the RMS Hesperus, a mail ship out of Devon. Jack had finally taken to the skyways.

But life on a tiny mail ship was less stimulating than Jack had hoped for. He dreamed of traveling to the outskirts of the Spiral, but the Hesperus mostly made “milk runs” from Albion to Westminster. It was hardly the swashbuckling life Jack had read about in adventure stories as a lad. He had nearly made up his mind to join the army when Polaris declared war on Marleybone.

The Hesperus and her crew were drafted into action as a dispatch ship, sending communications along the frontline - Jack was finally seeing some action! He only narrowly avoided being hit by a Polarian cannonball during his first day near the line – three times! From then on he was known as “Lucky” Jack.

But no one’s luck can last forever. Close to the end of the war, the crew of the Hesperus found themselves taken prisoner and held in a freezing stockade in the backwaters of Polaris. After a few months of below-freezing nights and little to eat, Jack began to despair that his nickname was nothing but a cruel joke of fate. As luck would have it though, he befriended a new inmate who told him a secret. The new inmate’s wife was planning to break him out – and Jack was invited along!

One daring raid later, Jack found himself free – just as the war was ending. Going back to dreary mail runs wasn’t in Jack’s cards though. He joined his fellow prisoner’s pirate crew! The war might be over but new adventures were just around the corner! He stood proudly by his new captain when he was married, and was shared in the joy when he became a father. The future looked bright indeed.

When the crew set off to seek the Lost Treasure of Aztechualpa, Lucky Jack’s luck continued to hold – even in the face of tragedy. Jack was blown overboard while on watch. He lived to tell the tale... but tragically, the rest of the crew was lost in the jungles of Skull Island.

Despondent, Jack joined up with a crew of Cutthroats and did his best to try and forget his old mates. When he was captured by Monquistans and taken prisoner to The Presidio he felt his luck had run out at last... But the day he was rescued may well have been the luckiest meeting of his life.

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