Name: Professor James Marco ( Professor J For short 
Age: 47 
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Equipment: 
An array of portable scientific equipment that he uses to study Sphax 
Projective goggles and apron. 
A Prototype Exoskeleton 
A small baring Sphax Pistol 

Role on the ship: Scientist 

Personality: James is one of these scientists that can go from deadly serious on the verge of a discovery to as giddy as a school boy in 0.5 seconds. He takes his work so serious and thinks everyone else should to. He loves nothing more than working on something that could blow up and kill the ship if he's not careful. 

History: James Started life in a rather dismal trading outpost, he was told from birth that his life would always be here and he wasn't to expect anything great from himself par good trade. This got him thinking and over the years he tried to do something with his life, until his father traded with a man who gave him a Sphax scientist book, James spent the next year or so reading everything he could on Sphax by age 18 he had built his own Sphax pistol, though it blew up almost instantly. He then managed to get passage to the sphere of learning, the hub of all scientific knowledge where he studied for many years learning all that there was about Sphax. 

On the day James became Professor James Marco he left the sphere and went out looking for new ways to harness Sphax make new inventions, he wanted to become the best Sphax scientist that ever lived. Most people thought he was mad. Though be it true this never stopped James he hopped from one ship to another trying to find out more and more about Sphax. Until one day he joined the crew of pirates who forced him to build a powerful Sphax Cannon capable of destroy all its path. Fearing for his life he built the cannon but never finished connecting it all up meaning if anyone tried to fire it the entire ship and crew would be destroyed. Thankfully No one did and the next time the pirates made port, James slipped off the ship and hid upon the Marassa hoping to escape the pirates, turns out this ship was perfect for James a Sphax harvester. 

He finally requested to join the crew and has been sailing under Captain Rouge for the past 12 years