Erasmus Chang

Erasmus Chang was a scout pilot in the Loki Salvage Service. He commanded the one-man scout ship Praise of Folly. Chang was a lean, trim man slightly below middle height with a thin, fringed, black beard.

Chang was called back from leave after a successful mission on Cienfuego by the Service's boss B'kila. She informed him of the loss of four service scouts on the other side of the Orion Nebula and well beyond what the Terran Confederacy had held. After being briefed on what little was known and the suspicion that the scouts had run into another technologically advanced species, Chang was ordered to go out and investigate what had happened.