[jason taylor]

Ship's Poet:

This is a position occasionally found on some ships. It is essentially a type of advertisement. In some cultures consumers especially of specialty products enjoy a colorful story attached to their purchase, even if it is mostly fiction. This tendency is marked among Aslan, with their love of fine crafts and traders dealing with them quite often employ a ship's poet in some places. A secondary role is to provide entertainment for passengers and for dockside visitors to a Kintledge (General cargo used to round off the hold) bazaar. Entertaining the crew is a regular tertiary duty. Generally except on large passenger lines as such personal will be on call for other duties; many are comms officers or assistant comms officers which is a duty that leaves leisure in jump space. It is generally held that the profession was in fact invented by Aslan and several of it's traditions are Aslani in origin.