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Here are two more deadly mutant kid ninjas from Aeroquest.   When the Pan Galactican Union fell to the mysterious space invaders known as the Scondians, these two mutant boys were among the flood of refugees who escaped to the Human Imperium.   Gyro son of Jor is a Nebulon.  That means he is a member of an inter-stellar race whose humanity is in question.  His skin is blue and highly radiation resistant.  On top of his Nebulon qualities, he is a Psion Trans-muter who can mentally alter molecules, sometimes even fusing simple atoms into more complex ones.  He is also very inventive.  He can change a simple computer into a mini-attack-bot, a computer into a video game machine, or a vehicle into video game machine… well, he’s a teenager, so virtually anything can become a video game machine.  He laughs easily, even at things that aren’t funny, and doesn’t mind when others call him a Space Smurf, because he doesn’t know what that means.  Billy Iowa is his best friend and fellow survivor.  If Gyro’s family hadn’t rescued Billy from Scondian captivity, he would’ve remained on Pan Galactica as a laboratory test subject.  Unlike many of the Pan Galactican Space Cowboys, he is not prejudiced against Nebulons.  In fact, as an orphan, he looks at them more as family than as an inferior race.  His Psion power is Clairvoyance, allowing him to see times and places where he is not present, even to the extent that he can accurately predict the future.  He’s a better karate and kung fu student than Gyro, but as student ninjas go, all the rest of his dojo can beat the crap out of him.  So, these two Space Cowboys, both boys, provide a lot of the comedy relief in the Aero Dojo.  They are of course, not nearly as dangerous as the girls are, but don’t insult them never-the-less.  Billy can tell you how you will die, and Gyro will make unbelievably corny jokes about it.