Byron Maggs

Crown-Licensed Trader in St. Louis One of many licensed traders operating within St. Louis, Byron Maggs has done very well for himself in recent years, establishing good working relationships with many successful ship captains traveling through St. Louis. Maggs is a merchant and entrepreneur, so he's never adverse to a bit of business, but he's very cognizant of the requirements to maintain his Crown-license, which allows him to trade in military grade hardware but demands very strict adherence to the law. This restriction doesn’t preclude him from dealings that are somewhat less than "on the up and up", but Maggs is cautious about those kinds of arrangements. Maggs is reputed to only deal in the highest quality merchandise, a reputation that has cemented the many business relationships he has cultivated, literally spanning the globe as far-flung as the Delhi City of Light. If some of his vast inventory falls below the standards of quality he expects, he doesn't hide the fact that it's not his normal top-notch supply. He normally keeps an honest relationship with his customers, allowing them to make their own decisions without excessive sales pressure. Sometimes however, there are cargos he’s unable to offload for any amount of money. In such cases, he resorts to more nefarious methods to eliminate those items from his inventory. One particular large lot of socks, sixteen hundred crates to be exact, has elevated Maggs to near legendary infamy in St. Louis for desperate dealing. Normally socks aren’t very difficult to sell, but these socks were sewn shut across the top! One or more crates of these sealed socks occasionally pop up amongst large orders as Maggs tries to offload the largely useless rags. Thus a new epithet has entered into the St. Louis lexicon from the phrase so often bellowed at high volume by captains and cargo masters alike, "MAGGS SOCKS?!"