Bryce is the owner of Timberwolf Reclamation & Demolition, a debris-clearing service that operates out of Titan Garden. Timberwolf's office is on the opposite end of the docking bay from Red Raven Towing & Salvage; being an orbital sanitation company they also have a license to dock the Ermine inside the Garden itself, just like the Jackrabbit II. Timberwolf, like Red Raven, earns a living through three major sources of income:
- As a demolitions team, Timberwolf is hired to decommission obsolete satellites and clear dangerous space debris from planetary orbits, keeping trade routes and traffic space safe.
- The reclamation half of Reclamation & Demolition focuses on salvaging lost shipwrecks and procuring valuable goods and treasures. This item makes Timberwolf direct rivals with Red Raven in being the first to find and claim salvage rights to a shipwreck.
- The Ermine's large cargo capacity and regular transport of space junk gives Timberwolf a good legitimate cover for their smuggling operation. Where Red Raven pulls off heists, Timberwolf transports unlawful valuables through controlled spaces. They charge a steep fee but live up to the costs.
Bryce is a Venusian man in his 40s and he is the captain of the Ermine. He is charming and charismatic, able to squeeze a disarming chuckle out of most folks with an off-hand joke. Venusians are very tenacious people, coming from a very acidic world. Their skin forms in thick plates, with subtle seams between each callus, and they have evolved beyond the need for pinkie fingers. One of the most notable features of Venusian physiology is their hair, which grows in bright colors and naturally forms shapes and patterns not unlike an insect's carapace. The other notable feature of a Venusian is their regenerative properties, able to heal back physical damage that would incapacitate or kill other Inner Belt hominids. As long as they have a head on their shoulders they can grow back what they need sooner or later. Life on an acidic world is hard so it tends to make hard people.
Like Amy, Bryce got his first real job working on Grizzly John's cargo transport ship. He hired on as a simple loader/unloader of freight but eventually took up the job of being the ship's navigator. Before hiring on with Grizzly John, Bryce used to run petty scams in various starports, conning tired travelers out of their credits and making a dash when the heat was on. As such, Bryce has a very strong intuitive sense of the flow of the Sol system, knowing well where the main warp routes travel and where you can find a pocket of privacy in space to hide out in. He and Amy used to work together to find sneaky smuggler's routes through the system and then let Amy crank the throttle and arrive at their destination port in record time. When Grizzly John retired both Amy and Bryce wanted to take over the captaincy of his ship but he chose instead to sell it, give his crew their severance and use the remainder to buy a large plot on Titan Garden to open the Grizzly Bear Scrapyard. One of the other things Amy and Bryce both inherited from Grizzly John was his bad smoking habit, each one sorta stuck with the nerve-steadying compulsion.
In that specific vein of dadliness he didn't want to hand Amy or Bryce a business, but instead gave them each enough to buy their own ships and start their own businesses. Amy went into the tow truck business and Bryce took up sanitation, but both of them shared a taste for the adventurous life of salvaging shipwrecks. They were steady crewmates before but as rivals Amy and Bryce became active frenemies, each one using their own talent to stake claim in a shipwreck before the other- while Amy and her Jackrabbit use blistering speed to fly directly into the space they think a shipwreck is, Bryce and his Ermine use careful routing to intercept a wreck in its theoretical Solar orbit. Timberwolf and Red Raven pick up different shipwreck leads but occasionally they hit upon the same lead and one will usually arrive to find the other already on site, and it usually swings one way or the other pretty evenly. Depending on the mood they may be willing to split a particularly large ship, but will charge the other a steep fee to share the salvage rights, and then still bust each other's chops when the two crews find each other in the belly of an enormous space hulk.
Salvage is the only area where Timberwolf and Red Raven really overlap; their public service jobs don't conflict, although Timberwolf will occasionally show up to clean the debris after Red Raven tows a ship collision. Their criminal endeavors don't compete either, and like true frenemies the two outfits will occasionally collaborate if they need help with a big job, with Timberwolf's crewmembers lending their talents on a Red Raven heist and Red Raven helping lend their services to help surpass a difficult smuggling obstacle. When it comes to shipwrecks, though, all bets are off and it's every crew for themselves, with Bryce and Amy heckling each other over their ships' comms. There has been one time the Ermine's thruster array malfunctioned and it needed a tow, however, and you'll never guess who showed up to tow them and their payload back to Titan. Amy will never let Bryce live that one down, and he's eager to find something to hold over her head to even the score.