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Jenny and Nollaig are the hosts of Catch of the Day, a weekly television show broadcasting out of Titan Garden and beamed across the satellite relay network to all corners of the Sol system. Jenny is a Mercurian woman, skeptical and intuitive, having a keen ear for gossip but never acting on a rumor without doing her due diligence in verifying the truth first. Nollaig is an Android manufactured by Aoba Lifelike Systems Specialists, built with a full beard and a broad frame, he's more than happy to take on the heavy lifting of a job for the betterment of his crew. The pair have been long-time collaborators on various projects over the years- above and below the board- and Catch of the Day is their current and most successful venture to date. They've established a trustworthy and respectable reputation for themselves, which is a very useful asset in Saturn's frontier orbit.

Going by the stage names Jenny Jellyfish and Nollaig the Skipper, the pair host Catch of the Day every Sunday on Channel 65. Billed as a TV show for bounty hunters, Catch of the Day highlights rumors, sightings, new listings and old faces connected to the Star Navy Bounty Board. The show's theming is built around old Terran fishermen, their film set built like the deck of an old boat and their soundtrack featuring fiddles, flutes and foghorns abound, framing bounties like they're fish in the sea for a hunter to reel in and put a tag on. Nollaig will often cast and reel his fishing line to emphasize a point, Jenny will puff steam out of her pipe and one or the other may find themselves dangling from a prop fishing net while they present a segment of the show. They could present the whole thing more straight-laced and clinically but the theming makes it feel a bit more "fun", and the pair like to play up their parts on the program.

The show is broken up into a number of sections, each detailing a different aspect of the bounty hunting cycle. Small Fries, for example, are presented as new listings to the bounty board, for crooks who've just earned enough notoriety to find themselves on the Grand Admiral's big list. The Starboard Bow, the main segment, presents rumors and eye-witness reports of known bounty head activity; when, where and how they were spotted, rigorously verified by Jenny Jellyfish and Nollaig the Skipper themselves. Slipped The Hook, or, "The One That Got Away", is a segment where Jenny and Nollaig report on near-miss encounters between bounties and hunters, presented tongue-in-cheek, it's usually not a segment many bounty hunters want to find themselves on, although the section does highlight very immediate details for an active bounty head that another fisherman might want to swoop in and steal. The eponymous Catch of the Day segment, by contrast, highlights bounty heads who have been successfully apprehended, where they were caught, the hunters who caught them and the price they earned for reeling them in. And finally, the Big Fish segment of the show features the biggest, the oldest and the most dangerous bounties, the ones who earn nicknames, reputations and grudges among old lawbringers. Jenny and Nollaig often warn young bounty hunters about the features on this segment, reminding them that there's a reason they're still lurking beneath the waves and aren't dangling on a hook. Similar to The Starboard Bow, this segment features sightings and activity by active bounty heads, but given their scale, notoriety and reputations for sinking would-be whaling vessels they warrant their own segment at the end of the show. It's just better television that way.

Trust is the key to Catch of the Day's success as a bounty board television program, and the secret to that trust can be found in Jenny and Nollaig's past. Before getting into showbusiness the pair were themselves a crew of successful smugglers, running controlled goods and moving wanted criminals across the Inner Belt. Part of the key to their success navigating controlled spaces was Jenny's Mercurian gift being the purview of Intent. The way she describes it, she can "see" the intent of an individual as a corona of color around them; whether their motives are peaceful, rote, curious, suspicious, bored, hostile or what have you, Jenny can see behind a poker face and catch an early warning if a Star Patroller is just going through routine motions or if they're flagging you down for a more specific purpose. When she's Firewalking she can mask or alter someone's perceivable intent, allowing them to pass off a nervous sweat as just a contagious fever or reinforcing a pilot's warm smile as not warranting any further investigation. Nollaig pairs well with Jenny's gift, as he is big, affable and genuine, he's a great canvas for a Firewalking Jenny to manipulate and present the perfect front to a curious Star Patroller and preserve their precious cargo from perusal, and if things go sideways he's good at knocking heads together and making a getaway. Since the cargo they're hauling is occasionally a bounty head, the pair have a good reputation among outlaws as being reliable and trustworthy.

Jenny and Nollaig had a successful run as smugglers, but they know that no one's luck lasts forever, so after a point they decided to quit while they're ahead and get into a more legitimate line of work. To ensure they aren't retroactively picked up they decided to hide in plain sight, starting Catch of the Day and presenting it as a show for lawbringers, providing an aggregate source of real information, real rumors, real eye-witness sightings and real actionable information a bounty hunter might find useful in plying their trade across the Sol system. True to Jenny's nature, though, there is a dual intent to the program. Watching it as a bounty hunter, one might read the intent of the show as helping do the dirty work of locating outlaws outside the Grand Admiral's jurisdiction and bringing them to swift justice, but watching it as an outlaw you can hear the other layer of intent beneath Jenny Jellyfish and Nollaig the Skipper's broadcast. They don't track people down, they don't seek out this information, they glean it from rumors and reports- to an outlaw, they're saying, "you're now worth this much, someone saw you here, people think you're moving this way, they think you have this contraband, this hunter grabbed or nearly-grabbed your friends. Be careful." Outlaws have TVs too, and their show is an open ear in Titan's civilian center to let their old friends know who might be hot on their tail and where it isn't safe to be. They dress up as fishermen but they are, at their hearts, children of the sea, and every Sunday on Channel 65 they'll report on where the lines are dropping to help you slip the hook and keep from becoming the next Catch of the Day.


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