PERRY CALLISTO

Callisto is a career criminal, pure and simple.  A rogue and scoundrel, Callisto was sentenced to “double life without parole” on COLONY for being  deemed as morally unsalvageable.

Born on Earth, Callisto was in trouble from the day he was born. At 13 years old, his mother put him in a juvenile center when he was judged to be unmanageable by the courts. He ran away within a year back to his mother, who still wanted nothing to do with him. As a result, by 2212, he began living on the streets of the melded city districts of the San Diego/Los Angeles Metroplex, supporting himself primarily by stealing. After a long string of arrests and escapes, Callisto was sent to a Mars prison for piloting a stolen starship through restricted shipping lines. By the end of 2222, he had eight felony assault charges against him while in prison. He was transferred to another penal facility on Europa where he suddenly became a model inmate and was eventually released in 2225.  However, he was soon arrested  2226 for weapons smuggling and he was back in prison until his daring escape in 2230.

Callisto had spent most of his adult life in jail, for every offense possible from theft and credit fraud to assault with a deadly weapon. He also worked some time as a pimp. He was finally deemed by the Confederate courts as a “menace to society” and was permanently remanded to the Colony facility on Erus.

Within a year, Callisto swiftly took command of his cell tier and rose to the leadership of the Millennium Mafia by brutally assassinating its leader—Eddie ‘Scrodum’ Nichols.

Callisto is a doper and a headbanger— totally without scruples.  He has no love for the Confederacy—but also holds no loyalty to anyone but himself. He’s what the other convicts  in Colony refer to as a “Poochscrewer”—the worst kind of inmate.

Perry is the prison’s blackmarket entrepreneur—controlling the trade in all types of contraband or providing “questionable services” (smuggling, assassinations, etc.).

  When the final revolt comes to Colony, Perry’s loyalties will be the huge question mark.  Callisto’s allegiances could swing the pendulum toward one side—or the other.

In the end, Callisto will shock the entire cast of the story, at a moment of ultimate crisis, by doing something that will shift the balance of power on Colony forever.