Eve ' Manic Miner' Castigan

Eve Castigan - also known as The Manic Miner - was The Red Knight's boxing champion from 2197 onwards.

An amateur boxer since childhood, Eve is a good-natured soul with a strict code of honour, who likes to resolve her conflicts with her fists.

She left home in Ireland to head to the stars, joining the crew of The Red Knight in late 2196 as part of its mining crew.

Attracted by the idea of becoming the ship's champion boxer, she turned a lifetime of training into a mission and battled her way to the top in short order, taking down any man or woman who stood in her path.

Now, whenever The Red Knight is docked, she will willingly fight for the honour of the ship against all-comers from other ships - either in professional, organised, bouts or in backstreet bars... or somewhere in between.

Admittedly, not the sharpest tool in the box, the six foot tall, muscle-bound, Eve can be a mite gullible at times, her head easily turned by a flirtatious smile from a handsome fellow or a pretty lass.

She may not be the strongest person on board The Red Knight, but she is certainly the most skilled pugilist. This, and her honesty and sense of fair play, means she is generally regarded as the arbiter of shipboard disputes on the lower decks.

Defending the reputation of The Red Knight in a scrapyard brawl on Mimas

Meet Your (Late) Captain

Prior to "the accident", the Captain's Office (adjacent to the Drive Room, on Level 147), was occupied by Captain David Lister.

A former technician on The Red Dwarf, he saved that ship and its crew through his discovery of a faulty drive plate, thus preventing a catastrophic Cadmium II radiation leak.

That brought the life-long London Jets fan to the attention of the JMC top brass and quicker than you can say "up the ziggurat lickedy-split", he was on a fast track to becoming captain.

Captain Lister

After several jags on The Red Dwarf, and now married to a exotic dancer, Crystal (who danced on table nine at The Multiverse strip club on Venus), he was offered the captaincy of the JMC's flagship miner: The Red Knight.

As part of his deal with JMC for saving The Red Dwarf, the mustachioed, cigar-smoking Lister refused the cash settlement he was offered and instead negotiated for shares.

No one could have foreseen that the Dwarf would soon stumble upon a planet rich in Helium-7*, making Lister a fortune.

After returning the Dwarf to Earth one final time, Lister took over the reins of The Red Knight for what would turn out to be a life-changing voyage for most of its crew (i.e. changing them from alive to dead!).

One aspect of his time on Red Dwarf that Captain Lister had transferred with him to the Red Knight was a personal stasis booth in his office, which he used to store food and drink, ensuring it was always fresh.

* Helium-7 is an extremely rare - and thus valuable - natural resource, highly prized by the Jupiter Mining Corporation. However, it was also highly combustible.