Chapter 1
Peter was born on earth, a small Terran boy who only got to spend 8 of his years learning the ways of his ancestors. In those years he learned two things. One, he wasn't human he was a ghoul. Two, cassette players are awesome, also outlaws are badass (but that's beside the point).
When he was abducted by an actual intergalactic space ship ran by outlaws he learned another two things. One, When aliens threaten to eat you they're not being serious and you shouldn't eat them in retaliation. Two, being a ravager, outlaw, half-ghoul that travels space in search of treasure, women, and the finest of alien meats is considerably more badass than any outlaw he could imagine on earth.
Being a ghoul in space may sound difficult. Trust me, it's not as hard as it sounds. Most Aliens taste just as good as human, some even better (others much much worse), it's also very unlikely that the intergalactic police is going to start searching for one missing star traveler. So it's easier... most of the time. Sometimes, for instance right now, when you're on a one-week long galavant through one of the more abandoned parts of the galaxy and realize halfway through you didn't bring near enough food. At that point, you have a choice, turn around and wait for the ravager family that you may have betrayed and stolen coordinates from to catch-up and lock you in the brig for a week or two or keep going forwards. Third choice, eat Bereet, that beautiful alien woman that had stowed along looking for a safe ride away from her home planet and for the company of one Peter 'Star-lord' Quill yesterday. And while the third choice became more and more tempting by the hour (Bereet was just too nice to eat) he stuck with option Two: Starve himself for three days as he neared the orb.
It was quite the time really. He was very proud of himself for that one, and by 'that one' he means 'being able to withstand starvation for that long as she just sat there eating away at the jerking she had brought, rubbing the ability to eat anything in his face like it was her daughters A+' but tomato, tomato.
But he had made it, he was seconds away from the largest bounty he had scene in a while.