The real reason Kallisti Wharf has no enemies.

[BasiliskXVIII]

It's a well-known Easter egg that most of the detectives in the game are references to famous and law enforcement in media:

Freitags and Becktrees are Friday and Streebeck from Dragnet (1987)
Martins and Rogers and Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh from the Lethal Weapon series
Sluggitt and Westbrush are Frank Bullitt (Bullitt) and Harry Callahan (Dirty Harry)
Kowaccio and Frasenbacker are Vecchio/Kowalski and Fraser/Diefenbaker from Due South

Basinns and Coquette are Tubbs and Crockett from Miami Vice
Davids and Hutchinson are David Starsky and Ken Hutchinson from "Starsky and Hutch"
Junkers and Murwell are Rick Deckard (Blade Runner) Alex Murphy (RoboCop)
McLord and Selnum are Steve McGarret (played by Jack Lord in Hawaii 5-0) and Thomas Magnum (Played by Tom Selleck in Magnum PI)

(Detectives Fish and Miller are named for Sean Fish and Matt Miller, former devs for City of Heroes)

I like to believe that somewhere in Kallisti Wharf there isn't a police station, but just a little detective's office. And there, if you could get inside, you'd find two men, eager for work. An older, rumpled-looking man, slumped lazily in his chair, beige trench coat hanging loose over his shoulders like he has been wearing it for decades. His expression is casual, even absentminded, as he stirs sugar into a chipped coffee mug.

Beside him, another man sits, perfectly poised—immaculate three-piece suit, gloves still on, a glass of bourbon untouched at his desk. He leans back in his chair, watching you enter with an amused glint in his eye.

You see, you've found the office of Detective Falk and Detective Craig. Their methods might be unorthodox, but the streets of Kallisti are kept clear, because they know what's going to happen before it even starts.

[El D]

This is a NPC tradition I would love to see continued and this particular pairing is a perfect odd couple. 1000% here for this.

 

"Just one more thing."

"It's never just one more thing!"

"It is for the criminals, Craig."

"Falk, you manage to perplex even me."

"Yeah, I get that a lot. Wanna go get some chili?"

"... Sure. That sounds lovely."

[Go0gleplex]

Funny... I had thought that Fish and Miller from the Barney Miller series I watched back in 1975 based in a NYC PD station on East 6th St in Greenwich Village. Hal Linden as Barney Miller and Abe Vigoda as Phil Fish. 

 

I recognized Freitag as Joe Friday (Jack Webb) from Dragnet...only the original 1954 black and white version / 1967 color re-make I remember watching rather than the '87 comedy. Guess that explains why I couldn't place Becktree... lol  

[Techwright]

I'd be down for a Columbo reference.

 

By the way, Westbrush is a play on Eastwood, Dirty Harry's actor.  I think you might have gotten it a bit muddled when typing it up.

 

There's so many possibilities:

 

Jo "Lolly" Kak  - Bald guy with a lollipop  (and I understand KAK is a gun parts manufacturer.  Double the fun)

Heracles Pear - a little gendarme with a waxed mustache.  (the family name Poirot is apparently derived from the French for "pear")

Castle - wait.  No, not Castle

Carnaby Bones - Barnaby Jones

Dan O. Bookem

E.V.E. 13 a prototype police robot - pun on Adam 12

Officers Martin Mallory and Reed McCord - Adam 12 characters Pete Malloy (actor Martin Milner), Jim Reed (actor Ken McCord)

Officers Pancho Franks and Jonathan Boulanger - CHiPs characters Frank Pancherello and Jon Baker

etc.

 

I'd like to see this play out in other ways too.  Could we get TV pun names on doctors and nurses hanging out in or near hospitals?  Could we maybe get a Gage or a Mantooth with EMT equipment standing with the Fire Chief in the Steel Canyon fire events?

[Go0gleplex]

Given how futuristic Kallisti looks...maybe a good fit would be based off Scully and Mulder from X-files. Dealing super cryptids is just another Tuesday for them. lol

 

Or Francisco and Sikes from Alien Nation...especially fits given the presence of the Rikti and other alien types.

 

 

Edited 7 hours ago by Go0gleplex