Smuggler

"We're just a couple of humble smugglers, unfairly hunted and persecuted wherever we go!"

- The Smuggler

The Smuggler was a some sort of outlaw, always accompanied by his pet parrot, who sold various goods to Ratchet in Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction and Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty. For instance, in Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction he traded Ratchet bolts in exchange for Leviathan Souls. You would also give him holo-plans to make the RYNO IV. In Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time, the Smuggler returned. He could be found in space. the Smuggler tells you to meet him at Axiom City Spaceport to construct RYNO V from your Holo-Plans.

Biography
He once won a Blargian Roulette game against Captain Slag for the little red parrot he had (it almost cost him his one good eye). He also gave Ratchet the Gelanator, Gyro Cycle, Decrypter, and RYNO IV. He worked out a deal that if Ratchet and Clank got the gel plant running again, which was shut down by Tachyon, he would give them a ride off the planet Kortog. When they got to Stratus City, he dumped them out of his ship to save himself from being vaporized by a detection system that detected Ratchet because he was a Lombax. Later in the game the duo encountered the Smuggler on the Apogee Space Station who gave them the launch code to the shuttle for Leviathan Souls. Later on Rykan V he gave them the Gyro Cycle for 5000 bolts. On Sargasso he gave them the Decrypter for more souls. As soon as they found all the holo plans in the game, they returned to the Smuggler on Sargasso and received the RYNO IV, the most powerful weapon in the game, which keeps the schematics.

Ratchet encountered the Smuggler on Merdegraw in Quest for Booty, who sold him a bolt crank component, took him to Darkwater Cove (for a fee, of course), returned Ratchet's missing Predator Launcher and Nano-Swarmers, and sold the Alpha Disruptor back to him.

The Smuggler was also in A Crack in Time, where when Ratchet found him in space, gave him side quests. Ratchet could also give him the Holo-Plans for the RYNO V, the most powerful weapon in the game. If Ratchet gave him the full holo-plan, he would build the weapon for him.

Triva

 * The Smuggler seemed to have some resemblence to a Slademan, Gleeman Vox's Species, due to a similar appearence, though this is extremely unlikely.
 * For an unknown reason the Smuggler's parrot did not appear in A Crack in Time, he may have died during the events.

Appearances

 * Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction
 * Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty
 * Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time