'Tabby' Tab-At

Warning spoilers through Straits of Hell.

' Tabby' Tab-At is a female Lemurian from Salissa, a cousin of Chack-Sab-At and Risa-Sab-At. She worked with the Mice on the first oil well and followed them into the fire room of'' USS Walker. '' Amber-eyed with gray, brindled fur she is often described as "pin-up in a cat suit," in the books.

She first appears in in the books in Crusade where she became one of the 'mice'. She enjoys going topless much to 'Spanky' Brad McFarlane's discomfort. She is sweet on "her Spanky' much to his further discomfort. She is promoted to boiler room chief in Distant Thunders.  After saving the ship during a storm and recovering from bad steam burns, she becomes Walker's engineering officer, Lieutenant Tab-At, in Rising Tides when Spanky becomes the XO.  She is Walker's first and only Lemurian officer.

'Tabby' is a capable hard worker and teacher, but gets a touch of reality losing snipes in a fight in USS Walker's below-deck spaces in Deadly Shores where she is a fierce if inexperienced fighter.