*phew*

[center]Delilah Espinosa de Jesús Dominguez del Beltran [b]aka[/b] Deli Beltran 
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[i]An ebullient (epileptic) 21-year-old from Barcelona, Copernicus's proclaimed "Queen of Blowing Shit Up" hopes to find safety for the rest of humanity -- and redemption for herself. Loves people, dancing, sarcasm, and Nütella.[/i][/center] 
[hider=The Nitty Gritty][center][b]Age:[/b] 21 years | [b]Position:[/b] Demolitions 

[b]Virtues:[/b] Inventive, easy-going, brave | [b]Vices (or something):[/b] Stubborn, anti-authoritarian, easily bored/distracted

[b]Motivation:[/b] Redemption...and comic relief | [b]3-Word Nutshell:[/b] Spunky, rebellious, spontaneous

[b]Brief Bio[/b]
Born to a Spanish rocket scientist and a self-proclaimed 'free spirit', Deli is technically the second of four children, and the only girl. Before The Change, and even during, she never took much seriously. She was smart, but never driven, too unapologetically stubborn to succeed in academics or military, like her father and brother before her. She was set to graduate high school at fifteen years old after obtaining an unofficial degree in chemistry and robotics from her father's college. But the idea that she might have to grow up was appalling enough that, for a few months, she ran off with her mother, building animatronic puppets for a sideshow circus.

Her youngest brother, Alfredo, is ten, now asleep on the [i]Copernicus[/i]. Prior to its launch, Fredo had not spoken to anyone in over a year. 

Her oldest brother, Diego, is also a [i]Copernicus[/i] sleeper. He is a severely autistic savant, who tends to be quiet, but is fluent in fourteen different languages. He, along with his sister, comprises one half of the remaining Beltran triplets. 

Her mother was a Frenchwoman, born Adèle Laurant, who changed her name to Gira-Sol (Catalan for [i]sunflower[/i]) after meeting her former husband, Guillermo Beltran. Gira was a singer and circus performer in Spain who doted on her children but, like her daughter, had a very hard time staying still. She became particularly 'unhinged' after an accident one year prior to the launch of the [i]Copernicus[/i], and abandoned her family to become one of the vigilante ecozealots. She has not been seen or heard from since as far as anyone knows. 

The head of the family, Guillermo Beltran, moved his wife and children to America to begin work on the [i]Copernicus[/i]. A genius engineer and renowned (literal) rocket scientist, he was able to secure space aboard the legendary ship in which he had a large part creating. Unfortunately, he never got to see the results of his work. He died one month before the launch. 

Finally, Dacio Beltran, the once-golden boy of his family, and the youngest of the triplets. Something of a prodigy in his own right, Dacio and Deli were best friends, even when the younger dropped out of secondary school in her final year -- Dacio had always blamed himself for that, as he graduated at fifteen and completed schooling at the Polytechnics University of Catalonia by seventeen, bolstered along the way by the crisis The Change had presented. He had been with the demolitions unit of the Spanish Armed forces just a few months when their father moved them to America. Shortly after that, he returned to his bunk one day to find his sister with a smuggled pile of electronics and explosives. 

In the six months following the death of her brother and best friend, Deli retreated into herself, making an effort, for the first time in her life, to be better than she was. Her expertise, her will, and a fair amount of nepotism, found her a spot on the demolitions team that would blow out the side of the Mountain before the [i]Copernicus's[/i] launch. 

Deli has more or less returned to herself, boisterous, irreverent, hard-headed. But to her, Dacio's death -- and her father's -- still feel very recent. And she's never forgotten his last words to her as she tried to shove his insides back [i]inside[/i]:

[i]Prengui el meu lloc, germaneta. Troba una estrella per a mi.

Take my place, little sister. Find a star for me.[/i] 

She doesn't talk about Dacio often. But the tattoo on her back -- a field of stars that disappear over her shoulders, emblazoned by the words [i]caos dins[/i], chaos within -- was inspired by him. And a Nietzsche quote: "You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star."[/center][/hider]

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Secondaries: Both WIPs for the time-being

[center]Maya Elizabeth Coleman
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[i]Jamaican-born and naturalized, Maya Coleman is the last in a long line of military pilots. There was never any other option for her but the Copernicus. She believes in justice, duty, and honor above self, and can't stand to see a job half done. She has no family aboard the Copernicus, which is just fine by her.[/i][/center] 
[hider=The Nitty Gritty][center][b]Age:[/b] 41 years | [b]Position:[/b] Pilot [currently flying section two of the [i]Copernicus[/i]][/center][/hider]

[center]Ha-neul Bae Park 
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[i]Ha-neul Bae Park, known in recent years as simply Park, was a reverend as a small church in Seoul, South Korea, for thirty five years before a mysterious and life-changing event prompted him to move to the States. He obtained his MD in psychiatry from Berkeley and opened a pro bono practice in Oakland, California. He was commissioned to the Copernicus as a therapist and psychiatric consultant. [/i][/center] 
[hider=The Nitty Gritty][center][b]Age:[/b] 66 years | [b]Position:[/b] Ship Shrink and Unofficial Pastor[/center][/hider]