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Name: Devin (Devin Terrall if he's posing as a human)

Title/ rank: None (He is assigned to the ship, but is secondary to all sapient crew, starting with the noble family)

Common name: Devin

Species: Android

Species description: An artificial lifeform.  While he was designed to mimic humans, including the ability to consume organic food and convert carbohydrates and proteins into electricity and excrete what's left, the fact that his brain is electronically based means that he can directly interface with computers.  His internal power supply only lasts for 48 hours without recharge.  His reaction time is only 10ms, as opposed to human times of 150 to 250ms, and he has superior hand eye coordination.
Other than the limited battery life, he is also limited by a modified version of the three laws of robotics:
1) He may not directly injure a sapient being or, through inaction, allow a sapient being under its protection to come to harm.  
2) A robot must obey orders given it by a sapient being that is superior to it in its chain of command, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.  
3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
 
Age: He was constructed at the Cyrian City University by Dr. Hymiah and given to the royal family as a gift upon the birth of their daughter Fara.  He appears to be a human male in his mid twenties.

Gender: Anatomically male

Appearance: [img]https://www.samishleather.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Detroit-Connor-Jacket-450x600.jpg[/img]
5'8" tall, Brown hair and eyes, medium build.  He was designed to look as average and nonthreatening as possible, even down to his mannerisms.  He usually wears basic dress clothes befitting a servant of the royal family, though aboard a military ship he may wear a standard military uniform or even a dress uniform for special occasions.

Personality: Determined to aid those he is sworn to protect.  He does occasionally like to correct people on their mistakes, but isn't too harsh about it, as human emotional upset could be seen as harm to them.

Skills:  He was designed as a servant and tutor robot, but can apply much of his technical knowledge to real life. Skills he currently has loaded:  Piloting, Mechanical Engineering, Physics

Equipment: He has a standard ionic stun pistol, for use in an emergency.  It causes extreme pain to those targeted, but will only kill if the person is already near death.
Other than this, he has only what the ship has available.

Background: He was originally built to test a new prototype sentient AI brain, but when the tests showed a problem in its core design which caused rapid degradation, they had to go back to scratch.  Dr. Hymiah managed to stabilize it, but much of its function was lost.  The damaged sections were repaired by grafting a non-sentient military AI's behavior core into his brain, and his chain of command was designated as the royal family lineage.
He was loaded with technical data from the university and sent to the Royal Family as a gift from Dr. Hymiah, where he was meant to act as a tutor to their children.  The fragments of his prototype brain allows him to understand psychology far better than most non-sentient AI, but appears to have no other benefit over a standard non-sentient military brain.
Even with that shortcoming, he declared his alliance to the Empire of the Third Sun, and to the royal family upon his transfer to them.
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Name: Kyle Johansen

Title/ rank: Lieutenant

Common name: Lt. Johansen

Species: Drocar/ human hybrid

Species description: 81% of his DNA is Reptilian.  He has inner eyelids to protect against glare and salt water.  His eyes can see into the infrared, so he is able to see heat signatures like an IR sensor.  While a human starts experiencing hypoxia at 5000 ppm atmospheric CO2 content he is able to breath normally at up to 12000 ppm. He can also breath normally with 10% lower oxygen content in the air than humans require.
The Drocar DNA isn't perfectly compatible with the human segments, though, which has left him with an autoimmune disorder.  He has to get monthly injections of immuno-nanites to prevent him from succumbing to disease, as it could be fatal.

Age: 17/ low 20s human equivalent

Gender: Male

Appearance: [img]http://paranoidechochamber.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/maxresdefault-1-724x1024.jpg[/img]
He is only 5'2" tall and usually wears a military jumpsuit like the engineers.

Personality: He likes learning about other cultures and species.  He's inquisitive and determined, but knows how to take a hint if you want him to leave you alone.

Skills: Linguistics (he has an extremely strong talent for this), Computers, electronic security, communications technology

Equipment: Nanotube weave armor, Dual type Ion pistol (can be set to stun to render people unconscious or kill to superheat the area where they are hit, severely injuring him)

Background: Two thousand years ago deep space scouts came across an almost ideal world in a trianary star system, the world which would eventually become the homeworld of the Empire of the Third Star. The CO2 levels were a bit high, the oxygen a bit low, and the planet a bit warm, but the planet already had native life on it, as well as the ruins of an alien settlement.  The planet was terraformed to be inhabitable by humans in only a few decades and scientists quickly began studying the ruins, soon followed by colonists.

The study of the ruins was remarkably slow, however, as even with two thousands years of study the xenoarcheologists were unable to decipher the most common language in the ruins.  One of those archeologists, Dr. Fredrick Johansen, had a radical plan, however.  They had genetic samples of seven of the reptilian aliens who lived here, taken from their graves.  He had a geneticist friend at Cyrian City University combine the DNA from multiple samples into a stable code, using Dr. Johansen's own DNA for the parts where they didn't have enough stable material, then grow the resulting being in an artificial womb.  Dr. Johansen adopted the child as his son, naming him Kyle and educated him in xenoarcheology and the native beings as soon as he was able to begin school.

Kyle learned and grew more quickly than a human child and, at the age of eight, was able to decipher enough of the alien language that the archeologists could decipher the rest.  The alien race's name, the Drocar, was taken from another race's language, as the Drocar written language is pictographic, not phenographic.  Kyle learned to decrypt the Drocar datacrystals found in the ruins, discovering a talent for it, and, as he was no longer needed at the ruins, his father allowed him to join the military's Deep Space division.  He hoped to find additional Drocar ruins or even a colony, though he knew that was unlikely.

He took his oath to the Empire of the Third Star and was assigned as communications officer aboard the RES Aurora.

Other stuff: Sometimes he has dreams of the planet the way it used to be, and the Drocar that used to live here.  Very rarely these dreams don't just stay on this world, and switch to another rainforest world.  The second world feels modern, somehow, and both types of dream feel entirely real, as if he was awake but in a different body.
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