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 > Mavriq d’Agenais

Physical Description 
 > Without his ultravinyl glossy white lab coat and polynylon satchel, both laden with an assortment of diagnostic devices, Mavriq would be difficult to pluck from a crowd. Short brown hair spirals from the pate of his his vaguely bulbous head, black square-rimmed spectacles pinch his nostrils and conceal his hazel eyes and thin brows, and his clean-shaven skin drifts between alabaster and tawny dependent on the place of and time since his last vacation. When he moves, it seems his lanky limbs scurry rather than stride, an image accentuated by his hunched posture that diminishes his otherwise average height.

Purpose
 > While still a scientist, Mavriq is foremost a government employee. His focus is the defense of Earth, its Origin government, and the institutions thereof. Still, the gears of bureaucracy turned slowly, and his arrival in orbit around Derelict aboard a navy stellar-outrigger class battleship -- an enormous vessel unnecessarily complemented by a planet-cracking arsenal -- accompanied Origin’s course correction from containment to regulation. That hardly mattered to him. The transformation of Maasym’s star system from frontier to surveillance state was work suited to thugs and bean counters. As a scientist, his work was more important: namely, determine Derelict’s threat level to humanity and glean from it any useful data, particularly anything with potential military applications.

History:
> Origin was, in the context of human history, the only stable inter-planetary government institution. The planet Luyten c, colloquially known as Fenris, was a member. Such was true for nearly every planet colonized in the aftermath of humanity’s cosmic diaspora. Colonies occasionally rebelled, but eventually they crawled back to Origin’s economic security and stability: for good reason, as food and other natural resources came from planets closely guarded by Origin’s interstellar navy. Fortunately for Mavriq, Fenris, his birth planet, was bountiful in natural resources. Unfortunately, that almost always implied conscription.

Granted, there were benefits to service, even for a conscript. As long as he fulfilled his full term and was honorably discharged, full citizenship was guaranteed along the rights thereof: the rights to vote, run for public office, smoke in public, solicit licensed escorts, and so forth. Meanwhile, he was well-compensated, given opportunities to travel -- particularly to their almost legendary home-planet, Earth -- and continued his education in science; specifically, xenothropology.

Two decades into his research, it seemed his career path was futile. While he took pride in his research; pride in Origin’s bureaucracy that availed him shelter, stipend, and laboratory; and pride in his familial heritage of intelligence and lust for knowledge, there was no evidence that his labors would ever yield any fruit. Whispers became rumors, which morphed into paranoia, and he feared that Origin’s faith in him was as enervated as his faith in his own work. All this time, and not a single planet in a hundred light years of Earth, much less Fenris, hinted at any signs of alien intelligence. Then, finally, a breakthrough: the call he, in the twenty-two years since his matriculation eagerly awaited: a summons to investigate an alien megastructure: Derelict.[/code]
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