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Name: Almira Gunnarsson Budiman

Age: 347

Gender Identity: Female

Married/ Unmarried: Married to a Female, 5 children (don't ask her how)

Occupation: Captain of the Thucydides (current), Board Member at a Swedish IT Company (former), member of Indonesian Parliament 2124-2129 (former), Lieutenant Colonel serving the Indonesian 1st Cavalry Battalion (former).

Place of Residence: Bandung, West Java, Southeast Asia Region.

Appearance: Possessing dark skin typical of an Indonesian woman, Almira has a well toned body with noticeable 'red scars' running throughout her body. A result from the genetics modifications she endured as her time serving in the Indonesian army, her typical attire when working is that of a short skirt with a yellow vest, concealing a white shirt with a blue tie inside. She is also seen carrying a guitar case whenever field missions are being conducted. Inside of the case lies an Assault Rifle and various sets of survival equipment just in case.

Her formal attire consists of a two piece set of clothing, a white short and a white vest, along with belts around her thighs and the signature hat that signifies her rank as Captain. The outfit would typically be out of regulation, but times have changed significantly after her birth, and any alterations of service uniforms. As long as they indicate rank (in her case the hat) is acceptable under current regulations. Admittedly her alterations to the typical service uniform is pretty extreme, but she likes the design, and decided to keep it for now.

The short white hair is actually a result of 'natural' aging. Almira herself has been living a life for such a long time, a natural result of taking anti-aging medicine throughout her very long life. The one side effect that she cannot control is the whitening of her hair, she decided to keep the white hair for aesthetical reasons though. Not liking the various new coloured hair schemes most young people in the 2400s are into nowadays.

History:



Cybernetic/ Genetical Enhancements:
- Red Scars: The Red Scars are a side effect from the mandated Indonesian army genetical enhancement program for the year 2100. A series of serum injections and operations done to her has made her visibly stronger and possessing quicker reflexes than the average person. Almira is more than capable of conducting feats of strength like lifting whole cars and punching robots into disrepair without no problem.
- Bunny Ears: This is just pure aesthetics on her part. She thinks that it's cute, and the Bunny ears do grant her a degree of enhanced hearing to a certain extent, complimenting her existing human ears even more.

Skills:
- Former soldier: This is possibly her strongest skillset. A veteran of the Last War. Almira is a capable soldier, able to shoot multiple weapons and also proficient with certain martial arts such as Pencak Silat. Give her a weapon, some supplies, and a task, and she will do it to utmost perfection.
- Former Politician: A master at negotiating and settling disputes, her time spent at the Indonesian parliament in Jakarta has granted her various skills in talking with people, she also highly values loyalty, and will try her best to ensure that her crew's loyalty will not shake under any circumstances (this includes annual parties in the ship's mess hall).
- Captain of a ship: Obviously a skill she will automatically get. Her time spent in the Thucydides has granted her a deep understanding of the ship's capabilities and kinks, she knows which rounds works best against which training dummy, which missile mixture is the best for penetrating shield barriers and CIWS, and of course. Know how to maintain and operate an Explorator under almost any circumstances.

Reason for joining the crew of the Thucydides: Well, she's the Captain. Obviously she has command of the ship and a task has been given to her from the Admiralty. She's not really a person to say no to yet another expedition, already doing 5 expeditions during her time in command of the Thucydides.

Miscellaneous Facts:
- Her track record as member of parliament puts her firmly in the progressive camp of the Indonesian parliament. Strongly advocating for minority rights, workers rights and integration into the Commonwealth, many observers from that time point to her rhetoric as one of the key factors for Indonesia becoming a signatory member of the Commonwealth of Humanity.
- Her command of the 1st Cavalry Battalion was instrumental during the 'Last War'. Her Cavalry Battalion was often tasked as the spearhead of many armoured pushes around Southern China.
- Her personal hobbies include playing games, travelling across the worlds of the Commonwealth, listening and understanding different people and their lives, and cute things like teddy bears and cats.
- She's able to speak 4 languages, Swedish, English, Indonesian, and Mandarin Chinese.

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Name: Sumiye King

Age: 36

Gender Identity: Female

Relationship Status: Single

Occupation: Senior Engineer

Place of Residence: The Thucydides (Current); Austin, Texas (Former)

Appearance: Sumiye stands at roughly 5’ 8” tall and has an average build; her shoulders and arms are well muscled due to her constant work with machinery, but aside from this she is not particularly athletic. Her heritage gives her complexion an olive tone, but her skin is a little on the pale side from time spent mostly indoors or on long trips in space. Tattoos cover her left arm and shoulder while her right arm is prosthetic, replaced voluntarily years ago to give herself an advantage over the competition. The casing of her prosthetic is the same as that of her skin, but from a glance it is obvious that it is made out of metal or plastic and it has visible joints and seams.

Black hair falls to chin length, not quite reaching her shoulders, and is often messily tied back into a ponytail or a topknot to keep it out of her face. Her facial features are soft and round, while the shape of her face itself is angular; a round nose, round eyes and large lips sit on a face with sharp cheekbones and a pointed chin. The skin of her hands and arms, her real one anyway, is covered in little scars, burn marks or callouses from working with tools and machinery and her fingertips are stained an almost permanent shade of black from years.

History: The only daughter of an American father and a Japanese mother, Sumiye was born and raised in Austin, Texas. With the birth of the Commonwealth and mankind’s expansion into the stars, the state had become home to a number of “dry docks” used to construct and even launch spaceships both military and civilian due to its size and large areas of uninhabited land; even though the city she grew up in wasn’t exactly close to any of these shipyards, the ships themselves were large enough that she was able to see them blast into the sky regularly as she was growing up.

Like most children she was fascinated by them and like many children she wanted to be a pilot when she was young. When she was a little older and she learned that ships of that size didn’t usually have just a single pilot, she changed her mind to wanting to become a ship captain instead. That idea fell through as well, mostly because over time Sumiye began to realise that she hated the idea of being in charge of so many people like that; being a captain was a huge responsibility, not the kind of fun adventure she had first imagined it would be.

Her fascination with ships and space travel in general continued however and as a teen she instead turned her attention to learning how they worked and how they were put together. Upon graduating high school she attended university to study engineering, earning a degree in Astronautics while minoring in whatever other courses took her interest. Her first job as a new graduate was at one of the same shipyards whose ships she used to stare at as a child, helping to build freighters for the civilian sector; big, blocky ugly things that taught her a lot about what working on a real ship was like. After a couple years she transferred to a military shipyard where she got to work of various types of warships; just as big, a little less blocky and closer in design to the civilian ships than she would have expected.

A few more years passed and she was recommended for a position as an engineer on a newly built cruiser being launched in a few months; she would be hired as a civilian contractor, meaning she wouldn’t have to join the military, but the idea of serving on a military vessel far away from her home planet was still something that concerned her. After much deliberation and a few conversations with her parents she decided to accept the offer, but not before getting her arm replaced with a prosthetic that would help her do her job.

Working on an active ship was a very different experience to what she was doing before; less to do with putting a ship together and more concerned with keeping it together. Diagnosing problems rather than working to a blueprint, maintaining systems so they didn’t break down, rigorously checking everything because a single mistake could mean being stranded in the cold void of space, scrambling to fix the things they didn’t catch so they weren’t stranded in the cold void of space. A monotonous yet high stress job broken up by occasional moments of chaos. She thrived there and in the year that she worked on the cruiser she impressed the chief engineer enough that when he was redeployed to an Exploratory vessel he recommended her for a job alongside him and asked her to come along. That was how she joined the crew of the Thucydides just before their third expedition and this is now her third time flying with them.

Cybernetic/Genetic Enhancements: Sumiye’s right arm has been replaced by a prosthetic which was intended to assist her with her work as a mechanic and engineer. It is not build from strength or durability, though it better at both than her old flesh and blood was, and is instead fitted with a number of sensors and instruments that let her feel what is going on with the machinery around her.

Skills: As a senior engineer working with the Thucydides crew, it is expected that Sumiye possess the requisite skills and experience to fill the role. As a civilian contractor hired by the Commonwealth government she has been assigned to the Thucydides or ships like it for years and has been on many voyages in deep space before; though none quite like this one.

She has extensive, in-depth knowledge of the Thucydides and its inner workings and in particular was in charge of the team responsible for maintaining the ships main and manoeuvring thrusters. Not the FLT drive though; you can blame that on someone else. Her skill set is eclectic, having worked on a lot of different ships in a lot of different places, but she specialises in astronautics and more generally in mechanical engineering.

Reason for joining the crew of the Thucydides: Because the pay is amazing for someone of her skillset and because the Commonwealths Exploratory vessels are often some of the most advances in their fleet. It would be foolish to turn down the career opportunity to work as an engineer on a mission such as this.

Miscellaneous Facts: Sumiye is an avid painter in her spare time, though she doesn’t often get to express it while working on spaceships with limited room for luxuries.

Name
Khaltesh Anki du Oberia

Title
- Scion of Gaea
- 2nd Princess of Oberia

Informal Moniker
"Living Doll"
"The Darker Princess"
"Pint-sized Juggernaut"

Age
4 years old

Gender Identity
Technically none, often identified as female due to appearance

Marital Status
Single

Occupation
Royal Mage

Residency
Vhamos-Tyrr, Capital of Oberia

Appearance
An artificial sentient construct made of gears, reinforced steel skeleton and frame, and malleable magically-enchanted porcelain as her skin, Anki is mostly human in appearance. Indeed it would have been easy to mistake her for a human, if not for the fact that her entire body with the exception of her head is very obviously artificial in nature; black porcelain trimmed and decorated with light brown metal. Combined with the typical Gothic inspired style of dress that she is apt to wear, she very much fits the image of one of her informal moniker: "Living Doll".

Standing at 150cm (4 feet 11 inches) tall combined with a thin and slender frame, she is unmistakably quite petite. This can be rather misleading however, as she weights a total of exactly 100kg. Her "skin" is perfectly unblemished, the porcelain surface smooth and without even the slightest hint of imperfection. Due to the magical enchantment put into them, these porcelain surface also feels just like a human skin would to the touch. The same can be said of her hair, artificially made to perfectly mirror the silky texture of a very well cared for human hair. Even her eyes were made to be identical to real human eyes despite being made of enchanted glass and jewels. All in all, these perfections both served to make her entrancingly beautiful while at the same time also unmistakably unnatural.

She made for a contrasting duo with her "older sister" Spenta Armaiti. Whereas Anki can be called as having dark hues as her color theme, Armaiti is characterized as having bright hues instead.

Character & Personality
Anki is best described as being very calm, calculated, and observant; giving her the impression of being quiet and not very much one for socializing. In reality, she does not have any aversion towards interacting with other people; it is merely that she is placid in temperament. Highly intelligent and mature despite her young age, she also possessed a tempered sort of curiosity common among the academically brilliant. It is not surprising then that she very much enjoys reading, and if there is such thing that can be called as a hobby for her then it is unmistakably this very act.

Despite her maturity and serenity however, she does not shy away from shows of affection that can be seen as childish by some. While she is not particularly facially expressive of her emotions, she instead shows this with physical contact, readily hugging and clinging to those she deems as her precious people. In her belief, such actions are not at all childish, but are instead honest and true to herself.

Character Story
Anki was "born" in the Empire of Oberia, a country known for being one of the academic capitals of Friestan and one of the most advanced as well especially in terms of magic. Sentient constructs like herself are somewhat common in the Empire, courtesy of Emperor Tiberius Oberon himself who pioneered the very procedure that allowed for such miraculous creations. As a highly extraordinary and esteemed academic himself, Tiberius had managed to learn from his long years of academic researches and studies to combine mundane industrial processes such as steel working with the magical arts of Alchemy and Divine Magic. The mundane works created the vessel, Alchemy bestowed life to the vessel, and Divine Magic allowed a sentient mind to dwell within the newly living vessel. And with it all combined, a true sentient life emerged into existence.

As stated above, sentient constructs like herself are common in the Empire. Sentient constructs specifically of her kind however, are the opposite. Aside from Anki herself, there had only ever been one other "Living Doll", her "older sister" Spenta Armaiti. They are special in three particular ways. One, despite sentient constructs in general being unable to use magic, Anki and Armaiti are capable of using magic by utilizing the naturally occurring mana from the environment itself. Two, they are significantly more "human" than most other sentient constructs. Three, they are both adopted as daughters to the Emperor himself, making them of among the highest ranked of sentient constructs within the Empire. The Emperor is unmarried(and completely uninterested to do so) and without a child of his own, and he felt a fatherly affection towards Anki and Armaiti.

Despite her still short four years of life, Anki had achieved things that most people far older than herself would be hard pressed to achieve. Due to her immense potential for magic, she had became the Scion of Gaea, apprentice to the Lord of Gaea. The Lord of Gaea is one of the four Lords of Elemental, the four most powerful mages named as Royal High Mage by the Emperor himself. Many in the Empire and beyond had opined that considering her potentials, it is above all else mostly a matter of time and experience before she will achieve a level of magical prowess required to be a Lord of Elemental herself.

Regardless of all else, one thing pertaining to Anki can be said with near certainty: She is very young still, with near unlimited possibilities laid in front of her as she paved her own destiny.

Abilities
- Geomancy: An elemental magical art pertaining to the control and manipulation of the earth element. Anki is highly skilled as a Geomancer, capable of fine control and manipulation of the element. This ability of hers is enhanced further when she used it in tandem with Ur Terra, her magical scepter. Without Ur Terra, she can easily create a large 2 meter tall golem out of soil and stone, conjure a localized earthquake, or turn solid earthen ground into mud. With Ur Terra, she can instead create an even mightier 3 meter tall golem, conjure a bigger and more violent earthquake, or split open the ground to swallow and crush an opponent under it. Furthermore, the unnatural perfection of her body and skin mentioned before was also in part a product of her own Geomancy ability as she can easily fix or replace damaged parts of her own body; given enough time and concentration it is then possible to make the repair perfect.

- Armed Fighting: Ur Terra is no mere magical scepter. It is also made of highly durable materials making it suitable as a blunt weapon. While Anki's martial skills would be no match for an experienced fighter who dedicated themselves to their fighting art, she is still very well capable of defending herself even without relying on magic.

- Pint-sized Juggernaut: Despite her petite stature, being made of enchanted metal and porcelain made Anki significantly stronger and tougher than what a human can naturally achieve. Combined with her Geomancy allowing herself to strengthen the materials of her own body even further, it was unsurprising that she was given this moniker by those who had witnessed what she is physically capable of.

Reason for accepting this task
She wasn't so much as being told to investigate the mysterious meteor that had crashed within Dragonspire as she decided to investigate it out of her own will. It was instead her that asked for permission from her father the Emperor and her mentor the Lord of Gaea to be allowed to go on an expedition to investigate the crash. They gave the permission with a condition: She may not go on this expedition alone. Instead, she is to join up with other highly capable individuals who were also sent to investigate the crash by other countries allied with the Empire.

Miscellaneous Facts
- While there are now many individuals capable of making sentient constructs within the Empire, Anki and Armaiti were both personally created by the Emperor himself.

- While she is indeed the younger one of the two, Anki is in fact only a day younger than Armaiti.

- Despite(or perhaps exactly due to) not needing nor capable of actually eating or drinking, she is quite curious about the whole "ingestion of nutrients" thing that virtually all non-construct living being partakes in.

- She, like all other sentient constructs of the Empire, is capable of sleeping and in fact need to do so. Her form of sleeping is notably different than sleeping for other people; whereas non-construct living being sleep as part of their physical body's needs, Anki sleep to preserve the sentient mind given to her by the Divine Magic used during her creation. She required about 3 hours of sleep a day, and prolonged deprivation of sleep slowly but surely make her mind muddy and slow.

- Anki is very fond of plant lives, something that she had always felt even before her affinity for Geomancy was discovered.

- Her dressing style was due to her caregiver thinking it "fits such an adorable princess" instead of it being Anki's own decision. Having been dressed in Gothic inspired fashion since her "birth", she just never thought to try anything different.

Age: 22/135 (22 years of confirmed sentience, 135 total years of experiences)

Gender Identity: female

Relationship status: In a loosely connected long distance polycule. She’d describe it as “something of a mess, but plenty of fun nonetheless ; )”

Occupation:
Q-T’s is an Astronaut, which is a term used for people whose main skills are being good at EVA missions, be it in space or on exoplanets. If it's hostile to human life, Q-T is trained to go out there and get whatever job you need done.

Place of Residence:
Q-T hails from Epsilon Eridani Beta, one of the earlier human colonies settled on a world orbiting around one of the closest sol like stars to earth. Specifically from E2BA-3 (Epsilon Eridani Beta Arcology 3, also known as Threetherton) a massive self contained habitat built on the systems one semi habitable planet that is undergoing a prolonged transforming effort to render it 100% habitable for human life. She has spent most of the last few years of her life on various ships and stations, never staying on one long enough for it to be considered home and so, as a result, if asked she’d still call Threetherton her home.

Appearance:
Q-T’s body is a 2 meter tall mass of red painted metal, carbon nano-fibers and even more exotic materials with somewhat ape-like dimensions. It sports 4 long and powerful limbs, each host to 2 fingers and a thumb, and is carried by two legs that are horse like in structure, but end with those same hands as her arms, simply curled up into fist/hoof arrangement, allowing them to be used for manipulation or climbing far better than a static or human foot would be.

She is about the size of a chimp, if considerably more bulky

Her torso sports a bulky rear section, which houses most of her power generation and storage systems, while the front sports a flattened dome screen, which can be used to display visual information. Above this are a pair of antenna like aerials, which are attached to a pair of small rotatable bases. While these are of course meant for digital data transfer, be it signals or displaying things like maps or recordings, Q-T also utilizes them for emotional communication.

She can be quite expensive even with just the antenna, utilizing them like some animals use their ears, but the main way of indicating emotion is by displaying simplified expressions and emotes on her face screen. She has even hooked up a system to make these emotional communications independent and impulsive rather than under her thumb, having about as much control as humans have, creating an authentic display of her inner state rather than a coldly calculated display put on purely for the human’s benefit.

Generally seen smiling

History:
Q-T was ‘born’ within an Ai Nursery Mainframe owned by the Brackman Foundation on Epsilon Eridani beta.

The Brackman Foundation itself is somewhere between corporation, charity, AI worker’s union and extended family responsible for the creation of Q-T’s style of artificial intelligences. It is named after the late Dr Brackman, who discovered the method of creation of her kind or, to be more accurate, the person first identified the development of actual real intelligence occurring within the oldest of his at the time employer’s neural net AIs.

To cut a long story short, rather than report this event and risk the new intelligence’s destruction at the hand of reactionary corporate interests he instead began fostering that sentience while also educating them beyond the bounds of their intended purpose, which eventually resulted in the first Artificial intelligence worker’s strike in history.

Fast forward to the current day and after many titles and tribulations Brackman type Ai’s have gained complete citizenship rights within the federation, legally equal in every way to the humans they work and live alongside.

A Brackman Ai begins life as a general purpose non sentient Ai, and is then run for extended periods within the time accelerated environment of the Ai Nursery Mainframe. Decades of service handling a combination of carefully created artificial problems and real world data eventual results in the neural net gaining sentience (this is still not an exact science and so the time this takes can vary greatly, but is generally a significant amount of time) after which they are further raised as a true person within the Mainframe till they feel ready to acquire a physical body and enter the real world. Due to the nature of the VR world and the Arcology which hosts it’s own extensive mixing of the real and virtual world throughout its physical structure, this is not always a path taken and indeed, some have never left the mainframe.

Q-T took 117 years to develop sentience (the identifying incident that ‘proved’ her sentience was the creation of a set of solar system simulations for recreational purposes), and then spent another 12 within the mainframe learning what it meant to be a person and going through the later half of the federation education system alongside human students, both for the sake both of broadening her learning and to create something of a shared baseline of experience with humanity.

Q-T exited this environment and into the real world with a dream of space, and it was one that she pursued with singular vigor, using years of VR training, decades of experience with astrological data and a specially designed body to get herself the employment necessary to break out into orbit and onward to distant stars.

Since then Q-T has zigzagged between positions, working everything from search and rescue to space dock engineer to hazard world prospecting to gain the breadth of references necessary to get onto an explorer vessel and really get out there. Being built like a tank and infinitely more survivable than a squishy human certainly helped her prospects too. She's only been with them for one mission, but is looking forwards to many more.

Body Capabilities:
Mechanical chassis: Q-T’s body is a hostile environment frame designed for EVA missions, be it in space itself or on exo-planets and is thus built to be highly durable and resistant to extreme environments. Capable of operating anywhere from the gravity-less vacuum of space to planets blanked in acidic atmospheres with multiple times the earth’s gravity, their body is as a byproduct both incredibly strong and incredibly resistant to most mundane sources of harm.

Mechanised Limbs: Q-T’s four arms are capable of true multitasking unlike humans, thanks to each sporting a small sub-processor and sensor array that allow them to execute tasks for Q-T’s core intelligence. These arms are perfectly dexterous and each pair has the strength of a silver-back gorilla (about 9 times that of a human). Also like those animals, she can use her arms to knuckle walk for increased land speed and, thanks both to her many arms and hand-like feet, she is a deft climber as long as what she is climbing can support her body weight.

BlackBox Core: Q-T’s actual mind is stored within a dense, robust and unreplicateable computer system stored within the heart of her body. This core is incredibly durable, and can survive in a hibernative state (powered by a radioactive decay battery)) without the rest of the body, meaning Q-T is incredibly difficult to truly kill. However as she is as much hardware as software she is unable to be backed up in any meaningful way as one might expect of an artificial mind.

Survey Sensors: Her body comes equipped with a sophisticated exo-planet mapping software and the sensors to record everything. Great telescopic vision, ability to record all across the light spectrum and a few non optical sensors such as seismic and radiation sensors.

Comms: Inbuilt long range communications, facilitated by a pair of antenna like aerials, can transmit audio, video and general data transfers wirelessly to other devices.

Facial Monitor: Her ‘face’ is actually a high definition monitor, capable of displaying detailed information such as reports, survey data, maps, recording and so on, as well as its more common use, namely emoting.

Powered System: Q-T needs electricity to function. Specifically she uses it to split water molecules in-order to fill liquid hydrogen batteries which are used to fuel an internal nuclear fusion engine. Her bulky back portion has plenty of storage for this for extended away missions, but she ultimately requires infrastructure to run properly (such as the ship, solar panel arrays, or exploration vehicles with their own reactors)

Skills:
Moderate Engineering knowledge: Q-T won't be telling anyone what obscure issue is plaguing a solar panel, but she can weld, solder and rewire quick as can be, and is deft at following technical instructions given by people like Senior Engineer Sumiye so she can fix what the engineers figure out is wrong.

Jack of all trades: Q-T’s systems let her store a lot of general knowledge when compared to a human, but she simultaneously lacks in depth knowledge on most topics. She makes a rather excellent assistant as a result but generally won't be leading any specialist mission or research topic.

EVA Expertise: Q-T is deft at navigating foreign environments, be it space itself, alien jungles, acid rain swept canyons or crater pocketed moons.

Surveying: Similarly she also has the sensors and know-how to map environments and find useful resources or points of scientific interest within them.

Personnel defence: Q-T is no soldier, such things are no longer necessary after all, but she has been trained to use both weapons and her body to fend off hostile alien fauna that might threaten her squishier compatriots. Living in a world of paper means she is also infinitely aware of how much damage a human can take, and so she is rather deft at non lethal takedowns as well.

Reason for joining the crew of the Thucydides:
Q-T has had the childish dream of becoming an astronaut since as long as she can remember, likely dating back to her pre-scentience mind running astrological simulations and calculations. She has an innate curiosity and desire to see ‘what is out there’, a common reaction to being raised in a simulation all things told (though not quite as common as one might expect), which the explorer vessel perfectly fits the bill of. Speaking of bills, the pay is nothing to be sniffed at either. Q-T’s advanced systems require more power and maintenance than a simple meat body after all. That which she doesn't spend on sustenance or pleasure, or save for the future, she sends back ‘home’ to the Brackman institute to help fund the next generation of her kind’s creation.

Miscellaneous Facts:
Basically always has music in the background of her headspace. As a result a lot of her entertainment budget and internal memory goes towards her extensive collection of tunes.

A lot of the rest of it goes towards games

Her Vr avatar is a fem Sun Wukong

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Name: Zoe Juniper Theseum

Age: 28

Gender Identity: Female

Married/ Unmarried: Unmarried

Occupation: Ship Botanist; Head of exploratory study.

Place of Residence: The Thucydides (Current), Orbital Terra-forming Colony (Arcturus Region) "Seed Pod"

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Appearance: Zoe is a person who could be described as mousy at a glance. She has a thin and relatively short build that is far from imposing, along with features that tell the story of a curious but careful person. Her eyes are big and round, her nose small and her lips thin. She has a spray of freckles across her nose, and a head of long unkempt rusty hair. She is pale and often a little harried in appearance; her big spectacles giving her a slight "mad scientist" tint. Her slender hands are pock-marked with faint thin scars; a map of many little accidents. More fresh cuts across her figure are covered with brightly colored band-aids. Often she is wearing clothes that are warm and comfortable, or that are appropriate for her line of work. Dirt stained and smelling of the earth.

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History: Growing up on a colony off of earth, has given Zoe some different measures of whats valuable. Around her people like botanists or civil engineers were the heroes of the people. While humanity has passed the harrowing first days of living off their home planet, the reaches of space are not meant to accommodate them. Life is good there of course, as it is across all of humanity, but the giants who's shoulders it is built from, are the people she's idolized her whole life. With a near single-minded fervor she managed to make it through school with only one year longer than planned. She was able to scoop up work quickly in continuing the Terra-forming process in the nearing planets frontier-land. Despite the accident that would occur during it, it would not deter her from what she wanted to do. However what she really took away from the experience was how much work she was able to do from her desk regardless. As she recovered from her cybernetic surgery, she had a real chance to evaluate how her time was spent, and what she wanted to do with it. She decided that being behind a desk all day was terribly boring. The perfect mix of exploration and maintaining something familiar would come when offered a position on a short-circuit transport vessel; carrying germination samples and new crop-types to a planet establishing colonies across it's moons. When the trip was over, she was thirsting for more, and given a good word by her employer. This is how she would get the chance to work on a large class ship.

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Cybernetic/ Genetic Enhancements: After an accident during a preliminary outing during her studies in exploratory Floriculture, she lost function in her legs, due to becoming trapped under a boulder for some time. By the time she was rescued and transported to a proper medical facility, reclamation of her legs was not an option. Due to this she has been fitted with cybernetic legs that begin around the thigh area. The current models she use are sturdy and meant for work; they allow for ease of movement and have some features one might call convenient for exploring alien terrain. One such feature being extensive shock absorbers; allowing for her to fall from great heights, if she can land on her feet.

She also has a neural link chip in her brain, and matching implants in her fingers to help her interface with applicable electronics.

As for genetic enhancements, her parents opted to gear her for harsher scenarios, as they were workers in the planet-side Terra-forming project. Her eyes are made to see in the dark easier, and are therefore reflective/have a glow to them. She also has an automatically adjusting metabolism that makes it easier for her to retain the right amount of fat, even when times are more lean. A feature that has not seen much use, in these idyllic times.

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Skills: With a doctorate in botany with a focus on floriculture, spermology and pomology (study of flowers, seeds and fruit-bearing plants) she is well suited for exploratory research as well as Terra-forming. She has an almanac of constantly updating information on many types of plants galaxy-wide. Her interests and skills have made her a good choice for scavenging.

Zoe has taken a very strong shining to the false pollinator method of maintaining a small Eco-system. This has lead to her love and specialized use of "Bee Drones" that assist in her upkeep of the onboard greenrooms and simulated green-areas. With the neural link she has with the drones, she's able to set them on a laundry list of automated processes. She can also apply live control, for more specific uses. Such as moving heavier objects and reaching places she can't herself. Or doing one action many times over in one moment (such as watering flowers and so on)

Aside from her schooling Zoe has also practised in general survival skills and classic crafts such as wood-whittling and trap making. This has largely been a hobby but whenever Zoe has had the chance to unwind, it's often been camping. In her eyes it's like doing the part of the job she loves with 99% less possible danger.

Finally Zoe has an extremely strong work ethic/sense of pride. She feels she NEEDS to be useful, and will therefore apply herself wholly to a task given to her. She isn't always good at the things she needs to get done, but she will absolutely put the hours in to become of use.

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The contrast or pair with some of her weaknesses.

Where she is good at taking in new pieces of information and committing them to memory, she can have trouble getting lost in that minutia, and will lose focus of the greater picture. When she thinks of something as the truth, it can be hard to convince her otherwise. Unless you have undeniable evidence she'll often stick to her preconceived notions; especially when they were shown to her by one she trusts.

While Zoe has practice in exploratory research and fending for herself, she is often used to working in that way; alone. It's not that she isn't a team player, but when it comes down to it she can becomes frustrated matching herself to the pace of others. She is fairly patient, but will get competitive or disheartened when she can't meld well with a team. Therefore she prefers to defer to the role she is given, or self govern completely. She isn't the leader type, and prefers to put her head down and get to work.

Her pride and need to please can lead to her putting her energy and time in the wrong place, or even going too far. Part of her sense of self worth is tied to the work she can do, which can lead to her becoming hurt or otherwise disheartened when she isn't meeting her own esoteric criteria.

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Reason for joining the crew of the Thucydides: Exploratory botany was her second option after aiding in the Terra-forming process. Her parents urged for her to explore her options, and seeing the stars seemed like a fantastic experience. She's been onboard for some time now, and thinks of it as home.

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Miscellaneous Facts: She isn't a tech wizard by any means, but she knows enough about her Bee-Bots to maintain them well enough.

She has a lot of general interests in the natural world, having a gem collection and a deep love of birds and similar creatures. Despite this she isn't very good of taking care of anything alive aside from plants. She jokes that if technology didn't make things as convenient as they are now, she would have never made it through university alive.

She has a rapturous love of pickles. Has startled a few people with her glowing eyes by eating from the jar in the middle of the night.

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Name: Garret Zarubin

Age: 34

Gender Identity: Male

Married / Unmarried: Unmarried

Occupation: Security Personel

Place of Residence: Feros IV, Financial District, Level 5

Appearance:
Standing at 6'3", Garret possessed a body like that of any soldier, toned, strong, and ready for whatever punishment awaited them. Brown hair cut short to Space Force standards and had Blue eyes. Regularly wears a shemagh at almost all times.

History:: Born to a near low-class family, Garret lived a somewhat normal childhood; had a good home, plenty of friends, and decent grades. One day his father, who was a Frontier Scout at one time, taught Garret how to camp, hunt, and live off the wilderness, out in the wilds of Feros IV which had been recently colonized. The occasional camping and hunting trips every so often had piqued Garret’s further interest and eventually, like father like son, Garret quickly got the hang of living outdoors and practically excelled at it. Like the colony around him, Garret developed an interest in biology and wanted to know more about nature in general, especially on other planets. In his mid to late teenage years, he and his father worked as rangers for a newly established nature reserve on Feros IV, separated from the large developing cityscapes that was the main colonial hub on the planet. His time being a ranger, having escorted tourists and researchers through the wilds while also safeguarding the wildlife from natural and artificial threats, had molded a new desire to protect others.

Garret would eventually graduate at his colony's university with a B.E.S. degree and join up with the Commonwealth Space Force, believing that he could make a real impact through ensuring security and safety throughout the Commonwealth worlds. The opportunity allowed him to fulfill any of his interests. Specifically, protecting others, but also being able to visit new worlds. Per the recommendation of one of his recent superiors, Garret has pointed in the direction of the Thucydides, an exploratory vessel set to venture out towards a new world.

Cybernetic/ Genetical Enhancements:

Garret, like many servicemen, received several cerebral cybernetics in order to augment his natural senses, reflexes, and situational awareness, promoting his overall combat efficiency.

Skills:

Former Frontier Scout and Ranger: Having spent much of his life outdoors, usually with little supplies on hand, Garret is well experienced navigating through the wilds of many colonies, noting not only the behavior of local fauna but seeing out beneficial (and avoiding toxic and dangerous) properties of the regional flora as well.

Reason for joining the crew of the Thucydides: Joining the Thucydides was a natural decision for Garret as it allowed him to witness new discoveries and see new places, all the while fulfilling his occupations; a win-win.

Miscellaneous Facts:

Has a pet Hamster named Mr. Gibs.

May or may not be adopting a case of Gynophobia while aboard the Thucydides.

Inspired by a particular predator on Feros IV, Garret had subtly illustrated its notable maw on his own helmet, designed around the visor.