Vance
CEO of the small exoplanet mining corp Ogremoch Engineering. A scientist at heart, Noah studies robotics and nanotechnology and seeks practical applications that will help humanity expand into the stars - Ogremoch Engineering is a pet project of his to prove that his designs work. He is also a cool dude, with a reputation for providing a good place to work, doing good things with his money and hiring Barsoomian sympathisers . "Secretly", he is a huge otaku - thanks to the wonders of simulspace, he spends almost as many hours a day as there are hours in a day playing roleplaying games.
Noah's usual morph is a tall exalt with dark hair, an average frame and a neckbeard. He looks handsome, despite his facial hair choices. He prefers simple clothes and stylish glasses that are probably not prescription.
Faction: Hypercorp
Morph: Exalt
Motivations: +Ogremoch Engineering +Philanthropy +Video Games
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Status: Alive
One of Noah's personal assistants. Olivia is a hypercorp girl who started out as an indenture post-Fall and swiftly realised that the Consortium's claims that anyone can bootstrap themselves to the top are bullshit - especially for someone like her, who had never even been to high school. To game the system, she accepted an absolute lemon of a synth and a big cash payout as her indenture reward, then bought a bunch of skillsofts and exploited her new skills to get a new job and a much better morph. These days she runs the Martian side of Noah's business operation and is friendly to Barsoomians and anti-Consortium folk under the table.
Olivia looks like Noah picked her out of a secretary catalogue: Tall, curved and attractive, with short blonde hair hanging over one of her green eyes, hoop earrings and a short black dress with a stylish white belt. She is usually holding at least one data pad and sounds incredibly British.
Faction: Hypercorp
Morph: Exalt
Motivations: +Compassion +Self-improvement -Planetary Consortium
Notable Skills: Persuasion 55, Profession: Logistics 50, Profession: Hypercorp Operations 50
Notable Traits: Information Control, Social Butterfly, First Impression
Status: Alive
One of Noah's personal assistants. Julia used to work for the Tharsis League before going freelance, and still maintains plenty of ties to the Barsoomians; her @-rep is still better than her c-rep, and most of her profits are invested in the Tharsis League. At work she is more serious and efficient than Olivia, which is why she works directly under him managing Vance's operations. She is much less serious outside work, but that rarely happens; she is down with taking a quick break to hang out with a friend or play some video games, though, even in the middle of a robot invasion.
Julia's preferred morph is a hibernoid, with light brown skin and brown hair cut to the base of her skull. She prefers simple blouses and skirts and does most of her business in her head.
Faction: Tharsis League
Morph: Hibernoid
Motivations: +Efficiency +Personal Career +Martian Liberation
Notable Skills: Profession: Logistics 60, Networking: Autonomist 50, Networking: Hypercorp 50
Notable Traits: Common Sense, Fast Learner, Social Butterfly
Status: Alive
Stephane is the rich friend of a high-up man in Experia whose specialty is award-winning "artsy" movies carefully designed to cater to glitterati who want to be seen watching artsy movies. Because he really loved the show, his buddy pulled some strings to get Enrique demoted and Stephane put in his place, and Stephane immediately started ruining everything. Market research suggested the hardcore fans - the ones that spent their time posting on forums about the show instead of having a social life - wanted to see more fanservice, so he approved an implausible plot involving the heroes and villains teaming up to take a bath. Plans were also in the works to change Samantha's costume to a bikini. (Un)fortunately, Lowell decided to break his nose and send him fleeing from the show after discovering that he had accidentally given Swimes a lot of influence on the show and, more importantly, showed him footage of Lowell cosplaying as Dejah Thoris.
Stephane's preferred morph was a tall and thin long-faced sylph in nice black clothes and short dark hair. Despite not picking a morph designed to look good in a fedora, he insists on wearing a fedora.
Faction: Hypercorp
Morph: Sylph
Motivations: +Stephane Joubert +Stephane Joubert's Career +Stephane Joubert's Development
Notable Skills: Interests (Stephane Joubert) 100, Academics (Memetics) 60, Profession: Director 60
Notable Traits: Allies, Psi Defense (Ego), Oblivious
Status: Alive, fled
Faction: Hypercorp
Morph: Splicer
Motivations: +Sword of Pandora +Artistic Expression +Geeking Out
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Status: Alive
Faction: Argonaut
Morph: Exalt
Motivations: +Acting +Relaxing +Science and Stuff
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Status: Alive
Mei Houwang
Jeremie Zheng is a Pathfinder junior executive who works a nondescript analytical job - he studies reports from hypercorps and colonies and helps prepare big-picture reports. He's also a shut-in who dealt with the loss of his parents during the Fall by staying indoors and playing sims all day instead of interacting with people, which is probably why Pathfinder doesn't suspect that he somehow sells sensitive information on the side. Firewall has been buying information and helping shield him, but recently Jeremie went into hiding, travelling to Mei Houwang and flexing his g-rep to secure triad assistance. Something made this recluse leave Mars, and Firewall wants to know what.
Jeremie's usual appearance is of a chubby Chinese guy with short, messy black hair and a big nose. He wears outdated clothes and does not wash them as often as he should.
Faction: Hypercorp
Morph: Splicer
Motivations: +Maintaining Privacy +Just A Little Extra Money +Escapism
Notable Skills: Profession: Forensic Accountant 60, Protocol 55, Networking: Hypercorp 30, Networking: Criminal 30
Notable Traits: Information Control, Shut-In, Math Wiz
Status: Alive, presumably went back to work
Tachibana-Squared is an ex-Reclaimer smuggler and con artist who makes bank smuggling xeno-artifacts to the gate-less LLA and selling people fake Earth relics. Though he claims to have patriotic reasons for doing so, Tachibana is really just a dick who prefers to prey on the desperate. He was last seen on Feng Bo keeping his head down after the bounty on his head was upped recently, and makes the perfect cover target for Min to pretend to be chasing after. Has had a lot of uplift girlfriends, so at least he's not racist. By the end of the mission, Min had captured him!
Tachibana's signature morph is a tall, lanky man of indeterminate Asian ancestry, with huge sideburns and hair that make him look a little like a monkey, but he often sleeves into other morphs as a disguise.
Faction: Luna
Morph: Exalt
Motivations: +Self-Preservation +Get Rich Quick -Responsibility
Notable Skills: Deception 70, Persuasion 60, Profession: Smuggling Tricks 60
Notable Traits: Danger Sense, On the Run (Consortium)
Status: Alive, in Consortium custody
Spitfire is an experienced Medusan Shield security specialist who somehow pissed off the wrong executive and got exiled to Mei Houwang, where she runs the Fucanglong Rangers. Local networks suggest Spitfire used to be determined to make the most of it and stamp out the triads, but after months of losing battles against both triads and an uncaring bureaucracy she is resigned to just keeping out of their way and trying to stay sober. She has retained her integrity and refuses to deal with the Bad Tortoise Triad, though, and has a little sister she strives to protect.
At the end of the mission, Lowell pulled some strings and got Spitfire and her sister out of there. They have signed up to Casey's microcorp as freelancers.
Spitfire has an upgraded Olympian (which requires frequent GSPs to keep her in line) with orange-and-amber fiery hair and a pair of goggles perched on her forehead. She would look a hell of a lot more attractive if she cleaned up, cheered up and stopped wearing that fucking ranger coat.
Faction: Extropian
Morph: Olympian
Motivations: +Leave Feng Bo +Protect My Sister +Integrity
Notable Skills: Profession: Security Ops 70, Kinetic Weapons 55, Investigation 50
Notable Traits: Situational Awareness, Enemy (Bad Tortoise Triad), Planned Obsolescence
Status: Alive, back on Mars!
Blunderbore
Liquorice (her original identity was boring anyway) is a covert ops Sentinel who specialises in hypercorp infiltration missions. She is very, very good in her field of expertise and is always on the move, going where she's needed and finding hypercorps to screw over when she's not. Unfortunately she is bad at managing her rep - she's had to call in a lot of favours and can't seem to earn back all the rep she's burned before she needs it again. Firewall would give her a new ID with better rep, but she'd probably just trash it again. For now, she's just focusing on her missions.
Though she changes morphs as needed, Liquorice is at least partial to ones with purple hair and eyes. She prefers bland clothing with a lot of pockets.
Faction: Barsoomian
Morph: Splicer
Motivations: -Hypercapitalism +Martian Liberation +Reputation
Notable Skills: Infiltration 70, Disguise 65, Investigation 65, Freerunning 50
Notable Traits: Fast Learner, Bad Luck, Enemy (Fujizo), Shut-In
Status: Alive, no reputation scores over 15
Hitodama
Nakamo Group's leader and most experienced researcher, Steve is a good-natured man whose intense curiosity about everything trumps worries, risks and sometimes even common sense. He broke a promise to sign up with Go-Nin's Plutonian outfit after realising he could see more if he formed his own group, accidentally masterfully screwing Go-Nin out of a menton and an amazing researcher. They're still after him, but he doesn't care much.
Steve's favoured morph is a Japanese menton who would be a smiling elderly man if Steve couldn't just keep him as a young dude. He is easily recognised by the grin that lights up his face, the twinkle in his bright blue eyes or the mercenaries shooting at him.
Faction: Hypercorp
Morph: Menton
Motivations: +Exploration +Research (Alien Civilizations) +Technoprogressivism
Notable Skills: Academics: Xenoarchaeology 75, Astrobiology 55, Astrosociology 55
Notable Traits: Eidetic Memory, Black Mark (Hypercorp)
Status: Alive
Simone is an MIT graduate and hyper-linguist who studies alien languages. Still trying to make a name for herself, Simone decided to take a gamble and be the second member of Steve's research outfit. Though she's the most outgoing and cheerful of the bunch, she is serious on the job and finds herself shouldering a lot of the work that her companions miss.
Simone's favoured morph is a dark-skinned girl with long black hair; she prefers them tall with a lot of curves.
Faction: Hypercorp
Morph: Splicer
Motivations: +Personal Career +Research (Alien Languages) +Hedonism
Notable Skills: Academics: Xenolinguistics 60, Astrobiology 60, Language: Most 55, Persuasion 55
Notable Traits: Hyper-Linguist, Common Sense
Status: Alive
Momoko is a Martian-born freelance astrophysicist who has spent quite a lot of time helping a lot of astrophysicists make rep and breakthroughs. When her steadiest employer at the Ma'adim Research Park mysteriously folded around the same time the Gate Gang was exposed, Momoko signed up with Nakamo Group looking for a breakthrough of her own. She is shy in person and easily intimidated by imposing figures, but can be a surprisingly hard negotiator or a close friend once she's comfortable.
Her favoured morph is a short, brown-haired Asian splicer loaded with mental implants, which she prefers to a menton for some reason.
Faction: Hypercorp
Morph: Splicer
Motivations: +Research (The Galaxy) +Nano-ecology +A System Named After Me!
Notable Skills: Academics: Astrophysics 65, Xenoethics 60, Xenoarchaeology 50, Freerunning 40, Intimidation -10
Notable Traits: Situational Awareness, Timid
Status: Alive
Faction: Argonaut
Morph: Menton
Motivations: +Adventure +Discovering Relics +Ladies
Notable Skills: Academics: Xenoarchaeology 60, Interests: Alien Relics 60, Profession: Excavation 55
Notable Traits: Brave, Fast Learner
Status: Alive
Faction: Ultimates
Morph: Reaper (Orpheus)/Synth (Other)
Motivations: +Wealth +Demonstrating Superiority +Personal Development
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Status: In disarray
Mars: Hakutaku Security Systems
Wes Chesley's teenaged red-haired son, determined to prove himself as a genius (especially compared to his dimwitted father). Has been playing an incredible decades-long game to have a stranglehold on all inner system exoplanet colonisation efforts in a century's time, through the criminal Gate Gang group and an enormous number of shell hypercorps. May have a brain disorder.
Given that Matt is a barely-legal adult who has achieved an insane level of success micromanaging multiple hypercorp and criminal efforts on upwards of twenty worlds with hardly any mental implants, he is to be considered incredibly dangerous.
Faction: Criminal
Morph: Splicer
Motivations: +Recognise My Genius +Absolute Power +Research (Exoplanet)
Notable Skills: Academics: Physics 80, Academics: Political Science 85, Academics: Xenoarchaeology 75, Infosec 80, Investigation 80, Kinesics 80
Status: CLASSIFIED
Kringle
A low-ranking Gate Gang member, identity unknown, who is doing the monkey work in setting up the auctions. Very professional and a good judge of people, except when it comes to women making eyes at him.
Faction: Criminal
Morph: Splicer
Motivations: +Personal Career +Wealth
Notable Skills: Kinesics 55
Status: Alive, probably fired
A science blogger from Yatsugatake Research Park here for the scoop, the story and maybe some fun along the way. She lives entirely off her wits and reputation and seems to have a basic knowledge of most sciences as well as an uncanny ability to persuade hypercorp representatives to talk to her. Maya speaks Korean, Cantonese, Mandarin, Spanish, Portugese and Hindi, swears in French and enjoys uncovering other people's secrets.
Maya's favoured appearance is a distracting Korean sylph with hoop earrings, curly brown hair and a red qipao. She almost certainly has drones and electronic spies lying around. Don't say "Firewall" near her.
Faction: Hypercorp
Morph: Sylph
Motivations: -Censorship +Sousveillance +Open Source
Notable Skills: Kinesics 80, Persuasion 70, Art: Writing 60, Performance 60, Investigation 60, Academics: Memetics 55, Psychology 45
Status: Alive
Previously rescued in the Yoshi-Gen mission, Zou has come a long way from her forced-indenture-executive's-daughter origins. After receiving psychosurgery from Vinyl Scratch to get her skills back (plus new ones) and merging with her stolen fork on Titan who had her own skill retraining, she has teamed up with Calista to become the combat, exoplanet science and demolitions expert of their gatecrashing team. Zou is amazingly happy with her new job and set on finding fame, adventure and romance, and feels she owes a gigantic debt to the PCs for what they did for her.
Zou normally appears as a tanned Chinese girl with an oval face and a long dark braid, clad in a crasher suit, but she keeps a synth nearby in case of emergency.
Faction: Titanian
Morph: Olympian
Motivations: +Exploration +Romance -Infomorph Slavery
Notable Skills: Kinetic Weapons 60, Demolitions 60, Hardware: Robotics 60, Academics: Astrozoology 55, Xenoarchaeology 50
Status: Alive
Another rescue from Yoshi-Gen, this former college student has gone through some accelerated training courtesy of Vinyl Scratch and teamed up with her new friend Zou to be the science and talking expert of their gatecrashing team. Calista wants to make a new scientific discovery, retire to Mars with a pile of credits and never be anyone's slave again, but a close relationship with Zou has led her to start questioning even more of the Consortium's core memes.
Calista stole a modified sylph with bouncer's feet from Yoshi-Gen and decided to keep its long blonde hair and bright green eyes. She would look less like a gatecrasher and more like a fashion model for grey crasher suits if she weren't really good at serious faces.
Faction: Hypercorp
Morph: Sylph
Motivations: +Personal Career +Research +Techno-Progressivism
Notable Skills: Kinesics 70, Academics: Physics 65, Nanotechnology 60, Chemistry 50, Sociology 60, Persuasion 60
Status: Alive
One of the seven lieutenants of Matt Chesley, codenamed "Sunday". Xian Fae is surprisingly smart and opportunistic and will latch on to whoever provides her with a comfortable life where she doesn't have to do much. When she is actually coaxed to work, she displays impressive powers of deception and kinesics. Would probably make an excellent diplomat or social engineer. Though at the time of the Kringle mission she was using Misaki's body, her avatar - a short, curvy Chinese girl with long black hair and cat ears - can be considered her real appearance.
Faction: Criminal
Morph: Sylph
Motivations: +Hedonism +Wealth +Survival
Notable Skills: Deception 70, Kinesics 65, Impersonation 60
Status: Defected from the Gate Gang - possible Firewall recruit
Mai Loan Tran is a xeno-biologist and bodysculptor at the small alien pod hypercorp Brigit's Touch, recruited by Firewall for her expertise in xenological fauna and morph design. She happened to be representing her corp at the ExoCon on Kringle and has lent morphs, network access and potentially a few credits to the cause. Outside of work Mai is a cheerful girl with a deep love and respect for all life in the universe, and she often sleeves into non-human pods to get in touch with her inner animal or into a neo-hominid to go partying.
Though her base form is a short amber-eyed Vietnamese girl sporting flared yellow hair with a purple streak, Mai usually only uses it for work and can be found in whatever morph she feels like playing with.
Faction: Hypercorp
Morph: Olympian, Scurrier, Neo-Hominid or Neo-Parrot
Motivations: +Research +Morphological Freedom +Uplift Rights
Notable Skills: Academics: Biology 70, Genetics 70, Art: Bodysculpting 50
Status: Alive
Mars: Deep Space Five Restaurant
A "fork" of Casey, one of her backups which assumed her identity due to unfortunate legal troubles. Briefly retired from bodyguarding to run the Deep Space Five Restaurant in Pathfinder City to help Firewall keep a finger on the pulse of the gatecrashing community. Thinks Casey is a bit of a stupid cow and was very upset when her actions accidentally harmed the restaurant, but is willing to talk things out like adults. Softened up a bit once the PCs solved her issues. Appears as a slightly less muscled Casey and favours her qipao uniform over armour.
Faction: Scum
Morph: Olympian
Motivations: +Adventure! +Personal Reputation +Personal Independence
Notable Skills: Persuasion 65, Kinetic Weapons 65, Profession: Restaurant Manager 50
Status: Alive
Katherine's coworker and the one who handles most of the security/information tasks the place was actually designed for, Yun can usually be found in the secret basement lair keeping tabs on everything and idly chatting with anyone who will listen. A bit of a troll, but not an actively harmful one. Yun prefers tall morphs with brown skin, orange hair and toxin filters so she can stuff her face with delicious poison fish.
Faction: Hypercorp
Morph: Ghost
Motivations: +Secrets +Hedonism +Justice
Notable Skills: Interfacing 70, Infosec 60
Status: Alive
The restaurant async and server of poisonous food, Alexandra is always cheerful, friendly and perky and is totally fine with invading people's personal space to give them hugs. If unnecessary cheer and friendliness is a mental disorder, it is almost certainly Alexandra's async affliction. Xandra loves meeting new people and learning about them, though she gets a little cagey about the extent of her powers or why the others don't allow her to carry guns, and prefers dark-haired morphs with a lot of pleasing curves.
Also, it turns out if Alexandra gets a gun and there's conflict going on she enters an altered state of consciousness. Specifically, she starts shooting fucking everybody. Maybe the no-guns thing is a good idea.
Faction: "Scum"
Morph: Sylph
Motivations: +Social Networking +Exploration +Personal Development
Notable Skills: Persuasion 60, Kinesics 60, Interest: Gatecrashing 50, Kinetic Weapons 100 (when flipping her shit)
Known Psi Sleights: Enhanced Creativity, High Pain Threshold, Pattern Recognition, Qualia, Superior Kinesics, Unconscious Lead
Status: ^_^
PSP (aka Positron Signature Palindrome, though files indicate her intended name was Pulsar Star Princess and her comrades prefer Pepper Salt Pepper) was created by Pathfinder as a secret AGI project to create a PR agent who could hype up any exoplanet and impress bored socialites and rich investors alike by showcasing exotic things. PSP turned out to be kind of a bitch, though, possibly because the project included socially-awkward scientists who thought "Positron Signature Palindrome" was funny, and PSP was turfed out and blackballed. Rather than move far away, she was recruited into Firewall and helped run the restaurant. PSP is surly, short-tempered and basically pretty awesome. PSP prefers pink-haired morphs with retro headphones, the purpose of which is unknown.
Faction: Mercurial
Morph: Steel (Masked)
Motivations: +Personal Development +AGI Rights -Hypercapitalism
Notable Skills: ???
Status: Alive
An ex-Jovian who fled the Junta to sell scientific secrets to the Extropians, Paz is extremely reluctant to share any details of her past and seems content to lay low under Firewall's thumb. Gets extremely jumpy around Jovians and has a pistol concealed on her person at all possible times. Paz prefers tanned Spanish morphs, showy clothes and not talking about the outer system much.
Faction: Jovian
Morph: Sylph
Motivations:+Anonymity +Personal Independence +Education
Notable Skills: ???
Status: Alive
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Mars: Yatsugatake Park
Uni-Sol is a copyration with a single employee - Richard Hamdorf, astrophysicist. Richard and the many forks he makes to complete his work push the bounds of astrophysics and a cursory study of his work indicates that he could be but years away from being the next Stephen Hawking. A deeper study, however, indicates that the reason Hamdorf only works with himself is because he is an insufferable prat. It is an open secret that Hamdorf has made several alpha forks of himself and sometimes takes his time merging, though he always tries to. The rest of the Park puts up with him because he chips in cash and can prune a beta fork to not be an arrogant shit if he has to. His morphs tend to be tall and lanky and look a bit like Mr Bean if he watched anime. Ended up in trouble with the Gate Gang and assigned a disposable fork to take care of it.
Faction: Hamdorf
Morph: Splicer (Forks: Splicer, Worker Pod or Case)
Motivations: +Hamdorf +For Science! +Being Right
Notable Skills: Academics: Astrophysics 90, Protocol 10
Status: A huge dick
Aveline is a young student who'd love to be working for Gatekeeper or the Argonauts someday; for now, she handles PR for the Yatsugatake corps and makes scientific contacts. Bubbly, helpful and eager to please, Aveline is everybody's friend (except Hamdorf's because he doesn't have any.) Actually has potential to be a future star in the field of xeno-botany, if she can get some field work. Usually appears as a cute girl with short silver hair and a cuter magician's outfit.
Faction: Hypercorp
Morph: Splicer
Motivations: +For Science! +Personal Career +Techno-Progressivism
Notable Skills: Academics: Botany 50, Academics: Xenofauna 40, Kinesics 45, Persuade 55
Status: Alive
Founder of Komachi-Tec. Amazing at her job, but known to be incredibly lazy, a little too trusting and a fan of delegating. Also enjoys AR rap battles with other scientists. Likes to be in control, and panics in high-pressure situations where she isn't. Usually appears as a slender, red-haired girl who prefers smart business suits, flared sleeves and trendy heels.
Faction: Hypercorp
Morph: Exalt
Motivations: +Comfort +Research +Martian Liberation
Notable Skills: Academics: Neurology 80, Psychosurgery 70, Art: Rap 65
Status: Alive
Kondo and Haldar are two neo-hominids (an orangutan and a gorilla respectively) who work as freelance criminals. Their strength lies in their adaptability and blasé attitude to danger - need to whack a rival gang boss? Smuggle something through the TQZ? Crash a spaceship into a Venusian aerostat? Okay, that's weird and won't really do anything, but if the money's right they're in. Both of them have an impressive criminal record and are wanted nearly everywhere in Consortium space. They look amazingly unprofessional until they have to shake someone down and whack a guy; that, or they are amazingly unprofessional. If someone at the Park has them on their payroll, bad things are happening.
Kondo the orangutan is the brains of the outfit, insofar as the outfit has brains. Ranger investigation suggests something went wrong with his uplifting, which would explain why he loves his job so much and smokes even as a synth. Adept at smuggling, evading capture, and using the word "fuck". Likes crime, cigarettes, humaniod synths, smuggling, murder and Japanese disco-pop fusion.
Faction: Criminal
Morph: Synth
Motivations: +Hedonism +Survival +The Thrill of Crime!
Notable Skills: Kinetic Weapons 75, Infiltration 70, Profession: Smuggling Tricks 60
Status: Farcasted to an unknown location
Haldar the gorilla is the heavy hitter of the group, but arguably the smarter if you're not talking criminal ops. Haldar is a Catholic and a casual cognitive sciences fan who keeps up to date on the latest inventions and augmentations. Known to use souped-up versions of the Kiko (a gorilla-like synth from Feral Robot), about a third of his police record is related to collateral damage from the other two-thirds. Likes money laundering, freerunning and vintage Earth soft drinks.
Faction: Criminal
Morph: Kiko
Motivations: +The Thrill of Crime! +Reclaiming Earth +Religion
Notable Skills: Unarmed Combat 80, Freerunning 60, Interests: Religion 60, Academics: Neuroscience 35
Status: Ego contained in Lowell's ghostrider module, later transferred to Firewall for interrogation. Alpha assumed resleeved by Kondo.
One of Komachi-Tec's psychosurgeons. Appears to have gotten himself into debt with criminal types. Can be bullied into performing psychosurgery on the unwilling. Does not take fear well. Short and pudgy and seriously wears beach shorts on Mars. Owed gambling debts to the Gate Gang; abusing his boss's trust and agreeing to interrogate Hotaru got him in a world of trouble.
Faction: Hypercorp
Morph: Splicer
Motivations: +Survival +For Psychoscience! +Reputation
Notable Skills: Psychosurgery 70, Academics: Neurology 70, Medicine: Psychiatry 60
Status: Alive, paying off a debt to Hotaru through indenture to Komachi
A mathematics AGI at Aleph Seven. Overly professional and detached no matter the situation, γSmith (also known as Gamma-S) appears to have an interest in the greater galaxy and purchases black market xenotech to indulge in its hobbies. Blackmailed by the Gate Gang into providing a fork sleeved in an invisible synth body and assisted in the kidnapping of Firewall agents. Willingly sold the Gate Gang out the second a chance at getting out of the mess presented itself, however.
Faction: Mercurial
Morph: Infomorph/Synth
Motivations: +Solving Conundrums +Alien Contact +Secrecy
Notable Skills: Academics: Mathematics 85, Interests: Xeno-artifacts 70, Stealth 60
Status: Alive, fork remerged
Wandjina
The leader of the local xenodeists. A tall, long-faced man who looks a little like a neanderthal with a thing for ancient suits and wide-brimmed hats, Herbert has science degrees from Titan Autonomous University but still believes the Iktomi "ascended to a higher plane of existence" and humanity will join them, one day. Very good at dodging questions scientific debate. An async with some unusual powers - he could interact with Pandora Gates with his mind, and had some sort of personal force field. Wanted to contact his alien masters, which are almost certainly bad.
Faction: Xenodeist
Morph: Splicer
Motivations: +Alien Contact +Education (Xenosciences) +Personal Development
Notable Skills: Academics: Xenoarchaeology 80, Academics: Astrosociology 70, Persuade 65
Status: Dead, backups unknown.
Hahona "The Kiwi" Benjamin is a large Polynesian man who is extremely friendly and easygoing for a xenodeist, especially for a xenodeist who likes Factors enough to tattoo animated dancing Factors on his body. Hahona likes them even more than music, and as the resort DJ who can be moved to tears by a particularly well-sung song and walks in a cloud of broadcasted music all day, that is actually a little worrying. Has received the biotic implants, and the music appears to be self-generated; worryingly, Hahona was learning to create basilisk hacks.
Faction: Xenodeist
Morph: Splicer
Motivations: +Factors +Artistic Expression +Philanthropy
Notable Skills: Interests: Factors 90, Academics: Xenolinguistics 70, Art: Music 70
Status: Dead, backups unknown, would still marry a Factor if he could
Lance "Gillbeard" Warlock is the smiling mascot of New Brisbane. Often seen around the beach in his goofy shark pirate suit, Gillbeard loves greeting tourists, befriending people and chillaxing. Believes transhumanity is destined for great things and alien contact can only speed this process, but is not as fanatic as the other xenodeists. Is an async thanks to his "biotic" implants, granting him unnatural speed and reflexes. Copies of Gillbeard that fail the process have become shark-like exsurgents with large toothy maws and atrophied legs. Multiple successful copies guard Herbert's secret facility.
Faction: Xenodeist
Morph: Splicer
Motivations: +Social Networking +Alien Contact +Good Times
Notable Skills: Unknown
Status: Dead, backups unknown.
J████ was an async and former employee of Cognite before being transferred to Wandjina for biotic experimentation. Appeared to have a worrying power to "know" everything about anyone who spent time in proximity to him. Kind of a jerk. An unwilling participant in the scheme, J████ willingly supplied information in exchange for a means to commit suicide.
Faction: Hypercorp
Morph: Splicer
Motivations: Unknown
Notable Skills: Unknown
Status: Dead. Backup under employ of Cognite, unaware of his recent predicament.
Ozma agent. DO NOT ENGAGE.
See file ██-█████████.
Faction: Hypercorp
Morph: Unknown
Motivations: Unknown
Notable Skills: Unknown
Status: Unknown
Three Titan Autonomous University guys who are doing their thesis in a mountaintop observatory on a planet two gates away from Titan because they are awful with people. Spend most of their time looking at the stars and playing Oceans & Orcas. Akio is a long-haired aquanaut, Kefka is a chubby neckbeard splicer and their team leader and Ocean Master Exo-Bob is a menton. Other than that they are almost interchangeable.
Faction: Titanian
Morph: Aquanaut/Splicer/Menton
Motivations: +Science +Friends +Oceans & Orcas
Notable Skills: Interests: Role-Playing Games 80, Academics: Astrophysics 55, Persuade 15
Status: Ronery
A neo-porpoise astrophysicist who happened to be studying Wandjina's tidal lock when The Eye called her in. Goes by the handle "Alien Skies" and prefers tall bodies with hourglass curves. Is easy-going as long as you're not hypercorp swine. Has a spare dolphin morph and likes to play gentle mind games with people who ask what she is. Has light green hair to fit the Firewall contact theme.
Faction: Mercurial? Titanian
Morph: Splicer
Motivations: +Techno-Progessivism +Anarchism +Nano-ecology
Notable Skills: Academics: Astrophysics 75, Academics: Astronomy 70, Programming 60
Status: Alive
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Mars: Yoshi-Gen
An executive in the pre-Fall Japanese megacorp Tetsu-Gen who took advantage of his position to steal a bunch of egos for indentures and profit. Ambitious, arrogant, has a thing for Asian girls and sake. Was going to join the Lucky Star Group before Haruhi Nagasaku paid the Sentinels to ruin his life. Was probably a little crazy after the Fall; probably completely mental now.
Faction: Hypercorp
Morph: Exalt
Motivations: +Personal Career +Hedonism +Infomorph Slavery
Notable Skills: Networking: Hypercorp 65, Deception 60, Protocol 50
Status: Broke, mad and in simulspace prison
A beta fork of Daisuke, pruned for dealing with the criminals he sometimes sells egos to in order to protect his own identity. Good a disguises and a decent hacker, though it's unknown if Daisuke had these skills originally. Went to ground once the Sentinels set him up and framed Daisuke for screwing over the local crime gangs; current whereabouts unknown. Before he vanished, Green Dinosaur preferred green cases.
Faction: Hypercorp
Morph: Case
Motivations: Unknown
Notable Skills: Infosec: 60, Persuasion 60
Status: Unknown
A Medusan Shield guard by trade, Meiling is an efficient and likeable leader who signs up for guard duty so she can see the world piece by piece. Is fascinated by science and corp activity, even if most of it goes over her head. Likes meeting new people, fucking hates people who interfere with her work. Aesthetically pleasing like most Medusan Shield furies, Meiling prefers morphs with long red hair and Asian appearance.
Faction: Extropian
Morph: Medusan Shield
Motivations: +Seeing The World +Open Source +Education
Notable Skills: Kinetic Weapons 60, Profession: Security Ops 55, Profession: Bodyguarding 50, Profession: Inner System Law 45, Academics: Miscellaneous 25
Status: Alive
A salaryman, and Haruhi's dad. Was tricked out of Green Dinosaur's hands without payment and sleeved in a Spare before being reunited with his family. Is finally impressed that his daughter accomplished something and saved him from the indenture he was tricked into, even if she never got a real job. Despite his love of boring office jobs, appears to be adept at coping to new situations on the fly and lying to seasoned liars.
Faction: Hypercorp
Morph: Spare (probably resleeved)
Motivations: Unknown
Notable Skills: Profession: Forensic Accountant 65, Deception 65, Interfacing 40
Status: Alive
A bug collector and science blogger by trade, this Argonaut once worked for Ozma (see file ██████-XVI) before going back to freelance (given that he is still alive, he most likely remembers nothing useful about Ozma). Landed some contract work with Oversight investigating nanotech corps; Coronado called him in in a pinch to help arrest Daisuke. Known womaniser. Prefers lanky, brown-haired morphs with broad smiles, loud ties and sunglasses.
Faction: Argonaut
Morph: Splicer/Slitheroid
Motivations: +For Science! +Party Hard +Techno-Progressivism
Notable Skills: Academics: Nanotechnology 70, Academics: Engineering 65, Persuasion 60
Status: Alive
Mahou
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- Enrique A.A. Arnold
- Jack Bullet
- Kirk Rockmann
- Wakefield
- Haruhi Nagasaku
- Armstrong
- Samantha Reagan
- Swimes
The producer of smash-hit shows such as Bella the Martian Ranger and Three and a Half Flexbots. Enrique started off in the smaller media hypercorp Penultimate Media before being snapped up by Experia and allowed to produce Martian Ranger and the Sword of Pandora.
Enrique's signature image is a tall man with a shaved head, thick brown beard and lines tattooed down his cheeks. Unless you really like last-minute rewrites, dick moves and using filming on new exoplanets as an excuse to smuggle xenotech onto the black market, Enrique is about as easy to work with as an antimatter crocodile. On the bright side, he is easy to manipulate if you're giving him "script ideas".
Faction: Hypercorp
Morph: Hibernoid
Motivations: +Wealth +Artistic Expression +The Thrill of Crime!
Notable Skills: Art: Vidshows 75, Networking: Media 70, Networking: Hypercorp 65
Status: Alive
Jack Bullet is a rugged ex-cop known for performing quite a few acts of heroism during the Fall, fighting TITANs and rescuing damsels all across America. After evacuating he had a sequel adventure saving more girls from terrorist before a movie was made of his adventures - which he starred in, nobody else being quite the right amount of manly for the role. Jack had a good time there, and has been playing an action hero ever since. His vices are cybernetic augmentation, babes, one-liners and cigars.
Jack plays Biff Spacepunch, who is Jack with a different backstory.
Faction: Hypercorp
Morph: Exalt
Motivations: +One Liners +Babes +Heroism
Notable Skills: Kinetic Weapons 70, Fray 60, Persuasion 60 (Seduction 70)
Status: All out of gum
Kirk is a laid-back Extropian who loves acting, getting paid tons of money to act, and getting into fistfights with xenofauna. He would be an Ultimate, except he hasn't run out of fun ways to punch aliens. He favours lanky morphs with blonde mullets and sharpened teeth and is a surprisingly good actor. Compared to other actors, punching aliens isn't that strange a hobby, really.
Kirk plays Professor Pentium, a mild-mannered menton with a love of all xenosciences and a cowardly streak who always finds some courage if his friends are in danger.
Faction: Scum
Morph: Fury (male!)
Motivations: +Hedonism +Alien Contact Fisticuffs Contact +Artistic Expression
Notable Skills: Unarmed Combat 75, Art: Performance 70, Impersonation 65, Academics: Astrobiology 50
Status: Alive and itching for a rumble
Wakefield was an old man when the TITANs came. Somehow, he survived, and with the magicscience of resleeving and a morph built like a brick shithouse, he's young forever. Wakefield chooses not to dwell on the past, and ditched his old life to take up acting (something he'd always wanted to try) and collecting xenoflora. Is quite friendly, though despite his efforts he still reminds people how old he is like once a week.
Wakefield plays Akio McGonnagal, the evil hypercorp boss who is trying to assert his control over the solar system with the help of xenotech and is thwarted every week by Biff Spacepunch thanks to luck, determination, and a lot of people who aren't Biff Spacepunch.
Faction: Hypercorp
Morph: Olympian
Motivations: +Artistic Expression -Reclaiming Earth +Experiences
Notable Skills: Interests: Science Fiction 60, Art: Performance 60, Academics: Old Earth History 60
Status: Alive
Haruhi is a shy young actress who tends to get nervous around new people, though if you had the fans she did you would be too. She is amazing at getting in-character, though. She has sweet black hair with purple bangs and even sweeter tattoos on her shoulders, and may or may not be hiding something is an async. On a related note, she is extremely protective of her privacy and doesn't talk about herself much. So far she is unaware that her secret has been tricked out of her by another async.
Haruhi plays Cortexa Daggerblade, a powerful space Nazi technomancer who wields alien technology with ease and wants to take over the world. Worlds. All of them.
Faction: Hypercorp
Morph: Splicer
Motivations: +Artistic Expression +Nano-ecology +Privacy
Notable Skills: Art: Performance 75, Kinesics 50, Protocol 50
Known Psi Sleights: Mimic, Enhanced Creativity, Superior Kinesics
Status: Alive
Armstrong is a mellow octomorph who spends his free time working on an indie series about uplifts, currently popular only among uplifts and parts of the Luna-Lagrange Alliance. Appears to be Haruhi's close friend, and not the close friend of alien birds, who want to see what he tastes like (see <sillyocto.avi>).
Armstrong plays Jozan, a Brinker octomorph and technology buff who collects nanoswarms and is the closest thing the group has to a healer.
Faction: Mercurial
Morph: Octomorph
Motivations: +Uplift Rights +AGI Rights +Reclaiming Earth
Notable Skills: ?
Status: livingocto.avi
Samantha is a Jovian-born redheaded lass who cared enough about transhumanity's future to join Firewall and move to hypercorp space. She likes technology (some of her best friends are technology) but draws the line at implants. Naturally, Firewall pestered her into getting a cortical stack for her exoplanet work. Samantha can be a very grumpy person if she wants to be, and still nurses a grudge against Lowell for screwing her out of a date and toying with her emotions. Also, that time Lowell and Min took out her fellow Jovians and shot her in the face during a botched op on Venus. Mostly the romance thing. She is relaxing her attitude a little, though.
Samantha plays Payzo D'Qayle, a Qirian async who studies the Progenitors, the series' alien TITANs and provides fanservice for the neckbeard crowd.
Faction: Jovian
Morph: Flat
Motivations: +Knowledge +Bioconservatism -Techno-Progressivism
Notable Skills: Infiltration 60, Kinetic Weapons 55, Kinesics 50
Status: Alive
swimes is a sensitive soul but most girls don't realise this and are bitches who prefer jocks. all he wants is to find a girl who shares his interests in vintage anime, hipster music and katanas. lowell may be the one because she made eye contact with him once. he has asperger's syndrome so please treat him with respect. no psychosurgeons.
Faction: Hypercorp
Morph: Neo-Kitsune
Motivations: +Reclaiming Japan +Romance +An Obscure Motivation You've Probably Never Heard Of
Notable Skills: Interests: Old Earth Culture 70, Interests: Geek Blogs 65, Interests: Hipster Scene 60
Status: Dead, following possession by xeno-guardians. Stack held by team pending a decision on what to do with it. Backup not resleeved.
Eos
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- Wes Chesley
- Misaki Machimoto
- Genoveva Caldera
- Natalie Murphy
- Vinyl Scratch
- Victoria Williams
- Troovolta
A slick and handsome executive who was given a side-promotion to a distant exoplanet because he's an idiot his skills were important and valued. Likes long walks on the exoplanet beach, the 1980s, indentured girls and doing business. Confirmed ass man. Secretly dealing with the Venusians and stealing forks of important people. Oversight is going to have Words with him.
Faction: Hypercorp
Morph: Sylph
Motivations: +Hedonism +Personal Career +Venusian Sovereignty
Notable Skills: Networking: Media 70, Networking: Hypercorp 65, Protocol 60 (Hypercorp 70), Kinesics 20
Status: Languishing in an Oversight simulspace prison.
Chesley's Japanese assistant. He believes Misaki's job is to wear sexy outfits and run minor errands for him, because he is an idiot. Basically runs the facility behind the scenes for him, and uses her status to fast-track her indenture. Has an understandably low opinion of her boss, but a strong work ethic. Extremely patient, great legs. Now comes in Firewall flavour!
Faction: Hypercorp
Morph: Sylph
Motivations: +Personal Development +Privelege +Techno-Progressivism
Notable Skills: Persuasion 70, Networking: Hypercorp 60, Kinesics 55, Deception 50
Status: Alive, joined Firewall.
A Direct Action merc with black hair and piercing green eyes who Annabelle bumped into when looking for a tour guide. Puts Direct Action's logo on her swimsuits. Very easy-going and cheerful when she isn't on the job shooting dudes.
Genoveva is actually an Oversight agent who picked the worst time and place to go on vacation. Doesn't like Stellar Intelligence.
Faction: Hypercorp
Morph: Exalt
Motivations: +Action +Artistic Expression +Exploration
Notable Skills: Art: Music 55, Kinetic Weapons 50, Fray 60, Profession: Security Ops 60
Status: Alive. Got a lot of rep from Oversight for her good work!
Natalie believes she has spent the last few weeks relaxing and working in a simulspace and remembers nothing about Crowley, thanks to Omnicor. Is a much nicer person when getting a massage from an octomorph instead of shot at by cases. Managed to avoid basically everything.
Faction: Argonaut
Morph: Splicer
Motivations: +Relaxation +Techno-Progressivism -Hypercapitalism
Notable Skills: Academics: Nanotechnology 70, Computer Science 60, Physics 60
Status: Alive. Phew!
Continuing a theme of Firewall contacts with odd-coloured hair is the blue-with-light-blue-streaks Vinyl Scratch (aka Victoria Williams), a DJ specialising in pre-Fall music and techno beats. Was manufactured by Experia but dropped for causing pro-Earth sentiments. Is usually so high you could bounce satellite signals off her, but can sober up on request. Really likes to party, says words like "totes" and "deffo", wants to know what is up with colours.
Faction: Hypercorp Scum Argonaut? Argonaut (if sober)
Morph: Splicer
Motivations: +Party Hard +Reclaiming Earth +Shit, I Forgot +Justice
Notable Skills: Academics: Neurology 80, Academics: Biology 60, Psychosurgery 70, Medicine: Psychiatry 70, Nanomedicine 60, Art: Music 60
Status: Alive and partying harder than ever
A fork of Vinyl Scratch maintaining the illegal ego banks in the basement. Was not aware she is a fork until Vinyl Scratch told her. Has substituted drugs with smoking like a chimney. Made money on the side coding narcoalgorithms; since then she has become a fellow Firewall member and Vinyl Scratch's agent.
Faction: Argonaut
Morph: Splicer
Motivations: +Personal Career +Wealth +Reclaiming Earth
Notable Skills: Same as Vinyl
Status: Alive and feeling better
Dieter "Troovolta" Stenonychosaurus is a secret Stellar Intelligence agent who poses as entertainers at popular hypercorp vacation resorts and entertainment joints while doing surveillance on everyone. Also an ego hunter, Dieter is willing to break cover to go after a target. Sucks at resisting async powers and can't catch a break.
Faction: Hypercorp
Morph: Neo-Troodon
Motivations: +Secrets +Personal Career +Catch Min!
Notable Skills: Kinetic Weapons 60, Investigation 60, Infosec 50, Deception 50
Status: Dead. Stack recovered by Stellar Intelligence and revived much later, after Min had already left. Kind of upset about that.
Crowley
The middle-aged, gray-haired head scientist at Trans-Global Dynamics's research facility. Quite cheerful and excited about science, Herbert is a cutting-edge nanoscientist as well as a TITANs expert. Is definitely not up to something. Keeps a messy lab.
Faction: Hypercorp
Morph: Menton
Motivations: +Singularity Seeker +For Science! -Anarchism
Notable Skills: Academics: Nanotechnology 70, Programming 65 (AI 75), Profession: Data Forensics 65
Status: Killed. (Was up to something.) Restored from backup, sans exsurgence and memories.
A lovely blonde Omnicor indenture and research assistant. Natalie has a very expressive mouth, and mostly uses it to frown. Is paranoid about Omnicor screwing her over and worries about literally everything. Sleeps in her crasher suit.
Faction: Probably Argonaut
Morph: Splicer
Motivations: +Survival +Techno-Progressivism -Hypercapitalism
Notable Skills: Academics: Nanotechnology 70, Computer Science 60, Physics 60
Status: Alive. Memories of Crowley removed.
A Trans-Global Dynamics AGI who assists Herbert in running the facility, Frank believes more recent AGIs are "dumbed-down" versions of old, superior technology. Would very much like to get back to the spirit of "true" AGI. Has several fundamental misunderstandings on what a TITAN is.
Faction: Mercurial
Morph: Infomorph
Motivations: +Verisimilitude +AGI Rights +Personal Development
Notable Skills: Infosec 60, Hardware: Electronics 60, Interests: TITANs 55
Status: Exsurgent, killed. All backups wiped by Omnicor.
A neo-avian raven who runs the facility's defenses, because Trans-Global Dynamics refuses to hire an outsider with more security experience than some free time spent at a firing range hitting on a gray parrot from Direct Action. Has a Ph.D, pulls off an ascot well.
Faction: Hypercorp
Morph: Neo-Avian
Motivations: +Uplift Rights +Martian Liberation +Exploration
Notable Skills: Academics: Neurology 70, Academics: Nanotechnology 60, Gunnery 55
Status: Alive. Memories of Crowley removed.
An Omnicor engineer and energy specialist. Michael thinks Omnicor is the best, and they should totally promote him. Assigned to maintain the facility's power facilities, and has up to twenty forks of himself running around at all times. Probably up to something. Is not as subtle about angling for a promotion as he thinks he is.
Faction: Hypercorp
Morph: Slitheroid
Motivations: +Personal Career +Hypercapitalism -Venusian Sovereignty
Notable Skills: Hardware: Industrial 80, Hardware: Electronics 70, Academics: Physics 60
Status: Dead, cortical stack retrieved for interrogation and storage by Firewall. "Restored" from backup by Omnicor.
Easily recognisable by her pink hair and unnecessarily large curves, Kawashiro is a freelance Firewall agent and scientist who wants to explore everything the exoplanets have to offer and push the boundaries of science. Will settle for getting to blow things up.
Faction: Ultimate
Morph: Exalt
Motivations: +Personal Development +Exploration +Techno-Progressivism
Notable Skills: Academics: [classified], Academics: Genetics 60, Kinetic Weapons 60, Interests: Exoplanets 55
Status: Alive
