The Corporation / Distant Light
The Enterios Corporation is providing the initial funding for the establishment of the Phaelos III colony, as well as owning the Distant Light, the massive colony ship transporting the colonists. Enterios has funded massive endeavors over its century-and-a-half history, but rarely of such galactic importance or political visibility. As such, the Enterios Board of Directors are watching the colony extremely closely, and the CEO, N. Stormsmith ((Erik Chen)), is accompanying the expedition in person.
Group Members:
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The Enterios Corporation is providing the initial funding for the establishment of the Phaelos III colony, as well as owning the Distant Light, the massive colony ship transporting the colonists. Enterios has funded massive endeavors over its century-and-a-half history, but rarely of such galactic importance or political visibility. As such, the Enterios Board of Directors are watching the colony extremely closely, and the CEO, N. Stormsmith ((Erik Chen)), is accompanying the expedition in person.
Group Members:
- CEO N. Stormsmith ((Erik Chen))
- Captain A. Valira ((Jez Zarnofsky))
- T. Yanora ((Ashley Kaufman))
- C. Adamant ((Josh Brown))
- G. Nyr-fan ((Seamus Reynolds))
- F. Karali ((Lionel Honda))
- B. Koun Sa ((Christina Wong))
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Player: Christina Wong
Name: B. Ana Rous
Group: The Enterios Corporation
Homeworld: Dor Len Sono
Variant: Navigator
Character Coach: Jax Bryk ([email protected])
Description:
Your parents should never have been soldiers. They were philosophers, part of one of the ancient monasteries of Dor Len Sono. But during the Homeworld War, they made a decision. It took hours of long conversations, but they decided that it was ethically unsound for them not to enlist. They believed in liberation for all people, including the Agerrans, and they came to the conclusion that it was worth fighting for.
They wanted your opinion, and included both you and your sister in the decision-making process. Each of you got a vote, though you were barely old enough to really understand what that meant. You didn’t want your parents to go, and voted for them to stay. Your sister, a decade older, voted for your parents to fight, for reasons you still don’t fully understand, and probably never will. But the vote was settled, and your parents enlisted in the U.A.W. Navy.
Both of them died less than a year later, at the First Battle of Gyr. You and your sister were raised by close family friends, who happened to be the royal family of your province. As a child, that didn’t mean much to you--mostly you were just glad to have a playmate your own age. S. Ana Sola ((Danielle Harper)) was the heir to the Queendom, and a good friend to you throughout your childhood. The Ana Sola family raised you and your sister as their own children, sending you to good schools and ensuring you wanted for little, and were kept far from the war.
Then the war ended, and the Dor Len economy collapsed. At first, it mattered little to you. You lived with royalty, who seemed to be above such small concerns. You would travel the farmlands with Ana Sola, who wept for her people. You tried to understand her pain, but it was still distant to you. So much of her life was good--she had her parents, at least--and yet she cried for these people she barely knew, and her tears did them no good.
As the economy worsened, even the fortunes of the Ana Sola family began to fail. Queen Ana Sola did little to support the farmers, despite her daughter’s tears, and soon the farmlands were going untouched. Your province was one of the first where Enterios began to set up automated farming systems, leaving the farmers with little to do. Unemployment rates skyrocketed, and before long, even the royal family was functionally bankrupt. The family had to give up the royal estate and move to a small country house, barely big enough for all of you.
Your sister, having returned from the University of Titan’s Passage, left again. You decided to follow in her footsteps. Ana Sola asked you to stay, to help her try to fix what her mother had done, but you were sick of it all, disillusioned with the whole system. Your parents’ philosophies had gotten them killed, and now Ana Sola’s mother’s inaction had destroyed the entire region’s economy. Dor Len Sono was a slowly dying rock.
You’re still not sure entirely what made you take a job with Enterios. Perhaps it was out of spite, a petty act of revenge against Ana Sola, joining the company that played such a strong role in undercutting her lands. Perhaps it was just the simple pragmatic reason that they offered the best pay, and a job that actually would get you off Dor Len Sono. Ana Sola was furious with you, a rift the two of you haven’t repaired in all the years since.
The Navigator training process was not pleasant, but you excelled at it. It helped that you had a phenomenal teacher. F. Karali ((Lionel Honda)) was a prodigy Navigator, one of the youngest to ever become a teacher. Karali pushed you, challenged you, inspired you. A few years after your graduation from the training program, you were deeply honored when Karali chose you to be a copilot of Enterios’ reclaimed capital ship, the Distant Light. You would pilot it with Karali and P. Caesura ((Susan Linich)), who had been Karali’s teacher. The three of you made an excellent team, minds linking together smoothly and effectively. You were one with the warp engines, and it was a joy to fly.
Shortly after the announcement that Enterios would be sending the Distant Light to help settle Phaelos III, things fell apart. During what should have been a routine jump, Caesura freaked out, adrenaline levels skyrocketing out of nowhere. The feedback nearly killed both you and Karali, but years of practice kept you stable long enough to finish the warp and disconnect Caesura from the engine.
It was too late for Caesura, though. Their implants were damaged, and their nervous system a wreck. They took an indefinite medical leave. Karali was suspicious of the timing, though, and began to look for evidence of foul play. You helped, and soon found a clue in your own brains, in memory patterns mirrored through the warp engine. Someone had implanted a seizure program in Caesura’s brain, and triggered it remotely. On close analysis of the program, you recognized patterning in the data streams from the philosophical subroutines every Dor Len teenager learns in school, but with strange quirks. You’re fairly certain it was a Gyra refugee raised on Dor Len Sono, but that still leaves thousands of possible suspects.
In the meantime, you have to cope with Caesura’s replacement. G. Nyr-fan ((Seamus Reynolds)) seems nice, and is trying hard to mesh with you and Karali, but the results are rocky. Losing Caesura was hard. The three of you had become one with the ship, in a way that only capital ship Navigators every truly experience. Caesura left a gap that couldn’t be filled by anyone, and you don’t blame Nyr-fan for that. You’re trying your best to reach out to them, and for the moment it seems to be working.
At least, it’s working enough for the drive to be stable, and for the Distant Light to make the jumps it needs. Karali insists there’s something more going on, that Nyr-fan is hiding something, but you’ve told them it’s just paranoia. Nyr-fan isn’t a programmer, and didn’t grow up on Dor Len Sono. Caesura’s hacking wasn’t their work, and trying to frame them won’t make anything better. Karali is your partner, and you wish you could find a way to get them to move forward and be more open-minded about working with Nyr-fan instead of just locking them out, but… it’s not always easy. Karali is deeply prideful, and took the attack on Caesura personally.
Once you get to Phaelos III, you’ll have at least a few days, probably even a few weeks on the ground together before you fly again. You’re hoping that’ll be enough time for things to shake out between the three of you. What’s more, you’ve heard that Caesura might be there. You know Karali hasn’t told them of your findings about the hacking, and you don’t want to be the one to do so. You’re just looking forward to seeing them again, and you do so hope they’re doing better.
Light: You can see the good in a lot of people, and seek understanding and justice. You love others, despite their flaws.
Dark: You solve your problems by pretending nothing’s wrong, and disconnecting yourself. When someone lets you down, it reminds you of the abandonment of your parents, and you get unreasonably angry.
Relations:
S. Ana Sola ((Danielle Harper))
P. Caesura ((Susan Linich))
F. Karali ((Lionel Honda))
G. Nyr-fan ((Seamus Reynolds))
Questions:
Name: B. Ana Rous
Group: The Enterios Corporation
Homeworld: Dor Len Sono
Variant: Navigator
Character Coach: Jax Bryk ([email protected])
Description:
Your parents should never have been soldiers. They were philosophers, part of one of the ancient monasteries of Dor Len Sono. But during the Homeworld War, they made a decision. It took hours of long conversations, but they decided that it was ethically unsound for them not to enlist. They believed in liberation for all people, including the Agerrans, and they came to the conclusion that it was worth fighting for.
They wanted your opinion, and included both you and your sister in the decision-making process. Each of you got a vote, though you were barely old enough to really understand what that meant. You didn’t want your parents to go, and voted for them to stay. Your sister, a decade older, voted for your parents to fight, for reasons you still don’t fully understand, and probably never will. But the vote was settled, and your parents enlisted in the U.A.W. Navy.
Both of them died less than a year later, at the First Battle of Gyr. You and your sister were raised by close family friends, who happened to be the royal family of your province. As a child, that didn’t mean much to you--mostly you were just glad to have a playmate your own age. S. Ana Sola ((Danielle Harper)) was the heir to the Queendom, and a good friend to you throughout your childhood. The Ana Sola family raised you and your sister as their own children, sending you to good schools and ensuring you wanted for little, and were kept far from the war.
Then the war ended, and the Dor Len economy collapsed. At first, it mattered little to you. You lived with royalty, who seemed to be above such small concerns. You would travel the farmlands with Ana Sola, who wept for her people. You tried to understand her pain, but it was still distant to you. So much of her life was good--she had her parents, at least--and yet she cried for these people she barely knew, and her tears did them no good.
As the economy worsened, even the fortunes of the Ana Sola family began to fail. Queen Ana Sola did little to support the farmers, despite her daughter’s tears, and soon the farmlands were going untouched. Your province was one of the first where Enterios began to set up automated farming systems, leaving the farmers with little to do. Unemployment rates skyrocketed, and before long, even the royal family was functionally bankrupt. The family had to give up the royal estate and move to a small country house, barely big enough for all of you.
Your sister, having returned from the University of Titan’s Passage, left again. You decided to follow in her footsteps. Ana Sola asked you to stay, to help her try to fix what her mother had done, but you were sick of it all, disillusioned with the whole system. Your parents’ philosophies had gotten them killed, and now Ana Sola’s mother’s inaction had destroyed the entire region’s economy. Dor Len Sono was a slowly dying rock.
You’re still not sure entirely what made you take a job with Enterios. Perhaps it was out of spite, a petty act of revenge against Ana Sola, joining the company that played such a strong role in undercutting her lands. Perhaps it was just the simple pragmatic reason that they offered the best pay, and a job that actually would get you off Dor Len Sono. Ana Sola was furious with you, a rift the two of you haven’t repaired in all the years since.
The Navigator training process was not pleasant, but you excelled at it. It helped that you had a phenomenal teacher. F. Karali ((Lionel Honda)) was a prodigy Navigator, one of the youngest to ever become a teacher. Karali pushed you, challenged you, inspired you. A few years after your graduation from the training program, you were deeply honored when Karali chose you to be a copilot of Enterios’ reclaimed capital ship, the Distant Light. You would pilot it with Karali and P. Caesura ((Susan Linich)), who had been Karali’s teacher. The three of you made an excellent team, minds linking together smoothly and effectively. You were one with the warp engines, and it was a joy to fly.
Shortly after the announcement that Enterios would be sending the Distant Light to help settle Phaelos III, things fell apart. During what should have been a routine jump, Caesura freaked out, adrenaline levels skyrocketing out of nowhere. The feedback nearly killed both you and Karali, but years of practice kept you stable long enough to finish the warp and disconnect Caesura from the engine.
It was too late for Caesura, though. Their implants were damaged, and their nervous system a wreck. They took an indefinite medical leave. Karali was suspicious of the timing, though, and began to look for evidence of foul play. You helped, and soon found a clue in your own brains, in memory patterns mirrored through the warp engine. Someone had implanted a seizure program in Caesura’s brain, and triggered it remotely. On close analysis of the program, you recognized patterning in the data streams from the philosophical subroutines every Dor Len teenager learns in school, but with strange quirks. You’re fairly certain it was a Gyra refugee raised on Dor Len Sono, but that still leaves thousands of possible suspects.
In the meantime, you have to cope with Caesura’s replacement. G. Nyr-fan ((Seamus Reynolds)) seems nice, and is trying hard to mesh with you and Karali, but the results are rocky. Losing Caesura was hard. The three of you had become one with the ship, in a way that only capital ship Navigators every truly experience. Caesura left a gap that couldn’t be filled by anyone, and you don’t blame Nyr-fan for that. You’re trying your best to reach out to them, and for the moment it seems to be working.
At least, it’s working enough for the drive to be stable, and for the Distant Light to make the jumps it needs. Karali insists there’s something more going on, that Nyr-fan is hiding something, but you’ve told them it’s just paranoia. Nyr-fan isn’t a programmer, and didn’t grow up on Dor Len Sono. Caesura’s hacking wasn’t their work, and trying to frame them won’t make anything better. Karali is your partner, and you wish you could find a way to get them to move forward and be more open-minded about working with Nyr-fan instead of just locking them out, but… it’s not always easy. Karali is deeply prideful, and took the attack on Caesura personally.
Once you get to Phaelos III, you’ll have at least a few days, probably even a few weeks on the ground together before you fly again. You’re hoping that’ll be enough time for things to shake out between the three of you. What’s more, you’ve heard that Caesura might be there. You know Karali hasn’t told them of your findings about the hacking, and you don’t want to be the one to do so. You’re just looking forward to seeing them again, and you do so hope they’re doing better.
Light: You can see the good in a lot of people, and seek understanding and justice. You love others, despite their flaws.
Dark: You solve your problems by pretending nothing’s wrong, and disconnecting yourself. When someone lets you down, it reminds you of the abandonment of your parents, and you get unreasonably angry.
Relations:
S. Ana Sola ((Danielle Harper))
P. Caesura ((Susan Linich))
F. Karali ((Lionel Honda))
G. Nyr-fan ((Seamus Reynolds))
Questions:
- How do you feel about your older sister?
- How do you feel about the devastation of Dor Len Sono?
- What led you to be a navigator?
- How are you handling the near-death of your co-worker?
- What keeps you going when things look grim?
