The Genesis Arks were said to be designed and built specifically for the Genesis Project, however the first design of an Ark is older than the project itself, with the initial designs being for a new form of deep space colony ship. These ships were built with the best technology humanity had to offer, to take humanity to a better future. For more information on the history and background of the Arks please see the respective page. All these Arks were constructed at a massive shipyard in Africa.
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NAME: ROSS, ELIJAH SEX: MALE D.O.B (DATE OF BIRTH): 10/10/2176 ETHNICITY: MIXED, CAUCASIAN-LATIN

P.O.B (PLACE OF BIRTH): ARCADIA, MARS P.O.R (PLACE OF RESIDENCE): ULROP STATION, EARTH ORBIT

MOTHER: ROSS, MELINDA (deceased) FATHER: ROSS, DANIEL (deceased) SIBLINGS: ROSS, LAUREL (age 38, botanist)

ENLISTMENT: ARCADIA CONSCRIPTION OFFICE (age 17) RANK: COMMANDER DEPLOYMENT: VITAE

LICENSES: FOR PILOTING WARSHIP AND GUNSHIP CLASS VEHICLES

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Player Name: Nieszka
Character Name: Dr. Naomi Wolfe
Character Age: 29
Character Gender: Female
Appearance:

Slender and beautiful, if in a careless way, Dr. Wolfe is most often found in lab coats or exercise clothes, depending on the time of day.

Profession:

Dr. Wolfe is a biologist and organic chemist whose specialization is the forced adaption of plant and animal life to otherwise hostile environments. Much of this is built on the pioneering work of her father, Dr. David Wolfe, to create more sustainable living conditions on Mars.

Nationality: Martian

Strengths and Weaknesses:

Naomi Wolfe’s greatest strength is her intellect. She is a brilliant scientist, highly rational and practical. In this vein, she is observant and detail-oriented but has a more difficult time with big-picture ideas and any concept that cannot be scientifically proven. This is not the person with which to talk about dreams or intuition. Naomi can read some 900 words per minute with good comprehension and has a good memory for facts and figures.

Thanks to the Martian required military service, Naomi is physically fit and has some basic combat and defensive abilities. Given a crisis, she will act first and talk later, a fact that saved her life a several times on active duty.

Naomi has a deeply ingrained need to belong but is lacking in interpersonal skills. Even when well-meaning, the scientist comes off as blunt or insensitive and can be very difficult to work with because of this character flaw. Conversely, this has led to her seemingly reserved nature. Rather than attempting to belong and being rebuffed for her lack of people skills, Naomi keeps mainly to herself. She’d be terribly lonely if she didn’t push herself to work such long hours.

Personal Effects: Clothing, a tablet, the journals recording the scientific research of both herself and her father, a portable microscope that more often than not is simply a paperweight on her desk, abandoned in favor of the better ones found in the Vitae’s labs, and a few dog-eared books. A couple of these are scientific texts annotated with Naomi’s tiny script, but most are old romances, such as Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.

Bio:

As the connection finally clears, an image of an old man’s bulbous nose takes up much of the screen, wobbling as he mumbles about Martian equipment and long-distance calls at all hours of the day and night. He fiddles with a few more buttons and wires then leans back, as if just now noticing the business-like face staring at him.

“Ah, about time, isn’t it?” He starts in his brusque way, sitting down in front of the computer so that more of the room behind him can be seen. It’s a lab, as spotless as the man is disorderly, filled with high-tech equipment of various descriptions and one other scientist, a young woman peering into a beaker, her dark hair pulled roughly back except for a few escaping strands.

“Well, get on with it!” the man scolds, bringing his correspondent’s attention immediately back to him. “What have you come to beg for this time?”

The man on the other side of the screen is a Martian official, used to respect and more than a little put off by the scientist’s lack of decorum, but he straightens his jacket and manages to speak clearly enough.

“Dr. David Wolfe, as my colleagues have no doubt told you, the United Earth Council has—“

“And I've told your colleagues,” David Wolfe interrupted, “That an old man’s got no place on that tub you're chucking into space! To think—“

“You’re right! You are too old for the Genesis Program. It is your daughter we want,” The officer shouts over him, his politeness forgotten in aggravation. He looks down at the file in his hands and reads from it: “Protege of the great David Wolf, extremely promising research in her own right, not to mention honorable conduct during mandatory military service, which is more than we can say about you, sir.”

The old man harrumphs in annoyance, as the woman behind him looks up, the first time she’s shown any interest at all in her father’s correspondence. “I’ll do it, of course,” she says calmly, placing the glass down and stepping towards the computer.

“Well how am I going to get a new one trained up now?” the old man grumbles.

“You won’t need to if you’ve been torn apart by Devastators.”

The old man considers this with perverse satisfaction for a moment, then gives a rough nod. “Well if you’re in such a hurry to leave your old man to the aliens, you’d best get to it.”

Six months later, Dr. Naomi Wolfe departs Mars on a short-range space shuttle and is packed aboard the Vitae.

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Naomi's father married very late in life to a much younger lab tech, neither of which were quite expecting the union to produce a child. David Wolfe, at this point in his mid 60's, saw his daughter as a chance to continue his work, xenobiology and the adaptation of inhospitable planets to sustainable human life, all the more necessary in his eyes after the Three Day War.

So, to further his hopes for the future, this rather unpleasant man made himself teacher to a young girl, starting her on math and science much earlier than any child normally would have, while other (in his mind, lesser) subjects were delegated to unhappy lab assistants and Naomi's mother. Soon she was not only David Wolfe's student, but also his assistant and eventually, valued colleague. Family friends say he was know to call Naomi his greatest scientific experiment.

Naomi's unconventional education and her natural inclination to the work let her advance quickly beyond her years. At the age of twenty-four when Naomi was contacted about the Genesis Project in her father's lab, she was already a doctor twice over and was working on her own line of research in the field of xenobiology. So her skills are those of a brilliant scientist and researcher, and she has all of her father's prodigious work to build off of.

Since the launch of the Vitae, five years ago now, Naomi Wolf has largely kept herself above the despair of the so far fruitless search by keeping her mind on the details, the smaller problems immediately before her: evolving existing edible plants and animals to create sustainable food for either a very long space voyage or for a new home planet that might not have a sustainable food source fit for humans, controlling an eliminating the occasional outbreak of disease, and her pet project, experimenting with the Tardigrade genome to alter other organisms’ survivability in the vacuum of space.

Relationships: Pending

Code Word: Spaghetti

Matthew, on the left with his son Julian during a hunting trip.

Player Name: Infamous Guy 101
Character Name: Matthew Lopez
Character Age: 46
Character Gender: Male
Appearance:

• 200 lbs
• 6.1 ft
• Service tattoos on chest, and both arms.

Profession: Captain in the Vitae’s Military Garrison.
Formerly Member of the Martian Navy Special Operations.
Nationality: Martian Unity
Strengths:

• Military training in weapons handling, hand to hand combat, space flight and space ops. Matthew has acquired vast experience from his years in the military and is a no nonsense hardened man because of it.
• Quick thinker, his years in the military made him someone that acts quickly and can keep collected in times of great stress. His contribution in the battle of Mars made clear he is capable of taking the initiative.
• Determined, he is a man of strong conviction and will not stop at nothing to finish a task, assignment, or mission. His main goal is to find a home not just for him and his son but for everyone in the Vitae.

Weaknesses:

• Over-Protective of his only son. He swore to his wife that he would do anything to protect him, and damn straight he will, no one will harm him or put him in harms way as long as Matt lives and he will put his son first above himself.
• Doesn't like talking about his wife. His wife passing took an emotional toll on him, he abhors talking about it and at the slightest mention he will stonewall.
• He suffers from PTSD and anxiety attacks. This is largely due to the things he saw in the Three Day War, he saw friends die and the screams of the thousands of soldiers being killed inside the destroyed ships haunt him to this very day.

Personal Effects:

• Photos of his son and him, as well as his deceased wife.
• Crucifix
• Personal Pad
• Survival knife and sheath.
• Duffel bag with clothes and hygienic stuff.

Bio:
Born in 2176 to parents of Mexican descent, Matt was always a hyperactive child who enjoyed the outdoors and venturing into the wilds of Mars. His father was in the military, serving as a Lieutenant in the Martian Unity Navy and his mother worked as a doctor, they both loved Mike very much as he was the only son they had been able to conceive and believed he was destined to do great things. Matt’s father, 1st Lieutenant Manuel Lopez was strict at times, applying the military doctrine of the MU into the life of Matt and believing it necessary, for there would come a time in which Matt would be one of the many men in this new and young State who would have to fight for their planet, their people, themselves when danger was amidst. Matt’s mother, Rosa Lopez, was much more compassionate, she wanted Matt to grow into a man of his own and make his own decisions based on his free will. Whether he joined the military or not was no boggle to her, she wanted him to be the best he could be at anything he had chosen to be. Matt carried both his parents teaching at heart and in the end, after finishing high school, he enrolled in the Martian Military Education Program. Not because the influence of either parent, but because he wanted to belong to something greater, he felt he owed to his planet to serve it and to fight for it. He had that conviction.

Matt trained and studied for years to become part of something greater, training physically and mentally to become a soldier through a through but also continued to believe in the words of his mother and the word of the lord himself. He didn’t openly showed his faith, but deep within it was always a part of who he was. He became a commendable soldier, joining the Naval Special Operations Division and passing training, becoming a sergeant at the age of 20 and showing prowess in ground ops but most importantly in space flight and space operations. He had taken part in covert operations during the cold war and had proven he had the conviction to fight for his planet. He was still young and fresh from training but was ready to fight in any given danger to the Unity.

In 2196, when tensions were running high between the MU and the other powers, the Attack on the Fleeters outpost brought fear but determination to Matt. He believed that whoever had been the ones behind the attack, he had to be ready to fight. And he prepared himself for it, waiting and waiting for the planet to rally on the warpath against the alien enemy known as the Devastators. The planet kept on building the defenses for the incoming Invasion. The destruction of the Ceres station made it clear the Martian Unity was next on the Devastators campaign. Matt and his squad were dispatch to orbit under Commander William Locke, where they took part in the engagement against the Devastator fleet. Mike and his comrades took to their fighters and off to the battle in space, Mike and his squadron as well as others took on waves of Devastator fighters and also took part in attacks against Devastator cruisers and frigates. The battle took a toll on Mike as he heard over the comms the screaming agony of those in the destroyed ships being torn apart by Devastator weaponry. Mike continued with his squadron in battle the Devastators and they destroyed dozens of fighters, however, the squadrons began losing men quickly as the battle turned against the Martians.

In a surprising move by their commander, the squadrons and several ships were commanded by Locke to use their cloaking technology to come at the Devastator from behind, flanking them, Locke’s forces began the assault on the Devastators rear. Matt had already lost many friends during the battle, and his own squadron leader was killed during the counter attack. He took the initiative with no hesitation and led his squadron to continue Locke’s attack. For a moment it seemed like all was lost, as the Devastators were tearing apart the Martian forces with little effort.

Then another fleet joined in the battle, led by Admiral Roland Constantine, the fleets merged together and were able to defeat the Devastators, but at the terrible price of many Martian lives lost. However, Matt had proved he was a dedicated soldier and leader and was promoted shortly after due to his leadership during the battle. After the Three Day War, the United Earth Council was formed and Matt like all other soldiers prepared for the inevitable second wave that would come. The special operations division continued to serve for the 20 years that followed, Matt promptly achieving the rank of First Lieutenant and meeting the women of his life, Crystal Miranda, a women of Asian descent whom he had known from back when he was a kid and she was an infant a renown Biologist. Still sure that Humanity could win, Matt continued his service to the Martian Unity and the UEC as a special ops soldier and took part of military operations meant to prepare humanity for the incoming fight. Eventually, with Crystal, the two conceived a child in the year 2208, naming him Julian. Matt became an arduous father and caretaker, and having learned of the incoming second invasion, one that Humanity would not be able to fend off, Mike was willing to do anything to make sure his wife and child survived. Enrolling in the Genesis Project the Lieutenant pledge that he would serve the as a member of the military force that would face off against the Devastators once they arrived in exchange for his wife and child to be part of the Ark, Crystal being a biologist she was welcomed aboard in the science team. Matt was willing to accept the possible outcomes, he either died in battle or he lived through it and Humanity defeated the Devastators and he could see his wife and child again. Eventually, in 2214, disaster struck for him when Crystal contracted Leukemia, a dangerous malignant strain that would eventually kill her.

Knowing her faith, Crystal made it so that Mike was the one who would be part of the Project, not her. Matt was not willing to let Crystal go like this, he was sure she could survive the Ark trip and take medication until she was cured, they could meet again, but Crystal was not willing to become a clear lost cause. She knew that the reality was that either they both died, Matt in battle and Crystal due to the cancer, or Matt survived to ensure the safety of Julian. Crystal made Matt swear he would protect Julian no matter what, and with crying eyes he did so, accepting the spot in the Ark as a member of the military force who would protect the Ark if the need arose, this granted him the promotion of Captain due to his experience and his service.

The day came that Crystal died, a mere month before the Devastators return, Matt buried her in the spot of their first date, near the New Horizon River. He would not be part of the fight, not yet, but he would make sure the future of mankind lived on. The day came in 2216 Matt’s Ark was launched, he could only watch as his home was ravaged and his fellow brothers in arms fought a losing battle, but at the very least they assured the survival of the human race. Now it's 2221, under the leadership of the same man he fought under in the Three Day War, Matt is now captain in the Vitae’s military garrison and he is determined to find a new home for his son, and not let down the memory of the love of his life.

Relationships:

• Julian Lopez - Son
• Commander William Locke - Subordinate and Loyal to him.

Code Word:Spaghetti

Player Name: Heat

Character Name: Michael 'Smith'

Character Age: Appears to be in his mid twenties, in actuality he has been active for just over five years, being activated shortly after the Vitae was launched.

Character Gender: Male

Appearance: Michael stands 6 feet exactly, his frame is lean. He appears externally human with no blemishes or scars. His medium brown hair is not really hair, it does not grow, he also can't grow facial hair. His skin is a synthetic fiber that feels like real skin but is almost plastic in its composition. His eyes are a deep blue. He has not changed appearance wise in the last five years.

Profession: Originally designed to work with the scientists on the Vitae for whatever task they require, he has since earned a position as a respected member of the science team.

Nationality: Synthetic android

Strengths:

• He has a near encyclopedic knowledge of recorded human history. He can recall any point if asked to. Also will constantly add to this knowledge over the Vitae's journey, he has done just this over the last five years.
• He also possesses a deep knowledge of many different types of sciences, comparable to a supercomputer.
• Michael is stronger, faster and better coordinated than a human being. But his strength is not superhuman by any means. It's comparable to modern, lesser advanced robots. He's reluctant to show these strengths.
• He was given a fully functional, detailed personality. Designed to be as human-like as possible in this aspect. He can easily blend in and appear fully human. Few aboard the Vitae know of his true nature.
• He knows how to make basic repairs to himself and has a tool kit within his quarters. If he were to suffer more extreme injuries then he would need assistance from others.
• Michael does not need to eat, drink, sleep or breath. He can also survive in an oxygen-less environment such as outer space.
• He is fully capable of learning and adapting, potentially able to overcome some of the faults in his programming.

Weaknesses:

• Michael was programmed to never harm another human being, even if he is being attacked. Violence against humans is something that would never occur in his mind.
• He freely thinks but does not have free will, whatever his creators ask he will do. As long as what is asked of him is within his programming.
• His personality is very naive, he was given emotions but does not really understand what its like to be human. He'll often ask 'odd' questions about human nature and has an almost child-like curiosity about life. Even in the years that have passed during his time on the Vitae he still has much to learn in this regard.
• He does not feel empathy, if told something that would cause an emotional response in a human he will often stare blankly and appear unaffected, not sure how to react. Michael is able to feel severe emotions that can cause him to cry, but these are brought on by himself.
• Michael does not bleed, this would give away to someone that doesn't already know that he is not a real human. Internally he is filled with complex machinery, externally he appears fully human.
• His body is quite fragile, his skeleton is sturdy but many of his internal mechanisms are vulnerable. His central processor is located in his head, if that is damaged enough then he will shut down.
• His programming is susceptible to modifications, if someone wanted to modify him for whatever reason then they could and he would be forced to adjust to it. In the five years that have passed no modifications have been made to his programming.
• If his serial number (MHSA276012) is read out loud enough for him to hear then he will shut down on the spot.

Personal Effects: Michael does not have many personal possessions, in his room he only has a small wardrobe of clothes and his repair kit.

Bio: Michael was constructed by the a small team of scientists, the concept for the creation of a humanoid synthetic only something seen in science fiction until then. Robotics and artificial intelligence are both something the human race is familiar with, but Michael is something completely different. If God made humans in his image, then Michael was made in his own creator's image as well.

His creation was a hotly debated subject amongst the few that actually knew of the idea, some frowned upon it, others saw it as a necessity. If we were gathering the greatest of our species, then why not simply create one that would be destined for greatness? They had the technology, no one just had ever given serious thought to creating a truly synthetic man.

The cost of his creation was a high one, but money was not an issue when the survival of the human race was at stake. It took some time to build him, they started from scratch and spent every dime required to make him perfect. It was not rushed, every single moment of it was monitored closely to ensure perfection. They could not afford any failures with such a delicate operation.

Early on in the android's creation some within the team voiced a concern to limit their machine man, they ultimately decided to treat him the same as their artificial intelligence. Michael was given the ability to freely think but not freely act, though his programming left opportunities for modifications. He would answer wholly to those that made him, do whatever was asked without hesitation. After months of focus and dedication the synthetic man was completed. The final touch was to give him a name, Micheal, there was a certain irony in bestowing a biblical name upon the android but it was oddly fitting.

On the Vitae

The android was moved onto the Vitae, weeks before its launch. Sealed away in a secured contained the robotic man was activated upon launch. With some of his creators aboard the vessel, his true existence was a kept secret among a select few important individuals. A pinnacle of human advancement in the field of robotics, it was only fitting that he would find himself sent away with humanity's chosen survivors. His first weeks aboard the ship were guided by one of his leading creators, Dr. Ethan Phillips, who would become a mentor to the 'naive' android.

Michael had a place among the science team as he showcased his ingenuity in multiple fields. To everyone that was unaware of his true nature he was just a young scientific phenom, curious and non-confrontational. As the years passed in their journey the android has become an important voice in the science department, living up the expectations that had been placed on him before his activation. He has also gone on a few missions that have taken him off the ship, his skill set enabling him to assist in matters beyond just scientific ones. His curiosity has not been satisfied, in his free time often exploring corners of the massive vessel, interacting with different people from different backgrounds. This is all while his true nature has been successfully kept a secret to the masses aboard the Vitae.

He has had thoughts of the Vitae's struggles at finding a new home for humanity, though very few have been pessimistic ones. His programmed personality is not one that dwells on sadness or despair, rather he deals with such troubles rationally. The galaxy is a massive place, Earth like worlds suitable for humanity to colonize and live upon are a rarity. With the advanced technologies at their disposal he remains utterly hopeful that they will find a new Earth, where humanity can prosper.

Relationships:

• Dr. Ethan Phillips - The most important person behind Michael's creation, Dr. Phillips has taken a role akin to a father figure for the curious android. He's Michael's closest confident, and someone the machine man truly cares for.
• The two have a friendly relationship due to being work colleagues.

others TBA.

Code Word: Spaghetti

Age: 37

Gender: Male

Appearance: Current Appearance

Role aboard the VITAE: Chief Engineer

Nationality: Martian Unity

Strengths: Sullivan experience with electronics and space craft can be traced back to his family trade as they had been working as engineers during the earlier days of the Mars expansion. His father acting as cheif technician during the Three Days War. He continued his education and formal training conducted at the Hawkings Institute on Eden Dome 3, Saggitarius Plateau, Mars. His technical capability of FTL systems and space craft maintenance are considered top marks, with additional experience in fabricateering, manufacture, space walking, robotics, and mechanical engineering. He has been relied upon time and again to not only repair systems, but also further optimize systems.

He has shown to be a capable leader and is respected by his team. Additionally he has been recognized as a much needed morale officer, often times organizing and scheduling crew events designed to showcase movies or strengthen working relationship. His artistic capabilities have also been considered to add a breath of color and fresh air to the VITAE, a welcomed distraction from the growing tension.

Flaws: Sullivan has a very stubborn and superior attitude when it comes to his duties. He will frequently rail against his superiors when it comes to matters of maintaining the ship and its systems and will often resolve issues his own way. Normally this results in a problem solved, but as expected on occasion he is wrong, most commonly for not knowing all the specifics that a superior might have known.

Lately his behavior has been erratic and agressive. While Sullivan is considered social by other crew members, his increased consumption of alcohol has been noticed. While he has never reported for duty under the influence, he has been on record for causing eight public disturbances and has been reprimanded on two accounts for instigating two brawls and one case of assault, all within the last ten months. Evaluations for this behavior has been linked to depression and survivors guilt. The medication he has been taking for these symptoms no longer effects him the way it should, and the VITAE medical staff has not yet found an effective cocktail for him. He is currently to attend mandatory weekly psychiatric sessions and attend group therapy sessions.

Personal Effects: Sullivan keeps a rather extensive collection of old world animations in old fashion plastic cassete boxes as well as posters and memorabilia of the characters starring in that media. He also keeps a number of sketching, painting, and inking supplies with various incomplete works filling a sizeable corner of his quarters. Other items include the suitcases that belongs to his living descendants which includes a oversized teddy bear and soccer bag with gear. He also has a hidden stash of alcohol which is common knowledge to pretty much everyone.

Personal History: Keith Sullivan was born on Mars to a family of primarily Irish decent whom established private engineering contracts during the early days of Mar's habitation and terraforming. The Sullivan family had maintained a tradition of military service and engine manufacture and repair through the highlight years of the Martian Unity and Keith followed in his family's footsteps, even volunteering in scrap salvage with other youth groups during the Three Years War. He attended the Hawkins University at Eden to obtain degrees in mechanical engineering, advanced robotics, and Spacecraft Systems Specialization. Immediately afterwards he began his military service, working on the various ships and associating with Confederates, Nagasaki, and Fleeters throughout his career. He had barely been back to Mars since his recruitment into the Martian fleets.

Following the marriage of a Fleeter, named Rosita, Sullivan pushed to be removed from military vessels to more logistical and civilian space craft. Due to his admirable record, this task was approved and he actually had and raised his family aboard such vessels. It was because of this approval that probably saved his life. It was the first military vessels that were comissioned to defend against the Devastator Threat, and as the battles grew closer to Mars, unity civilian ships were reequiped for military use. Sullivan personally supervised these efforts and his superiors had him reinstated on the Damacles, a Heavy Cruiser a few weeks before the Devastator Fleet reached Mars. While the Damacles acted as secondary command ship during the battle, it had also seen action and was heavily damaged. He had obtained three commedations for bravery for saving numerous lives and possibly the ship by preventing the ships fusion reactor from detatonating after a direct hit. Following this act, his name was included as the lucky few who would crew a genesis ark as a Senior Engineer, to be working under the Cheif Engineer.

Despite constant attempts to do otherwise, the two family member limit was not over ridden to include his wife and their two children. His wife had chosen to be left behind beginning Sullivan's habit of anti-depressants and substance abuse. His open social nature however had led him to develop a number of positive connections which he had further nurtured, and had taken into artistic pursuits to express himself. This has lead him to become an unofficial morale officer of sorts on the VITAE whose planned events were a welcomed distraction for the crew and had given him projects to work on.

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With the death of his Chief after a catastrophic coolant burst a year ago had also killed a few of Sullivan's crew, Sullivan had begun to fall back into bad habits but had taken to his new duties with equal comitment and efficiency. The growing malaise among the crew combined with a number of personal factors had caused Sullivan's depression and drinking to effect his psyche. This is having a cumulative effect on the rest of the crew whom had become more and more desperate for not only a new home, but anything to contend with the hopelessness of their travel through the endless void. Sullivan butts heads with the admiral and command staff on official buisness, but off the clock still has developed personal relationships with them, as they have something in common, the burden of command and loved ones lost. On a positive note; Sullivan had finally taken off his wedding ring perhaps in some small way, showing he is ready to move on.

Relationship: Rosita Sullivan - Wife - Deceased. Rosita Sullivan, pet care specialist was not considered critical for mission success and family slots given to her children
Amelia Sullivan - Daugher - Age 4 when set into Cryostasis
Ricardo Sullivan - Son - Age 12 when set into Cryostasis

Code Word: Spaghetti