Name
Leena Heikkinen
Age
Twenty Three
Gender
Nonbinary, female presenting, They/Them.
Company
Janus Shipping Corporation - "Family comes first!"

Personality
Leena firmly believes in the role of capitalism in a society. Through hard work, loyalty, dedication, blood, sweat, tears, and bootstraps one can achieve the wealth and luxury on display by their superiors. Their dedication to their job as a shipping intake dock worker is commendable, and their willingness to sacrifice personal luxuries such as housing space, food budget, break hours, and PTO will surely be rewarded by Janus Shipping one day. Their hobbies include meditation, technical manual reading, enthusiastic walking, and general health and fitness pursuits.

In short, Leena is a slave. Willing, perhaps, but a thoroughly indoctrinated fool dedicated to the corporate objectives of the Janus Shipping corporation. They blind themselves to the abject horribleness of their circumstances, scrounging a poverty wage to purchase meagre supplies, and justify themselves with the dream that they will one day get promotion and be able to repeat the cycle with a modicum more comfort. Their dreams dare not extend beyond this singular desire; promotion, and the never-ending pursuit of the next rung of the ladder to escape the deplorable state of their current life. A state they are entirely blind to, fearing that however bad they may have it now with Janus that surely, without doubt, the other companies have it worse.

History
Leena was born mid-flight to Kepler. Originating on the Moon, the Heikkinen family was one entirely belonging to the lowest of social strata within the Janus Shipping Family, and therefor Leena's celestial-maritime birth upon a Janus vessel accrued immense debt for the family that they could never have hoped to pay off due to the family's lack of corporately provided health insurance. Naturally, due to being born on a Janus Shipping vessel, the medical personnel and provider was also Janus Shipping.

Leena's birth was another step in the forever-cycle of the Heikkinen family's spiraling lease-to-live status, and they began to work in the efforts of achieving 'The Janus Shipping Dream' of luxury and opulence at the age of thirteen in The Gate of Kepler Station. Their initial paychecks were entirely dedicated to the interest rates of the debt accrued by their own birth, and their job was to mount and scrub docked vessels via Spacewalk. Two years later their father died at the age of forty two from work related stress injuries. Leena got a promotion the same day. The funerary costs and the airlock fees were added onto their debt.

They were now a Senior Ship Scrubber, in charge of other youths in their peerage as well as other grown adults of such little prospects that their sole utility was 'expendable janitor for a nearly defunct and purely corporate-aesthetic posturing position'. Janus Shipping had the cleanest ships, and Leena was now one of the people held responsible for that. Leena now needed to take care of a mother whose own leg injury had delegated her to purely clerical work at a significant pay cut, as well as compensate for the debt of their birth, their father's death, and the spiraling food bill.

They managed to achieve a period of stagnant interest rate payments from the ages of fifteen to eighteen, where their now-veteran crew of ship-scrubbers had achieved a 2% efficiency increase over their competitor sibling-crews. Leena was, naturally, put up for promotion. This lead to a sharp decrease of their former team's efficiency (A notable drop of 36%, the blame of which fell solely on their replacement), but Leena themself was at long last safely within the confines of Kepler Station and given yet more responsibility. They were certified to operate the industrial powered truck vehicle (a process that took an intensive four hour training program! Unpaid, of course.), and were attached to a crew of intake-offload personnel.

Their mother died two years later, and at the age of twenty Leena was promoted again. Some consider their career meteoric, even. The funerary costs and airlock fee were added to their debt. They now had their family's hab-block entirely to themself, which meant that their habitable space had increased 200% through their life- which meant that they were absolutely miles ahead of their sibling-peers of equivalent age. Truly, they got to stretch their legs within the 300 square feet of designated living space their family unit had earned with their service to Janus Shipping.

Hell, their hab-space was only a twenty foot walk from their designated work station as Intake Manifest Review Analyst! Their duties included those of their new position as well as the ongoing assumption of all prior duties as senior offload crew manager. The work kept their mind off things. The work kept them busy. Their pay was marginally higher than the interest rates and hab rental fees.

For three years, life has been good. They may even buy a plastic hydrangea soon; they've been eyeing one in the Janus Employee Leisure emails for a while now.

Rylond Marais

Age
40

Gender
Male

Company
Vira-Legat Bioengineering

Personality
One thing that can be said about Rylond is that he is a driven individual who cares about his family. Even at times, he does not show it and is one that can act friendly and be nice to people. But, during his time at Vira-Legat Bioengineering, he has also shown to be ruthless in his drive and not care about the costs of his mother's dream. Which means a lot to him after his mother's death, and he seeks to do right by his family. Despite his drive, Rylond still finds time for the little things and does make some friends throughout his life. Though his drive has waned as the years passed and the true costs of his mother's dream weighted on him. Realizing that he can no longer do this, he seeks to make amends for his time at Vira-Legat. To ease his conscience and seeks to start anew somewhere else.

History
Rylond had always wanted to do right with his family. Born the eldest son to a researcher and government official and in New Pretoria on Callisto. Rylond's life growing up was a happy one considering the state of affairs in the solar system and despite the commitment of his parents's professions, and he would grow close to his mother. His mother, Sarette Marais, a talented and well-known scientist who worked for Vira-Legat Bioengineering. Sarette had a dream where, through her work, humanity could be something more than what they are now. A dream that she would share with Rylond.

However, while it is still unknown what caused the accident at her lab that killed her and destroyed much of her research, his mother's death affected Rylond greatly. But sometime after her death, he gained a newfound goal of continuing what his mother started and fulfilling her dream of making a better humanity no matter the cost. So, with his father's backing, Rylond attended a prestigious university on Mars after years of hard work. He would earn his doctorate and either through his hard work or perhaps by being the son of a well-known employee or both. He applied and was accepted to work at Vira-Legat Bioengineering and eagerly continuing his mother's work.

For years, he worked diligently. At first, he did not expect the level of zero ethics, but this did not bother him later on as it meant there was no limit to his research. Which pleased him, and he worked hard.

Soon, he was transferred to the Kepler Space Station to continue his research there, and Rylond was eager to work at the most advanced nations in the system. But after four years on the station, things started to change for Rylond. For after years of research and experiments and seeing the true costs of fulfilling his mother's dream. Did Rylond start having doubts about what he was doing and if it meant sacrificing what was left of his humanity to do so. He had done many bad things in his quest, and the costs were catching up to him to what remained of his conscience.

Now, Rylond is considering quitting Vira-Legat and leaving the station. However, he knows that will be hard, given how Vira-Legat would not be willing to give him up so easily and how far they are from the rest of the colonies. But one thing is sure, he can not see himself doing more vile things in the name of his mother's dream and seeks a new path for himself. One where he could make amends for his actions and start anew. But for now, he stays on Kepler and plans on how to leave the station and quit Vira-Legat for good.

Fear and Regret N/A for now.

Name
Kane

Age
3 years, 11 months, 13 days, 36 minutes and 17.5 seconds

Gender
Male-presenting

Company
Tachibana Logistics

Personality
Kane is desperate for approval. He feels a greater purpose calling to him but he's trapped in a cycle of mediocrity, unable to escape the prison of his own mind. Losing Dr. Tchaikovsky robbed him of any agency, any future; he grieves her death yet blames her for abandoning him all the same. He wonders what it would be like to be more than metal and programming. Were he alive, Tachibana wouldn't hesitate to utilize his expertise. He could speak out on his own behalf, or approach another person just for conversation. This is his internal world, kept wrapped up beneath a veneer of machine indifference and corporate professionalism.

History
Doctor Alya Tchaikovsky designed Kane specifically for the Kepler Project after losing one too many androids to Tachibana's deranged 'experiments.'Alya's work in cybernetics had advanced the field more than any other woman alive. Her genius put ten thousand androids on a dozen different worlds. Joining the Kepler Project and opening the gateway to the universe was meant to be her crowning achievement. She would not live to see it through.

Kane was the first of his line and the last android Tchaikovsky ever built.

He was meant to be nigh unbreakable: sub-dermal polycarbonate armor, self-regulating coolant fluid, electronics hardened against electromagnetic interference, numerous backup systems to prevent catastrophic failure. Anything project lead Miller could throw at him, he was meant to handle. He was also programmed with an encyclopedic knowledge of eight different scientific and engineering disciplines, twelve languages and hundreds of hours of android-to-human psychological training. None of this translated to him being an expert on any of it, of course; though Kane's mind contained terabits of information he had no way of knowing how to apply it. For other first line androids, Alya had developed training regimes she personally wrote and taught. Her personalized tutoring was time consuming, but no one could deny the results: she was the best in the business.

Disease had stolen her mind first before it finished ravaging her body. Tachibana spent an uncharacteristic fortune attempting to restore her to health, but they proved unsuccessful- the medical team could never determine the source of her ills.

Ownership of Kane was transferred back to the company. He would continue as a member of the Kepler Project's research team, though his role was diminished given his incomplete training. Despite his immense technical archive he is most often assigned to manual labor. He has few friends, and spends most of his days lying over a charging rack in an unlit cargo hold next to a dozen other androids. Kane was meant for more than this, he knows. But what is he to do?

He's not even human.

Fear and Regret
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Name
Alias: Annalisa Diamond
Real Name: Javelina Coswell

Age
28

Gender
Female

Company
Vira-Legat Bioengineering

Personality
Miss Annalisa Diamond is at once the most useful and useless kind of employee. Sweet and kind but unambitious and somewhat vapid, she's the 'gofer;' the woman you send to do meaningless busywork; getting cups of coffee, organizing cabinets, that kind of thing. That's not to say she's unintelligent; she just...has a ceiling, and she's not likely to get any higher.

Javelina 'Jav' Coswell is...very different.

Whipcrack smart and highly driven, with a bloodhound's nose for information, a mind like a steel trap, and a real knack for thinking on her feet, Jav is everything Annalisa isn't. Though not exactly unkind, she has very little reason to be so most of the time. She's self-interested, yet she fully believes herself to be an altruist: to her, self-interest is altruism, and once she gets clamps her teeth down into a story, she has no intention of ever letting go; she'll hold on like a pit bull until either it comes apart or she does.

And all of this, the altruism, the stubbornness; all that she says or does is organized around a single, critical facet of her character. There are many values in the worlds. Peace, order, prosperity, conformity, hope. But to Jav, all of those pretty words are meaningless before the altar of 'truth.' Truth, at any price.

Truth, no matter the cost.

History
Annalisa Diamond was born in the high-rises of Mars' Valles Marineris to a family of obscene wealth. Raised with more money than she could even understand, her father eventually bought her a place (that she was rather unqualified for) in Vira-Legat, hoping to use her as a bargaining chip to get into the doors of the company. There's not a good reason for her to be on Kepler; just money and politics.

Annalisa Diamond also doesn't exist.

Oh, the Diamond family does, assuredly; and the identification she has checks out in every way. But she certainly wasn't born in Valles Marineris. Javelina Coswell was born in the slums of the Martian north, and spent her childhood in abject poverty. And disgust. Utter disgust, at the corruption she saw around her. At the money and food and power flowing between the already wealthy and powerful. So as she aged into a teenager, she decided to do something about it. Showing the first of her investigative chops, she managed to sneak into the Governer's residence, find all of the money on his system, every record of every transaction. So she downloaded them, and uploaded them into the network for all to see. Before the month was out, the governor had been shot.

The heady kick of truth had infiltrated Javelina and locked itself inside her, and there was nothing she could do to stop it. So she got a job as an investigative journalist (with what little journalism meant on Mars), and set herself to finding out the truth. Nothing major; bits here and there, frauds exposed, corruption shined a light upon, all on a local scale regardless where she moved on Mars, but anything was something, right?

And now, things have gotten bigger.

Recently, she found an interesting tip from a source she trusted: on the vaunted Kepler, Vira-Legat was up to something, and it was up to her to find out what. Her curiosity was fatally piqued, the opportunity to investigate one of the big megacorps in an official capacity too much for her to pass up. So she took the cover--lucky it didn't require her to be qualified!--and shipped out.

The truth was waiting.