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.

Name
Kristopher Thomson

Age
19

Gender
Male

Company
Grummer Orbital Systems

Personality
In his own words, Kris is an emotional person who is incapable of letting go of past traumas. This nature and his naivety make him little more than a blank canvas, particularly when it comes to his father. It is also this fiery spirit that makes him extraordinarily sincere despite his overall animosity towards his family. It is due to his sincerity that he is able to take massive risks for others and even compromise his own personal comfort for the benefit of others — particularly his reputation.

History
Kris's life was never interesting as he was born a year after the Kepler was constructed. From the day he was born, he was lived upon the Kepler, his father barely able to stand being around him. At his youngest, he could recall his father calling him unwanted and it has stuck with him ever since. Living in space meant a life where Kris never got to be a child, he was always kept confined to stay out of the way of the workers. His own family, consisting of his mother, father, uncle, and two siblings (an older brother and sister), were never close in any regard. Kris had to learn on his own for the most part, his traumas following him as he got older.

Upon hitting 18, Kris was expected to join Grummer like the rest of his family, his father having constantly beat them into shape to eventually work alongside him. This was their birthright and he would not have his petulant children lag behind, particularly his youngest. Kris found a hard time socializing with others, forcing himself to learn to love his new work as a security detail. Maybe one day he'd come to appreciate everything his father sacrificed for him or maybe the universe would give him a different outlook.

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