Name:
Adrian Coutts
Age:
27
Gender:
Male
Appearance:
Adrian has an average build, being slightly muscular from his training with NASA. He stands above most people in a room, standing at 6'3. His expression frequently includes a small smile, reflecting his personality. When first meeting someone, one of the first things they often notice are his unusually large hands that dominate a handshake, immediately follower by his well manicured, but girlish nails. His hair is typically well groomed, as is his beard which he rarely lets grow out too far.
Pack contents:
Small container with several dozen types of seeds, enough for Adrian to get started with while he waits for cargo to be unloaded
Towel, meant to be a joke between him and his geeky friends who were also accepted into the program
A bottle of Grant scotch whiskey 1L
Two changes of clothing
A white lab coat, because every good scientist needs one
Tablet containing information on biological life in Spera and an extensive guide to all aspects he would have encountered while working for NASA, a well as several ebooks, a few television series, and a couple dozen movies
Box of tools for small scale field work
Did you store anything in the cargo bay?
A sealed metal container holding two cubic meters worth of soil from Earth
A microscope with several dozen clear slides
Four sealed metal cubic meter boxes containing assorted seeds from across Earth, the contents ranging from potatoes and beans to tobacco and poppy seeds
Equipment for planting, maintaining, and harvesting crops
Cookware
Several changes of clothes and two tan jumpsuits for fieldwork
Skills:
Botanical knowledge
Adequate mechanical understanding and repair
Some knowledge of chemistry
Cooking, working as a line cook during his time in uni
Brewing
Endless amounts of patience
Ability to remain calm
Education:
B.Sc. Biology
M.Sc. Biology
Ph.D. Biology
What was your reason for joining the colonists?
"A life filled with regret and lost opportunities would leave me feeling dead inside. If I didn't go to Spera, what would my forefather's say? My father and uncle were astronauts, my great-great-grandmother charted the Marina trench. If I pissed on this opportunity,it'd be impossible to look my family in the eyes,"
How did you get get accepted?
"My research and simulations on crop growth on Mars caught some attention from the American organization NASA, who wanted to pull me into their colonisation efforts on Mars. I spent two years training and learning the insides and out of space travel and with the help of some of my team I picked up a decent amount of knowledge with chemistry and mechanical engineering. We still had another few months until we were meant to embark and begin NASA's most ambitious venture yet, but then the team working on sending a boat of people to Spera reached out to my team. Becoming the first colonists of Mars was cool, but there was no way in hell we were going to sack the chance to colonise a planet like Spera."
What did you do before this?
"Before I was picked up by NASA, I was a student learning to become a botanist. The rest I already ran through."
