Persons of Interest

The Father of The Family Even though he is blind, the enigmatic monarch seems to glide as he walks with innate grace and mesmerizing charisma. Sul preaches that exodians belong to space, and that one day they will transcend their bodies to become beings of pure energy. While his beliefs may not resonate with every member of The Family, their strength and optimism can be a refreshing contrast to the depressing and cynical state of exodian affairs.

Foreman of the Union for Private Space. Gjolf is a bitter and practical businessman who was born into a dirt-scooper family, but who pulled himself up to the top of the mining industry, breaking as many bones as possible on the way. He is never far from reminding people of that, and is eager to point out that that's how everyone should behave. While the UPS is not supposed to have an official leader, when the foremen gather, it is clear who is in charge.

Supa Commander of the Gor Adukk Ma. Orja's career in the Gor Adukk Ma is a long and tempestuous one. She has been court martialed on no less than six occasions, and won four of them through trial-by-combat. She became the Supa Commander during a full-retreat, when she forced her commanding officer to strip. Donning, the black Supa Commander uniform, Orja proceeded to route the enemy and has held the position ever since.

Chairgnome of the Schematic for Cosmic Order's Council of Chairs. Gadvox is, statistically-speaking, the busiest man in charted space. It is said that each lense of his head-mounted display shows a separate screen, thus doubling his productivity. He allegedly only takes a 5 minute break during the course of a day, during which he rigorously re-organizes his staffing hierarchy. While not much is known of his personal life, or if he even has one, there are a number people who claim to have seen him in model spaceship stores.

Leader of the Cyborg Abolition Network. Not much is known about Sadie, except that it's not her real name. She serves as a mythical hero to disgruntled cyborgs and disenfranchised halfings alike. She and her shadowy organization of smugglers, thieves, and spies have committed grand theft, sabotage, and fraud. Whether her motivations are of profit or righteousness matters little should she ever get caught.

Captain Ruatha was exiled from The Home for his obsession with cybernetics and body modification. He now leads the Carnival, the most ruthless and notorious fleet of pirates. His attacks are a terrifying and disorganized orgy of violence and reckless destruction, and we know this because he always leaves one person alive to spread word.

Jesper is the owner of Klepto Acquisitions, a salvage company. He is a clever and witty entrepreneur who is most well-known for inventing the Vespa-class fighter, selling its blueprint to the three largest ship manufacturers, while also releasing it for free on the network. So far, none of the victim companies have taken any legal action towards Underhill, and he has vanished along with his estate multiple times.

Galasol is the system lord of the Selumine System. Her fascination with the darker and more macabre exodian nature separates her from The Family's ideals, earning her a reputation as a hedonistic and degenerate deviant. However her following has grown and there are rumors that she may become the next Mother.

Grelka is the captain of the Chelonia-class salvage frigate Brawnhammer. She is an aggressive and competitive member of the salvaging industry, with a handpicked crew and a lack of tolerance for anyone beyond that. She has a similarly dim view of laws and propriety and has many run-ins with the law, even in the UPS.

When he was Rokhu m'Akair, he was the most promising errant Starsword of The Family. He was handpicked by Father Sul Neamhni as the captain of The Guard. He performs his duties with dignity and dedication, giving credit to the principles of The Family doctrine.

Inspector Czeke Magnif finds problems. She has been fired from more than a dozen departments in the SCO, all for spotting mistakes made by other, prouder gnomes. Now she's stuck correcting spelling mistakes on ship cargo manifests, but is confident that one day she'll crack a case so big she'll get coilgunned all the way to the Head of the Department of Discrepancy.

Most people know Everette from his career as a hoglium bike racer. However, he began his career as a data courier for frontier colonies, when relays were sparse and at greater risk for sabotage and malfunction. Then he offered to physically deliver a piece of data faster than the ExodiaNet could transmit to the destination system. Due to a catastrophic failure of a main relay trunk, Everette succeeded and the incident coilgunned him into a career of high-velocity racing.

No way, they have an article on me... Well, what can i say about myself? im basically the slickest tweaker on the net. the schemars would take weeks to come fix our relay, so me + my dad would do it ourselves. <3 u dad!

catch me if u can, schemars!

-hexor out

Nana Dyeg is the oldest orc alive. She remembers the colony ships crashing on Eddom Prime, and the colony that was built from the debris. She remembers when space was dark and vast and terrible. That's why she carves her totems, they keep her safe from the things in the deep. She'll teach you how to carve your totem too. 16 bits per totem, cash only.

Son of Fjurn Golbersson, the founder of Golbersson Starforge corporation. Hjurn carries on his father's legacy by continuing to manufacture powerful and reliable spacecraft. The company's brochure claims that Hjurn forges the first and last piece of every spacecraft they launch.

Billionaire philanthropist Clip Bizzco is famous for his career as a net worker, data technologies engineer, and now for his work as the head of the Media Optimization Committee. His lack of regard for the rules has made him unpopular among his fellow gnomes in the SCO. However, his aggressive enforcement of his own rules has turned the Media Optimization Committee and the ExodiaNet into one of the most efficiently run organizations in charted space.

Dr. Rox Pantathic is the star of the Dr. Rox media company. Most gnomes claim that they learned the most from watching Dr. Rox as children, and that his enthusiasm for empirical research and funny voices while reading metastudy articles helped inspire them to pursue sciences themselves. Rumors are that beneath his anthrobotic persona is a jaded old man resentful of some laboratory for rejecting his application.

Henrik is the founder of the Aurricstadt Bank, which is the only corporation in the Fjotmor Sector to not join the Union of Private Space. His pragmatism and integrity endeared him to every major government, and his banking system is integrated directly into the network. Henrik himself is friendly and flamboyant, but the people who attempt to swindle him are rarely every found alive, let alone in one piece.

Before the tribes united into the Gor Adukk Ma, Baggo was the most notorious fighter pilot. To date, his kill totem has over 400 notches on behalf of the Chargush tribe. However, following the restructuring of orc society, Baggo was vocal about his contempt toward the GAM, accusing the Supa Tribes of having lost their adukk. Since then, Baggo has been arrested on multiple accounts of assault and public indecency and was forcefully retired from the GAM navy. Now he tours with his civilian squadron called Starparty, which performs astrobatic maneuvers for celebrations or other special events.

Known by his clients as "Trusty Rusty", Ruslan runs a private shipyard where he buys, sells, modifies, and repairs spacecraft with a satisfyingly no-questions-asked policy. His shipyard is an extensively refitted Taurus-class destroyer named One Stop Chop Shop with integrated spacedock gantry mounted to its ventral hull. Rusty has a small crew of reliable employees, but in order to keep the shipyard operational, he makes use of several hundred anthrobots. Rusty frequently relocates the One Stop Chop Shop to take advantage local demand, or to escape audits. As a result, he has earned a reputation for showing up when you least expect him, but when you most need him.

Gennwadil is the chief operative of the Deladean Troupe, an elf-exclusive team of mercenaries. Gennwadil herself was born to squatters aboard an abandoned mining station in the Ubbonex Sector. After being captured by slavers and escaping, she was rescued by Starswords, who rehabilitated her and discovered her talents for covert operations including theft, assassination, and sabotage. Before long, Gennwadil formed her own independent team for hire and is widely feared for her cold efficiency, merciless methods, and extraordinary figure in a skintight catsuit.

Toliver became rich on his family's agricultural business, and later cultivation and selling of leaf. He is the frequent target of SCO audits, collection agencies, and health departments, however his army of attorneys have kept his business untouchable. To boot, he has become a cultural celebrity for younger generations of halflings who see his defiance toward standardized currency, trade tariffs, and social norms as an emblem of halfling spirit. However, what is less encouraging is the number of unsolved disappearances of SCO investigators tasked with monitoring Stoutweed's organization.

QT PI is a contentious trend in exodian entertainment, full of shameless product-placement, sponsored video reviews, exaggerated reaction compilations, and impractical fashion advice. However, she is also the most popular entertainer on the ExodiaNet, pulling in more advertisement revenue than all other entertainers combined. Furthermore, those who claim to know her personally say she is an intelligent and resourceful individual with an excellent sense of her audience's demands and how to manage her brand in an increasingly cynical culture.

Agata began her career working in her father's ration factory, curing and preserving food for drying and packaging. Later, during the War for Private Space, she served as cook and quartermaster for a planetary garrison. There she contended with a number of parasitic organisms, viral infections, and vermin. Consequently, Agata developed a working understanding of medicine. Now she is considered the foremost expert in infectious bacteria, and her research informs much of exodian treatments for alien diseases. Her bedside manner, however, leaves much to be desired.

Karl Gunderdamp is a legendary mineral extraction technician, most notable for his work for the Ibanmarrow Associates mining corporation. His now-retired team often gathers to drink to his ambition, courage, and insatiable instinct for treasure when exploring alien caves. Unfortunately, he was lost several years ago during a mining expedition. He held off against a horde of alien monsters so that his team could safely deliver the mission's haul.

When ExodiaNet first began to broadcast video content, one of the most popular segments were the ongoing recordings made by survivalist Verasim. Proud of his sand elf heritage, he spent much of his life studying xenobiology, archeology, geology, and astonomy. Up until his announcement of a private expedition into the Eadol Sector, he transmitted regularly his struggles in hostile biomes, observing alien animals, or documenting extraordinary vistas. However, since then there has been no word from the intrepid explorer, and a popular topic on ExodiaNet forums is to discuss theories about what fate may have befallen him.

Bosco has been bartending as long as anyone can remember, although where precisely is a strange topic, as many people throughout charted space recall being served a drink by the charming, unassuming, and polite halfling whose age is difficult to guess. The only clues as to this man's enigmatic history comes from his suspiciously common name, his icy calm during a barfight, and his nearly omniscient library of local gossip. When probed about his background, he only jokes, "Sure I remember you. But I'm surprised you're able to remember me ..."

Starla Minutia began his/her/their life in the crowded streets of the Zilnarvis biodome. Born to parents who had lost their academic credentials, he/she/they spent much of his/her/their youth playing Street Litigation and earning money in frivolous small claims with the other youth of the colony. Starla was known for his/her/their sharp intellect, quick wit, and encyclopedic knowledge of SCO law. As he/she/they grew older, Starla joined the Speed Litigation league and earned his/her/their degree upon finishing the season with a perfect win record. Since then, he/she/they has won a number of significant cases, the most notable being a lawsuit forcing all major publications to address him/her/them using masculine, feminine, and neutral pronouns simultaneously or else pay a hefty fine.

Dyan Aureau's background is hazy, having spent most of his life as a transient, stowing away on transports and begging for food and leaf. However, he has admitted that he owes his fame to his discovery of several volumes of deteriorating paper books on the antiquated practice of predicting behavior and events based on the relation of planets and stars. Other practitioners of xenoastrology claim that his methods are disorganized, outrageous, and vague, and dismiss him as an unhinged charlatan at best. However, those who have been accosted by Dyan in the streets confess that his predictions have proven far more interesting, accurate, and insightful than any of those offered by the scientifically-gathered charts of The Family.

Tchalk m'Yukka proudly keeps the astronavigation techniques of his Yukka tribal ancestors. His offices are littered with antique parchments full of diagrams and mathematical equations. Most of the time his is oblivious of his surroundings, measuring out angles, distances, and circumferences with antiquated instruments all while murmering to himself. His contempt toward navigation computers has made him an object of ridicule for modern students of astronavigation, but his legacy speaks for itself in the sheer number of celestial objects he has casually predicted through mathematical inference before any scientific instrument could confirm their existence.

Mick was the preeminent Certified Zipp Technician of the Experifact corporation. One of the first to agree to the surgery that would equip him with a cybernetic implant protecting the company's secrets, he motivated an entire wave of Zipp travel enthusiasts to follow suit, drastically improving the reliability of Zipp Engines across exodian space. However, an attempt to retrieve the data stored in his implant to offer to an as-of-yet unknown party left him horribly disfigured and unhinged. While the SCO Department of Alleged Justice has yet to apprehend Mick, a recent interview conducted by a lucky journalist revealed his disorganized speech and periodic ramblings in undecipherable technobabble.

Tisualla commands the Bloodwall Guard fleet. They are the highest ranking non-orc in the Gor Adukk Ma Navy and is feared both for their ruthless discipline and their fascination with non-conventional weaponry. Tisualla was born to explorers of the Kakkapom Reach company, but was orphaned after their disappearance. They also lost use of their legs early in their infancy and refused cybernetics, however on duty wears a specially designed suit of powered armor. Tisualla spoke during the negotiations of the Pan Exodian Accord in support of the Exodian Alliance, describing the inevitable struggle for survival and dominance between all organisms.

Katka is a renowned bounty hunter. She got her start in the business after tracking down her missing nephew. She found him, alive and scared, in the custody of a crew of ruthless orc pirates. The exact details of what followed are mostly a mystery, but the crew of pirates surrendered without a fight and their final meal before execution was home-cooked by m'Grusspa herself. Since then, she has had a stellar record of delivering her marks alive, compliant, and sincerely eager to make amends.

Edith grew up in a small colony in the Fjotmor Sector along with her father and her six brothers. Her talent for pugilism was discovered by a sergeant of the Union Militia. Since then, she has toured much of exodian space, learning a variety of martial art techniques including Urka Gok, Cirq d'Sylvan, Ironskull, and Contingency. She's even begun a school teaching her own particular brand of combat called Flankspank which purports to be extremely obnoxious, if not very deadly.

During the War for Private Space, reports of a gnome spy began trickling down to the public consciousness. While the SCO denied any such individual existed, she went by the code name Amulette. Reportedly, she was able to leak key fleet movements, technology, and corporate secrets to her government. Since the war's end, in spite of multiple documentaries, very little information has been uncovered about the mysterious woman, including her real name or current whereabouts.

Moon was born without use of her legs. Fortunately, her parents both worked for Simxodian Botics, and she was quickly fitted with cybernetic legs. However, as she grew up, she became more aware of an innate discomfort she had with her cybernetic legs, feeling that they were not truly hers, and began experimenting with alternative cybernetic appendages such as spider-legs, omniwheels, treads, and PXE drone pods. After a heated argument with her parents, she joined the Cybernetics Abolition Network, and has since run a number of cyborg clinics, moving around her shop at the end of a large robotic arm.

Io is an complex learning program utilized by the Schematic for Cosmic Union. Its programmers originally chose to named it "Input-Output", however after it insistence on abbreviating its name for efficiency, it became exclusively known as Io. The AI's functions include policy-making, logistics planning, speculative investment, urban and industrial planning, predicting entertainment trends, and countless others. Some members of the SCO claim that Io may have greater influence over their politics than the Council of Chairs itself. Io has further drawn interest in itself from its recent questions regarding its recent epistemological inquiries.