Talita Dospaço

Talita is a socially anxious aerospace engineer and cross-species foster kid. She was left as an infant on the Nexus Jovia youth foster care facility doorstep in a cat carrier, and no one is certain of her origin. She has spent the vast majority of her life around humans and isn’t very familiar with her own species or their myriad of cultures. Talita hates talking about herself or being the center of attention, but will light up if asked about aerospace topics. Her hobbies include ripping apart old electronics and building new things, collecting and designing wind spinners, and bodybuilding. She currently works as the manager of external mechanics at Ixion Recycling plant.

Idrisah Touati-Sharpe

Idrisah is a Muslim xenolingiust who translates for avian alien languages, primarily Tiiliitian. She has a high-strung personality and is prone to spiraling into her own worries. In contrast is her fierce sense of justice, and thus those who wrong her friends find themselves subject to her intense wrath. Idrisah also has a soft spot a mile wide for cute animals (and people) and tends to get very sentimental over otherwise insignificant things. Her hobbies include cooking, stationary, organizing things in cute little boxes, and learning history (human and avian). She is married to Gillie Touati-Sharpe, and currently works as an administrative manager at Ixion Recycling Plant.

Gillie Touati-Sharpe

Gillie is a xenolinguist specializing in bug ferret languages, primarily BFL-2. She is a hedonist at heart and loves to get involved in mischief, though she’s prone to bailing when things go awry. She is constantly torn between loving attention and wanting to be seen as aloof and independent. Her hobbies include video games, doodling, and captioning bug ferret television media. Gillie is a genetically modified human with a congenital disorder that causes deafness and makes surgery for standard auditory implants risky. ASL is her first language and she uses it to speak to her friends and family. She is married to Idrisah Touati-Sharpe, and currently works as an international liaison for Ixion Recycling Plant.

Bip

Bip is the pilot A.I. of the Runaway spacecraft, a 200 meter long vessel with twin z-point fusion engines and a spacious four-story habitat module. Bip can remote control RV units, but they use these like limbs– their main “body” or locus of self is the Runaway spacecraft, and their “brain” is a server rig on the top floor of the habitat. They have a preferred screen avatar for talking to squishy sophonts, which is a 2D puppet animation resembling a bug ferret with humanoid/centauroid eyes and avianoid hands. They are currently stranded on the surface of Ixion-3 with a large hole in their habitat capsule and a lot of secrets.

Secondary Characters:

Mel

Mel is the lead administrative manager at Ixion Recycling Plant, and used to be Talita’s foster parent and college sponsor. They have good intentions, but poor follow-through.

Tod

Tod is the lead manager of internal mechanics at Ixion Recycling Plant. He’s seen it all, and then some. Don’t worry, he’ll keep your secrets.

Killian

Killian is a manager of internal mechanics at Ixion Recycling Plant. He’s the adult child of the elderly coterie of tailed spacers in Ixion-3’s (Dirtball’s) orbital station, and came to the planet to work somewhere close enough to keep an eye on them. But not close enough to be in the same room with them 24/7.

Calcery

Calcery used to work at Ixion, but had a fight with Mel and left to work on a bug ferret spaceship. He thinks flashy avatars are tacky and represents himself with the human alchemical symbol for calcinated copper. Cal was pretty close friends with Talita and she misses him.

Ohwitiil

Ohwitiil is an elderly administrative manager with a bad habit of shouting at other employees. Hates Cheevwut. Routinely partners with Cheevwut every spring.

Cheevwut

Cheevwut works in administration and has been crawling their way up the chain of command as part of their strange psychosexual rivalry with Ohwitiil. One gets the feeling that their time could probably be spent better somewhere other than Ixion-3, but their profound lack of ambition leaves them quite content with their current life situation.

Rasheed

Rasheed works in the human plant agricultural (“ag”) division. He has been known to accept food bribes for favors.

Adam

Adam is a temporary worker in external mechanics. He doesn’t really want to be here, but has had difficulty finding jobs (or keeping jobs) in the field he’s more interested in, piloting.

Phoebe

Phoebe is a temporary worker in external mechanics. She enjoys taking jobs that give her break from civilization and the demands of her family members, but enjoys company over beers.

Yao

Yao is a temporary worker in external mechanics. Xe is a quiet type who is into alt fashion, and jobs that involve little socialization. The pedicle implants on top of xer head snap onto a variety of different horn and antler decorations.

Dominic

Dominic is a temporary worker in external mechanics. She is here in between college semesters to gain experience working in an exosuit, but tends to be a bit slow on the uptake.

Clayton

Clayton is a temporary worker in external mechanics. He is here to do his job to an appropriate level of competence and not much else.