Background:
Jirin is the brother of the emperor of the galaxy, Thalis Panthosa. He was the fourth child of the previous emperor Cashra, and the only of his children who is a hybrid. He left the Empire because he wanted freedom from the monarchy, and because he wanted to find his commoner mother. He later found out that Kansi and his father used his mother to produce a cute child to raise public opinion of the royal family, and his mother was exiled to a planet where she died trying to find food.
Current status:
On the ship with the main cast.
Connections:
Mary is his fiance, Thalis and Kardith are his half-brothers, the rest of the main cast are his friends.
Traits:
Easygoing, sarcastic, emotional, lazy, plays music.
Important storylines:
Prologue: Out Of Here
Jirin: New Beginning
Kethera: Coup de tat
The Human Lovers Club
The Crotch Shot Enquirer
Gone
Background:
Mary is a human from Earth. When she was younger her best friend Katrina dragged her into a lot of risky behaviors that destroyed her innocence, confidence, and self esteem. In college she dated a star football player who treated her badly and used her low self esteem to control her. She broke up with him in 2003 after a religious awakening, a few months before dating Sid, a relationship that was about to end in the end of Exco when Sid was abducted and the rest were forced to flee Earth. She was held captive by Kethera to coerce Jirin into letting him use her to gain power over the throne, and later rescued. Shortly after she started dating Jirin, and later got engaged. She is a practicing Christian, but has a modern, open interpretation of the religion.
Current status:
On the ship with the main cast.
Connections:
Jirin is her fiance, Sid is her ex boyfriend, she considers Carrie her best friend, Greg and Charlotte are friends. She doesn't see Raya as a friend, but now feels devoted to protecting her. Katrina is her childhood best friend.
Traits:
Impulsive, playful, passionate, devoted, artistic, self medicating, occasionally depressive.
Important Storylines:
The Gods Must Be Lazy
Apocolypse Soonish
Mary: What I Am
Greg: Gene Luck Pickerd
The Human Lovers Club
Background:
Greg is a human from Earth. He grew up in Texas under scrutiny from his father for not being manly enough. His athletic brother Scott is the son his father wanted, and when he died in a car accident, his father came down harder on him for being nerdy and passive. He met Sid, Mary, Carrie, and the Kims in college where he moved into an apartment with the first three. Then because he was present when Sid was abducted, he was forced to flee Earth. When Mary and Raya were abducted from the ship he assumed a leadership role in the group. He's trying hard to reconcile is absolute belief in the value of life and freedom with the possible consequences of allowing the sether to multiply.
Current status:
On the ship with the main cast.
Connections:
Best friends with Charlotte and Raya, friends with all the rest. In love with Raya. Idolizes Tom.
Traits:
Geeky, intelligent, sensitive, protective, principled, has hero fantasies, loves anime and video games.
Important storylines:
Greg: Gene Luck Pickerd
Kim: Just The One Of Us
Gone
Background:
Charlotte is a human girl who was aged directly to adulthood from a fetus when her pregnant mother was caught in a convenience energy explosion, and it was impossible to save all three. She has the memories of both her parents and for a while believed she was the combination of her parents. Those who created and aged her told her they did so because it's very important she survive. She is Raya's most devoted friend, and she's frightened that because nobody knows she exists outside the main cast, she's going to be left completely alone. She's very protective of Raya and her other friends, sometimes secretly and against their will, and she's very confused about her identity.
Current status: On the ship with the main group.
Connections:
Best friends with Greg and Raya, increasingly close friends with Jirin, keeps Arxa as a pet, daughter of Kim and Kim.
Traits:
Devoted, emotional, humanistic, rational, opinionated, confused.
Important storylines:
Snake On A Spaceship
Kim H: Civil War
Carrie: Against The Grain
Kim T: Unconditional
Kim: Just The One Of Us
Regression
Background:
Tom was the second in command of Doctor Frank's alien enthusiast group on Earth. Not much is known about his background other than he fought in the Gulf War. He left Earth to find Dr Frank, but his goals keep shifting. He fought for Thalis in the civil war, then was released and made into a bounty hunter. He seems to follow his whims whatever they may be. Had an affair with Lusciva, who he later assassinated and took her cybernetic eye. Last seen when Thyra dumped him on Earth without a ship.
Current status: Unknown.
Connections: None.
Traits:
Strong, silent, fearless, emotionless.
Important storylines:
The Silent and the Snake
Raya: Liberty and Coercion
Greg: Gene Luck Pickerd
Tom: Soulmates
Politics Suck
Background:
Thyra is a myrakien, a race with a humanoid body and snake tail instead of legs. She was exiled from her home planet eight years ago for being manipulated into having a holy relic stolen. It was later revealed that her sister Rillya was actually responsible and she took the fall to protect her. She was told she could not return until the relic was returned. Later it was without her knowledge, but when she found out she couldn't come back without her father who was looking for her for fear of being seen as selfish. She then got absorbed into Lyosh's crew to protect Carrie from them, then when Lyosh found her father, she went home. Later, she was assigned to a group designed to find other exiled myrakien and bring them home, and rejoined the main group because she doesn't want to leave them while their lives are still in jeopardy. They've accepted her as being on their side, but all but Carrie still see her as a traitor.
Current status:
On the ship with the main cast.
Connections:
Sees Carrie as 'little sister', sees Tom as an unreliable comrade, likes everybody else though everybody else hates her. Hates Lyosh but somewhat respects her.
Traits:
Fierce, loyal, protective, repentent, dutiful, self-sacrificing.
Important storylines:
The Silent and the Snake
Snake On A Spaceship
Carrie: Against The Grain
Thyra: Last Chance
Grudges
Stranded
Background:
Sid is a human from Earth. When he was very young he was a bully, but when he was twelve he accidentally killed a younger boy playing a prank on him, causing him to completely change his personality. He blocked what he did out of his memory and didn't remember it until he was infected with a virus that caused him to revert to his prior personality. He's had a lot of bad luck in his life. His biological father left right after his brother was born, then he had a stepfather who died, and another stepfather who hit his mother. His mother and brother live together in relative poverty. He was about to graduate from college with a sociology degree, but couldn't because they changed the degree requirements and didn't tell him. Then he was abducted from Earth because he knew Resios was dead and Kethera didn't want to leave any loose ends, and brought to a prison mining colony as a trap to lure Tom into rescuing him. There he met Raya, and Tom did rescue him. He had a long romance with Raya, but when he failed to open up to her emotionally about his past she left him to be with Greg. Later he was killed keeping Raya from surrendering herself to Kardith to be killed.
Current status:
Dead
Traits:
Polite, protective, dependable, average.
Important storylines:
Copyright Infringement
Blatant Plagiarism
Raya: Liberty and Coercion
Sid: Extinction
Homecoming
Regression
Zack
Background
Raya is a sether. A shapeshifter who has been trained into being an elite assassin. Hundreds of years ago her race first started evolving the ability to change shape, so the Malkuise Empire kidnapped a few thousand of them and wiped out the rest, before eugenically evolving them to improve their ability to shapeshift, and genetically engineering them to have superior strength and agility. Later the Panthosian Empire destroyed the researach lab, and Dr Sakir escaped with only the six best shapeshifters, including Raya and Ishix. Raya was raised alongside normal people so she'd learn about them and learn out to manipulate them, but it had the side effect of making her emotionally attached to other people, wishing she could just be one of them. Sakir tried to brutalize her to make her emotionless and obedient, but Ishix protected her from it. Later on her first assassination mission, she turned herself in for a different murder so she'd be thrown in prison, out of Sakir's reach. Later she escaped prison with Sid, met up with Ishix and rescued the other sethers, before Ishix ran off with the other four, angry that Raya is more attached to Sid than him. Now her personal mission is to raise the sether children by her values instead of Ishix's. She recently discovered the thought of killing had a narcotic effect on her, and she fights to resist it.
Current status:
Captured by Ishix.
Connections:
Sid is her ex-boyfriend, she's in love with Greg, Charlotte is her best friend, and she's friends with the rest of the main group, except for Mary, who she is affectionately tolerant toward. Ishix is her brother, Lyosh wants to kill her, the Emperor wants to employ her.
Traits:
Surrounded by friends: Friendly, hopeful, sweet, gregarious, affectionate, frightened. Surrounded by enemies: Distrusting, severe, forceful, psychotic.
Important storylines:
Copyright Infringement
Blatant Plagiarism
Carrie: Against The Grain
Raya: Liberty and Coercion
Sid: Extinction
Regression
Genetics
Background:
Carrie is a human from earth. She's homosexual and very feminist. She spent her years in college taking part in lots of angry protests. When the rest of her friends were forced to leave Earth, she was not there, so she was able to stay on Earth. This led to her being accused of their murders. Though she was found not guilty, because of the way CNN covered the story, everybody assumed she was guilty. Later Thyra brought her away from Earth, and she was captured along with Thyra as an enemy agent. Carrie and Thyra then escaped and helped rescue Mary. Though, Carrie ran off again with Thyra in order to try to force her to try going back to her home planet. There she met Lyosh, and though Lyosh originally let her go she recaptured her when they met on the sether home planet. On Lyosh's ship, Thyra was protecting her. When Thyra had the opportunity to get home, she refused to leave Carrie on the ship, But Carrie insisted she take the opportunity to make it home. Later she was captured by Ishix, then rescued by Sarix, who left her with Thyra to bring her back to the ship. While in Lyosh's custody, became her girlfriend.
Current status:
On the ship with the main group.
Connections:
Has a sisterly 'soulmate' bond with Thyra, best friends with Mary, has a platonic crush on Greg, wants to get to know Raya and Charlotte better, very attracted to Lyosh but hates what she does.
Traits:
Hot headed, principled, devoted, irreverent, fiercely loyal, self sacrificing.
Important storylines:
CNN: News?
Loyalties
Carrie: Against The Grain
Mary: What I Am
Greg: Gene Luck Pickerd
Thyra: Last Chance
Homecoming
Dr Dwelling
Grudges
Background:
Drakon is a goolan. The goolan are a race of liquid people who use 'biosuits' to give themselves shape whenever they're in the vertebrates' galaxy. They eat electricity and communicate with electrical signals, and thus are able to manipulate computers from within. A vast majority of galaxies in the universe are populated by goolans. They reproduce aesexually and have a population of about a quintillion. Drakon was an engineer on a ship sent to study the people of Earth, that was stranded there with no convenience fuel for fourty years. For years they abducted humans and read their minds to sell information to companies as market research, so they could buy the components of convenience fuel. Later when Resios tried to use their ship to escape where he was hiding on Earth they managed to get home. Drakon however, as one of the only goolans that wasn't scared of vertebrates due to Resios' attack on fifty million of them, took the job as goolan ambassador to the Milky Way galaxy, looking for material for a sequel to his book about the death of Resios. He later lost the job when somebody else applied. When he met the main characters on Panthos he went with them to help them save Mary and Raya, and stayed with them because he wanted to help them, but mostly because he was bored.
Current status:
On the ship with the main group.
Connections:
Friends with Mary, more of an ally to everybody else.
Traits:
Cynical, easily bored, nice, honest, nonconformist
Important storylines:
Gone
Background:
Lyosh is a rentakken. She's the commander of a group of vigilantes who go out murdering murderers. She's an enemy of the Empire, and managed to steal the prototype for their next wave of warships. Although Lyosh is very insistent on only going after people she's sure will kill lots more people, and who the empire probably won't kill on their own, she has to work hard to keep the rest of her crew under control. Most of them would prefer a wider range of targets. Lyosh is homosexual and in love with Carrie, though she considers her weak and naive.
Connections:
In love with Carrie, trying to kill Raya and the other sethers, enemy of Thalis.
Current status:
Chained to her bed with severe burns in her ship, which is landed on the moon with Ishix's current base of operations.
Traits:
Vindictive, hot-headed, lonely, self-righteous, passionate, cynical, domineering
Important storylines:
Vigilante
Stranded
Genetics
Background:
Ishix is the brother of Raya. Unlike Raya, he believes there is no reason not to use their gift to it's full potential to get what they want, whether or not it means killing innocent people. He is currently using the other four sethers to reproduce and breed a whole race of sethers, and fully intends to teach them that killing is a useful tool, and that they are the best race in the galaxy. Ishix is not as good at fighting as Raya, but he is a great manipulator. He loves Raya more than anybody else and wants to protect her, but doesn't want her teaching the sether children to value other races' lives as much as she does. Although, at his last appearance he acted like he was under the control of a woman named Kersha.
Connections:
Brother of Raya, enemy of everybody else.
Traits:
Hateful, utilitarian, narcissistic, racial supremacist
Important storylines:
Carrie: Against The Grain
Raya: Liberty and Coercion
Sid: Extinction
Genetics
Background:
One of six adult sethers, Sarix was surgically enslaved by Sakir. This enslavement was later reversed, but the reversal process destroyed his personality and made him a blank slate. Since then, he's been taught by Ishix and has adopted his way of thinking. But, he is in love with Orisha, so when Ishix attacked her, he rebelled against Ishix and left to join Raya. Though, he agrees with Ishix's philosophy of killing whenever it is necessary to advance his goal.
Current status:
Orbiting around a moon, waiting for Raya
Connections:
Orisha's lover, Ishix's former subordinate.
Traits:
Pragmatic, utilitarian, passionate
Background:
One of six adult sethers, Orisha was surgically enslaved by Sakir. This enslavement was later reversed, but the reversal process destroyed her personality and made her a blank slate. She has been under Ishix's instruction since then, but secretly defies his orders. She has secretly protected people she saw as innocent, and due to her love for Sarix, refuses Ishix's orders to carry his and Numare's children for genetic diversity. When she openly tried to be empregnated by Sarix rather than Numare, Ishix moved her to Rythaia and kept her unconscious.
Current status:
Unconscious, hooked to machines on Rythaia.
Connections:
Sarix's lover, Ishix's former subordinate.
Traits:
Romantic, motherly, rebellious, empathetic
Background:
Arxa is a kalkryk, a tigerlike animal found by Charlotte on an unknown large ship they found after jumping randomly. When Arxa met Charlotte he was immediately affetionate to her. He was small when they found him, but has later grown large. Arxa seems to have a precognizant awareness of when Charlotte will be in danger, and has protected her from danger on several occasions. A kalkryk is known as the most vicious predator in the galaxy: They are capable of eating almost anthing, and have teeth, claws, and bones sharper than metal. They are also known for being completely untamable.
Current status:
On the ship with the main group.
Connections:
Has canine-level loyalty for Charlotte, attacks anybody he thinks is a threat to her.
Traits:
Fierce, loyal, protective, vicious.
Background:
Jilis is a Malkuisian scientist who Raya and Ishix first met as an assistant to Sakir. All other scientists with knowledge of sether biology were killed, but Ishix spared her because she reversed the enslavement operation on the other four sethers, and her knowledge of sether biology made her useful for developing the sethers' full potential. A woman named Kersha Zoir who was one of the original scientists on the sether project hundreds of years ago looks exactly like her.
Current status:
In Ishix's custody.
Connections:
Former assistant to Sakir, current assistant to Sarix
Traits:
Survivalist, genius, tricky
Background:
Kim Hayward is a human from Earth, Kim Tanaka's girlfriend and one of Greg's best friends, who was forced to flee Earth with the others because she happened to be in Mary and Greg's apartment when they were attacked. Her body was destroyed in a convenience energy explosion, but her spirit preserved by ethereal beings. She was pregnant with Charlotte at the time, and since they could not save all three of them, chose to save Charlotte and age her body to adulthood.
Current stautus:
Ethereal
Connections:
Girlfriend of Kim Tanaka, mother of Charlotte, best friend of Greg, friend of Raya
Traits:
Loyal, emotional, observant, warm, humanistic
Background:
Kim Tanaka is a human from Earth, Kim Hayward's boyfriend and Greg's best friend, who was forced to flee Earth with the others because he happened to be in Mary and Greg's apartment when they were attacked. His body was destroyed in a convenience energy explosion, but his spirit preserved by ethereal beings.
Current status:
Ethereal
Connections:
Boyfriend of Kim Hayward, father of Charlotte, best friend of Greg
Traits: Rational, protective, intelligent, nerdy, pragmatic