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. His mother was a commoner who was exiled shortly after his birth, and he's trying to find her. He wants nothing to do with the royal family, and when his second sister Regeia was killed he ran away. Later when Thalis was installed as emperor he faked his death to escape the royal family permanently.
Connections:
Mary is his girlfriend, Thalis is his brother, the rest of the cast are his friends, except for Thyra whom he considers a traitor.
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.
Connections:
Jirin is her boyfriend, Sid is her ex boyfriend, she considers Carrie her best friend, Greg and Kim 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, artist, 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. 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.
Connections:
Best friends with Kim, friends with all the rest. Has a crush on Raya. Idolizes Tom.
Traits:
Geeky, intelligent, sensitive, protective, has hero fantasies, loves anime and video games.
Important storylines:
Greg: Gene Luck Pickerd
Kim: Just The One Of Us
Gone
Background:
Kim is the combination of two humans from earth, Kim Tanaka and Kim Hayward. She was created when the two were caught in a convenience energy explosion and a mysterious disembodied voice spoke to them and combined them into one soul. The Kims were boyfriend and girlfriend and Greg's two best friends, now she's trying to deal with what happened to her and find a way to get back to normal.
Connections:
Best friends with Greg and Raya, friends with the rest. Angry at Jirin for assaulting her over a disagreement about how to rescue Mary and Raya when they were missing.
Traits:
Kim Tanaka: Rational, protective, intelligent, nerdy, pragmatic. Kim Hayward: Loyal, emotional, observant, warm, humanistic.
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.
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. She is not able to go back home until she gets the relic back. The relic was returned in exchange for weapons by General Lusciva, but there's a debate about whether or not to let her return because she is not the one who retrieved it, and after being gone eight years she's considered culturally tainted. Her father went out looking for her, and she knows she has no chance of being allowed back without him. Myrakien are fiercely loyal to their own people and nobody else, so she was miserably working for the empire until she met the main cast. She came to be friends with them, but her friendship with them came into conflict with getting her relic back. She played both sides against the middle for a while, then eventually put her friends' lives over her relic. Although because she did briefly betray them, the only one in the cast who still likes her is Carrie. When she was neurologically imparied by a virus, Carrie tried to take Thyra back to her homeworld, and in the process she became part of Lyosh's crew.
Connections:
Sees Carrie as 'little sister', sees Tom as an unreliable comrade, likes everybody else though everybody else hates her. Works in Lyosh's crew.
Traits:
Fierce, bitter, hates universe, hates self, empathetic, loyal.
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.
Connections:
Raya is his girlfriend, Mary is his ex girlfriend, and the rest are his friends.
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.
Connections:
Sid is her boyfriend, Ishix is her brother, Thalis wants her to work for him, Lyosh wants to kill her for being what she is, and the rest of the main characters are her friends.
Traits:
Distrusting, friendly, hopeful, sweet, gregarious
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.
Connections:
Considers Mary her best friend, looks after Thyra with mother tiger ferocity because she sees nobody else doing so, is friends with everyone else. Hates Lyosh but is attracted to her and thinks she can be changed, and is currently her prisoner.
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. When he met the main characters on Panthos he went with them to help them save Mary and Raya.
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 when they first met her loneliness led her to making a pass at Carrie.
Connections:
Currently has Carrie prisoner, and is the commander of Thyra (As well as Brader, Kardith, Shekelle, Hyanak). Trying to kill Raya. The protagonists see her as a monster, but one that probably won't kill them if they aren't killers.
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 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. He's responsible for the Kims being combined into one person.
Connections:
Brother of Raya who he loves more than anything else, on the run from Thalis and Lyosh, captor of Jilis, hated enemy of everybody else.
Traits:
Hateful, utilitarian, narcissistic, racial supremacist
Important storylines:
Carrie: Against The Grain
Raya: Liberty and Coercion
Sid: Extinction
Genetics
