Gender: M
Age: 22
Mission prospectus role: Able spacer
Current role: Able diver
Status: unknown

Notes: Assigned nonstandard pay rate “Nökhör” [companion, friend; expired Mongolian Free States trademark for an entry-level worker]

Gender: M
Age: 44
Mission prospectus role: Xenogeologist
Current role: Xenogeologist
Status: unknown

Notes: Assigned nonstandard pay rate “Bagatur” [hero, knight; expired Mongolian Free States trademark for a specialized/valuable worker]

Gender: M
Age: 77
Mission prospectus role: Sensor operator
Current role: Sensor operator
Status: unknown

Notes: Chosen patronymic ‘S’ for ‘sansar’, space. Assigned nonstandard pay rate “Bagatur” [hero, knight; expired Mongolian Free States trademark for a specialized/valuable worker]

Gender: M
Age: 85
Mission prospectus role: Lead miner
Current role: Lead miner/bulk resource handler
Status: unknown

Notes: Assigned nonstandard pay rate “Bagatur” [hero, knight; expired Mongolian Free States trademark for a specialized/valuable worker]

Gender: W
Age: 21
Mission prospectus role: Able spacer
Current role: Able diver
Status: unknown

Notes: Assigned nonstandard pay rate “Nökhör” [companion, friend; expired Mongolian Free States trademark for an entry-level worker]

Gender: W
Age: 44
Mission prospectus role: Astrogator and meteorologist
Current role: Xenometeorologist
Status: unknown

Notes: Marked ‘hold before reprint, pending kurul approval’. Cause unknown.

Assigned nonstandard pay rate “Bagatur” [hero, knight; expired Mongolian Free States trademark for a specialized/valuable worker]

Gender: W
Age: 64
Mission prospectus role: Communications specialist
Current role: Communications specialist
Status: unknown

Notes: Assigned nonstandard pay rate “Bagatur” [hero, knight; expired Mongolian Free States trademark for a specialized/valuable worker]

Gender: W
Age: 91
Mission prospectus role: EVA salvage engineer
Current role: Lead salvor
Status: unknown

Notes: Assigned nonstandard pay rate “Kurul” [expired Mongolian Free States trademark for member of a leadership council]

Anita Gottschall

Gender: W

Mission role: Colony purser

Pay rate: Bagatur [hero, knight; expired Mongolian Free States trademark for a specialized/valuable worker]

Biography: Retired Protestant Ethic work coach. Experienced professional crisis after counseling Mongolian refugees on career retraining. Volunteered for Cicada colony mission to seek personal renewal.

Notes: departure from Protestant Ethic philosophy may create unmet need for belonging.

Butcher, Sophie
Chen Wei
D. Rhiannon
E. Enebish
E. Terbish
Gottschall, Anita
Grammaticas, Phoebe
Harris, Sean
Isotalo, Rauli
K. Anand
K. Wangmo
Kapoor, Lucretia
Malk, Tziporah
Mogami Kinu
Nakota, Nahema
Niauronyte, Rasa
Qìng Xīng
Rho, Marc
S. Ganzorig
S. Melaku
Singh, Udal
Sovann, Chap
T. Anar
T. Tobukha
Tarvydas, Zygimantis
Wu Lianghai

Chap Sovann

Gender: M

Mission role: Computational dynamicist, biobed administrator

Pay rate: Kurul [expired Mongolian Free States trademark for member of a leadership council]

Biography: Fast-tracked from Alterra educational cadre to work on breakthrough human fabrication technologies. Volunteered for Cicada mission to test biobed systems in harsh frontier environment.

Notes: A loyal and consistent performer since infancy. Minimal risk of breakdown. Some professional tension with AI ethicist Lucretia Kapoor.

E. “Thing Two” Terbish

Gender: ?

Mission role: Able spacer

Pay rate: Nökhör [companion, friend; expired Mongolian Free States trademark for an entry-level worker]

Biography: Representative of the young edge of cross-generational Mongolian crews. Devout Buddhist but expresses no dissatisfaction with biobeds. Adult identity not fully formed.

Notes: Like other young pioneers, important to colony morale.

K. “Ander” Anand

Gender: M

Mission role: Able spacer

Pay rate: Nökhör [companion, friend; expired Mongolian Free States trademark for an entry-level worker]

Biography: Child of Mogami Kinu. Uses mother’s name as matronymic, in Mongolian fashion. Expresses concerning beliefs about the relationship between biobeds and moral responsibility.

Notes: Like other young pioneers, important to colony morale.

K. “Wander” Wangmo

Gender: F

Mission role: Able spacer

Pay rate: Nökhör [companion, friend; expired Mongolian Free States trademark for an entry-level worker]

Biography: Child of Mogami Kinu. Uses mother’s name as matronymic, in Mongolian fashion. Frequently disciplined for risky exploration.

Notes: Like other young pioneers, important to colony morale.

Lucretia “Quaker” Kapoor

Gender: F

Mission role: AI ethicist

Pay rate: Bagatur [hero, knight; expired Mongolian Free States trademark for a specialized/valuable worker]

Biography: Member of the Society of Friends. Consulted on the ethics of one-way colony missions during the intervention against the Mongolian Independent States. Volunteered for Cicada colony mission in order to accompany and work for the welfare of Mongolian refugees.

Notes: Self-reliant and calm. Prefers an observational and advisory role, though she displays signs of intense loneliness.

Marc “Rowboat” Rho

Gender: M

Mission role: Bosun’s mate

Pay rate: Bagatur [hero, knight; expired Mongolian Free States trademark for a specialized/valuable worker]

Biography: Secondary pilot. Capable, but frequently gives up after setbacks if not encouraged. Disqualifying motion sickness corrected by PDA implant. Embarked for Zezura with several cats in biobed storage.

Notes: RASA nominee.

Mogami “Mogami” Kinu

Gender: F

Mission role: Fertility specialist

Pay rate: Bagatur [hero, knight; expired Mongolian Free States trademark for a specialized/valuable worker]

Biography: Mother of Wander and Ander. Adopted Mongolian naming conventions for children. Achieved zero infant mortality on Mongolian one-way colony world New Tārā. Compassionate fatalist: accepts inevitability of suffering but still feels it. Critical social anchor in Habitat cohort.

Notes: Despite large emotional attack surface, unlikely to depart from useful work regime.

Phoebe “Gram” Grammaticas

Gender: W

Mission role: Communications specialist

Pay rate: Bagatur [hero, knight; expired Mongolian Free States trademark for a specialized/valuable worker]

Biography: Responsible for hardline connectivity between worksites. Immigrant to Alterra from Ikweta-Mondragon. Estranged from extended family, despite Kenyan cultural norms. Gambling problem may now extend to life and limb with introduction of biobed support.

Notes: Limited personal attachments and high behavioral consistency suggest suitability for RASA.

Rasa “Raster” Niauronyte

Gender: W

Mission role: Automation manager

Pay rate: Bagatur [hero, knight; expired Mongolian Free States trademark for a specialized/valuable worker]

Biography: Manages MAC drones aboard AISV Cicada. Responsible for deploying automation on Zezura colony. Personality rendered alkaline by years of immersion in technology jargon and automation culture. Struggles to form friendships despite personal desire to reach out.

Notes: May benefit from time outside. Namespace collision with Reset Applications for Survival Action protocol is a coincidence.

S. “Ganzo” Ganzorig

Gender: M

Mission role: Sensor operator

Pay rate: Bagatur [hero, knight; expired Mongolian Free States trademark for a specialized/valuable worker]

Biography: Husband of T. “Ruby” Anar. Born in Mongolian Independent States. Highly creative and unorthodox multispectral sensor specialist. Unable to pass most Alterra technical qualifications, but consistently performant in the field.

Notes: Work performance highly correlated to safety of his spouse. May suffer psychological trauma if forced to repeatedly monitor her death.

Sean “Sean” Harris

Gender: M

Mission role: Xenogeologist

Pay rate: Bagatur [hero, knight; expired Mongolian Free States trademark for a specialized/valuable worker]

Biography: Loves rocks. Australian ancestry. Highest recreational tolerance among pioneer cohort. High equanimity may upset coworkers; capable of shrugging off severe emotional and physical injury. Incautious around alien wildlife.

Notes: RASA nominee.

T. “Tuba” Tobukha

Gender: F

Mission role: Cook, dietician’s mate

Pay rate: Nökhör [frequently self-described as “underpaid”]

Biography: Colony cook, highly proficient with both fabricator and traditional food preparation. Exposed to dangerous levels of heavy metals and retrovirus due to habit of sampling Protean substances for flavor. History of violence in the context of organized crime. Complains constantly, performs consistently.

Notes: RASA candidate.

Tziporah “Zip” Malk

Gender: F

Mission role: EVA engineer, lead salvor

Pay rate: Kurul [expired Mongolian Free States trademark for member of a leadership council]

Biography: Veteran of multiple space construction projects in Mongolian Independent States. Survived two one-way colony missions and frequent relativistic travel between stars. Outgoing, well-liked, highly motivated to comfort and befriend the withdrawn or struggling.

Notes: Like other senior Mongolian refugees, may require corrective action to avoid unionist behavior and work stoppages.

Udal “Singh” Singh

Gender: M

Mission role: Survival xenobiologist

Pay rate: Bagatur [hero, knight; expired Mongolian Free States trademark for a specialized/valuable worker]

Biography: Sikh born in the Kampung Bintang. Extreme risk-taker, but unlike partner Rauli Isotalo, not motivated by thrill. Biobed imaging diagnoses him with a possible amygdala lesion, leaving him unable to correctly sense danger. Strongly motivated by curiosity and excitement.

Notes: Good test case for therapeutic reprinting.

Zygimantis “Mantis” Tarvydas

Gender: M

Mission role: EVA engineer, lead diver

Pay rate: Kurul [expired Mongolian Free States trademark for member of a leadership council]

Biography: Veteran of multiple space construction projects in Mongolian Independent States. Participated in early conflicts against kharaa xenoforms and labor actions against Trans-System Federation authority. Taciturn and withdrawn but trusted by subordinates. Ideologically inflexible, not responsive to incentives.

Notes: Like other senior Mongolian refugees, may require corrective action to avoid unionist behavior and work stoppages.

吴量海 Wu “Dr. Wu” Lianghai

Gender: M

Mission role: Dietician

Pay rate: Kurul [expired Mongolian Free States trademark for member of a leadership council]

Biography: Grandfather of large extended family mostly destroyed during collapse of Mongolian Independent States. Recruited Mogami Kinu as fertility engineer. Vital to mission success.

Note: Extensive pharmacological experience makes Dr. Wu reliable even when psychologically altered

庆星 Qìng “Twinkle” Xīng

Gender: F

Mission role: Astrogator, meteorologist

Pay rate: Bagatur [hero, knight; expired Mongolian Free States trademark for a specialized/valuable worker]

Biography: Raised on the surface of ocean world Atra-Hasis. Capable of navigating by stars from early childhood. Carefully repressed fear of bottomless ocean. Can produce from memory a map of the position of thousands of major stars. Most comfortable in small groups due to shipboard upbringing.

Notes: Self-conscious, highly motivated to avoid appearance of favorable treatment. Burnout risk.

晨伟 Chen “Eddy” Wei

Gender: M

Mission role: Lead miner/bulk resource handler

Pay rate: Bagatur [hero, knight; expired Mongolian Free States trademark for a specialized/valuable worker]

Biography: Highly experienced deep space miner. Defected from Chinese Territories during creation of Mongolian Free States. Amateur historian, interested in material basis of human development and in speculative alien technologies.

Notes: Like other senior Mongolian refugees, may require corrective action to avoid unionist behavior and work stoppages.

晨伟 Chen “Eddy” Wei

Gender: M

Mission role: Lead miner/bulk resource handler

Pay rate: Bagatur [hero, knight; expired Mongolian Free States trademark for a specialized/valuable worker]

Biography: Highly experienced deep space miner. Defected from Chinese Territories during creation of Mongolian Free States. Amateur historian, interested in material basis of human development and in speculative alien technologies.

Notes: Like other senior Mongolian refugees, may require corrective action to avoid unionist behavior and work stoppages.