RE: Scattered Stars
10-11-2018, 06:01 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-16-2018, 01:34 AM by Demonsul.)
Name: Fife Petersen-Wells
Description: Fife is a pale-skinned blond Martian, his homeworld giving him a tall, thin build nurtured by its low gravity. He is also from a rich family of Mechanists - and as such, he has many advanced cybernetics. His face is thin and haughty, easily wearing a mocking smile, and housing (in otherwise natural sockets) a pair of advanced silvery bionic eyes inset with gold-glowing pupils. He has not a single fully organic limb remaining and is proud of the fact. He regularly ties his long blond hair back in a ponytail and is habitually clean-shaven. Usually regarded as fairly handsome by those who don't see through his polite facade to his true personality beneath.
Homeworld: Fife is Martian, born and raised.
Affiliation: Fife, as the wealthy son of a major Martian Mechanist stakeholder, largely does his own thing but is strongly affiliated with the Mechanists and their interests.
Occupation: Fife is a rich kid looking for a ride, and is willing to bring a great deal of technical knowledge and resources to the table. He wants to go out and travel the stars.
Bio: Fife was born to the Petersen-Wells family, and is a second-generation native Martian. His grandparents came to Mars in the years after the first plants were seeded on the open surface of Mars, and they managed to rise in importance so that his parents had the best chance to become as powerful as they did. His mother, Viola Petersen, was especially lucky - she inherited a major colony industrial firm. She expanded it rapidly to feed Martian construction and manufacturing needs, and prospered during the ongoing expansion of the Martian cities that has been the staple of colonization over the last fifty years. As a result, she has become extremely potent and influential in Martian politics. When she married a local politician she loved, she was able to use that influence to propel him to a high position. She is also a firm believer in transhumanism and a zealous Mechanist, and her influence, along with that of her business peers, helped turn the Mechanists from a group composed primarily of fringe scientists without the resources to make a big splash in politics into a powerhouse controlling a good chunk of the Martian government.
Fife himself, being the elder child, was groomed to inherit the business from an early age, though in recent years it has become apparent that he perhaps neither wants nor is fit to. He was a very bright child, but not a kind one. After an initially sheltered upbringing, he was sent to university where he learned a lot about what the world is really like, though he had a certain sneering superiority to it all. He ignored most of his vital business education, instead diving into the Mechanist ideology. As such Fife focused his studies on design, engineering and programming, becoming very proficient in all three fields. He acquired extensive cybernetic replacements, including a cutting-edge and very expensive pair of eyes as well as arms and legs that can outperform their biological equivalents easily. He truly became the Mechanist ideal of a transhuman cyborg, modifying his own body to better suit himself, installing a holographic projector in his right palm and adding all kinds of aesthetic modifications involving inlaid gold circuit-pattern lines and other 'cyberfashion'.
His mother is starting to look to his sister Harp to take over the business, but that's fine by Fife so long as he keeps his wealth and privilege. Plus, that decision doesn't need to be mare any time soon anyway, since his parents' augmentations are probably going to see them alive and healthy for many more decades to come. Now merely 23, he wants to go out and see the universe, travel on starships and visit far-flung and interesting places he reads about on the meta-databases. The war has barely inconvenienced him so far, and in fact the reorganized Sol government has benefitted his influential family as they can now wield influence in Federation politics rather than merely Martian politics. He doesn't want to join the armed services - he believes it would be below him to waste his life as a grunt, and he doesn't want to go to officer school - so he intends to simply travel in spite of the chaos. After all, the war hasn't caused any problems in his life so far, so why would it start now?
Resources & Contacts: Fife, though lacking a ship or underlings himself, has significant financial resources back on Mars in the form of a trust fund, stake in his family's industrial concern, and of course, his Mother, the infamous Mechanist and political force of will Viola Petersen. She is known for being determined and uncompromising, and extremely protective of her family. His father, Jacob Wells, is a Martian politician, propelled to greater prominence due to his wife's influence. Originally he was a local politician known for his compassion, and has surprisingly managed to keep some of that kindness in spite of his relatively newfound importance. His sister Harp is currently in university, studying much the same courses he did, but doing a better job focusing on the business aspect, looking to take after her mother.
Description: Fife is a pale-skinned blond Martian, his homeworld giving him a tall, thin build nurtured by its low gravity. He is also from a rich family of Mechanists - and as such, he has many advanced cybernetics. His face is thin and haughty, easily wearing a mocking smile, and housing (in otherwise natural sockets) a pair of advanced silvery bionic eyes inset with gold-glowing pupils. He has not a single fully organic limb remaining and is proud of the fact. He regularly ties his long blond hair back in a ponytail and is habitually clean-shaven. Usually regarded as fairly handsome by those who don't see through his polite facade to his true personality beneath.
Homeworld: Fife is Martian, born and raised.
Affiliation: Fife, as the wealthy son of a major Martian Mechanist stakeholder, largely does his own thing but is strongly affiliated with the Mechanists and their interests.
Occupation: Fife is a rich kid looking for a ride, and is willing to bring a great deal of technical knowledge and resources to the table. He wants to go out and travel the stars.
Bio: Fife was born to the Petersen-Wells family, and is a second-generation native Martian. His grandparents came to Mars in the years after the first plants were seeded on the open surface of Mars, and they managed to rise in importance so that his parents had the best chance to become as powerful as they did. His mother, Viola Petersen, was especially lucky - she inherited a major colony industrial firm. She expanded it rapidly to feed Martian construction and manufacturing needs, and prospered during the ongoing expansion of the Martian cities that has been the staple of colonization over the last fifty years. As a result, she has become extremely potent and influential in Martian politics. When she married a local politician she loved, she was able to use that influence to propel him to a high position. She is also a firm believer in transhumanism and a zealous Mechanist, and her influence, along with that of her business peers, helped turn the Mechanists from a group composed primarily of fringe scientists without the resources to make a big splash in politics into a powerhouse controlling a good chunk of the Martian government.
Fife himself, being the elder child, was groomed to inherit the business from an early age, though in recent years it has become apparent that he perhaps neither wants nor is fit to. He was a very bright child, but not a kind one. After an initially sheltered upbringing, he was sent to university where he learned a lot about what the world is really like, though he had a certain sneering superiority to it all. He ignored most of his vital business education, instead diving into the Mechanist ideology. As such Fife focused his studies on design, engineering and programming, becoming very proficient in all three fields. He acquired extensive cybernetic replacements, including a cutting-edge and very expensive pair of eyes as well as arms and legs that can outperform their biological equivalents easily. He truly became the Mechanist ideal of a transhuman cyborg, modifying his own body to better suit himself, installing a holographic projector in his right palm and adding all kinds of aesthetic modifications involving inlaid gold circuit-pattern lines and other 'cyberfashion'.
His mother is starting to look to his sister Harp to take over the business, but that's fine by Fife so long as he keeps his wealth and privilege. Plus, that decision doesn't need to be mare any time soon anyway, since his parents' augmentations are probably going to see them alive and healthy for many more decades to come. Now merely 23, he wants to go out and see the universe, travel on starships and visit far-flung and interesting places he reads about on the meta-databases. The war has barely inconvenienced him so far, and in fact the reorganized Sol government has benefitted his influential family as they can now wield influence in Federation politics rather than merely Martian politics. He doesn't want to join the armed services - he believes it would be below him to waste his life as a grunt, and he doesn't want to go to officer school - so he intends to simply travel in spite of the chaos. After all, the war hasn't caused any problems in his life so far, so why would it start now?
Resources & Contacts: Fife, though lacking a ship or underlings himself, has significant financial resources back on Mars in the form of a trust fund, stake in his family's industrial concern, and of course, his Mother, the infamous Mechanist and political force of will Viola Petersen. She is known for being determined and uncompromising, and extremely protective of her family. His father, Jacob Wells, is a Martian politician, propelled to greater prominence due to his wife's influence. Originally he was a local politician known for his compassion, and has surprisingly managed to keep some of that kindness in spite of his relatively newfound importance. His sister Harp is currently in university, studying much the same courses he did, but doing a better job focusing on the business aspect, looking to take after her mother.