RE: Scattered Stars
11-09-2018, 04:00 AM
Name: Ananke Wen
Description: Ananke is a Jovian native of Europa. They are noticeably tall (6’5”) from a lifetime of low gravity. They have short, black hair and olive skin. Ananke has a fondness for parkas, scarves, and other cold-weather clothing regardless of the actual temperature. Personality wise, Ananke can be summed up as a weirdo. They are capable of initiating conversations and tolerating long periods of time in awkward social gatherings. It is just they rather do their own thing. Unfortunately, their two special interests are: 1) photography, 2) getting into incredibly more exciting and dangerous situations.
Ananke is agender and goes by they/them pronouns.
Homeworld: Europa. Europa has long been rendered habitable for mankind but some of that pre-terraformed wildness remains. Settlements on Europa mostly consist of shielded cities built on islands of high-tech plastic, ceramic, and metal. Like other Jovian colonies, Europa has strong science, with biases towards genetic engineering and select interdisciplinary/applied physics of ice and water variety (oceanography, glaciology, cryogenics, et cetera).
Affiliation: Solar Federation (Jovian).
Occupation: Investigative journalist for the Cadmus Inquiry.
Bio: Ananke was born third of five children to a family of marine farmers. Ananke was unsurprisingly considered a bit of problem child. Their insatiable curiosity landing them in more trouble than an average kid should face. Only in post-secondary education did their impulsive streak got direction. A direction for ferreting out the truth – the truth everyone should have the right to know. Isn’t that noble?
Only time would tell if this sentiment would still hold true during the war.
Resources & Contacts:
Nieves Penitentes – aerospace vehicle capable of functioning as aircraft in atmosphere and spacecraft in the vacuum of well, space. Nieves Penitentes was designed to be a more affordable version of a spaceplane brand from Mars. In fact, the design is suspiciously lawsuit-scraping-by similar.
Nieves Penitentes is moderately armored (thanks to Ananke’s paycheck). It is packed with cameras, datapads, and other journalism-appropriate equipment and technological extensions.
Cadmus Inquiry – the only newspaper endemic to Europa. The Jovian moons already have an interplanetary periodical publication called the Jovian Journal and other just-as-prestigious newspapers from Earth, Mars, and other members of the Solar Federation. This breeds a sentiment that assumes there is no need for individual Jovian moons to have their own independent periodical publications. Consequently, Cadmus Inquiry occupies a strange position where they are not exactly a tabloid, but they are definitely not well-respected at all.
Carme Metha – the editor-of-chief of the Cadmus Inquiry, the man who Ananke gives their photos and articles to, so they can get paid. Carme is a curmudgeon with a preoccupation with deadlines and coffee but mostly deadlines. Carme is strict but not overbearing enough to be unpleasant. Secretive. Might have secrets, might have plain old anxiety. Somehow has a happy marriage.
Description: Ananke is a Jovian native of Europa. They are noticeably tall (6’5”) from a lifetime of low gravity. They have short, black hair and olive skin. Ananke has a fondness for parkas, scarves, and other cold-weather clothing regardless of the actual temperature. Personality wise, Ananke can be summed up as a weirdo. They are capable of initiating conversations and tolerating long periods of time in awkward social gatherings. It is just they rather do their own thing. Unfortunately, their two special interests are: 1) photography, 2) getting into incredibly more exciting and dangerous situations.
Ananke is agender and goes by they/them pronouns.
Homeworld: Europa. Europa has long been rendered habitable for mankind but some of that pre-terraformed wildness remains. Settlements on Europa mostly consist of shielded cities built on islands of high-tech plastic, ceramic, and metal. Like other Jovian colonies, Europa has strong science, with biases towards genetic engineering and select interdisciplinary/applied physics of ice and water variety (oceanography, glaciology, cryogenics, et cetera).
Affiliation: Solar Federation (Jovian).
Occupation: Investigative journalist for the Cadmus Inquiry.
Bio: Ananke was born third of five children to a family of marine farmers. Ananke was unsurprisingly considered a bit of problem child. Their insatiable curiosity landing them in more trouble than an average kid should face. Only in post-secondary education did their impulsive streak got direction. A direction for ferreting out the truth – the truth everyone should have the right to know. Isn’t that noble?
Only time would tell if this sentiment would still hold true during the war.
Resources & Contacts:
Nieves Penitentes – aerospace vehicle capable of functioning as aircraft in atmosphere and spacecraft in the vacuum of well, space. Nieves Penitentes was designed to be a more affordable version of a spaceplane brand from Mars. In fact, the design is suspiciously lawsuit-scraping-by similar.
Nieves Penitentes is moderately armored (thanks to Ananke’s paycheck). It is packed with cameras, datapads, and other journalism-appropriate equipment and technological extensions.
Cadmus Inquiry – the only newspaper endemic to Europa. The Jovian moons already have an interplanetary periodical publication called the Jovian Journal and other just-as-prestigious newspapers from Earth, Mars, and other members of the Solar Federation. This breeds a sentiment that assumes there is no need for individual Jovian moons to have their own independent periodical publications. Consequently, Cadmus Inquiry occupies a strange position where they are not exactly a tabloid, but they are definitely not well-respected at all.
Carme Metha – the editor-of-chief of the Cadmus Inquiry, the man who Ananke gives their photos and articles to, so they can get paid. Carme is a curmudgeon with a preoccupation with deadlines and coffee but mostly deadlines. Carme is strict but not overbearing enough to be unpleasant. Secretive. Might have secrets, might have plain old anxiety. Somehow has a happy marriage.