garchon

The colony world you grew up on was peppered with Ancient ruins, and they captivated you from a young age. Enterios had a research team there, and you signed on with them, first as an intern, then a junior researcher, and eventually, after an Enterios scholarship to the University at Titan's Passage, as a full-fledged member of the team. You greatly enjoyed studying the Ancient remnants of your home, but before long you branched out, visiting many other archaeological sites.

It was at Titan's Passage that you met V. Vesper ((Yvonne Kung)), a fellow student who you've been friends with ever since. Vesper wound up changing life tracks and becoming a Navigator, coming to join you in working for Enterios. Conversations with Vesper led you into a fascination with Navigation rigs, and the integration between Ancient and modern technologies. You see great potential for further advancement there, with deeper understanding. You helped pioneer the first Capital Ship Navigator rigs that only needed two pilots, which Vesper helped you test, alongside their copilot, N. Cadence ((Daniel Whalen)).

Not long after you published your first papers on that subject, the Silencers reached out to you. You became involved with them, helping them study Navigation rigs to better learn how to recreate them. You believe it should be possible to use the Evo dynavolution process on a fetus process to produce a child that will be an Innate Navigator. Your primary loyalty, however, is to science itself, your abstract ideals and research goals, not the Silencers particularly. You are happy to work with them, but you know why, and you believe they do as well.

You also spent a few years away from Enterios, teaching back at the University of Titan's Passage. Part of your purpose there was to look out for possible recruits to the Silencers, scientists who might join the cause. You sent one or two back of the years, but few were quite as promising as one of your students, P. Vantajj ((Brynn Kiefer)). Vantajj was brilliant, but wildly unfocused. You pushed them to finish a project, any project. You claimed it was for a thesis requirement, but it was really an audition for the Silencers. To your disappointment, after a year of work, Vantajj didn't produce anything, just more requests for an extension. You told them their funding had run out, and kicked them out of your research lab. Not long after that, you returned to your day job at Enterios, somewhat disheartened with academia.

Within the last few years, Enterios sent you here, to New Gyr. You report directly to the head of Enterios on New Gyr, F. Endeavor ((Vivien Lasken)). You've been studying the Ancient mind within the planet, and learning everything you can about it. It's the most interesting work you've ever done. The mind is generally closed to you, but even from analyzing its exterior you have learned an immense amount. You have also spent time with the Ancient Navigator rigs that were found and fixed during the Phaelos Crisis. You have also visited the Innate Academy several times on behalf of the local leader of the Silencers, D. Ker Mas ((Alice Lytle)). You even built an experimental Android modeled on what you understand of the Ancient mind. That machine, O. Prolix ((Jarys Maragopoulos)), seems to have a developed a religious perspective on the Ancient AI it's based on, and, fascinatingly, has joined the Order of Dawn.

You have a complex relationship with a fellow scientist, W. Bronser ((Alison Smaalders)). Bronser is a local researcher and member of the Order of Dawn. They are also trying to study the Ancient ruins, but most of the ruins are owned by the Enterios Corporation. As an outsider, Bronser is not allowed access to any of those. You respect Bronser as an archaeologist, and have in fact tried to hire them several times to join your research team. You are continually confused as to why they refuse your offers. They claim ethical concerns, and that they do not support Enterios' claim to these sites. As far as you're concerned, they're just wasting their time with these moral quandaries, and if they truly believe in science, they will join you. But they still have not yet. Hopefully they will come around.

Your most recent project has been your most ambitious yet. Under the direction of the Board of Directors, especially R. Taizon ((Daniel Dziubinski)), you have developed a new planetary operating system. Vesper and Cadence have helped deliver the final components with their capital ship, and you have assembled the nodes that will allow you to connect the new system with the Ancient mind within the planet. The system combines everything you have studied--Navigation rigs, Ancient ruins, AI development, and the Innate minds you studied for the Silencers. It is the culmination of everything you have worked on, and you are enormously proud of your work. Soon you will be ready to unveil it to the galaxy, and let everyone see what you have created.

Light:
Science--the collective of humanity's knowledge, of what your species can know, can reach, can do--is the noblest of all things to be devoted to. Everything you learn, everything you uncover, will serve as a stepping stone to propel the entire human race further amongst the stars. Science is going to save humanity, and you'll be on the forefront of helping to get there.
Dark:
You understand that not everyone shares your passion, but you are especially harsh and especially critical about people who claim to be scientists then fail in one way or another. You don't like it when people waste your time.