Trenton McLees

• Aliases: Trent, Grumps (to youngsters working on the dock)

• Concept: Aging dockworker just trying to get by. So why do you kids keep trying to get me involved? It's none of my business...

• Issue: Self-doubt/destruction. Fell apart after his second divorce and started pushing away friends who were trying to help. Spent years spiraling downward in self-pity and blaming his ex-wife before getting the sense knocked into him. Now he feels like he deserves the crap that happened to him. His issue is whether he thinks he also deserves to have some happiness again or will he continue this cycle of self-doubt/destruction.

• Nemesis: Katyusha Timonov, holdmaster for freighter Kamaria. Suspected smuggler of drugs, guns, and other Unity contraband. Never caught redhanded.

• Edges:
  • Like the back of my hand - Many years working in Unity port has given him detailed knowledge of how the port works, what comes in and out, and passing acquaintance with many people involved

• Connections:
  • Remy Monsanto - Daughter from first marriage. Relationship runs between warm and frosty at times. Has some job that will allow her to become involved in the seasonal plotline, e.g. reporter or civil leader in Unity City or scientist/technician in Endit.
  • Khanshaa Mimbwomo - Character's connection to shady underworld, in particular dealing with the smuggling/black market side. Both people have benefited from the relationship, but there is some level of mistrust as both have dirt on each other.

• Personal Set: Has a holographic program he runs on a personal headset computer when he needs to get away from people and de-stress. Unfortunately, entering the program in the office often gets interrupted by work or phone calls. He has an annoying habit of staying in the program while people are trying to talk to him in his office, so he can't see them but can hear and speak to them, and they can see that he's trying to ignore them. As he's usually surrounded by ships, cranes getting corroded by sea air, and people, his escape is probably something like a forest clearing or lookout point on a mountain or something.

• Screen Presence: 2, , , , ,

Tie into police/crime: he is a police liaison for the port authority. Specifically, the police can go to him regarding information about traffic and other records in the port's database; there probably is a separate liaison for port security forces. Occasionally he'll play informant to the police.

Trox Ramirez

• Concept: Head of the mechanical division and troubleshooter on the SHACOM freighter Kamaria.

• Issue: Unknown identity. Trox wants to know who he is. His parents died when he was 12. He lived at the Mexican boarding school in Unity City after that. He knows nothing of his family history.
• Nemesis: (not defined yet)

• Edges:
  • Incredible secret wealth
  • Problem solver - whatever the problem, Trox usually has a good idea how to fix it.

• Connections:
  • Hector Ruezga - Uncle Hector, Trox's legal guardian after his parents' death

• Personal Set: Trox's office and bunk on the ship.

• Screen Presence: 2, 2, 3, 1, 1, 2

Carson Lamont

• Concept: Detective beholden to the Corporation

• Issue: Can I do my job while seeing to the Corporation's interests?
• Nemesis:

• Edges:
  • Just one of the guys - Carson's blue-collar background allows him to blend in with the working class types who make up most of the population. This helps him get answers that others might not be able to. He tends to side with the have-nots over the haves.
  • I know a guy - Carson has been to all parts of both cities and he has met a lot of people. If he can't get what he needs from his law-enforcement superiors, he has the contacts to get resources from the street. Whether this is an underworld connection, a cop from a different organization, or someone he used to play sports with in school, he can find the person who can get things done.

• Connections:
  • Martin - His corporate handler.

• Personal Set: St. John's, a bar where law-enforcement types hang out.

• Screen Presence: 2, , , , ,

Carson's dad was a worker in the underwater city while his mother cleaned houses on land. He spend most of his time with his mom but, every now and then, he got to go beneath the waves.

He became a cop during one of the economy's worst periods so he did one job on the side for the Corporation. That job led to a couple more and before he knew it, the Corporation had its hooks in him and plenty of blackmail material if he tried to back out of their deal.

Sato Miryam

• Concept: Lab-rat turned field investigator
• Issue: Is her grandfather paranoid or was there some insidious plot
• Nemesis: tbd

• Edges:
  • Computer expertise (I mean it's impressive)
  • Underestimated (at four feet five inches and a girlish face/figure/attitude, people don't think that she can cut the mustard. Her general expertise, black-belt (1 dan) and police gun training make that a terrible (occasionaly fatal) mistake.
• Connections:
  • Police chief - hubba hubba [as long as it stays "G" with regard to the relationship].
• Nemesis:
  • Her grandfather mentioned someone having stolen his ideas though they could be dangerous to SHACOM treatments -- She must bring him (or her) to justice.

• Personal Set: Office/lab, she tries to cram her office so full of lab supplies -- and no wonder, the lab isn't adequate to the job by itself and the force can't/won't hire another tech.
• Grandpa's home It looks like a relatively normal retiree home as the retiree fights early onset dementia, but clues abound there.
• Screen Presence: 2, , , , ,