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DIALOGUE COLOUR: #692d37
THOUGHT COLOUR: #40191f
-------NICKNAME/S
------Syl
-------HOMETOWN
------Omicron-2512 Outpost (†), Pax
-------BIRTHDATE
------August 5th
-------AGE
------30
-------GENDER
------Cis male (he/him)
-------SEXUALITY
------Grey-A
-------SPECIES
------Human
-------OCCUPATION
------Environmental and Life Support
------Officer (Engineering Division)
-------FACE CLAIM
------Iwan Rheon
-------TIME ZONE
------GMT +8:00
Dark brown, close-cropped
and shaved at the sides
EYE COLOUR
Blue
HEIGHT
5'10"
WEIGHT
172 lbs
Overall build suggests a life of hard work.
A labourer's body, partially weakened by
illness. Longer torso than legs.
STYLE
Prefers the practical homogeneity of
uniforms.
Ship engineer's overalls, toolbelt fastened
around the waist. He keeps a wearable
breathing support device on his person
at all times.
During rare casual settings, he will wear
a beat-up jacket his older brother Tau once
owned.
DISTINGUISHING
FEATURES
Pasty complexion; brilliant but almost
unnaturally blue eyes
RESOURCEFUL, VENTURESOME
HISTORY —
The Omicron-2512 Outpost stood a short distance from one of Pax's many mining sites. Life there only ever revolved around struyntine: finding it, mining it, assessing its quality, and doing all other pertinent logistical processes to get it to market. The only respite any of the outpost denizens had from the exhausting grind were important supply runs to Gamma Chi-12, a much larger farming and trade outpost nearly half a day's travel away by all-terrain tracked vehicle. Designated parties of denizens chosen at random would monthly make the trip on the largest vehicle of their fleet not dedicated to Struyntine transport. It was the only way a remote settlement like theirs could gain access to relatively fresh food and, sometimes, little luxuries better-funded outposts had access to.
Many families worked the mines for several generations, the mines the only viable trade they could take up. However, by the time he was old enough to follow suit, Omicron-2512 and the nearby quarry were shells of their former self. The mines were a deadly master: it had picked many off over the years and wiped out entire families, including Syl's. Two of his older brothers, Tau and Scout, were crushed in cave-ins, while the rest died slow, painful deaths, suffocated by the scarring in their lungs from silicosis. No new blood came in to replace the lost workers since not many were willing to take up an assignment so remote, either. Getting to the struyntine deposits became even more laborious — the miners who remained had to go even further down now to retrieve the precious ore.
At 24, Syl's own silicosis worsened. Unwilling to remain in a place that felt more like a graveyard to him than home, he took the meager nest egg his parents had set aside, stowed away off-world and paid for life-saving nanobot treatment to enable his lungs to heal from years of exposure. It didn't take long for the medical expenses to drain the money dry, leaving his lungs only half-healed and with only a few nanobots remaining in his system repairing more damage than they could handle. Faced with half-administered treatment he couldn't yet afford to complete, he decided to put his skills to good use and enlist with the Earth Alliance's military force as a sapper. Since then, he has been biding his time between treatments saving anything he gets from the job to pay his way back to health.
MISCELLANEOUS —
- A DANGEROUS BUILDUP
Extreme physical exertion will temporarily put him out of commission or leave him in fits of uncontrollable coughing. He often has to assess his fitness for any taxing work. He does so in short bursts when he can. Though he has had some nanobot treatment to repair some of the lung damage from his time in the mines, it isn't enough to restore full respiratory function.
- BOY SCOUT
Having lived out on near-desolate terrain, he knows a thing or two or about survival tactics (at least, on Pax). Wary of automation, full or otherwise, he tends to accumulate and keep a cache of basic supplies in an access tunnel in Engineering's EaLS department.