(https://64.media.tumblr.com/8a145c0a6e9019f601d52042f5b0e37f/tumblr_ofes48kwpV1swxz0no9_1280.jpg)<br/><br/><strong><span class="bbc_u">Winter Greenwood</span></strong><br/><br/>Winter was told throughout his childhood that vocational skills would get him a better career than education. He had to travel a little further for that career than he expected, signing up eventually as a colonist on LV-186 because...well, it's the kind of job not many people get turned down for. Whilst unable to demonstrate a speciality, his inherited knowledge of machinery and confined-facility logistics made him useful in an odd-job capacity and, one he'd acquired the necessary licenses, he found his niche servicing and piloting the submersible versicraft used at the Almayer facility. It's not a job that is required every day, or indeed every week, so the rest of the time he works in the facility's hydroponics lab, helping to cultivate high-nutrient plants to sustain the colony's population.<br/><br/>He has recently been dating a member of the security team, Officer Tahira Piriyeva - something which is most definitely frowned upon by colonial administration, but is not strictly against the rules. Officer Piriyeva, however, is one of the people currently missins-presumed-dead in the stricken part of the Almayer facility.<br/><br/><hr/><br/>(https://64.media.tumblr.com/415f80461386f744e58c779e0cc7f376/tumblr_p6h3ctGMc11swxz0no3_400.jpg)<br/><br/><strong><span class="bbc_u">Administrator Jeremiah Garner</span></strong><br/><br/>Garner is the third colonial administrator to have overseen Almayer, and it's looking like he's going to be the last. A grizzled farm boy, he took the job on LV-186 because he wanted to live as far away from the assholes on earth as he could get. He thought it would be his 'fuck everyone' opportunity to live in relative isolation and mundanity. Unfortunately, he underestimated just how much work is required to run an off-world colony, and presents perpetually as a man who doesn't have time for this shit, even though it's his job.<br/><br/>In his eyes, the worst thing about the present disaster is that it means everyone is being evacuated and he's going to have to go back to earth, that godforsaken shithole and all the fucknuts who live there.<br/><br/><hr/><br/>(https://64.media.tumblr.com/502a4ae96d5dd661c3e0a10afc970504/8d720b801011cc05-f9/s400x600/c87dc066803886124e12393af3cc501c5f0cbbeb.jpg)<br/><br/><strong><span class="bbc_u">Lieutenant Darya Shvedova</span></strong><br/><br/>Commanding officer of the marines attached to the<em>USS Cargadores</em>. Her appointment was controversial as she was one of relatively few current serving officers not to have been born on earth, but rather on an off-world colony. She has been known to joke that she is the ideal candidate for leading missions where alien encounters are expected because, in her words, "as far as the brass are concerned, I am an alien myself". She makes no such jokes in front of her subordinates, of course, and has earned her rank through combat experience.<br/><br/>Her current squad have formed recently from the survivors of two separate ill-fates units that suffered heavy casualties in separate battles. Squad trusts and relationships are not yet fully formed, and Lt Shvedova is keenly aware that she's going to have to work extra hard to ensure cohesion in these early months.<br/><br/>The members of her squad are as follows:<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">Squad 1</span><br/><br/>Sgt Craig Brekke<br/>Cpl Jing-Mei Harris - (medic)<br/>Pvt Ervin Rice<br/>Pvt Rasmus Lindahl - (smartgun specialist)<br/>Pvt Kara Zabinska - (dropship pilot)<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">Squad 2</span><br/><br/>Cpl Shelby MacCartan<br/>Pvt Nathan Lawson<br/>Pvt German Serrano<br/>Pvt Bradley Parks - (smartgun specialist)<br/>Pvt Sanae Sugita - (engineering specialist)<br/><br/><hr/>