Cas (Caseline-9)person · character · as of 2066
Fennec lineage, 26, orphanware, the planner. Her legal name is a batch designation. The market bred foxes to listen, and then sold the recordings. Caseline folded in 2053; she bought herself out at nineteen, in 2059.
Commander Ilya Vrozaperson · character
Kavast pack commander, 47, frost-gray, twenty-nine years in command. Loves his wolves exactly the way the recruitment ad loves them, sincerely, and the system spends what he loves.
Danka Ivelperson · character · as of 2066
Wolf lineage, 24, ex-Kavast, the driver. Kavast holds packs together with love; pack-bond conditioning means deserting means leaving your litter. Danka is the one who did, because she watched command spend that love like ammunition.
Dr. Silkperson · character
Stabilises the orphanware nobody else will touch, at fair rates, with genuine warmth, and takes payment in tissue samples with a collector's specific joy. Both of those things are true at once and neither cancels the other.
Grigor Tamperson · character · as of 2066
Bear lineage, 34, Eastern Compact, the anchor. Callsign earned in Compact service, meaning endurance; the kids think it's a hospital joke. His first splice, Longhaul, died waiting for an extraction that was never coming.
Marisol Vega (Barricadia)person · character
Last treasurer of the Barricadia Reclaim Co-op, 61; the crew's landlord; rent never raised, stays for lunch monthly; the reason Jaguario has never leaned on the address, unexplained. Holds the paper on the garage.
Marit Seyperson · character · as of 2066
Snow-leopard lineage, 33, ex-IRBIS, the builder. Intermittent: she does not live at the Wash and keeps no fixed address, because a person who is cheap to repossess stays cheap by being expensive to find. She arrives, she builds, she goes.
Ozzy Okonkwo-Cruzperson · character · as of 2066
Baseline human, 19, Barricadia, the mouth. No augments; in this crew, the loudest statement anyone's making. A mother above a print shop who thinks he does logistics for a security firm.
Theo Asheperson · character · as of 2066
Raven lineage, 22, ex-Protectorate, they/them, the documenter. Protectorate flights are networked sensory arrays; Theo spent their whole life inside Vantage Nine, a nine-operator flight running as one sensorium, and never had a private thought until defecting at twenty.