Character Guide

What would a story be without characters? And most of these folks are definitely characters...

Pioneers

These are the first people to do something noteworthy in Fenspace. They're listed in rough order of their accomplishments.

First Fen in Space: the crew of the Uncertainty

• Katz Schrödinger (writer avatar)
• Trigon (AI)

First of the Biomods

• Natalie Baker
• Shuko
• Wave Convoy (writer avatar)

First Fen Business: Hermes Universal Deliveries

• Nikodemus Riddle, aka 'Scales'
• Quincy Rosenkreuz, aka 'Quinn' or 'Ricky'
• J.S. Yzak, currently J.Yin and S.Yang
• Katz Schrödinger (see above, under Uncertainty)
• Seth Reilly, aka 'Gecko'

First Organized Space Miners: Rockhounds

• Chris Marsden (writer avatar)

First "Threat to Earth": the crew of the Sol Bianca

• The Professor
• Julian Friez
• Ryoko Asakura (AI)
• Miyu (AI)
• Catty Nebulart (AI)

First Tour Guides: the crew of the Pinafore

Captain Corcoran originally gave tours on the Pearl Forrester, a small craft which is now the Pinafore's launch.

• Joseph Corcoran (writer avatar)
• Thomas & Allison Dobbs
• Tabitha Doe
• Blossom (AI)
• Bubbles (AI)
• Buttercup (AI)

First Trading Post: the crew of Stellvia

Noah Scott (writer pseudo-avatar) Leda Swansen Helen Swansen-Scott (Fenspace Infinities) Sora Hasegawa (AI) Yayoi Fujisawa (AI) Kohran Li (AI) Yoriko Nikaido (AI) Star (AI)

Safety (AI) Miyuri Akisato (AI) Takami Sakuragi (AI) Shizuka Hayama (AI) Kagome Mishima (AI) Yomiko Readman (AI) Yuu Inagawa (AI)

First Gentleman Farmers: the crew of the Fateful Lightning

• The Jason
• Clotho (AI)
• Lachesis (AI)
• Atropos (AI)
• Fate (AI)

First Unreal Estate: the crew of the Island

Eric Zhu (writer avatar) Dr. William "Will" Kao Matthew "Matt" West Dr. Gwendolyn "Gwen" Lee Katie Lee Ginnette "Jin" Leung Lin Xing

Thomas "Tom" Zhu Titan Ally Sinclair Wentworth "Wen" Talbott Simon-Peter (AI) The Fisherbots (AI)

First Fen Philanthropists: the Blue Blazers

• "Blackstone" (writer avatar)
• "Nezumi"
• "Chaos"
• "J."
• Frederic "Full Byte" Ferdinand
• Johnathan Mulder
• "Buckaroo" (AI)

First Long-Term Deep-Space Explorers: the crew of the Miranda

• April Roberts
• Kenneth Barnum
• M.L. da Vinci
• Elizabeth Crumpet - Captain's Assistant, Officer Supernumerary
• Liza - Entertainment/Councilor/Astrogation AI

First Emergency Vehicle: the crew of the ambulance Mission of Mercy

• Sally Woods
• Jeff Crew

First Fen Historians: the crew of the Inelegant Truth

Jonathon "Jon" "Bad Moon" Helscher (writer avatar) Cynthia Hannah Gunderson Deidrict "Dieter" Franklin Gunderson Percival "Perry" Doper Jeremiah Augustus Breckenridge

Toni Callisto (AI) Gay Deceiver (AI) Brother-Captain Galvius (AI)

First Heavy Industry in Space: the crew of Hephaestus

• Wire Geek (writer avatar)
• "Sparky"
• "Doc" Raven
• Hermes (AI)
• Millie (AI)
• Vioarr (AI)
• The Boys (AIs)

First to Call an Emergency Convention: the SOS-Dan

• Haruhi Suzumiya
• Kyon
• Yuki Nagato
• Mikuru Asahina
• Itsuki Koizumi

Other Record-Holders

You don't have to be the first to do something to be noteworthy.

Space Commies: the Soviet Air Force and the crew of the Ptichka

S. Malaclypse Fnord (writer avatar) KJ/Kali (writer avatar) Dee (AI) Elena van Oorebeek (writer avatar) Kat Stewart

P. "Zib" Stewart R. "Shad" Houben J. "Calc" Renken Sora Hasegawa (see above, under Stellvia) Minerva Weatheral GLaDOS (AI)

The only locomotive in space: the crew of the Galaxy Express 999

• Maetel

Farthest Out: the crew of the Hades

• Indiana

Biggest Unreal Estate: the crew of Grover's Corners

Bob Schroeck (writer avatar) Peggy Schroeck Joe Avins Kat Avins Scott Pinkham Heather Panquelle

Grace Attila Imre Helen Imre John Freiler Alison Mee Rachel Zane

Luna Schroeck Nina Ruth Carl Max Emily and Sarah

A house of very good repute: the crew of Candy Apple Red's

Carol "Candy" Reed (writer avatar) Absinthe Corsair Corona Jinx Lilac

Lavender Nekoh-Chan Miao Tux Spike

Others

• Natsuko Aki - the best damn AI cop in Helium
• Aristotle (AI)
• Auger
• Avril Arrow (AI)
• Cornelius "Neil" Blackwell
• Druish One
• "F" (writer avatar)
• Andrew Fauho (writer avatar)
• Grey - not the Boskonian
• Ramona Jackson
• Allen James
• Kale
• Kasmir
• Wilton "The Hoff" Knight
• "Mr. Morden" - Fenspace's best-known "fixer"
• Maeve
• Murphy Murphy - handwavium's fall guy
• Winry Rockbell
• Karen Sorrel
• Maico Tange - a "feel good" reporter/interviewer
• Vulpine Fury
• Hannan Wu

The Roughriders

• Benjamin Rhodes (writer avatar)
• Regina 'Gina' Langley - Ben's AI girlfriend
• Jessica 'Jess' Ayanami - a biomodded female who's always beside herself

The crew of the Admiral Heinlein

• Duane E. Peters (writer avatar)
• June Waterman
• Durandal (AI)
• Leela (AI)
• Excel XL (AI)

the crew of Prometheus Forge

• A.C. Peters (writer avatar)
• Kasumi (AI)
• Adonis "Andy" McMurdo (AI)
• Greenpeace Crolis (AI)
• Lebia Maverick (AI)
• Eddie (AI)
• Clay Pigeons (Drones - Open Characters)

the crew of the Starbug 1

• Jeph Antilles
• Myk-El Miller
• Nene Romanova (AI)
• R2-G0 (AI)

Fennish Military

• N
• J. Hawking
• P. Ingless
• "The Dirty Dozen"
• d'Sparil (AI)
• Harlequin (AI)
• Viola (AI)
• Arthur Nkomo

Mundane Military

• Col. (USAF) Stephen Caldwell, commander, station Benjamin Franklin - the ranking US officer in Fenspace
• Amy O'Connell, station Benjamin Franklin

Hoist the Colors: The crew of the USS Stingray

• Cmdr. (USN) Tom Dodge, Captain, USS Stingray
• Lt. Emily Lake, XO, USS Stingray
• Lt. j.g. Wilhemina "Willie" Grumby, Dive and Manoeuvring Officer, USS Stingray
• Ens. Virginia "Ginny" Kittredge, Nurse, USS Stingray
• CPO Aldous Howard, engineer, USS Stingray

Boskonians

Boo! Hiss!

• Martha Clark
• Gervasio Faustino de Leon
• La Mariposa
  • Naoko Sato
  • Agatha Clay (AI)

• Don Anthony Esposito - not really a Black Hat, but that's what he looks like