Rivet D. Rivet

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Rivet D. Rivet is the founder and CEO of Necro Corp. He has previously operated as the Captain of the Alien Space Vessel Necro Construct, briefly as an indentured servant aboard the Alien Space Vessel Voicecoil. and first officer of the United States Private Space Vessel Plasmacrash. He is portrayed by Chris Martinez

## In the Necroverse

### Background

Rivet D. Rivet is a human born on Earth in Denver, Colorado, USA. He was born to Derringer and Sirerra (Pixel) C. Rivet. He served briefly in the Earth US Army as an administrator for the minimum contractual service period. Desiring to see planets and civilizations beyond Earth, he served aboard the USPSV Plasmacrash as first officer. He then came upon the remnants of the Necro Bots assigned to the ship that would be designated the ASV Necro Construct who bequeathed the ship to him and the crew he put together. Upon the decomissioning of the Necro Construct, Rivet returned to Earth and founded Necro Corp.

### Necro Corp

After the decomissioning of the ASV Necro Consctruct, Rivet, feeling defeated, sulked at his home on Earth for a period. However, realizing he wasn't doing the galaxy any good in a rut, decided that the best way to help protect humanity was to amass power on Earth. The easiest way to do so was to found and expand a corporation. Rivet then founded Necro Corp and begun recruiting executives to help run the company and hold onto power. The primary purpose of the company aside from amassing power is to build an army to replace the Necro Bots which would serve as protectors of humankind.

### Necro Construct

While attempting to locate and observe a local sasquatch population in the Rocky Mountains, Rivet and his best friend Xanthus stumbled across the location of a battle that had taken place between some ancient machines and a large group of cultists serving Lythalia. While the cultists were killed, so were the Ancient Ones who were leading the machines into battle. Absent any leadership, the machines went dormant until their discovery by Rivet and Xanthus. They promised that if Rivet were to assemble a crew and participate in the Ancient Ones' crusade against the Great Old Ones they would be granted ownership of their ship and control over its remaining assigned machines. Seeing the Great Old Ones as a threat to humanity, Rivet agreed to their terms and upon taking command of the ship along with Xanthus, dubbed the machines Necro Bots (due to their somewhat skeletal appearance), and registered their new ship as the Alien Space Vessel Necro Construct.

After many missions and battles, the ship's power core was breached in a battle with a spacefaring cult whose patron entity possessed some sort of phasing technology which allowed them to completely bypass the ship's outer armor and strike the interior. Xanthus was able to prevent the ship from immediately exploding, but the fix was understood to be only temporary, giving the crew time to carry out one final mission before having to decomission and disassemble the ship. Each crewmember kept a part of the ship, with Rivet taking posession of the ship's weapon systems, which are now housed in a secure Necro Corp facility.

### Voicecoil

While attempting to root out the location of a hostile cult thought to be operating on an unnamed planet, the Necro Construct crew came across a crashed Voicecoil shuttle. Believing the shuttle to be abandoned, the crew begun searching for salvage in the wreckage, and found a damaged but partially functional Voicecoil automaton. The crew attempted to convert the automaton into an infiltration unit that they could use for covert operations in place of the notoriously non-stealthy Necro Bots. The machine became self-aware and, merging with some experimental nano-bots, became the hostile Slenderman escaped and begun causing trouble throughout the galaxy.

Voicecoil Captain Mark Sousa held Necro Construct (Rivet D. Rivet specifically) liable for both the theft of his robot and the subsequent damage caused by it, and pressed Rivet into a period of indentured servitude aboard the ASV Voicecoil. Rivet primarily served in a communications capacity aboard the ship in addition to performing various janitorial tasks and assisting on ground missions before eventually being released back to the Necro Construct.

### Plasmacrash

Desiring to explore the galaxy early in his career, Rivet partnered with engineer Big Tim Asbestos and the two built their own ship. Registered as a United States Private Space Vessel, the ship was given the name Plasmacrash. Asbestos served as the ship's captain and Rivet served as its first officer. While they had assembled a skilled and loyal crew, they were never able to build or had the ability to purchase any sort of FTL drive for the ship, which never ventured out of the solar system around Earth. Eventually the ship was retired, decommissioned, and the crew went their separate ways.

### Family

Rivet was born to Derringer C. Rivet and his wife Sirerra (Pixel) C. Rivet. Derringer was the child of Lion and Coco B. Rivet. The name of the "A" Rivet was lost with the passing of Lion.

Rivet is married to Serquet D. Rivet and they have two children, Browning E. Rivet and Beretta E. Rivet.

#### Rivet Family Designators

As was traditional for many families on Earth, the Rivet line adopted genrational designators. In famlies that did not carry the same first name between heirs and/or wanted to designate entire generations (as opposed to only firstborn) within a family, it became more common to use letters as opposed to nubers to designate progeny. Therefore, "D" is not Rivet's middle initial but his generational designator, which would be adopted by his spouse, and would be used by any family considered part of the same generation, with their children recieving the generational designator "E" continuing on for subsequent generations.

As many on Earth began painting their faces to discourage automated facial recognition, it eventually became tradition for families to adopt similar face paint styles. Those born into the Rivet family paint three diagonal stripes above and below their front eye, forming an arrow pointing toward the middle of their face. Individuals who join the Rivet family after birth (through marriage, adoption, step-family, in-laws, etc.) have the same pattern above and below their left eye, pointing toward the middle of their face. This signifies a born Rivet applying the makeup to the newly minted Rivet until they learn to do it themselves, but having only seen their own makeup in a mirror, it is applied as a mirror of the born Rivet's makeup.

## Musical Background

Rivet D. Rivet is portrayed by Chris Martinez, a musician from Denver, CO. Martinez primarily identifies as a guitarist, but also performs vocals and can play keys and bass guitar when necessary. He also programs electronic music. Almost all of Martinez's work falls within the Industrial and/or Metal genres.

### Necro Corp

Chris Martinez founded Necro Corp in 2020, where he plays guitar and sings, in addition to songwriting with the other members of Necro Corp.

### Necro Construct

Chris Martinez founded Necro Construct in 2011 under the name Mechthulhu. He played guitar and sung for the majority of the band's tenure, in addition to songwriting with the other members of Necro Construct. There was a brief period where he swiched from guitar to Bass.

### Voicecoil

Chris Martinez played live keys in Voicecoil from 2014 to 2016, as well as providing live vocoded vocals during some songs. He did not write or record any material for the band, and was unable to continue playing in the band due to his inability to tour. He was never officially fired from the band and it is sometimes mentioned as an inside joke that he is "technically" still in Voicecoil.

### Plasmacrash

Chris Martinez co-founded Plasmacrash with Tim Bessler in 2005. He played guitar and provided some backup vocals for the entirety of the band's history from 2005 to 2014. While the band did record most of an album, very few of those tracks ever got mixed and/or released. Most of the material on the band's CD release, "Unoffical Version" features very little material from the recording session, with the live versions of the songs sounding significantly different in many cases.