Q56 (Quinn)

Q56, or as he later named himself, Quinn, was a subject created for usage in the Artificial Sentience Project (ASP). The project was formally ended 10 years after his creation, although this simply meant subjects were released to live normal lives and no new subjects were being built. Q56 is assumed to be dead by STaN, as he removed his tracker when he ran away.

## Appearance

Q56's facial features are very soft and round. He has large, droopy indigo eyes and long eyelashes. His cheeks are split into panels by lines running down his cheeks. His hair is a distinctive white with a lavender sheen. It is choppily cut. Q56's body is slim and very heavily scarred and cybernetic.

Q56 usually wears a mask and full suit of armor while in STaN bases, but is seen frequently wearing just a jumpsuit once he's deserted STaN.

## Personality

Q56 is very guarded and principled at first. He prefers order, control, and being able to operate with logic and logic alone. He's not very good at expressing emotion, and is even worse at processing what he or others are feeling. Once he's forced out of his shell by his crew, he becomes very quiet and soft-spoken, as he's not quite sure how to process what's going on. He's easily overwhelmed when he feels as if he's not in control anymore.

He eventually starts to open up, but is still rather reserved and soft-spoken. He is eventually able to process and express his feelings, but not effusively.

## Background

### Synthesized Memories

Q56's artificial memories of his "childhood" are distant at best. He remembers living in a small village on Ceoclites a few miles away from a large city with a family. His village was bombed accidentally because of a long-running war between humans in his system and humans in another. The intended target was the nearby city, not his village, but the GPS systems on the bombing ships malfunctioned. Q56 was severely injured, but not killed because a piece of rubble fell on top of him and shielded him from shrapnel.

STaN medics were soon present after hearing about the accident. They hoped to save and recruit as many people as possible. They discovered Q56 underneath the ruins of his house and brought him back onto the base, where they performed extensive operations on him to allow him to function normally. As much as 75% of his organic tissue was replaced with machinery to keep him alive.

### Artificial Sentience Project (ASP)

None of Q56's synthesized memories are actually true. He was created in STaN laboratories in 2106, about halfway through ASP's lifespan. He was created by Eašah Daamir Kuskor and Pasrat Kimir Aaspe, two akkaoni scientists involved with ASP. He befriended the other subjects in his wing, especially Puck, and was frequently shown off as a prime example of ASP's relevance. Unfortunately for Q56, Eašah was transferred to another project shortly after his creation, and ran away entirely about a month later. After losing his main father figure, Q56 stopped responding to scientists, and was eventually brought off to be wiped in hopes that that would reset his memories. Unfortunately, that made matters worse, and Q56 lost any individual spark he had once had.

He was removed from the main project and sent to the military wing of STaN.

### STaN

Q56 served as a military strategist for just under four years, until he found his own ASP case files and realized his true nature in 2110. At that point, he became an active danger to the project, and was sent off to train to be an officer for a mission to Vaakshya.

### Vaakshya

Q56 was the officer for a mission to Vaakshya. Unfortunately for him, it was never meant to be a true mission, rather a suicide mission to get inconvenient figures out of the way without actually executing them. The crew realized this shortly before departure, but were unable to do anything about the situation until they had been sent out.

At that point, Q56 intentionally wrecked their ship and destroyed any STaN tracking equipment he could find. He set up their deployable base near some ruins, which just so happened to house the several runaway androids that they had supposedly been sent to find in the first place.