Nyreen Allison

> *If there is an afterlife, tell them I'm not coming.*
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* 2477
* 2460

Nyreen Esther Allison (b. 29 Feb 2452) is an Orinian human expansionist, class 4 pilot, and the youngest daughter of Orinian political magnate and current Federate president Nolan Allison. She is the product of a classified genetic manipulation project, no other surviving products of this project are known to exist.

## Biography

### Prior to Birth and Birth

Three years prior to her conception, Nolan and a group of sixteen geneticists started Project Groundfather which intended to examine genetic engineering beyond the ethical constraints established by The Federate. The general purpose was to determine the degree by which a human can be modified without producing defects, with the goal to produce the *"perfect assemblage of rare-positive and non-negative human traits"*, as quoted from Nolan's directive in the product document sent to Nyreen in February 2477, written in 2452.

Due to a sequencing issue with the development of the *SOST-2* gene regarding bone density, future generations that come as a product of the activation of this gene have a significant mortality rate relating to osteoperosis at an early age. As a result, the project sent her mother to have chromosomal anomaly conversion therapies to change the alignment of the developing hypothalmus from the X-X configuration to X-Y, intending to alter the hormone generation relating to sexual attraction, mitigating the chances of her actively seeking to a natural birth. Observations moving forward until she became aware of the issue in 2477, aged 25, suggest that the modification was successful.

As the last known attempt in the project, her development was subject to extreme monitoring and dietary restrictions were placed on Evie to limit any potential for anything beyond the intent of the project, for which no legitimate defects were detected up until birth. On February 29th, 2452, Nyreen Esther Allison was born through an induced birth to a minimized audience and no fanfare despite the apparent success of the project.

The day following her birth, Nolan, as head of her particular development, delivered the newborn to the bioengineers working on the program. He insisted to leave her alive in order to examine the impacts moving forward from birth. However, the team members suggested continuing the initial directive and what had been done with previous partial-success births. Backed into a corner, and knowing what had been done to previous subjects, Nolan left the researchers in their conference room to "*spend a personal moment with the newborn child*" before handing her off. He handed her to Evelyn, who in turn provided him with a firearm. Returning empty handed, he shot the compression glass on the far side of the room and shorted the door frame, leaving the scientists exposed to the vacuum of space and unfiltered solar radiation. Officially, the death of the sixteen researchers involved in Project Groundfather is due to a complex power failure causing decompression.

### Childhood

Nyreen was brought up as the youngest of three girls in the Allison family, a branch of the Masson political family. She attended a public program school on Downey Terminal where she excelled to some degree, completing the general program in 2461, aged 9.

Nyreen was always closer to her mother than her father in childhood, with his time being taken up primarily by his political position and expanding the station he was in charge of.

### The Downey Terminal Incident

On November 30th, the path of Nyreen's life changed irreparably, with the loss of her home and death of her mother along with the then-implied death of her sister Alaska. Her input to the event is minimal and she was hardly aware of what was happening until a short period of time before the station was detonated and the thread was *seared* as it is referred to in official releases after the 2477 reconnection. However, she comes to remember names and details of that event leading up to the 2477 Masson Station Incident.

### Adolescence and Early Adulthood

After learning of the context surrounding her birth through her father's gifted logs on her 25th birthday, she took to spending time away from first family life to learn more about who she is supposed to be rather than what she believed her father was crafting her to be.

## Starway

### Meeting Elizabeth Scott

In early October 2477, Nyreen took a NFS contract to bring Elizabeth Scott to Masson Station for the purpose of her appearance at the Masson Technological Conference. Meeting at Scott's compound on Attenborough, the two proceeded to travel through the relatively short travel distance to Masson Station.

## Appearance

Nyreen has copper hair and bright eyes of mixed coloring. Standing at 5'11", 181cm, puts her slightly above the average height of women onboard Earth-G standardized space stations. Most of her appearance can be directly attributed to her creation through Project Groundfather, and while the project used her father and mother as the base for the incoming modifications, the interconnectedness of a genetic sequence leaves most people unable to immediately see the relation between her and the rest of her family.

## Personality

Nyreen tends to view people with a naturally optimistic lens until they are met, believing that there is an invariable good in everyone. However, her sheltered adolescence from her father's stresses growing up had left her with a youthful naivety leading into her 20s. She is easy to change her view on people when presented with their actions, showing a volatile love and hate relationship with her father. However, within this, she still does her best to use all information that she has to draw a firm conclusion, believing that losing clarity in a final goal while on the road to it hurts the ability to find a suitable end.

## Relationships

### Nolan Allison

Nyreen's relationship with her father is complicated at best. She conflicts with his brutish and unethical tactics in both governance and problem solving.

Nyreen took an extended absence from the family life on Masson Station after receiving a classified document folder from her father on her 25th birthday. The folder, titled PGF1971, detailed the information surrounding a closed-book genetic manipulation experiment which sought to produce "*the least statistically-likely human being when considering obvious but positive visible traits*". The official documentation from the geneticists was clear that everything about her was crafted, but there was also a personal addition in the form of a video file and a written log from the day of her birth, February 29th, 2452.

Nolan's entries to the document folder shed light on how the project ended and why it remained classified, as well as tabled changes he made that went unnoticed by the project team. Nyreen would save the data on manipulation methods and a small set of legacy VIs involved in the program, but would scrub the personal confessions by Nolan from the folder.

"*He could have done better, but he did it for me. I am forever in his debt for it, and if this folder ever reaches the surface, I want him in the best light.*" -Nyreen Allison, November 2477.

See Nolan's Entries for more information.

## Character Trivia

1. Nyreen is the only known product of a human genetic manipulation experiment.
2. She is a survivor of both the Downey Terminal and Masson Station incidents.
3. She is the first (along with Kelsey Rossborough) to travel through a seared thread and come back in one piece.
4. *NFS* stands for "notable figure smuggling".