Max Alterman

**Max Alterman** was a male Human settler who helped establish the colony of Danessa Mire on the planet Fremifor. He lived alongside fellow town founders Tzaeru Jalmari and Cass Jalmari, as well as alongside residents like Valgus Jerema.

## Biography

### Early Life and Solitude

In 5357 ASA, Max Alterman was born on the planet Cassiopeia Prime—the shining capital of the Cassiopeian Republic—during the final year of the Cassiopeian Civil Wars when the Republic was reorganized into the United Cassiopeian Republic. Having grown up on the wealthier upper levels of the city world, Max was raised in a wealthy family that faithfully served the UCR. He was given a very fruitful education that would influence his degree of knowledge even as an adult, later in life. As a child, Max was quick-witted and defiant, which strained his relationship with his parents at an early age.

One day, Max wandered off-world alone to a place elsewhere in the Cassiopeia Galaxy. As his parents had other children that they had much more faith in, and because of their own lack of faith in Max, they never devoted too much of their time searching for their lost son. For the remainder of his life, Max would never be able to reunite with his family, and any interest in doing so quickly faded as the years went by.

### Adulthood

By the time Max was an adult, he found work as a cargo pilot that often transported valuable runestone as a freelancer of sorts. He picked up the piloting trade from his various experiences throughout Cassiopeia as a teenager. Max also trained himself in combat, learning how to wield firearms and melee weapons to a rather skillful degree.

### Crashing on Fremifor: A New Life

In the final days of the year 5409 ASA, Max was hired as a contractor to pilot a ship boarded by the surgeon Cass Francoh and the custodian Tzaeru Jalmari. Cass herself was hired for a surgery job which required her to venture out to a faraway world in the eastern Outer Expanse region of the Cassiopeia Galaxy, and so Max was tasked with safely taking Cass to her destination.

A malfunction in their ship's engine systems caused the entire vessel to be dragged out of hyperspace and set on a path to crash-land on the backwater planet of Fremifor. All three individuals aboard the ship managed to survive the crash with minimal injuries.

While appearing as a freak accident, the crash was actually the purposeful work of LANDER, a secretive organization that often crashed ships with small passenger counts and discreetly observed the progress of survivors as a means of research. LANDER tampered with the ship's engines before the ship took flight, while also having hired Cass for a falsified surgery job in order to get her, Max, and Tzaeru out into the largely uncharted Outer Expanse.

Although the first few days being stranded on Fremifor were tough for Alterman, Francoh, and Jalmari, the group of three managed to establish a serviceable encampment for themselves through their combined efforts. This base would eventually develop into a settlement, which they called Danessa Mire, within the first few weeks of the new year 5410 ASA.

## Personality and Traits

Max was a Human man with black hair, dark-toned skin, and brown eyes. In his old age, he kept a long beard while his hair grew long and somewhat grey in color.

A charismatic yet cold man, many viewed Max as a complex individual with a stoic, thick skin. Some viewed him as ruthless and amoral, due to his apparent lack of proper emotional responses and lack of empathy. But once one got to truly acquaint themselves with Max, they often found a man who just had difficulties in communicating with others on a genuine level. Max learned how to socialize with others as a general strategy for life, but some remarked his interactions as rather hollow and detached. He was a generally cautious man as a result of some life-threatening experiences as a teenager alone in the galaxy.

Deep down, Max depended on the presence of others to function; a feeling that grew stronger after spending much of his formative years relatively on his own. He had a somewhat creative and outspoken side that he did not often show others.

## Skills and Abilities

Max was a skilled pilot of simple starships, like cargo ships and small personal vessels. Having lived most of his adolescent life alone throughout the galaxy, Max also knew how to defend himself in combat, both by wielding firearms and melee weapons to an almost expert degree. He was capable of performing mining and construction work, along with a minor degree of crafting and first aid. On Fremifor, he learned how to properly tend to plants and crops rather well.

## Trivia

* Max is based off of a randomly generated colonist character from the sandbox video game *RimWorld*.

## Notes and References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Max was 53 years old when Danessa Mire was founded in the year 5410 ASA. Therefore, he must have been born in the year 5357 ASA.