Cassandra Farren

> *"I'm sorry, but I'm not a soldier anymore. And I’m happiest when it’s just me and my crew..."*
> - Cassandra Farren, initially turning down her role as Defence Adjutant of the Avalon Expedition
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Captain **Cassandra Farren** is a former officer in the Centran Defence Force, captain of the privateer vessel *Guinevere*, and a member of the Avalon Exploratory Initiative. Daughter of Fleet Admiral Darius Farren, she served in the CDF during the Frontier War, but left the service to pursue a career as a privateer. Under Cass' command, the *Guinevere* became one of the most well-known and distinctive privateer vessels in the Tantalus Cluster, and in 0304 PCU, the ship accompanied the Avalon Expedition Fleet to the CDC-41-Gamma nebula. Cass participated in the violent first contact with the nebula's native civilisation, and serves as *de facto* second-in-command to Director Elizabeth Ancelet.

## Biography

### Early life

Cassandra Farren was born on Centrum to Darius Farren, later Fleet Admiral of the Centran Defence Force, and part of a long line of CDF officers. Raised to follow in their footsteps, Cass recalled being taught strategy and military history for eleven hours a day until she was sent to a war college. The young Cass once attempted to run away from home by stealing a horse named Guinevere from the stables on her family estate, but was caught after only an hour.

### Frontier War service

> *"And... worst of all... in that moment when I saw them die... for just that first second, I wasn't thinking about them. I was thinking about me. My mistake, my failure. It wasn't even shame, not yet. It was frustration. As though I'd failed a test. What sort of person reacts that way? How can that be me?"*
> - Cass, on the incident that cause her to leave the Centran Defence Force.
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Cass followed her father into the military and served as an officer in the CDF during the Frontier War, where she fought alongside Tamara 'Meds' Melari. During the war, Cass saw action at Jharid-Selan and the Fourth Battle of Axius. Cass' promotion was rapid, becoming Master and Commander at twenty-four, and a Post Captain at twenty-seven. In the course of her career, she was awarded the Order of Whitecourt.

Cass rose to command three ships at the Battle of the Atamara Crossroads in 0300 PCU. Owing to a combination of self-doubt and the belief that she had gained her position through nepotism, Cass ordered her squadron to pursue retreating Frontier Union Militia into the Howling. Sleep-deprived and lacking situational awareness, Cass mistakenly believed that one of her ships, the CSV *Acrisius*, was a Unioner vessel and ordered it attacked, resulting in the deaths of 47 CDF personnel in a disastrous fratricide incident.

The incident was officially suppressed by the Centran Defence Force. Racked with guilt and deeply embittered by her wartime experiences, Cass left the military. Returning to the Atamara Crossroads System as a data courier in the aftermath of the war, Cass attempted suicide by depressurising an airlock, but was rescued by Meds. Because of her wartime experiences, Cass holds serious reservations about her past life as a soldier, and is prone to panic attacks even four years later.

### Privateer service

Between the war and the departure of the Avalon Expedition, Cassandra recovered the prototype vessel CSV *Huntress* from a shipbreaking yard in the Rialtis System and renamed her the *Guinevere*. Obtaining a Letter of Marque in 0301 PCU, she, Meds, and Mathias Croft banded together as a privateer crew.

At some point before the departure of the Avalon Expedition, the *Guinevere* came across a stranded and looted freighter *Canary* in the Dalstaff System and attempted to render assistance. However, the Unioner captain of the *Canary* refused Cass' help when he realised that she was a Centran and angrily ordered the crew of the *Guinevere* to leave, choosing to wait for the next passing ship to arrive. The captain's reaction drove Cass into a panic attack before Croft was able to defuse the situation. With little other choice, Cass and the *Guinevere* departed, but Cass continued to feel guilty about the incident for some time afterwards.

Under Cass' leadership, the *Guinevere* became one of the most well-known privateer vessels in the Tantalus Cluster. The crew signed up to the Avalon Exploratory Initiative as an independent vessel and arrived in the Cardeus Brink System in 0304 PCU and assembled with the rest of the expeditionary fleet. Before departure, Cass met with the expedition director, Elizabeth Ancelet, aboard Gatehouse Station, to discuss the possibility of her taking the expedition's Defence Adjutant position. Still conflicted over her past service in the CDF, Cass refused the position and chose to remain an independent captain.

### Avalon Exploratory Initiative

#### First Contact

As a member of the expedition, Cassandra led the *Guinevere* in the jump to CDC-41-Gamma, which left the Expedition Fleet scattered in the middle of an anomalous ice belt. Separated from the rest of the fleet, the crew was able to locate the Unioner outrider *Mariana* and rescue it from being trapped in an asteroid. However, shortly afterwards, a seemingly hostile alien vessel, the *Cloak of Mercy*, attacked the *Mariana* after it attempted to open communications. Cassandra promptly ordered the *Guinevere* to assist the Union ship and attacked the alien vessel. In the end, their attempt to rescue the *Mariana* proved to be futile. The impact of the destruction of the *Mariana* explosion left Cassandra unconscious for three days. In that time, the *Guinevere* managed to rendezvous with the *Avalon* and the elements of the Expeditionary Fleet which had been recovered at that time.

The day following Cassandra's recovery, she and her crew, accompanied by Elizabeth Ancelet, became the first humans known to deliberately pilot a vessel into a Lauralyn Conduit. Travelling four light-seasons, they arrived in a star system at the edge of the ice field. There, the crew encountered GH-0007-VG, one of the expedition's four missing gatehaulers, which had been severely damaged during deceleration, leaving it trapped in a harsh listing orbit around a local gas giant. Cassandra and Meds searched the ship for any survivors, finding one wounded man. Although the hauler's orbit had deteriorated further into the gas giant's ring system, the crew of the *Guinevere* were able to rescue the survivor and retrieve a vital Drift Gate component with the assistance of the *Belladonna*, a freighter sent by *Avalon* to help in the retrieval.

Upon their return to the *Avalon*, Cassandra re-evaluated her role as part of the Expedition. Despite her misgivings, given the dire straits the Expedition now found itself in, she chose to accept the offer of the Defence Adjutant position, succeeding the comparatively-junior Lieutenant Jasper Ravi. Cass' duties included reviewing perimeter reports, optimizing duty shifts, and scheduling inventory checks.

#### The Avalon Bombings

Cassandra was present aboard the *Avalon* when a loading bay on the lower service ring was bombed by Michael Favara, a paranoid CDF Inventory Officer, destroying the ship's stock of remote fuel and cargo resupply drones. As Defence Adjutant, she was involved in the investigation, which recovered a Frontier Union-designed explosive from the scene. Compared to Meds, who was swift to blame the Unioner contingent of the Expedition, Cass took a diplomatic outlook on the situation and sought to involve Captain Tamika Jinn, the ranking Unioner officer, in the investigation. Although she reluctantly agreed to Meds' suggestion to isolate the Unioners from the *Avalon* aboard Captain Jinn's ship, the *Abigail*, she re-iterated throughout that she did not believe that they were responsible and saw it as a means of preventing rioting.

As the *Abigail* was refuelling from the *Avalon*, Cass realised too late that the targeting of the fuel and resupply drones had been intended to force ships to refuel manually. Ordering the pipelines scanned, Favara was discovered in the main cavity with a second explosive device. Security teams proved unable to stop the explosion in the fuel pipeline, which severely damaged the *Abigail*, which was lost with all hands.

In the bombing's aftermath, Cass and Meds reviewed Favara's suicide video, which led Meds to reevaluate her views on Unioners. Cass vowed to contact Tamika Jinn's son if the expedition ever returned to Tantalus. The loss of the *Abigail* left the *Guinevere* the only remaining armed starship accompanying the *Avalon*.

#### Expedition on the Vitrified Planet

> *"Don't say that. Don't try to make it that easy. All I've done since it happened is run. I've run all the way here. That doesn't make me a new person; it only makes me a coward."
> "If you were a coward, you wouldn't be here. Wouldn't have tried to carry on..."*
> - Cass and Elizabeth, on Cass' attitude to her wartime experiences.
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On 98th of Solstice, 0304 PCU, several weeks after the Avalon Expedition arrived in CDC-41-Gamma, Cass led the *Guinevere* on an expedition to a pulsar system at Elizabeth's behest. Discovering a vitrified pulsar planet in the system, Cass and Elizabeth landed on the planet to conduct a week-long survey in the *Guinevere's* R-36 Wildcat All-Terrain Excursion Rover while Croft and Meds completed scans of the pulsar. Tracking signs of unusual geothermal activity, Cass and Elizabeth discovered the wreck of an alien spacecraft, similar in design to the ship that destroyed the *Mariana*, as well as the corpse of its pilot, the first of its kind to be discovered by humans. Exploring ruins on the planet, Elizabeth successfully deduced the name of the nebula's native race - Advari.

Attempting to follow signs that pointed to the remains of a potential alien research base, the ground beneath the Wildcat rover gave way, causing both to fall into a crevasse and serious injuring Elizabeth. Waiting for pickup by the *Guinevere*, Cass and Elizabeth confided their life experiences to each other, with Cass describing her strict upbringing. With Elizabeth beginning to suffer hypothermia, Cass began to slip into a panic attack, rebuking Elizabeth's confidence in her and expressing her lack of self-belief. Prompted by Elizabeth, Cass described her Frontier War experiences, and rejected Elizabeth's belief that she had changed since the incident.

With both slipping into unconsciousness, they were ultimately rescued by Croft and Meds. Cass recovered relatively quickly in the *Guinevere's* sickbay and sat by Elizabeth's side while she recovered. Following their return to the *Avalon*, Elizabeth and Cass led the *Siochana* to establish harvesting colonies on the planet.

#### Redfield's coup attempt

After being separated from the *Avalon* for over two months, the CSV *Shabayev* unexpectedly re-established contact with the fleet. The *Shabayev's* return prompted scenes of celebration aboard the *Avalon*, and Cass and Elizabeth welcomed Vice Admiral Winston Redfield aboard to resume his duties as Defence Adjutant. Redfield swiftly made his presence known, issuing a field promotion to Jasper Ravi for his performance and demanding that repairs to the *Shabayev* be made a priority. Cass found Redfield's behaviour to be overbearing, especially after she discovered him aboard the *Guinevere* without her permission. She was angered when Redfield attempted to invoke her father's name to get her to cooperate. Despite her reservations, Cass believed that the fleet was safer with Redfield than without.

However, after encountering Advari ships in a skirmish, Redfield had come to believe that the Advari posed an existential threat to the Tantalus Cluster. Redfield sent a prize crew aboard the *Guinevere* to seize control of the ship and detain Croft and Meds. Redfield invoked Section 24-D of the Uniform Code of Conduct to remove Elizabeth from command and seize the Avalon Expedition Fleet. Redfield declared that the Fleet's sole purpose was now to strike back against the Advari. Despite Cass' attempt to defend Elizabeth, Lieutenant Commander Jasper Ravi reluctantly sided with Redfield and ordered both women to be placed under arrest.

Following her arrest and internment in one of the *Avalon's* holding cells, Cass became despondent, believing that Redfield would be a better Defence Adjutant than she ever could, despite Elizabeth trying to convince her of the opposite. She was offered better quarters and contact with the rest of her crew by Redfield if she was willing to teach and train Redfield's technicians in how to fly the *Guinevere*, but just before accepting the Vice Admiral's offer, she realised that he was echoing sentiments that were awfully familiar and traumatic to her- those of her father. Realising that Redfield was falling into the exact same trap she did four years prior, she turned down the offer, and unknowingly set in motion the events that would lead to Redfield surrendering his post back to civilian control. Shortly after, with newfound confidence in herself and a desire to take a stand for the things she wanted in life, she and Elizabeth started dating, officially.

#### Rescuing the Mericians

Months later, after the *Avalon* was moved to The Greenhouse, the fleet received a scrambled signal from deeper within the nebula. With the help of Croft, who recognised it as an old Merician trader's trick to circumnavigate pirates, they decoded the signal revealing a distress signal sent out from a gas giant system along the Conduit network. Tasked with searching for the survivors, Cass decided to take Castian Vadric along with her, hoping to use his knowledge of the area to better prepare for threats they might encounter.

Underway, they moved towards the first system between them and their destination, which supposedly contained a planet called Deacon's Post. However, upon arrival, the planet was found totally abandoned, surprising Vadric, who had seen many Clerics sent there in the past. Shortly after, the *Guin* arrived in the system where the signal originated, finding an enormous gas giant several times the size of the one expected.

There, they received another signal. Decoding it, they quickly realised that they'd found the Mericians, but the Advari weren't far behind. Cass ordered silent running, just barely avoiding detection, before they met up with the flotilla in a patch of signal interference around the gas giant's pole. There, they met Captain Maxine Blake, and formulated a plan to extract them.

Though initially their plan seemed sound, the Advari quickly targeted the larger vessels, and under Croft's suggestion, Cass ordered the *Guin* back into the gas giant's atmosphere to cause a wake. The plan succeeded, despite damage to the *Guin's* primary comms array, and the entire flotilla was rescued.

#### Meeting Maalsuwda and recovering the last gate component

Soon after, whilst venturing deeper into the nebula, the *Guin* was targeted and nearly hit by an encroaching mine, being saved last second by Captain Jadina of the *Seraphina*. Taken to a Holdfast on the edge of a minefield, Cass made contact with the commander of this mission, Captain Omar Maalsuwda of the Frontier Union Militia. Maalsuwda was carrying a Gate Component with him, but refused to hand it over for the time being. As such, Cass offered to bring Expedition leadership out to the Holdfast to properly formulate an extraction plan. Maalsuwda agreed to this arrangement

When Cass returned, bringing Elizabeth and a fleet of resupply ships with her, Maalsuwda was left frustrated, finally explaining that his operation was to keep watch of a gatehauler that the Advari had taken across the minefield- an operation that was now at risk of falling apart. Shortly after, it did, and the *Guin* was forced to defend the civilian ships as they fled. The *Guin*, alongside less than half of Maalsuwda's fleet, escaped through the Conduit network.

Shortly thereafter, it was decided that an offensive operation would be needed to retrieve the missing gate component. alongside the *Shabayev*, *Tserekai*, and *Hotstepper*, the *Guin* would partake in a Raid on the Aegis of Invia. Cass and Meds would board the only manned station along the Aegis with a group of CMC Marines, lead by Commander Lewis Harper. Fighting their way through the station, in a moment of downtime Harper asked Cass about her upbringing, saying he was envious of her family ties. Cass replied that she was about to say the same.

Although the plan had to be changed as Vadric had not deactivated the mines, Cass and the boarding party were able to successfully extract themselves and the gatehauler. Soon after, during celebrations over their victory, Cass approached Vadric, telling him gently that although she knows he must be used to working alone, his actions nearly got people hurt or killed, and that he should be more careful next time.

#### The Calm before the Storm

With all four gate components now in their hands, the *Avalon* and her fleet set about assembling the return gate. In the meantime, Cass spent a lot of her time "relaxing" with Elizabeth. When a fleet of Advari Lightships was spotted approaching The Greenhouse however, Cass ordered an assembly of fleet leadership to decide their course of action.

Elizabeth elected Cass to draw up a battle and evacuation plan, a task she wasn't thrilled by, but spent the next four days working on. Before she was certain of her plan, she made sure to ask if Meds and Croft were okay risking their lives for the Expedition as she was- they didn't sign up for that, after all. However, both her comrades readily agreed to fight, and they toasted over the bottle of Firewatch Whiskey they'd been gifted just before setting out.

On the last day before the raid, Cass headed to the bar, first encountering Vadric, whom she gave a drink to, and then Ravi, who gave her the cold shoulder, much to her dismay. Then, she spoke with a surprisingly out-of-uniform Redfield, who admitted to her that much of his image, reputation, and service record had been exaggerated. Cass, however, recognised Redfield's denial of his own deeds as the words of her father speaking through him and, thusly, reminded him that he always mattered, perhaps saying that to herself also.

Cass tried to approach Ravi again, leading the latter to explain why he's been so disdainful as of late; he believed that Cass stole the role of Defence Adjutant from under him, leaving Ravi with all the busywork whilst she went galvanting around with the Director. Cass tried to explain that in taking the position, she was trying to save Ravi from the trauma she went through, but failed to assuage him. Shortly thereafter, she visited Liz on the Ops Deck, convincing her to finally come down to the bar, and soon after they mutually profess their love for each other in a moment of quiet.

#### The Advari strike back

As the evacuation of the fleet was set to begin, the *Guin*, alongside the *Tserekai*, *Hotstepper*, and *Siochana*, sucessfully bushwacked one of the incoming Lightships. However, in the process, the *Siochana* suffered a sudden reactor fail, losing power to their drives. Although Cass' immediate reaction was to turn back around to save them, Meds convinced her that there wasn't a hope of saving them. Cass listened, and the *Guin* and cohort abandoned the *Siochana* to her fate.

Just before the main Advari force began their assault on the fleet, Cass almost fell into a panic attack over leaving the *Siochana* behind, but Meds stepped in and calmed her just in time. However, over the course of the battle, her heroic nature was constantly put to test, as she was forced to make the decision to prioritise the *Friendly Expedience*, which led to the *Belladonna* going down.

As the last of the ships were passing through the Return Gate, Cass ordered the last of her torpedoes to be used in an attempt to rescue the *Kestrel*, despite warnings from the crew still aboard that the ship was dead in the water, and the *Guin* had to run and save itself. In doing so, the *Guin* was heavily damaged by incoming fliers, leading to Meds almost being crushed alive. As the crew realised their makeshift reactor bomb wasn't working, Cass desperately tried to think of a solution, but with literally no ammunition of any kind remaining, she ordered the *Guin* through the Gate.

## Personality

Cassandra has an authoritative but friendly personality when in command. Privately, Cass is prone to impostor syndrome and self-blame even for incidents that are beyond her control, and presents buried anxiety and trauma from her experiences in the Frontier War. While she rarely allows this to cloud her judgement or prevent her from doing her job, her experiences have left her prone to panic attacks in moments of stress, and a similar attack drove her to attempt suicide in the war's aftermath. However, following the events of Redfield's attempted coup, Cass has gained more confidence in her position and towards her actions; whilst the guilt remains, seeing that she isn't the only one who suffocated under the overbearing weight of her father's approval has helped her be more proactive.

Raised to follow in the Farren family tradition of serving in the Centran Defence Force, Cass is deeply ambivalent about her service in the Frontier War and believes herself to have been a poor officer who owed her position to nepotism, and refuses to forgive herself for the disaster at Atamara Crossroads. She also regards her service as having contributed to a war that brought the Tantalus Cluster to the brink of collapse, and is willing to accept others despite their past, holding no ill will against Unioners. Because she believes herself to be unfit for leadership (based on her wartime experiences), she initially refused the position of Defence Adjutant of the Avalon Expedition, despite the promise of additional payment. Nevertheless, Cass' sense of duty meant that she ultimately chose to accept the position rather than leave the post to the far less-experienced Jasper Ravi.

Cass is something of a workaholic and is described as a stickler for the rules. This can be seen in her adherence to wearing the Privateer's Hollow Star on her right sleeve, a regulation that almost no other Privateers actually follow.

Cass is a self-taught cello player, having learned while she was growing up, despite her father's disapproval that it took her away from her military instruction. Cass is a non-smoker and tea drinker. She normally wears a light grey hoodie under a military-esque duster, which bears the Hollow Star and the *Guinevere's* emblem, and favours a Nightbridge Firesnap EM semi-automatic handgun as her personal weapon.

## Relationships

### Elizabeth Ancelet

> *"Oh it totally is. Just a terrible, terrible, deeply irresponsible idea..."*
>  - Cass, on her relationship with Elizabeth Ancelet.
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Cassandra and Elizabeth Ancelet share a close, romantic relationship, mostly because of Elizabeth's very open and forward personality. The two have bonded much since arriving in CDC-41-Gamma, especially after Cass agreed to take up the Defence Adjutant position. Indeed, on the strength of her war record, Elizabeth personally requested Cass for the position.

Cass is occasionally exasperated by Elizabeth's smoking habits and her energetic and optimistic personality in the face of all adversity, and is concerned by her willingness to accompany the *Guinevere* into danger despite being the Expedition's leader. Despite this, Cass has proved willing to accompany Elizabeth to social occasions, something that Tamara 'Meds' Melari remarked that she never accomplished herself. Other than Meds, Elizabeth is the only person with whom Cass has confided in about her Frontier War experiences and insecurities. Whilst the two bicker frequently, Elizabeth strongly understands Cass' emotional boundaries, and has brought only remorse on the few occasions she has crossed those lines.

Following Redfield's attempted coup of the *Avalon*, Cass, having rediscovered a modicum of her confidence and emotional drive, decided to make her and Elizabeth's relationship official, with the two sharing a kiss shortly after Elizabeth's reinstatement as Director of the expedition. They are currently dating.

### Tamara 'Meds' Melari

> *"Meds thinks recording journal entries... will help me process it all. I don’t believe her, but I had to promise to get her to leave me alone about it and I know she’ll check to make sure I did record something."*
> - Cassandra discussing her journal.
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Tamara Melari and Cassandra Farren served together in the Centran Defence Force during the Frontier War. Meds saved Cass' life during her attempted suicide following the Frontier War, and has more than once assisted Cass with her anxiety issues and panic attacks stemming from her wartime experiences, instructing her to begin a journal in order to better process the trauma she has experienced, though Cass privately expresses scepticism at this.

Despite their wartime service and four years of working together on the *Guinevere*, Meds claims to have never seen Cass drunk, likely due to her commitment to hard work. Unlike Cass, Meds has found it difficult to put her dislike of the Frontier Union behind her, and Meds' willingness to think the worst of Unioners has been a point of contention between the two women.

### Mathias Croft

> *"Mathias Croft! What have I told you about eating off the control panels?!"*
> - Cassandra to Croft.
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Cassandra's more straight-laced personality means that she and the laid-back Mathias Croft occasionally have good-natured disagreements, with Cass jokingly expressing exasperation at Croft's antics. Croft is aware of Cass' lingering psychological issues from her Frontier War service, but has deliberately avoided asking questions about the subject. For her part, Cass expressed surprise at Croft's willingness to leave the crippled *Canary* when ordered to do so by her captain, and speculated that she still had things to learn about him.

### Jasper Ravi

> *"Ravi is a good kid, and he’s doing his best. But he’s young, and this place isn’t what we expected. There are hard decisions coming and he doesn't deserve to be the one who has to make them."*
> - Cass agrees to assume the Defence Adjutant position from Ravi.
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Cass and Lieutenant Jasper Ravi, the Security Garrison Commander aboard the *Avalon* and briefly acting Defence Adjutant to Elizabeth Ancelet, bonded over their shared bewilderment at Elizabeth's eccentric command style. Recognising Ravi's inexperience in the position, Cass agreed to take on the Defence Adjutant position, despite her misgivings at returning to a military role.

### Darius Farren

> *"Listen to me. You can take charge of this fleet, you can fight the Advari on their own turf against impossible odds, fill all of these ships with food and bring every last one of us home alive and I promise you, he will never even look you in the eye. You will dance in his shadow forever."*
> - Cass to Vice Admiral Winston Redfield, trying to convince him that earning Darius' respect is a fruitless endeavour.
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Cass is estranged from her father Darius Farren, Fleet Admiral of the Centran Defence Force. As a child, Cass was instructed in military theory for eleven hours a day, with her father frowning on activities like music as he felt they distracted from her studies. The young Cass once attempted to run away from this regime, but came to feel that a military career was what she desired.

During the Frontier War, Cass became convinced that she owed her advancement to nepotism and became desperate to prove herself in her own right. This ultimately led to a disastrous incident of fratricide in the aftermath of the Battle of the Atamara Crossroads, which prompted Cass to resign from the Centran Defence Force. As of 0304 PCU, she claims to have not spoken to her father for years.

Cass' dislike of her father brought her into conflict with Vice Admiral Winston Redfield after his return to the Avalon Expedition Fleet, who saw Darius Farren as a great military leader. During Redfield's attempted takeover of the Avalon Fleet, Cass recognised her father's influence over him and told Redfield that her father was undeserving of his devotion. While Redfield did not openly acknowledge this, this played a part in his decision to stand down his coup attempt and return to accepting Elizabeth Ancelet's leadership.

## Behind the Scenes

Cassandra Farren is voiced by Larissa Thompson.

Daniel Orrett gave a glimpse into Cassandra's design and conception in a post entitled "Creating Cassandra Farren" on the Official *Sojourn* Patreon page. In it, he described that Cass' initial design was based on the actress Leah Cairns, best known for her performances in *Battlestar Galactica* and *Interstellar*. Cass' costume, shown in her hoodie and duster combo, was intended to be a reflection of both her militaristic past, and her more recent Privateer life.

Cass, along with most other artwork for *The Sojourn*, was created by Leon Woon.

As part of a post made in celebration of Lesbian Visibility Week, Cass was confirmed to be lesbian. This makes Cassandra the second character in the cast of *The Sojourn* to be confirmed LGBTQ+, after Elizabeth. Both were included in 2022's Pride Month Celebration.

## Appearances

* "Pilot"
* Anthology Shorts
	+ *The Canary*
	+ *Discontinuity*
* Volume 1
	+ *The Cold Divide*
	+ *Inclement Weather*
	+ *Yesterday's War*
* Volume 2
	+ *Dust and Shadow*
	+ *The Promised Land*
	+ *Theirs Not to Make Reply*
* Volume 3
	+ *Theirs Not to Reason Why*
	+ *Contact, Wait Out*
	+ *Beneath The Banner*
* Volume 4
	+ *Where Angels Fear to Tread*
	+ *Observer Effect*
	+ *Forlorn Hope*

## Gallery

Initial SketchLine ArtColour and MoodFinal DesignCass in her *Guinevere* HoodieCass and Liz on the Avalon's Quarterdeck
## References

1. ↑ Brief description of the cast for *The Sojourn*
2. ↑ "*Dust and Shadow*" transcript - ELIZABETH: "First time I had to go to Centrum for a parliament address it was raining...", CASS: "...Yeah, rain is about the only thing there's no shortage of back home."
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 *Dust and Shadow*
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 *Theirs Not to Reason Why*
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 *Where Angels Fear to Tread*
6. ↑ Guinevere Cross-Section
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 *Discontinuity*
8. ↑ The Sojourn: Huntress Class Ambush Corvette (Guinevere) - Ship Breakdown
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 *The Sojourn Visual Dictionary - Edition One*
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 *The Canary*
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 *The Cold Divide*
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 12.5 12.6 12.7 12.8 12.9 *Inclement Weather*
13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 13.5 13.6 13.7 13.8 *Yesterday's War*
14. ↑ *The Promised Land*
15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 *Theirs Not to Make Reply*
16. ↑ *Contact, Wait Out*
17. ↑ *Beneath The Banner*
18. ↑ *Observer Effect*
19. ↑ *Forlorn Hope*
20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 Daniel Orrett, Creating Cassandra Farren
21. ↑ 'Cassandra Farren's Quarters' by ZandoArts
22. ↑ *Launch* trailer
23. ↑ Leon Woon's Artstation
24. ↑ https://twitter.com/TheSojournHQ/status/1520840477196668930?s=20&t=N6MZcfR8MqII5wbIShx4dQ
25. ↑ https://twitter.com/TheSojournHQ/status/1541828782259961857?s=20&t=N6MZcfR8MqII5wbIShx4dQ