Aloe Muri

Sunshine (Ebon Prison arc)

**Aloe Muri** is a female human born on Xas-41 in the Outer Circle of the Circle. She was Corporal on the Insula Class III mining ship, and second-in-command to the Chief, Ven. The ship becomes under attack by a strange creature dormant in the resource extractions, but was activated by a lightning storm that severely damages the ship. Aloe learns that her sister, Faa, was studying the creature prior to the storm and was attacked by it, resulting in it taking her DNA and replicating her appearance. Using her appearance, the creature begins to attack the other crew members, resulting in them turning on the real Faa until Aloe is able to clear her sister's name.

The crew is forced to overcharge the ship to explode after being abandoned by their higher-ups for assistance. In the process, Lenio is killed after trapping the creature in the syn-cell room and igniting them prematurely. Aloe and Faa are the only ones able to escape the Insula after the horde of creatures attack them in the bay area killing Ven and Lester.

After they escape, Aloe blacks out to regain conscious on the Stockholm, a ship that appeared in response to the S.O.S call. Faa, however, is unseen until a horde of the creatures attacks the crew replicating Aloe. One of small creatures unknowingly plants a small embryo into Aloe similar to Faa before she manages to eject the full creature out the ship.

A Legionnaire ship approaches the Stockholm after its S.O.S. With the footage of "fake" Aloe killing the crew, she is apprehended and later sentenced to Ebon prison.

## Insula Incident

**Date:**  ***1048 AGV*** . The ship experiences a strong lightning storm during an extraction of resources --the driller on the planet at the time was Lenio in a driller pod. Aloe is barely able to reel him up as the storm hits the ship, taking the entire ship offline. She is able to take Lenio to the medical bay and later regroups with the rest of the crew to assess the damage. Aloe's sister, Faa Muri, however, does not show up. Fearing the worse, Aloe opts to search for her in her work area. Aloe instead finds a mess --suspecting it to be from the storm-- but does not find Faa. She reports her findings and learns from her sister's reports of a strange irregularity. More importantly, it appeared that Faa kept this information to herself for several months.

Not long after, attacks begin to occur as the crew assesses the ship. Ven catches an attack on the feed, and orders the surviving members to return to the flight deck. As they return he analyzes the footage discovers the attacker to
be Faa. As Aloe makes her way back, she bumps into Faa, who is injured and hiding. She had passed out from the pain after concertizing a wound. Aloe demands she explain what happened. Faa is disoriented but loosely explains that she had been studying a strange fossil of an unknown creature but it woke up for some reason. The two decide to make it back to the flight deck.

When they arrive, Faa is quickly subdued. Ven explains his findings. Aloe argues that it wasn't her because she had been injured. They don't believe her and lock Faa into a room. Aloe continues to plead her sister's case but Ven silences her. He informs the crew they must focus on their repairs, and sends people out to attend to areas.

While everyone is distracted, Aloe attempts to talk to her sister to gain answers, but she discovers that Faa has escaped. She makes an excuse to leave to search for her. Ven discovers Faa is missing and puts the rest of the crew on high alert. Meanwhile, another crew member is violently attacked by "fake" Faa. Aloe runs into Faa and overhears her sending information out to an unknown party of her research. When Aloe confronts her, Faa explains that they have to leave the ship, but Aloe refuses to abandon the crew. Faa states that whatever the creature is, it had the power to survive being fossilized, was activated by the lightning, and had the power to imitate. She renders it is too dangerous to stay there.

Aloe pleads for Faa to explain this to Ven and the rest of the crew. Reluctantly, Faa agrees. However, the two are attacked by the fake Faa. It's not until Lenio arrives that they are able to fend it off. With Lenio as a witness, the two return to bridge and explain to Ven. The Chief, however, is more angry that Faa put the whole ship in jeopardy for not announcing her findings early on. Faa opts to take full responsibility later but informs that they must abandon ship. Although hesitant, Ven sends out the message, but they receive strange message that assistance would not be sent, deeming it too dangerous. This puts everyone on high alert. Faa suspects a darker agenda above them all and that creature is not as unknown as they suspect to the higher-ups.

The crew is forced to think of an alternate means of escape. Faa recommends self-distructing the ship and using the escape pods. Everyone concurs and they make a plan to do so by overriding the fuel cells while another group prepares the escape pods. They arm themselves the best they can and split into two groups: Aloe and Lenio for the fuel cells and Ven, Faa, and Lester for the escape pods.

The "fake" Faa attacks Aloe and Lenio while dealing with the cells. Lenio forces out the room, locking himself in to deal with "fake" Faa. He tells her to leave and then overcharges the cells early causing a massive explosion. Aloe manages to escape prior to and informs the others as she makes her to them. For the time-being, they believe the creature is dead.

Unfortunately, the ship becomes very unstable due to the explosion. Aloe struggles to reach the bay area puts on her suit. As everyone prepares to board the creature returns in full form -- a horde of the small insect-like beings. The continues to become unstable, forcing it turn on it side, in turn forcing everyone to cling to something to avoid falling.

Lester is killed in the process. Faa manages to stabilize the ship but Ven gets injured in the process. Aloe is commanded to get the ship started while Faa runs to aid Ven. Ven, however, orders Faa back to the ship realizing they will not be able to open the doors unless someone does it manually.

Reluctantly, she obliges, and boards the ship as Aloe starts it up Aloe questions why she didn't bring Ven, but Faa says they can't. Aloe tries to leave but is restrained by Faa. Ven activates the door just as the swarm is ready to attack him. The drillpod drops into space. Faa and Aloe struggle to maintain control, narrowly avoiding the Insula as it plunges past them into the planet.

They able to escape the planet's pull and Aloe blacks out.

## Stockholm Incident

Aloe and Faa's escape pod is rescued by a neighboring restock vessel, the Stockholm. They received the Insula's distress call but were given strict orders by the Hive not to board the vessel. When Aloe awakens, she is onboard and greeted by the ship's Captain and doctor, who are surprised to find her stable. They inform her that the Insula crashed onto PL-0490. Aloe questions the whereabouts of her sister who was also on the escape pod.

## Ebon Prison

Aloe is brought to serve out her terms on imprisonment on the prison labor moon, Ebon, after being accused of the killing of the entire crew of the Stockholm ship deemed The Stockholm Massacre and her the nickname, "The Stockholm Butcher". The moon is locked into the gravitational pull of a large Vexus, Halioth, where at the end of terms or due to severe punishment, prisoners are jettisoned into. She is quickly placed into a team of other prisoner charged over by a Lead name Sel. Sel picks Aloe and a young Venatores girl to fill her ranks and escorts them to meet the other teammates, Fei, Layo, and Zhurry.

She quickly learns of the grueling hard-work this team endures which is manual drilling to include transporting the means to conduct the action. It is here Aloe learns why Sel picked her -- she read up on Aloe's file, having a good standing with Teln. Sel is also aware that Aloe holds a heavy burden of survival's guilt alluding that she also suffers from it as well. Sel promises the tough day will make Aloe too tired to be kept up. Aloe manages to survive the day along with Venny, but in the end, the guilt of Ven's death personifies into her cell block still.

At dinnertime, Aloe sits with her respective teammates. The cafe noise is interrupted though by a new inmate, Yin Lix, a member of the Black Cloud pirate gang. She quickly establishes her dominance. Later, another member of the Daughters of the Cosmos attempts to recruit Venny. However, she ignores the offer. This results in a fight with Venny easily defeating the attacker but she gets sedated through her Lease. The two are then escorted to solitary.

Aloe confronts Sel on why she didn't intervene which creates tension between the two.

The next workday is awkward and a struggle because they are down one person --Venny-- who is locked solitary confinement. When they reach the area to drill, Aloe confronts Sel again despite her last warning. The two get into another altercation missing the alarm from Layo who informs them of pressure spike. The two get buried as the cave collapse around them.

While trapped, they Sel and Aloe are both injured, but Aloe is able to still move. As Aloe tries to clear a path for them, they continue the conversation -- Sel revealing her past while Aloe reveals what really happened on the Insula and Stockholm. Another pressure spike causes the cave to start collapse even more. Aloe blacks out. When she regains consciousness, she finds her self at the medical bay back in the prison.

Sel is in a comatose state next to her. The doctor emerges and briefly explains her injuries and that based on her teammate's accounts, Aloe was the one who dug through the collapsed debris and dragged Sel and herself out. It was unexplainable how and Aloe doesn't have any memory of it either.