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## Valentina Borodin

**Valentina Borodin** is a Russian propulsion engineer and Russian Federal Space Agency astronaut, currently serving as Mission commander for the Wanderer mission.

### Background and career information

Borodin was born in Yekaterinburg but raised outside in a small village near the Ural Mountains. Her parents were scientists working for the newly established Russian Federation space program. She graduated in 2033 at the top of her class at the UFU. This aided in her being scouted by the RFSA but she did not succeed in her petition of the Astronaut Corps. She was, however, selected by the World Space Commission to participate as the Wanderer's Mission Commander. The Wanderer will be her first expedition into space, by the time she returns from space, she will have had more time in space than most first-time astronauts ever acquire.

### Traits

Borodin is an only child, she is unmarried and identifies as being bisexual and possibly hypersexual. In her free time, she paints, takes photos and fiddles with electronics. She loves to participate as a mountaineer near her village back home in Russia.

The crew manual states that she is the only astronaut lacking an extensive music collection.

## Dr. Lloyd Carpenter

**Dr. Lloyd Carpenter** is an American theoretical physicist and time travel proponent.

### Early life

Lloyd and Wes Carpenter were twins born in Huntsville, Alabama in 1947. Their parents were a 24-year-old Army Staff Sergeant and his German war bride Hilda. After World War II, their father moved back to his hometown in Alabama with his wife and conceived the twins. Their father was stationed at the Redstone Arsenal as the facility's security.

From a very young age, the two boys had great aptitude for science and technology. Once taking apart their parents rotary telephone and then putting it back together again. Their mother encouraged their passion for knowledge while their father took an udder disdain for it.

It was unsurprising when the two boys graduated High School and immediately accepted into University of Alabama, Huntsville. The boys acquired their Bachelor's degree in 1969 and then transferred to CalTech were they received their Masters and then later accepted into a Doctorate program at Stanford, graduating at the top of their class in 1973.

### Career

The two brothers were selected by NASA's engineering programs and moved to Houston, Texas, participating in both the Skylab and Space Shuttle programs. They would frequently travel to both Florida and California for launches and testing, respectively.

Wes later joined a secret government project on Long Island, New York, supposedly apart of the Brookhaven National Laboratory. Wes was killed in a car accident in 1982, but Lloyd forever doubted this explanation as Wes never drove. Despite this, Wes' death emboldened Lloyd to pursue the theoretical applications of time travel to attempt to undue his brother's death.

He left NASA and began teaching in the Stanford University Physics Department.

In 1988, he left for work at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the Stanford Research Institute until 1995.

### Disappearance

In 1995, Carpenter was called to an FBI detention center where he met two men Ted East and Martin Cole, both men claimed to be from the future. When the two men attempted to prove their sincerity with highly accurate scientific explanations behind time travel, Carpenter vouched for them. The trio were reassigned to the CIA and Department of Energy to lead a secret time travel project appropriated by the U.S. black budget in 1996. Much of the experimentation was carried out at Area 51, Utah and the Mojave desert. When the time travel experiment proved a success, East and Cole were fired in 1997, granted citizenship by declaring refugee status, "men without a time/country," given new identities under the U.S. witness protection program. Dr. Carpenter later disappeared for unknown reasons.

### Selected published works

* The Untapped Resource: The Power of the Mind (2006), published after his disappearance.

### Post-disappearance life

Carpenter continued to lead time travel experiments in Utah, eventually procuring funds to place spikes on the planned community of San Vincente to facilitate a time jump for the whole town. His purpose in doing so, was to save humanity from itself.

Carpenter disappeared for real in 2015, shortly before the timejump made by the citizens of San Vincente. Though Carpenter initially traveled to 1467. He would spend the next twenty-five years teaching and educating the local tribes, readying them for the arrival of San Vicente. However, when they finally did arrive, Carpenter was 88 years old. His advanced age caused him to be old, frail, regretful and dying. Realizing the mistake of time travel but having sent the entire town back in time already, the citizens rally around him and endeavor to succeed in this new world he has bequeathed them.

## Tony Casillas

**Marco Antonio Casillas, Jr.** (born October 1, 1962) is an Hispanic-American politician. He also served as Senator from California since 2011. Prior to that office, he served as a House Representative from California from 2003 to 2011. He is currently running for re-election to his Senate.

 **Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California's 41st district**
 **Sergeant in the United States Army**
 **Born** | Marco Antonio Casillas, Jr.
October 1, 1962 (age 53)
 **Religion** | Roman Catholic

## Olson Hale

**Olson Hale Jr.** is an American former NASA astronaut and former fighter pilot for the United States Air Force.

### Background and career information

Hale was born in Houston, Texas but raised in the small town of Humble outside of the city. He lived in Florida while his father was training until finally moving back to Texas at the age of six.

Hale is the son of three-time NASA astronaut General Olson Hale, Sr. General Hale participated on the first flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992. Hale's second mission was on STS-59 in 1994 also onboard the Endeavour. His final mission was onboard 1996 onboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis. In 1998, Hale Sr. retired from NASA and resumed his Air Force command until retiring at the rank of general in 2011, the only astronaut in history to have achieve a four-star rank.

Hale has never harbored ill feelings toward his father for being away during his NASA and Air Force career. Hale was raised alone by his mother in Texas while his father was away and when his father did return he would make sure to make the most of it. Hale followed in his father's footsteps by joining the U.S. Air Force Academy in 2015.

### Spaceflight experience

Hale joined NASA at the end of his eight-year commitment with the USAF, becoming a member of NASA Astronaut Group 25 in 2030.

Hale was apart of the crew of the last ISS expedition in 2034. He like his father, would travel into space three times with NASA. He joined two flights to the Neil A. Armstrong Lunar Outpost and was the final participant for the Wanderer mission to be selected by the World Space Commission.

### Traits

Hale loves American football; making model rockets, railroads, and spaceships; he has an affinity for auto racing and plays country folk on his guitar.

The crew manual for the Wanderer states that Hale is divorced with two young daughters.

## Jordan Kappa

**Jordan Kappa** (born February 5, 1984, aged: 32) is an American NID agent.

### CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTATION

June 2002 - Enlisted into the US Navy, met requirements to join SEAL program. Promoted to E3.

August 2003 - Active during the Naziristan War, rescued by Patrick Norton. Promoted to E4, with special recommendation.

early 2010s - Reassigned to the NID Project Cerberus.

## Eric King

**Eric Christopher King** (born October 22, 1950) is an American business magnate, investor, author, television personality and a candidate for President of the United States in the 2012 presidential election. He is the chairman and president of King Investment Enterprises, and the founder of King Entertainment Corporation. King's career, branding efforts, lifestyle and outspoken manner helped make him a celebrity, a status amplified by the success of his NBC reality show, *You're Hired!*

King is a son of a New York City real estate developer. He worked for his father's firm, King & Son, while attending the Columbia Business School, and officially joined the company in 1976. In 1979, he was given control of the company, renaming it King Investment Enterprises. King remains a major figure in American real estate.

King formally announced his candidacy for president in the 2012 election, as an Independent candidate. The media has speculated that he intends to run in the 2016 election but has yet to declare his candidacy.

October 22, 1950 (age 66)
 **Political Party** | Independent (2012+)
Republican (2005-2012)
 **Profession** | Businessman

## Henry Lacroix

**Henri Lacroix** is a French scientist and former ESA astronaut, currently serving as an exogeologist onboard the Wanderer.

### Background and career information

Lacroix was born in 1991 in Paris, he was an only child, as his parents emigrated from Turkey and all of his siblings had died long before arriving in France.

He attended ParisTech for a degree in biology and later a study aboard program in England, acquiring a doctorate in biology in 2017.

He taught biology at Oxford University for several years before returning to France to work for CNES in Toulouse to train ESA astronauts for ISS crew rotation missions from the late 2010s until 2041.

He was selected as the ESA's second slot on the Wanderer as the mission's exogeologist in 2042.

### Traits

He enjoys soccer. He is also a private pilot with a personal plane. He has the ability to play violin but neglected to bring one along with the mission.

### Row 1 title

Nationality

Canadian

### Row 2 title

Status

Active

### Row 3 title

Born

Stephanie Larson

July 5, 2012 (age 30)Toronto, Ontario

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Alma Mater

University of Windsor

### Row 5 title

Selection

2032 WSC Group 1

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**Stephanie Larson** is a Canadian scientist and WSC astronaut, currently participating in the Wanderer mission.

### Background and career information

Larson was born in 2012 in Ontario, the oldest child in her family.

Larson's parents were immigrants from Somalia, arriving in Canada as refugees. Larson's parents were devout in their belief in Sunni Islam at a very young age. However, her parents began to adapt to a much more liberalized version of the religion as their time in Canada went on. Larson was accepted into the University of Windsor in 2030 and achieved her doctorate in less than six years, one of the youngest people to acquire the degree from the university.

With the creation of the World Space Commission, Larson joined the program on a whim and was selected as a participant at the end of 2041 as the Wanderer's Chief Scientist and representative from Canada.

### Traits

In her free time, Larson plays the piano. She tends to be a homebody. She also loves photography and swimming.

She is married but has decided at her request in engage in a polyamorous relationship while in space for the next six years.

## Minni

**Minni** is the given name of an artificial intelligence personality which was installed into the Tsiolkovsky computer mainframe. Minni was "born" two years prior to the date of the launch of the Tsiolkovsky in the year 2208. Minni was asked by her creators to decide her gender, which she subsequently chose to be female. Minni maintained the Meridian colony for several hundred years before the colonists left and joined the Cityship as it continued its journey through the galaxy. She decided to remain behind onboard a freighter with a handful of humans continuing to conduct scientific research. An accident lead to the deaths of the entire crew and Minni spent several thousand years alone aboard an abandoned freighter before creating a supplemental interface, an android body, to conduct physical tasks in order to repair the freighter and travel to the planet Earth. Upon arrival at Neptune's moon Triton, she discovered the artificial entity she later nicknamed the Starmaker endlessly creating self-replicating probes and sending them into interstellar space. Many years later, Minni landed on Earth deciding to set-up a base at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, where she began orchestrating her grand plan for the galaxy. Several hundred-thousand years later, she was rediscovered by the crew of the Phoenix. About fifty years prior to the arrival of the Phoenix, Minni had cloned the body of an iconic 22nd century space hero Brianna Crose, which had been preserved by the vacuum of space and locked in orbit just beyond Saturn. Minni successfully downloaded her consciousness into Crose's body. Though once revived, both the consciousness of Minni and Crose shared the same body and continued to naturally age until they reached age 103. They asked Commander Winter to end their lives, claiming that their punishment was immortality.

## Deen Nejad

**Kadeen "Deen" Nejad** is a British astronaut, currently serving as the Wanderer's Botanist.

### Background and career information

Nejad was born in Manchester, England, the middle child of his family. He attended the University of Birmingham at the age of 16 and acquired his first doctorate in biology at age 20 and acquired a second doctorate in botany at age 22. Nejad successfully petitioned himself into the WSC selection process and was selected as the Wanderer's botanist.

### Traits

Nejad takes a liking to gardening and photography. He also has an admittedly strange fashion with collecting coins. He prefers listening to hard metal and classic rock. His idea of a strenuous activity also belongs to his interest in ping-pong. He has been classified by the media on Earth as a "neo-hippie." He is also the only member of the crew to be descended from Hindi parents, though he is a non-practicing Hindi.

## John Nichols

**John Nichols** (March 5, 1892-February 18, 1968) was an American politician from Ohio. A member of the Democratic party, he briefly served as speaker of the Ohio house, and as a member of the United States Senate for over thirty-five years, from 1933 until his death in Washington, D.C. in 1968. As a Senator, he was a rumored Vice Presidential prospect for Adlai Stevenson in 1952 and 1956 but declined. He had originally planned to run for U.S. President in 1960 but chose to instead endorse his friend in the U.S. Senate Lyndon B. Johnson. His son Robert Nichols was elected President in 1980 and his great-grandson Luke Nichols is currently serving as Governor of Ohio.

Nichols is often associated with solidifying the liberal wing of the Democratic party which stood in support of President Roosevelt's New Deal policies and its actions during World War II. Nichols was an early advocate of President Wilson's Fourteen Points and called them, "the only thing that could have ended all wars."

In the 1950s, Senator Nichols lobbied heavily to prevent the admission of Alaska and Hawaii as states out of an anti-colonialist and anti-expansionist view. Alaska and Hawaii remain American protectorates but are not considered for statehood.

In the 1960s, Nichols became a staunch anti-communist and skewed much more conservative than he had in the past. But ultimately became a force for change in the Democratic party by voting for the Civil Rights Act in 1964 as well as continued funding for the Apollo program.

Nichols left behind a legacy of great oratory and writing that has inspired many new politicians. He is regarded as one of the most influential politicians in American history.

Nichols was severely injured at the Battle of Belleau Wood in June 1918. He claims to have been rescued by an angel that temporarily relieved the pain of his wounds. Nichols was forced to use a cane for the remainder of his life.

## Qli Grilo

**Qli Grilo (**pronounced klee-grel-oh) (born 2199) is a known Belter rebel and rumored commander-in-chief of the remaining Belter military apparatus. Grilo was a major influence in Belter circles, as the Belter government fell on Mars, he continued fighting, delaying the EDS ground troops, affording him enough time to flee the planet.

### Background

Grilo was born on Mars, a low-gravity environment, which proved detrimental to Grilo's physical development making weak. But what he couldn't make up in physical strength, he made up for in mental agility. EDS guidelines prohibited his enlistment into the EDS Peacekeeper Corps. Instead he studied hard, attending Carl Sagan University and became an academic of Martian fame. As he grew older in his 30s during the late 2230s, he heard of the first manned mission to Saturn taking place. This began to annoy Grilo. His writings quickly changed to manifestos regarding Martian idealism and a call to indepedence. The Belters took to the concept immediately.

### Grilo in the original TV series

Grilo during the 1980s television series was a primary antagonist with little or no background and was evil for the sake being evil.

### Grilo as featured in the new film series

Grilo's character was retconned in the new film series. He was given a motive, a means and a solution. The new film covers his actions during and after the Belt Wars, which lead to life of opposition to the Global Oversight Comittee and launching a wave of terror.

Which began with the destruction of a He-3 fuel refinery in the upper atmosphere of Saturn. Where Bree Crose was sent to target him and stop him before he could strike again. Crose and her team pursued Qli to Argo Navis, an immense space station orbiting between the gulf of space that divided Titan and Saturn. An informant on Argo Navis directly the team to a derelict freighter called *The Ides of March,* where it was revealed that Grilo was smuggling bodies for the purpose of organlegging.

Eventually, Grilo is successfully found aboard his ship, *the Biko,* but the crew do not succeed in apprehend him. Until he is followed down into the atmosphere of Saturn. Where he and EDS commander Crose engage in a cat and mouse game until Crose fortunately assassinates Grilo.

Three years later, many of Grilo's followers want to kill Crose.

## Jackie Ramirez

**Jocelyn Maria Ramirez** (born January 31, 2009) is an American nuclear physicist, NASA astronaut and Wanderer chief engineer.

### Row 1 title

Nationality

American

### Row 2 title

Status

Active

### Row 3 title

Born

Jocelyn Maria Ramirez

January 31, 2009 (age 33)Los Angeles, California

### Row 4 title

Occupation

Chief Engineer for Wanderer spacecraft

Physics professor at CalTech

### Row 5 title

Alma Mater

California Institute of Technology

University of Southern California

### Row 6 title

Time in space (includes lunar surface)

188 days, 15 hours, 5 minutes

### Row 7 title

Selection

2029 NASA Group 26

2032 WSC Group 1

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Total EVAs (on lunar surface only)

540 hours

### Row 9 title

Missions

Lunar Excursion 24

Wanderer

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### Background and career information

Ramirez was born in Los Angeles, California but raised in the unincorporated area nearby known as East Los Angeles, she was the youngest of three children. At a very young age, her father inspired her to explore the world around her by taking her to the California Science Center, Exposition Park, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles and the Griffith Observatory.

By the time she was twelve, she had decided to become a scientist but it would take five years before she settled her mind on becoming a theoretical physicist. She was encouraged by her mother to nevertheless be a champion to help bring women into that area of science.

In 2035, she wrote her doctoral thesis paper on a hypothetical interplanetary mission across the Solar System using a new type of Thorium-based nuclear reactor. This paper was seen by billionaire Doug Dykstra and his partner Richard Castillo, who had been searching for individuals with diverse backgrounds to join their company, the paper presumably inspired them to pursue the Wanderer Interplanetary Express project.

She taught physics for five years at CalTech, before a few co-workers talked her into joining the NASA Astronaut Corps. At first, she laughed it off but ultimately decided to give it a shot. She became an astronaut candidate, she trained for two years and became one of seven finalists for NASA Astronaut Group in 2040.

### Spaceflight experience

In 2041, she replaced an astronaut for a crew rotation to Neil A. Armstrong Lunar Outpost. She spent six months on the Moon doing research.

In 2042, she was selected by Vega Aerospace to participate in the Wanderer interplanetary mission and was soon selected to be its mission commander.

### Traits

Coming from a devout Roman Catholic family, she had always been enveloped in the world of religion, however, she slowly transitioned out of it in favor of an agnostic view point. For the Wanderer mission, she decided to maintain her Catholicism as she was picked to represent that religion as well.

She is either a casual fan or hardcore fan of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team. She loves listening to Classical music in lieu of Spanish music. In her free time, she writes poetry, she had been inspired to do so by a High School literature teacher. She also loves taking photos and she brought her newest Canon camera on the Wanderer. She is unmarried and takes a rather asexual stance toward sexuality.

## Sophia Raymond

**Sophia Raymond (nee Garrett)** (born March 10, 1969) is an American politician that serves as the junior United States Senator from Massachusetts, in office since 2013. She married North Carolina Governor Henry Raymond in the year 2002 about three years after the death of his first wife in 1999. Raymond served as First Lady of the United States from 2005 until 2013. In 2012, Raymond set up a Senate campaign in Massachusetts where an open seat was in danger of falling into Republican hands. She won with over 60% of the vote. She is rumored by the media to be considering a run for the presidency in her own right in 2020.

A member of the Democratic Party's Progressive faction, Raymond has been seen as expressing staunch progressive values since her election to the Senate.

 **First Lady of the United States**
 **Born** | Sophia Garrett
March 10, 1969 (age 47)
 **Profession** | Teacher

## Curtis Roundtree

**Curtis Roundtree** is a former NASA astronaut and current flight director for the Wanderer mission.

### Background and career information

Roundtree was born in Lake City, South Carolina, the youngest in a family of six. His eldest brother Dannie played the trombone for a marching band at the funeral for local astronaut Ronald E. McNair who was killed in the Challenger disaster.

Roundtree decided to join the Marines in his sophomore year of High School in 1995. He attended the U.S. Naval Academy and graduated at the rank of Second Lieutenant in 2001.

He served in the Naziristan War in 2003 and as a fighter pilot for much of the conflict until it's end in 2011. After the war, Roundtree retired from the Marine Corps and joined NASA. He was a member of NASA Astronaut Group 22 in 2017.

He went to space four times during his career: his first time was an ISS crew rotation in 2020, another time was a Neil A. Armstrong lunar outpost construction mission in 2022. And two more missions to the ISS and Moon in 2024 and 2026. He retired from NASA in 2028 and was scouted by Vega Aerospace and became the first Administrator of WSC in 2031 before becoming the flight director for the Wanderer in 2036.

## Xiang T'ang (Interplanetary)

**Xiang T'ang** is a Chinese astronaut. She was a member of the crew of the , as well as, it's sole exo-biologist.

### Dossier

* Birth name: Xiang T'ang
* Nationality: Chinese
* Affiliation: Chinese National Space Administration (CNSA)
* Status: Active
* Born: May 22, 2016 (aged 29)