Cecily Temples

## Biography

### Employment background

Cecily Temples was hired by the Arkadia Coalition as a vehicular expert for the first NOMAD mission to Tellus Prime, where she acted as co-pilot beside Asher Murdock and overseer of all matters relating to the maintenance, operation, and use of their land rovers and APCs. Secretly, she was also employed by Arkadia to act as an informant to relay all pertinent information regarding Tellus Prime to the Arkadia board of directors on Satellite Artemis to ensure that the board was fully aware of everything about the planet and what was happening there.

### Informer for Arkadia

As discoveries about the planet's strange energetic properties developed, Cecily attempted to explain this to Arkadia to the best of her ability, but Arkadia's AI, Marcus Alexander, determined that nothing she was explaining could have been possible, and that the crew was beginning to collectively lose their grasp on reality. It determined that Cecily and the entire crew could no longer be trusted, and that the mission should be aborted.

Enlisting the help of the crew's communications expert, Auden Brouse, Cecily tapped into the communications network on Satellite Artemis before they were permanently cut off. She discovered that the contingency plan for an aborted mission was to reverse the terraforming process, making the planet inhospitable for the human crew and killing them all. Auden was able to trick the planetary terraforming network into sending a false signal to Satellite Artemis, making the board of directors believe the crew was dead when they were still alive.

### Mutiny

Due to discoveries about Cecily's relationship to Arkadia and mounting tensions about whether to leave the planet or stay, a mutiny occurred and split the crew in two factions - Cecily and those who wanted to leave, and the mutineers. The mutineers were successful in foiling an attempt to leave the planet which resulted in Cecily's left arm being crushed.

## Personal Information

### Personality

Cecily is a deeply loyal person at heart, which is why she took Arkadia's betrayal so hard. She will do anything for those she cares about and be their closest ally, but once she is betrayed, she will become their fiercest enemy. She holds grudges longer than she would like, and is not quick to forgive. Her disposition can be described as unwelcoming, closed-off, and hard, like a protective shell. The harder she is tested, the harder this shell becomes.

She possesses natural leadership capabilities, often taking a hard approach to protect both herself and those with her, knowing there is little room for error when others want them dead. Does not display outward kindness toward others, preferring to be feared than be perceived as soft. In spite of her intense loyalty to those close to her, she keeps almost everyone at a close distance and views them as co-workers, but not friends. Her strong leadership compels some to follow her and believe in her, even to the extent of walking away from their close friends.

Her devotion to the success of the mission made her an ideal candidate for Arkadia, both as a vehicular expert as well as a confidant. She prefers to cut to the chase and remove all artifice from discussions, disagreements, and debates. She maintains a strict focus on the work to be done and leaves no room for joking around.

### Relationships

#### Auden Brouse

Cecily maintains close contact with Auden, partly due to her skills in tapping into network communications, but also because she does not believe that Auden is fully invested in their goal of leaving Tellus Prime. With Auden, Cecily takes a "keep your enemies closer" approach, knowing that losing Auden would be a monumental loss. She attempts to pull Auden toward desiring to leave the planet rather than stay.

#### Asher Murdock

Working together as pilot and co-pilot, Asher and Cecily's relationship was born purely from the necessity of working together. They were not friends, but she respected him. After it is revealed to the crew that Cecily was spying for the people that left them to die, Asher is the first and only one to stand up to defend Cecily. As Asher was effectively the unofficial leader of the crew, his endorsement of her was paramount in persuading others to stand alongside her.

When the mutineers crashed their ship, Asher was the one who shoved Cecily out of the way. While this resulted in Cecily's arm being crushed, Asher took the brunt of the blow and nearly died. The accident put him in a coma and he required constant life support in order to stay alive. Cecily makes it a personal mission to save him any way she can. Some on her crew believe that this mission is coming at the expense of the goal to escape Tellus Prime.

## Notes and Trivia

* Left arm was amputated below the elbow when it was crushed during a violent altercation with the mutineers of the first NOMAD ship.
* Former spy for Arkadia but was given up to die. She vowed revenge on Arkadia for betraying her.
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