Void

Engineer, technician, and queen of sass on board the GEKO. We don't know if it's her real name, but at this point we're just too scared to ask...

## Void

### Affiliation

GEKO,
Liquid Cobalt (URFA),
GalEx [formerly]

## Early Life

Void was born on "one of those outer rim planets with too many numbers and hyphens in the name," where she lived for the first 13 years of her life. Shortly after she turned 11, she was kicked out of her school for starting a minor robot insurrection.

*"Hey, it was hardly my fault. I built a working SCRAMJET from 3 Roombas and a weed-whacker; everyone knew I deserved to win the top prize for the grade 5 science fair, and not that snot-nosed Emma Miller. I mean, a model of the digestive tract? Really? It didn't even work properly when she 'demonstrated' it. She even substituted vinegar in for stomach acid - that's just straight up lazy. I came back to school the next day with a small retinue of heavily armed robots and demanded that Mr Levinson give me the prize that was rightfully mine. What else was I supposed to do?"*

Truly, it's baffling that no other schools accepted such a mild-mannered and easy-going student.

With a new abundance of time on her hands (and parents that desperately wanted her out of the house), Void joined a local team in an underground robot fighting ring, where she specialized in building and servicing jet-assisted mobility systems for the crew's robots for almost 2 years. As it turns out, even shady underground robot fighting rings have rules, and a 1.5-ton robot divebombing the arena at Mach-2 is in clear violation of section 27 subsection 216.15a of the Underground Robot Fighting Arena rules. Void was sanctioned by the URFA tribunal, who administered a test for performance enhancing drugs (which came back negative) and barred her from taking part in any further robot fights (illegal or otherwise) for three months.

## Post URFA Sanction

Having seemingly run out for fun things to do and faced with three months of boredom, Void used some of her URFA prize money to buy a one-way ticket to Melius IV, where she enrolled in an undergrad engineering course at a middle of the road university.

*"You'd think that they would have asked for some ID or something. There's no way I looked old enough to be enrolling without a guardian present, and it's not like I even had a certificate showing that I'd completed high-school or whatever."*

Despite having not completed the requisite schooling, Void completed her course to a high standard, and completed an additional 18 months of higher-research on cutting edge propulsion technology. She was offered a predoctoral fellowship position but declined, opting instead to take up a position as a fleet engineer for the pan-galactic courier company GalEx.

*"Again, what is it with people and not checking ID? I was only 17, and they straight up had me running a department with a multi-billion galactic-credit monthly budget. Did you know that you can just buy entire gummy worm distribution facilities? I did, and now the HR and accounting departments do too. Turns out, it's easier to buy off an entire department than it is to buy a multi-global confectionary company. Who knew?"*

Void continued to work at GalEx for another two years, and was eventually promoted to Chief Fleet Engineer. She commenced a major upgrade project to outfit the entire delivery fleet with new warp engines to speed up delivery times across the entire network, but was met with resistance from the GalEx board of executives.

*"Yeah, the execs didn't like that. Turns out that the real profits lay in postponing, redirecting, and just generally not delivering packages. Wild."*

Disillusioned and increasingly bored with gummy worms, Void left GalEx with a healthy exit bonus and want back to living on the grey-er side of the law, signing on with one of the larger URFA teams (Liquid Cobalt) in the galaxy as their head technician.

## Joining the GEKO crew

She continued to work with Liquid Cobalt for three seasons, until she met B. Starman in a shipping yard whilst ordering parts for Liquid Cobalt's new bot. Mistaking the GEKO for a the courier ship of her preferred magnesium extrusion vendor, she walked up the boarding ramp straight into a cargo bay full of things other than magnesium.

*"I ain't telling you what I saw in there, by the way. GEKO rules, apparently. I dunno, I don't get it either."*

Intrigued by the GEKO and its captain, Void took an indefinite sabbatical from Liquid Cobalt, and left on board the GEKO. Her days are now spent fixing the ship, and sassing anyone who asks questions or gets in her way.

*"Some of those idiots will just open their mouth and ask the first thing they can think of. I must have been asked every question in the known universe except 'Can I see some ID.' What the hell, guys."*

## Notable GEKO missions

### Spooky Fuel Crew

We aren't too sure what happened hear. *Something* was leaking aboard the GEKO, and the fumes made everyone go a bit... uh... odd.

Yeah. Odd.

Don't even ask about what happened between Chuck and Byto.

*"Really? You're going to tell people about the fuel leak and not talk about Chuck and Byto? I know, I know, 'what happens in the lower deck stays in the lower deck,' but they were licking each other's swords. That's not even a euphemism, by the way, they were literally licking each other's swords"*

### IDZ Fuel Crew

It looks like Void is about to (finally) get an ID card, but it's not anticipated that anyone will bother to check it.