Lukas "Lander" Phosolos

Lander, in the flesh.

**Lukas Phosolos** (Usually referred to as "***Lander***"), is most often described as a "Brilliant Engineer" by his peers and colleagues alike. He's the founder, owner and head engineer of "***Lander Engineering Corps***". He used to serve in the UPA's Navy as an Engineer, but has retired to designing ships thanks to quite a generous contract with the Military's R&D team, which lead to the founding of his small company. He holds transhumanist beliefs. He has a slight french-sounding accent from his homeworld, "**Je**".

## Appearance

Lander is appears to be looking average in just about every way. He has quite a clean-cut look to him, his chin is kept shaved and his hair is usually neatly combed. His clothing is kept similarly neat, clean and generally professional looking, usually wearing a suit with an ugly-looking tie.

He appears to have a constant look as if he's annoyed, or generally uncaring.

## Personality

He's not the happiest around human "people", apparently preferring to spend time with machines, AI and other products of engineering. He's quite passionate about his hatred for humanity. What keeps him in check, however, is his equal, if not greater, hatred for the Writ. He views their religious philosophy as nothing more than a delusional fantasy, in contrast to his own transhumanism beliefs.

Despite his detest for the flesh - he hasn't one cybernetic installed on him, which probably makes him seem like quite the character.

## Background

Lander was born on a tropical rim world roughly the size of Earth, called "***Je***", a world once mostly known by its massive resorts, delicious tropical meals, and 100% natural foliage transported from Earth. However, with the creation of Gaia-type worlds on the horizon, Je's days as the go-to vacationing spot became numbered, and its local government was quick to note this. A contingency plan was quickly created to ensure that the local economy would not fall apart once visitors stopped showing up. Despite protest on the planet, there was a massive push for industrialization, backed by corporate deals and sponsors. Vast swathes of forest land was cleared to make way for urbanization. Hundreds of thousands of migrant workers were employed to do the job once it was clear that the planet simply did not have the population or workforce to build such things.

In the end, visitors did stop coming (for the most part), but not just because of Gaia worlds - but because of the mass urbanization and pollution of the planet in an effort to sustain the economy of its rather small population. The fears of its local government had apparently been nearly completely unfounded, which left them almost bankrupt and with only empty cities and factories to show for it.

Lander, at this point, was 15 years old, and could only watch as a sort of revolution against Je's local government slowly became inevitable. Despite the fact that the government had failed to properly man the factories it had built, a very few amount of them still found some use as Landers own playgrounds, where he would explore the factories premises and examine some of the machinery present. Sometimes, he'd spend days inside of a factory, just learning how to run its most complex-looking machines. He was caught trespassing more than a couple times.

A couple years later, Lander would manage to slip his way off the planet by signing up with a UPA Navy ship, The "Donjon", A cargo-hauling ship. Not long after he left, Je's government fell to a coup d'etat lead by its local military force - lead by an officer named Léo Garnier. Lander still has family on Je, but has only barely maintained contact with them. He'll receive luxury gifts from time to time.

After about five years serving aboard the Donvon, Lander was soon recognized for his brilliance in engineering, having made many improvements upon the original design of the ship, and even going so far to propose a complete redesign of future productions of the same type of ship. Military R&D had noticed his genius for engineering and so, under a very generous contract (partly influenced by Lander), gave Lander his own small company, "Lander Engineering Corps", which would design ships for the military to produce and either use, or sell to Civilians back through his company for a 60% cut of the profit, while company made do with a 40% cut.

Lander has remained in this position for quite awhile now, slowly amassing wealth from what he designs. Lately, he's become very vocal about his beliefs of transhumanism, apparently believing that organic life is unsustainable - But more than that, he's become very apathetic to the struggles of man, regarding it all as beneath him. He's also developed a *"slight"* addiction to Methamphetamines, but that's probably besides the point. It's unknown exactly where or when he adopted these beliefs and addictions, but they've left him with very few people he actually considers friends.

He's definitely now on a UPA watchlist for his dangerous beliefs.