Prospector Q

"Icarus will screw your plans." --Prospector Q

Prospector Q is a snapshot of Ke**q**ueen, existing in the Icarus parallel universe. She is not affiliated with any currently known faction and is believed to be one of the "fee paying" prospectors who belongs to the "First Cohort".

## Appearance

Prospector Q wears her mufti in the orbit. Her most widely recognized symbol is the "Blank Flag" and her Xigo "Hark" S5 Enviro Suit (Purple Edition). She has a full set of Inaris Exotic Tools at her disposal, where she carelessly bundles them on her belt.

## Story Lines

### First Cohort

Searching "Prospector Q" in the orbital data central terminal only gives irrelevant results. Q's identity was lost ever since the failure of the terraforming procedures. Despite that, Q was still active for prospecting contracts here or there, helping many factions to achieve their urgent missions. Some prospectors did not trust Prospector Q and request full identity clearance before admitting Q's remarkable accomplishment, but all faction owners have deemed this as unimportant.

Prospector Q's active records are mostly Expedition-Type missions. This includes the most unfamous Icestorm and Maelstrom expedition quests, where prospectors need to head into uncharted regions that is stuck in a looping storm. Q survived every time, though the survival rate was about only 8%~10% for these missions. Sometimes Q's signal goes extremely weak or even temporarily disappear from the orbital observation console, but her signal would eventually regrow back to standard level, meaning a survival.

Q also spends time in free, 30-days exploration quests. She rarely reports back to the station and enjoys the life on the planet. While she is on the planet, she was always seeking Exotic from such deposits and geysers. Some staff in UDA were spending extra effort on tracking Q's activities, because every time Q returns, she would extract more than a thousand unit of Exotic from the surface. Q's high Exotic extraction efficiency had drawn interests from many large factions, including the Assembly, Sinotai, and Unaio. Prospector Q has never admitted any extra cooperation contracts with these factions though.

### New Frontier

It was unclear whether Prospector Q was attracted by the high reward of Group 15's operations, or Group 15 has had noticed Q's unremarkable performance, Q was involved in the very beginning of the rescue and pursuing mission said by Group 15. However, previous prospector Sol, one of the operators in the orbit for many other current prospectors, was concerned about the safety risks of Group 15's operations, as well as the true intention of them. Q acknowledged Sol's advises and responded with "will exercise my own caution".

Later on, Clark - the high command of Group 15, replaced Sol as Q's operator in her missions because they must ensure the mission details are encrypted. Q pretended to have no opinion about this, and the mission went fairly smoothly, until Group 15 used the unknown laser weapon from the orbit to blast the terrorist's hideout. Q was aware of this and left the hideout before the laser was on, hence she was not hurt at all, but began to suspect what Group 15 was doing exactly. In the next mission, when Q was following the chase of "terrorists" as intended by Clark, she leaked the group-protected frequency to Sol and allowed him to interrupt the mission. Q went AWOL when Sol and Clark were arguing in the channel.

In the basalt area, Prosepctor Q found a cave that resemble a settlement of an ancient civilization. She reconnected to the frequency, where Sol and Clark were still arguing, with camera on. Clark urged Q to leave this area once, but Sol asked Q to keep going. At the end of the cave, Q found the skeleton of many creatures belong to sub spices 1341, which was previously deemed as a non-sentient creature, but nearby potteries and marks on the wall revealed that they were at least as intelligent as being able to use their own language. This, combined with the data hacked from Group 15 transmitter - the logs of another previous prospector - Mo, which criticized Group 15's behaviour on Icarus - massacred the sentient sub spices 1341 for their commercial interest. Sol gathered these logs and threatened Clark from any retaliatory actions.

Q's opinion to what Group 15 has done is currently unknown. However, she kept accepting missions on Icarus from many factions, including Group 15, like she wasn't involved in the shocking events happened on Prometheus at all.