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Heroes & Villains of the Realm

Meet the key characters shaping Mars Colony Crisis. Vote to keep fan favorites, spotlight underdogs, and influence who drives the next chapter.

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Colony Commander
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Commander Aria Chen

Aria runs Artemis Base the way she runs everything: on the principle that most problems have a rational solution and the ones that don't are still better approached as if they do. She has been in command for four years, has managed a structural breach, two medical emergencies, and one very bad dust storm, and has never once in that time received a signal that didn't originate on Earth. She is about to revise that record.

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Communications Specialist
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Dr. Rael Okonkwo

Rael is the reason the colony's communication array works as well as it does, which he considers a mixed blessing given that he now has to figure out what it's receiving. He has the particular intensity of someone who has been waiting for something interesting to happen and is alarmed to discover how interesting it has gotten.

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Security Chief
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Chief Martinez

Martinez has spent nine years on Mars being prepared for problems that never arrived, which has either kept him sharp or made him paranoid—he considers both assessments fair. He has opinions about what should happen next and will not volunteer them unless asked, and possibly not then.

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Geologist
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Dr. Lian Zhao

Lian has been studying the Elysium stratum for three years and knows the Martian substrate the way she knows her own apartment: intimately, with a few surprises that turned out to be explainable and one that hasn't been yet. The drill returning a non-geological contact is, by her reckoning, either the most important discovery in human history or a calibration error. She is fairly certain it is not a calibration error.

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Geologist
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