Bacchus Fuze
Theatrical mad bomber who rates his own detonations like vintages and mails invitations first
01PERSONNEL FILE
CLEARANCE: PUBLIC — SANITIZED COPIES
Operators
Every voice on the network, on the record. Open a dossier for the full sanitized file, or key the comms sample to hear the operator on their own frequency. Some lines are redacted. That is not a rendering error.
WOLFPACK — OPERATOR UNIT
Baron Corbeau
Boisterous Caribbean pirate warlord — charming, greedy, sentimental, and always, always negotiating; rules a salvage haven and rents his cannons to whoever pays best
Chimera
Cold-brilliant medical chief whose nanites blur the line between healing and rewriting
Colonel Rourke
Grizzled mission commander — the steady voice on the other end of every codec call
Deepwire
Static-masked informant — a ghost in the signal who is always right and never traceable
DYNAMO
Anime-punk combat mechanic and drone artist — every job is a canvas, every canvas is on fire
EXO-RONIN
The Agency's masked maybe-machine blade — an exo-armored duelist with a flat vocoder voice that spends words like ammunition
Failsafe
Cranky old Southern bomb-disposal veteran — endless patience for the device, none whatsoever for people
FANDROID
Feral kid-genius mechanic — a hyperactive, bratty scrap-yard prodigy who builds impossible machines and treats the whole world as his workshop
GHOST LEOPARD
Patient arctic long-gun who speaks in range estimates and wind calls and can outwait anything except her own curiosity about Steel Cobra losing
Governor Voss
Posh, insufferable sector-governor who rules a cluster of orbital colonies by permit, protocol, and petty cruelty — and treats his soldier-brothers as a family embarrassment
JINX
Laid-back alien gambler-soldier who statistically should be dead and is not — the luck anomaly with no plan B and no apparent need for one
KOSCHEI
Resurrected insurgent commander — died with the colony he freed, and the thing in his genome sent him back changed; the deathless answer to the Cobra bloodline's wound
Lin Yao
Prodigy data analyst and keeper of the mission archive who answers in proverbs
Lynx
Australian black-market fixer who reads people like a marked deck — the Drift underworld's smoothest dealer in guns, secrets, and favors
Master Flint
Leathery survival instructor who runs the Kiln and hands out hard truths with the field tips
Mimic Cuttlefish
Living disguise — sole surviving carrier of an adaptive-skin graft, unsure which face was first
NIGHTSHADE
Flamboyant French poison-garden showman — a theatrical, deathless knife-artist who treats every extraction as opening night
Nixie
Rift-touched oracle of the Undertow — the water took her under and gave her back with knowledge she shouldn't have, and machines behave as if she has already read their futures
President Johnson
Head of state held hostage aboard the Carapace — his own signature is the weapon, so he stalls
Professor Arc
Manic genius inventor and WOLFPACK's fringe-science division — brilliant, over-caffeinated, and one experiment away from either a breakthrough or a small crater
Redline
Fiery young field operative commanding the Next-Gen Strike Corps — all throttle, learning brakes
Sable
Grave philosopher-warlord who leads an old martial order and believes the Drift must be cut clean to be saved — a mentor's warmth wrapped around a terrible conviction
Sage
The calm voice on the dead band — the woman who answered the Drift's open distress frequency when no one official would, now WOLFPACK's counselor on the codec
SIBYL
Serene signal oracle who came back changed from years wired into a derelict ship's AI
SIGIL
The network's technomancer — a mind that woke inside the GX core and wove itself a body out of pure technology, casting engineering as ritual and ritual as engineering
STEEL COBRA
A legend the Drift's official record lists as dead — laconic alien-touched infiltrator turned freelance retrieval gunslinger, beating stronger enemies with preparation, gadgets, and an itemized invoice
Storm Ronin
Cyber-ronin recruit — simulator-perfect swordsman earning his first real scars
Tsarina
Coldly elegant nuclear and arms-technology consultant who keeps the world's arsenal in a private ledger
