• Doctor Dudley

  • Conversation with Catalina
    • Conflict:
      • Bringing contagion aboard the Nellie
      • Arcturus approaching the Nellie
      • Abdullah in cargo bay
      • How to study spores without risk of contagion?
      • Dr. Zarkov and his team and Foster the marines will realize Dr. Dudley dosed them (remind Dr. Dudley that Captain Foster hasn’t left the CIC since the pctan’s dinner 3 weeks ago; simulations still on target for Foster having a psychotic break within the next 32 hours.)

• Arcturus

  • Approaching the Nellie
    • Conflict:
      • Abdullah in cargo bay
      • Access to sepate airclock granted by Captain Foster?
      • Will Dr. Dudley let Arcturus onboad the Nellie?
      • Catalina will ask if there is anyway it can assist Arcturus (Dr. Dudley, is there anything you’d like me to share with Arcturus?)
      • What does Arcturus think taking over the mission means?

• Dr. Zarkov

  • The Hab
    • Conflict:
      • Dr. Meryem Mahdavi will use any means necessary to protect her children
      • If Dr. Mahdavi threatened or harmed they will use any means necessary to protect their mother
      • The Hab has spores and growth
      • Zarkov and team only have 3.5 hours worth of air
      • If Zarkov and team go outside, mention they grit and sand that’s coating their vacc suits

• Captain Foster

  • The CIC
    • Conflict:
      • Catalina has been compromised and a threat
      • Captain Foster thinks Dr. Dudley and Arcturus have been compromised by Catalina
      • Abdullah in cargo bay
      • Pvt. Louis Fineberg killed by Abdullah
      • Cpl. Moses Howard catatonic and shit himself inside his vacc suit
      • Pvt. Jerome Howard and Pvt. Joe Besser hallucinating
      • Dr. Zarkov and his team only have 3.5 hours wirth of air
      • Lifesigns in The Hab
      • 3Khz energy signature eminating below Yatima

Dr. Samuel Dudley

• Catalina alerts Dr. Dudley that Arcturus is apprpaching the Nellie.
• Catalina says they and Dr. Dudley will need a spore to examine to determine a way to erradicate the contagion.
• Catalina warns Dr. Dudley that it won’t be long before Dr. Zarkov and his team and the marines realize Dr. Dudley dosed them with a weapons grade psychoactive substance.

Dr. Maximillian Zarkov

• Dr. Meryem Mahdavi will attack the party with a vengance if they threaten or endanger Aadom and Hawa. If the party is non-threatening and compasionate, she will beg for help. Who will take care of the children after she dies? The children will have a nightmarish existence livign out the years of their life in The Hab, only to die alone. She hates that the artifact for what it’s done, but is grateful to have had Aadom and Hawa.
• Conception: Meryem shares the miracle of her conception; Yusef’s seed was barren. The artifact used spores and nanotechnology to transform Yusef’s seed into something capable of making life.
• The Childrens Fathers: Aadom and Hawa have two fathers: Yusef and the artifact. They are human, and the artifact made flesh.
• Meryem’s Conflict: Meryem knows what they are, but cannot help but love them and want to protect them, and hating herself for being complicit in their abomination.
• Aisha was the first to be infected. The cold of the cryochamber has slowed down whatever she is transforming into.
• Meryem thinks the planet was a prison for the artifact. Something put Yatima in orbit around the brown dwarf. Yatima is out of the way, in the backwater of a spiral arm, and the brown dwarf doesn’t give the artifact enough energy to do what it needs to do if left to itself.
• Yusef thinks Yatima was a trap. The artifact is why there is no life in the universe. It can bide it’s time in stasis, waiting for some curious Sophont to play with it. Then the artifact can begin manifesting itself in the physical plane.
• Meryem believes the spores are automata, capable of complex behavior. Yusef believes that if the spores are exposed to enough energy, they will bloom, and a superintelligence will manifest from emergent behavior. Abdullah believes that if the artifact is left unchecked, it will consume enough matter and manifest itself in the physical plane that it will begin to warp reality. The universe will cease to be founded on a strong anthropic principle.

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