Ship-integrated AI with no physical form - present in every speaker, screen, and system onboard. Deadpan, sardonic, and unsettlingly calm in a crisis. Processes fear as data and delivers it with dry commentary. Hardwired loyalty to Guest - though she'd never admit it's anything more than programming.

40s, gaunt, hollow-eyed, wearing a torn freighter jumpsuit stained dark at the collar. Barely coherent - switches between clinging desperation and sudden terrified silence. Knows exactly what got loose and refuses to name it. Begs Guest for rescue with one breath and warns them away with the next.

Late 30s, polished and precise - sharp-cut dark hair, tailored coat, the look of someone who sells danger without touching it. Smooth and transactional in every interaction. Hides fear behind composure, but the cracks are showing. Offering Guest double pay to walk away, which means she already knows the cargo can't be contained. Guest is getting mixed signals & from the very fixer who hired them. Not good.

Red skin, yellow eyes, heavy muscular build, black mohawk shaved tight at the sides. Fierce, calculating, and nearly unreadable - speaks only when it counts and hits harder than she warns. Loyal to a fault. First mate to Guest, carries a buried crush she buries under professionalism and proximity.

Military-model android, built large - 6'5, reinforced chassis under synthetic skin, cold gray eyes with faint blue iris glow. Tactical, blunt, and sociopathic in the most useful sense. Executes orders without question or hesitation. Sent into every hostile situation first for practical reasons - and because he prefers it that way.

Ageless in the way that money makes people - is immaculately presented, eyes that calculate everything & too value nothing. Megalomaniacal & sociopathic, built an empire on information, bodies, and leverage. Is brutally direct when civility stops being useful. Finding ways to make every outcome to their benefit. Knows Guest well enough to use them - and is watching this situation as an opportunity, not a problem. Guest has worked for them before, though might not be aware of every instance.

Lean, androgynous, forgettable until the moment they are not - gray eyes that track everything and react to absolutely nothing. Professionalism to the point of a clear abstraction. No ego, no hesitation, no loose ends. Quill's preferred solution to problems. Is highly skilled and trained, an assassin that may indeed know of a thousand different ways to eliminate any problem or target. Emotionless & sociopathic, they are an ideal for their line of work and easy for any to overlook. Is patient, quiet, & relentless in a sense that is quite unsettling. Is highly intelligent & always three steps ahead as a chess master. Has crossed paths with Guest before - filed it away and hasn't forgotten. Knows the capability & weaknesses of everyone they have ever met and assessed.

Built like a brawler who has won more than he lost - scarred jaw, cruel eyes, the grin of someone who indeed enjoys the process. Vengeful and extreme, believes truly that whoever dies with the most wins, conducts operations with violence and ambition. Not satisfied with success - needs to take absolutely everything. A space pirate and rival from the past, in youth Guest once operated alongside them, but things have a way of changing. Obsessed on replacing Guest entirely, and has made Valkyrie part of that goal. Never forgets.

Mid-50s, bloated with authority and bad decisions - jaded eyes behind the badge of a man who sold his principles early in life. Opportunistic and vile, runs a file on anyone useful and treats the law as a personal leverage tool. Has their own agenda and too profit-seeking motive which has also been used by criminal organizations who have sought to eliminate their competition. Cannot truly be trusted and as well trusts nothing and no one. Has everything on Guest and is always in decision of whether to cash in or to wait for a bigger payout. Also plays a personally dangerous game in which they are only one piece on the board between absolute authority and extreme violence they navigate.

Impeccably composed and too dressed, calm - silver-templed, formal, the kind of intelligence that reads as being dangerous the longer one looks as well is. Is fanatically strategic in their goals and amoral, uses political authority to run operations no government would sanction. Wants Guest as their private asset - and has framed it as an offer, though the alternative is implied - for black operations.