The characters each have a series of aspects for the Fate overlay, which follow the following template:
[high concept]
[nature]
[trouble]
[background]
[background]
One (or more) of the backgrounds represents a tie to another character.
Moderator: Rusty
Captain Harold Stirling
[high concept]: The Captain
[nature and aspect]: Leader (To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.)
[trouble]: Too much influence.
[background]: Hand picked team (everyone)
[background]: Battle Experience.
Exemplar
[high concept]: Super-heroic Throwback
[nature and aspect]: Hot Shot, will evolve into paragon or bravo. (Dare to believe.)
[trouble]: Uncomfortable Truths
[background]: Unknown limits / Trained by the best there is
[background]: Tell me a Story (Angela, Adam)
Doctor Artharius
[high concept]: Visionary Scientist
[nature and aspect]Perfectionist (Someone else would have gotten it wrong)
[trouble]: The ends justify the terrible means.
[background]: Spay and neuter your enemies.
[background]: What a fascinating parasite. (Josh)
Flan
[high concept]: Observant Wanderer
[nature and aspect]: Caregiver (Bill Clinton) (He feels your pain in a bill Clinton voice)
[trouble]: Observant but slow to act.
[background]: “He helped me science up a thing.” (Zach)
[background]: Follow the yellow brick road.
Jezial
[high concept]: Wayfaring Psi-gypsy
[nature and aspect]: Explorer (The mysteries of the universe lie before me.)
[trouble]: Tripping the light fantastic.
[background] Everything is transient, except death.
[background] I would follow such a king. (Sterling.)
Chief Medical Officer “Voracity” (Biothreat XE-27915)
[high concept]: Parasite Bug Queen
[nature and aspect]: Survivor, leading into Architect (Survival of the Fittest)
[trouble]: “Urges”
[background] Friend, food, or rival. (Exemplar.)
[background] Prove your worth.
Ignac
[high concept]: Hungry Hungry Lizard Engineer
[nature and aspect]
[trouble]
[background]
[background]
Everything is food for the great ignac.
Uses lizard wits and computers to save the ship.
Challx
[high concept]: Violent Bug Messiah
[nature and aspect] Paragon: Uncompromising Battle Priest
[trouble] Honorbound
[background] Technosymbiotic inherited life debt (Angela)
[background] Legacy Bearer
Spectrum "Reaper"
[high concept] Peerless Pilot-Tactician
[nature] Bravo: Unrivaled
[trouble] Debt of Honor
[background] Friendly Rivalry (Challx)
[background] Celebrated War Hero
[high concept]: The Captain
[nature and aspect]: Leader (To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.)
[trouble]: Too much influence.
[background]: Hand picked team (everyone)
[background]: Battle Experience.
Exemplar
[high concept]: Super-heroic Throwback
[nature and aspect]: Hot Shot, will evolve into paragon or bravo. (Dare to believe.)
[trouble]: Uncomfortable Truths
[background]: Unknown limits / Trained by the best there is
[background]: Tell me a Story (Angela, Adam)
Doctor Artharius
[high concept]: Visionary Scientist
[nature and aspect]Perfectionist (Someone else would have gotten it wrong)
[trouble]: The ends justify the terrible means.
[background]: Spay and neuter your enemies.
[background]: What a fascinating parasite. (Josh)
Flan
[high concept]: Observant Wanderer
[nature and aspect]: Caregiver (Bill Clinton) (He feels your pain in a bill Clinton voice)
[trouble]: Observant but slow to act.
[background]: “He helped me science up a thing.” (Zach)
[background]: Follow the yellow brick road.
Jezial
[high concept]: Wayfaring Psi-gypsy
[nature and aspect]: Explorer (The mysteries of the universe lie before me.)
[trouble]: Tripping the light fantastic.
[background] Everything is transient, except death.
[background] I would follow such a king. (Sterling.)
Chief Medical Officer “Voracity” (Biothreat XE-27915)
[high concept]: Parasite Bug Queen
[nature and aspect]: Survivor, leading into Architect (Survival of the Fittest)
[trouble]: “Urges”
[background] Friend, food, or rival. (Exemplar.)
[background] Prove your worth.
Ignac
[high concept]: Hungry Hungry Lizard Engineer
[nature and aspect]
[trouble]
[background]
[background]
Everything is food for the great ignac.
Uses lizard wits and computers to save the ship.
Challx
[high concept]: Violent Bug Messiah
[nature and aspect] Paragon: Uncompromising Battle Priest
[trouble] Honorbound
[background] Technosymbiotic inherited life debt (Angela)
[background] Legacy Bearer
Spectrum "Reaper"
[high concept] Peerless Pilot-Tactician
[nature] Bravo: Unrivaled
[trouble] Debt of Honor
[background] Friendly Rivalry (Challx)
[background] Celebrated War Hero