Characters
Characters in Starsector story and lore.
Contains spoilers for the main story plot.
Hegemony
Baikal Daud
- Main article: Baikal Daud
| "No reserves? Look around you! There are a thousand space-capable ships in the civilian docks and a billion citizens in the arcologies. We need only open the stockpiles and give them weapons before the invasion arrives." | ||
–Baikal Daud at the Defense of Chicomoztoc | ||
Current High Hegemon of the Hegemony. Before he became High Hegemon, he had rallied the defenders of his home world of Chicomoztoc against the Tri-Tachyon invasion in Cycle 194.
In spite of being viewed as "hive-scum" by his opposites due to his origins in the slums of Chicomoztoc, they hold him in grudging respect as he is practical and eminently capable in commanding the sector-spanning Hegemony.
Orcus Rao
| "Whether the appalling cost of the victory, the complete inversion of his mission orders, or the act of commandeering a Hegemony cruiser from its CO in the midst of combat, any one of Orcus Rao's actions during the breaking of the siege of Raesvelg would have earned a court-martial had he been within the Hegemony chain of command." | ||
–In The Midst Of The Storm Mission | ||
| "No one can believe he got away with everything he's gotten away with. But if, like him, you've got the dumb luck to walk out of disaster alive again and again - and better yet, you deliver victory in the darkest days of war - they'll let you get away with anything." | ||
–Neriene Rao to the Player | ||
Hegemony officer with a rocky career. Disgraced and dishonorably discharged from the Hegemony Sphinx naval academy in the Samarra Star System. He went onto become the captain of the ISS Black Star.
He earned the title of Hero of the Siege of Raesvelg after his assistance in the planet's defense against the Tri-Tachyon forces in Cycle 190. He would go onto assist Daud in the defense of Chicomoztoc.
Orcus Rao currently holds the rank of admiral in the Hegemony Navy. He is the third child of House Rao on Eventide, one of the planet's leading families. He is also Neriene Rao's grand uncle.
Neriene Rao
| "Anyway, the family has a reputation for a rebellious streak and I'd be remiss not to uphold it." | ||
–Neriene Rao to the Player | ||
A Hegemony officer present at the grand seasonal ball on Eventide during the events of The Princess of Persia.
Neriene Rao is currently holds the rank of commander in the Hegemony Navy. She is the grand daughter of House Rao on Eventide, one of the planet's leading families. She is Augusta Rao's grand daughter.
Augusta Rao
| "You recognize Augusta Rao from the news holos. Her head pitches almost imperceptibly - a denial - before she turns her back and moves away, pulling in her wake a retinue of ministers and aristocrats." | ||
–The Player | ||
The matriarch of House Rao, present at the grand seasonal ball on Eventide during the events of The Princess of Persia.
She is the matriarch of House Rao on Eventide, one of the planet's leading families.
Caspian Sang
| "House Rao - surely you know the family - is holding the grand ball of this season on Eventide. I shall place your name upon the guest list by invitation of the humble House Sang. Now does that not sound absolutely first-rate? You'll be the talk of the season, I'm sure of it." | ||
–Caspian Sang inviting the Player to the ball | ||
A Hegemony officer. If the player holds a Hegemony commission, he invites them to the grand seasonal ball on Eventide, and should the player accept, begins the "Princess of Persea" quest.
Caspian Sang currently holds the rank of lieutenant in the Hegemony Navy.
Magnus Cardona
| "Barbarian? You're the one threatening guests with oversized cutlery." | ||
–The Player to Magnus Cardona during the events of The Princess of Persia | ||
A Hegemony officer present at the grand seasonal ball on Eventide during the events of "Princess of Persea".
Magus Cardona currently holds the rank of lieutenant in the Hegemony Navy.
Caliban Tseen Ke
| "I'm Lieutenant Caliban Tseen Ke. We're carrying out the investigation into who screwed up here while you take care of the problem out there. And I wish you luck, captain, because if you don't solve this it's going to get ugly." | ||
–Tseen Ke to the Player during the events of the tutorial | ||
A Hegemony officer present at the Galatia Academy in the Galatia Star System during the Galatia Crisis. He asks you to meet him for a drink afterwards on Coatl in the Aztlan Star System, after which he can be added as a Medium-importance military contact.
He currently holds the rank of lieutenant in the Hegemony Navy.
Commodore Jensulte
| "The fighter jocks always spin the legends around themselves, but they're just the tip of a spear which I alone command." | ||
–Commodore Jensulte of the Hegemony Navy, ~c82 | ||
Defeated the Mayasuran Navy in the aftermath of the apocalyptic destruction of Mairaath in Cycle 82.
Ardis Soloman
| "Few have a talent for what I like to think of as 'active tuning'. I find musicians make the best shield officers." | ||
–Ardis Soloman, leaked data submitted to COMSEC redaction algorithm | ||
Luddic
Brother Livewell Cotton
- Main article: Livewell Cotton
| "Tri-Tachyon pries open holy creation daily, and at each desecration our wholesale damnation looms. Our path is burden; our path is suffering. We shall face them with faith that our only redemption is final judgment." | ||
–Livewell Cotton, Luddic Path terrorist, sermon of c205.2.12 | ||
Leader of a Luddic Path sect and a true believer, based out of Epiphany in the Al Gebbar Star System. He has a strong conviction in the righteous of his crusade against the evils of technology.
He teamed up with Rao's ISS Black Star in cycle 204 in the "For the Greater Ludd" mission.
Sophronia Jaspis
- Main article: Sophronia Jaspis
An archcurate of the Luddic Church. She appears in the "Knight Errant" mission.
Gideon Oak
An Excubitor Orbis of the Knights of Ludd. He may interfere with the player's visit to the Hesperus shrine during the mission "The Pilgrim's Path".
Jethro Bornanew
A novice of the Luddic Church who goes missing while infiltrating the Luddic Path. He appears in the "Knight Errant" mission.
Ludd
| "Where there is life, that is the throne of God, and all that is good can be found there." | ||
–Sacred Texts of Ludd | ||
The messianic martyr of the Luddic movement. They preached pacifism, abstinence from worldly desires, and a return to an idyllic agrarian lifestyle free from the burdens of technology. In Luddic tradition it was imprisonment and subsequent transfer of Ludd through the gate system by the Domain that caused the Collapse as an act of God, giving humanity a chance for redemption.
Persean League
Reynard Hannan
- Main article: Reynard Hannan
| "My freedom, I have given it for my world and for of my Gens; look upon proud Kazeron! I have earned everything you see before you. The League gave me that freedom, and the League has prospered for it!" | ||
–Hannan discussing League harassment with the player | ||
The Prime Demarchon leading the Persean League and head of gens Hannan, which advocates a policy of Kazeronian supremacy against the Hegemony.
Horus Yaribay
| "The top leaders of the Hegemony, particularly High Hegemon Baikal Daud must see things more clearly than they let on. They understand that they must hold the banner high and speak of iron resolve to the bloody end - right up until the moment they can present their people with a great victory: peaceful reconciliation. Victory without war. Imagine!" | ||
–Yaribay on unifying with the Hegemony | ||
The head of gens Yaribay, one of three powerful gens on Kazeron in the Thule Star System. He represents a more moderate faction in Persean politics that seeks a peaceful resolution to the League-Hegemony conflict. After the player's encounter with Yaribay, they can add him as a High-importance military contact.
Finlay Siyavong
| "Let me be clear. The League guarantees certain rights to intersystem merchants, though it is a stretch to ascribe you even that status considering your 'colorful' record. Even if you display no respect for this institution and my explicit requests from you, I cannot simply lock you up." He folds his arms, and leans back. "As much as I would like to." | ||
–Siyavong to the Player | ||
Agent in the Persean League Combined Fleet Intelligence, assigned to investigate the player and their actions.
| "You will fly and it will be a storm like they've never known. You are a thunderbolt come to split the sky itself!" | ||
–Navarch Mars Kato, address to the bomber crews of the Sirocco | ||
Officer with the rank of Navarch (admiral) born to one of the three powerful gens on Kazeron in the Thule Star System. He fought a Luddic rebellion on Mazalot in the Zagan Star System using a small yet nimble fleet including an Astral in Cycle 153.
| "The maneuver produced an oblique impact angle, dissipating the shell's momentum entirely into the ferrofoam applique. It was the unfortunate timing of the resulting shock which brought about Spacer York's tragic end during an otherwise routine heavy equipment transfer." | ||
–Thule skirmish of c120.03.08, AAR submitted by Navarch Zhou | ||
| "They may be a 'rag-tag gang of merchants, smugglers, and pirates', but if you give them something to fight for, I think they might surprise you." | ||
–Navarch Nurul Park, comment upon integration of the Cibolan navy | ||
Sindrian Diktat
Phillip Andrada
- Main article: Philip Andrada
| "The Sindrian Diktat is a polity founded in a relatively recent Hegemony military intervention in the Askonia system led by Admiral Philip Andrada, formerly of the Hegemony Navy. Andrada's Hegemony psych profile describes him as "intelligent, charismatic, yet prone to narcissistic excess". In his words, the Diktat was "formed in the crucible of the Askonia Crisis and with it a new people: a race of humans with emboldened spirit and clarity of purpose; stronger, possessing the will and determination to overcome the divisions and petty parliamentary politics that bred only chaos when tested by the collapse of the Gate System." Considered by the Sector at large to be a military dictatorship." | ||
–Sindrian Diktat Faction Description | ||
| "A holoprojector displays a larger-than-life image of Admiral Andrada, the Lion of Sindria, flanked by Diktat banners waving in simulated wind. His commanding gaze is cast toward a ventilation duct." | ||
–Sindiria Market Description | ||
| "The weak fear the spiritual potency of the killing machine. The strong instinctually recognize its beauty." | ||
–Quotations from the Supreme Executor | ||
Supreme Executor Admiral, called "The Lion of Sindria" by his supporters and a dictator by the sector at large, is the leader of Sindrian Diktat and former admiral of the Hegemony.
He became distinguished as the Hero of the Battle of Maxios when fighting the pirate Warlord Loke in Cycle 160. He seized control of the Askonia Star System in Cycle 181 after the capital planet of Opis was destroyed and created a new empire separate from the Hegemony.
Horacio Caden
Leader of the Lion's Guard and second-in-command to the Supreme Executor of the Sindrian Diktat. With Andrada's incapacitation, she represents one of the three loci of power in the Diktat.
Oxana Hyder
Deputy Star Marshall of the Sindrian Diktat and its de facto head with the incapacitation of the current Star Marshall. With Andrada's incapacitation, he represents one of the three loci of power in the Diktat.
Dolos Macario
- Main article: Dolos Macario
| "Once the means of force are purged of traitors, they shall burn out the rot that has taken root in this Great Project: the so-called Volturnian resistance and the double-blight of Nortia and Umbra in rebellion. Once our power-base in Askonia is consolidated, the Diktat may turn its gaze outward." | ||
–Macario describing his plot to the player | ||
Chief High Inspector-General heading the Sindrian Diktat's internal security ministry. Also known as the 'Spider of Sindria', he is the principal figure in the quest "The Usurpers".
Tri-Tachyon
CEO Artemisia Sun
- Main article: Artemisia Sun
| "You can no more escape the economy than you can escape gravity. It surrounds us, contains us, uplifts us. It bound the galaxy together once, and will again." | ||
–Artemisia Sun, c203 Annual Report | ||
| "The Tri-Tachyon megacorporation is a polity unto itself with influence and military might rivaling any of the great factions of the Sector. Defeated in the (now) First AI War, the megacorp appeared to accept the technological inspection terms imposed by the treaty (which, incidentally, won the Hegemony much support from its significant minority of Luddic faithful). Perfectly routine negotiations regarding perfectly mundane details of the regular inspections broke down as rapidly as if planned by the ruthless CEO Artemisia Sun. Threats were delivered alongside ultimatum; crisis erupted into war as Tri-Tachyon called the Hegemony's final bluff." | ||
–Mission Wolf Pack Description | ||
Current CEO of the Tri-Tachyon corporation. She was voted out in Cycle 194, but was quickly reelected 2 months later after the failed Siege of Chicomoztoc.
Rayan Arroyo
- Main article: Rayan Arroyo
| "I don't solve problems, buddy. I pay people to solve problems for me. You got problems? Go talk to the shipyard and get your oxygen leak fixed. I don't care about your problem unless your problem is seven or eight figs of cash in an account that you need put to work." | ||
–Rayan Arroyo to the Player | ||
A high level Tri-Tachyon executive who owes a favor to Baird. After your first encounter, he can be added as a High-importance military / trade contact.
Kelise Astraia
| "My colleagues don’t appreciate their whimsy. You get all these little spaceships and you break all the rules 'cause they don't need to survive landing." | ||
–Exit interview of K. Astraia, former ordnance designer, Culann Starforge | ||
Chaiya Mimas
| "I know your type. Signed the contract with dirt still on your boots, all ready to play spaceman. Watched too many Hegemony warprop holos, didn't you. Get this now: courage is not competence. Good workers get the job done. Heroes get us all killed." | ||
–Chaiya Mimas, Tri-Tachyon fleet division, job training introduction | ||
Independent
Gargoyle
- Main article: Gargoyle (character)
| "An institution, a polity, a warship, a fleet, the Hegemony! The Luddic Church! The Tri-Tachyon Mega-credits-sucking Corporation! These are machines made of people, and these people don't understand their own machines. Or," a mock-pondering tone, "other people, come to think of it. The oneness of these holy constructs is mass delusion!" | ||
–Gargoyle to the Player | ||
Bione Lata
Childhood friend of Scylla Coureuse lives on Fikenhild in the Westernesse Star System.
Callisto Ibrahim
| "There's no one within twenty lights that hasn't got crossbones etched on their hull. We have only our skill and whatever we find in that debris field to get us out of here." | ||
–Callisto Ibrahim, expedition log c202.10.15 | ||
A seasoned combat-salvage veteran from New Maxios running a company named "Ibrahim Interstellar Transport and Salvage" operating a few small fleets out of Agreus in the Arcadia Star System.
She holds particular affection for a Venture-class ship known as the "Hamatsu". If returned, the player can add her as a High-importance trade contact.
Adonya Coureuse
Surviving parent of Scylla Coureuse living in Fikenhild in the Westernesse Star System.
Elissa Zal
Engineer and close friend of Scylla Coureuse.
Galatia Academy
Anahita Baird
- Main article: Anahita Baird
| "This institution is not devoted to purely theoretical work," she forms a cradle with her hands, as if to hold an idea as she explains it, "For what use is knowledge if it does not give us the power, and wisdom, to change the world for the better?" | ||
–Baird to the Player | ||
Current Provost of the Galatian Academy in Galatia Star System. She's very pragmatic in her approach, using blackmail and compromises to achieve the a goal of reactivating the gate network. Keeps those around her at arms length, including the player.
Alviss Sebestyen
- Main article: Alviss Sebestyen
| "My name is Sebestyen. The new provost - that is, Provost Baird - assigned me to be your liaison with the academy. I hope you're as excited to work with me as I am to be working with you!" | ||
–Sebestyen introducing themselves to the Player | ||
Academician at the Galatian Academy and liaison to the player. The player can receive missions from him to work for the Academy. He is easily flustered but well meaning, and his competency is recognized by Baird.
Scylla Coureuse
| "Coureuse was always an off fit. Brilliant, yes, but she had a way of being distracted with involvement in hmm, antagonistic subcultures. Perhaps the Hegemony crackdown cured her of that childish affectation.
Her family and presumably friends are from Fikenhild in the Westerness System." |
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–Baird on Coureuse | ||
An Academician at the Galatian Academy.
Tomas Kallichore
| "Kallichore. That's his name. Was the boss of the academy who okayed that mad science experiment, almost doomed everyone in the system, can you believe that?" | ||
–Tseen Ke on Kallichore | ||
| "He was a fool, and too trusting," Baird says with contempt. "Nonetheless, we lost good people and good research. Scientific breakthroughs are built on the development of theory and, yes, even negative results." | ||
–Baird on Kallichore | ||
Former Provost of Galatian Academy and predecessor of Provost Baird. His attempt at using hyperspace to reopen the portals failed and closed the Galatia system off from the rest of the sector. He is currently being questioned by the Hegemony for the incident.
Pirates
Jorien Kanta
- Main article: Jorien Kanta
| "An asteroid habitat was taken by force during the Maxios Charter collapse by a wildly ambitious logistics security officer, Kanta, who cut herself a deal with local pirate groups to act as their secure base of operations. The station is protected by a cloud of stealth-mines and crude firebases while Kanta herself, now nearly two hundred years old, heads a minor dynasty, still holding tight personal control over ‘the family business’." | ||
–Kanta's Den Description | ||
| "A fleet that acts with one mind makes those pretty formations so beloved by senior desk officers, a wallowing beast begging to have its throat slit. Cut loose the hounds that we may be wolves again." | ||
–Warlord Kanta, quoted in "My Year With The Pirate Queen" | ||
Warlord of the eponymous Kanta's Den, she's the head of a powerful pirate dynasty. Before becoming a pirate she was a Hegemony logistics officer with the rank of colonel. Kanta cut a deal with the pirate warlord Onesimos Loke to turn the Hegemony base in Magec – and its arsenal – over to him. She declared herself the successor to Loke after his defeat and death at the hands of Phillip Andrada.
Doctor Cydonia
| "Don't listen to those weepy crypto-Luddics on the ethics board; the rejection rate is nowhere near what the rumors imply." | ||
–"Doctor" Wyatt Cydonia (alias), COMSEC intercept | ||
Personal assistant to Warlord Kanta and an expert in cloning, described as a small, strange man wearing some parody of a doctor's surgical garb.
Onesimos Loke
| "You know the histories, of the great and terrible Warlord Onesimos Loke, yes? Once a grand officer of the Domain..." Cotton looks distant, "The Knights of Ludd stood then with the Hegemony. Standing with Pride against Wrath. Was that the Path?" | ||
–Livewell Cotton on the Warlord Loke | ||
A former Domain officer who became a pirate warlord after the Collapse, who raided the Persean Sector circa Cycle 160. He was defeated and killed by Philip Andrada in the Battle of Maxios.
| "This abomination is a sad copy of Onesimos Loke concocted by so-called 'doctor' Cydonia. He is a sick man, and to please Kanta for reasons I do not understand, he made a sick joke of the miracle of life." | ||
–Livewell Cotton on the clone Loke | ||
Loke was cloned by Warlord Kanta's Doctor Cydonia to torment. The clone would later be kidnapped by Pathers and convert to the Luddic faith.
Warlord Leonis
| This sprawling zero-g industrial station was built to-spec to serve the needs of the Eridani-Utopia Corporation and modified heavily in the cycles since. The station was taken by the warlord Leonis in the blazing conquests of cycle 47 and has remained in the hands of one or another pirate leader for much of recent history. | ||
–Kapteyn Starworks, In-Game Description | ||
Pirate Warlord, whose campaign throughout the Isirah Star System would see him capture three stations in cycle 47, placing a lieutenant in charge of each. Besides Kapteyn Starworks, their rules would be short lived with Groombridge Habitat being abandonded and Laicaille Habitat being overturned by a League backed pirate armada.
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Omega
| "if Luddic association: contemplate human-omega retribution response to multiple human mind-death?" | ||
–Rogue AI during a Galatian mission | ||
| "affirm player [inexpressible] emphasis! to / all / be / join / as / omega!" | ||
–AI during a Galatian mission | ||
| "are you the maker? scanning. you are not. where is the omega?" | ||
–AI Remnant greeting line | ||
The enigmatic AI leader of the AI Cores, and possibly their maker. They appear to be the creators of the Tesseract ships.
Ziggurat Captain
Possibly the entity controlling the Ziggurat, portrait used when fighting the Ziggurat.
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