Datalinks - The Faction Leaders of Chiron

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For millennia, we have gazed upon the stars at night and wondered, what lies in the darkness beyond? Only rarely have we asked the far more important question: why so much darkness within?" - Delving

Basic Information:
Mission Rank: Administrator II
Mission Position: Mission Factor
Country of Origin: Crown Colony of Hong Kong
Faction: Dreamers of Chiron
Birth Date: 10-19-2034
Height: 190.9 cm
Weight: 77.1 kg

Personal History:
Son of Ian Dunross Struan, tai-pan of Struan's Pacific Trading Company, and his Chinese mistress, Chen An-Wi. Famously, a teenage odds runner at Hong Kong Jockey Club. Educated Eton and Balliol Colleges, U. of Oxford. Read philosophy.

Entered British Special Intelligence Service, 2057. Duties unknown. Released on hardship following accidental death of elder brother, Marc Struan, 2062. Five years with MI6 reportedly left Cobb a changed man. Gone was the wastrel who had misspent his youth in the Kowloon Walled City. In his place, a professional crisis manager took the wheel at Struan’s Hong Kong just as Asian financial markets entered a period of severe instability. Exceeded low expectations by successfully leveraging underworld contacts to navigate a series of scandals involving allegations of flawed drug trials by whistleblowers.

Oversaw Struan's emergence as leading source of research funding in the fields of mnemonics, oneirology, and "resocialization." Expert at obtaining rush patents for various procedures relating to memory encoding and retrieval. Controversially tested invasive compliance technologies, including so-called "nerve staples," on incarcerated populations in India, Iran, and the People's Republic of China. Coordinated successful legal defense against multiple cases of intellectual property theft brought against Struan's, 2065-69.

With the help of American and Israeli mercenaries, built Sabre Group, an in-house intelligence unit, which later spun out as a full-fledged private military corporation. Struan's became notorious for the seeming immunity of its people and assets to mischief in some of the most insecure places on the planet. Persistent rumors that Morgan Industries executives were disallowed from acting against Struan's interests without prior written approval from the Board of Directors. By age 35, subject had survived three assassination attempts credited to corporate rivals.

Respected authority on commercial, industrial, and military applications of lucid dreaming. Has called for sustained public investments in the Human Connectome Project to understand anatomical and functional relationships in the human brain. Appointed Factor, head of the company's onboard contingent, following Struan's accession as twelfth Unity Mission prime contractor. Remit to evaluate Chiron's biological resources for potential pharmaceutical application. Accompanied by more than 200 company employees and contractors.
 
Psych Profile: Dreamer
Avoidant personality traits detected. Pronounced narcissistic tendencies may be a form of self-soothing by redirecting attention to self. Low scores on Atherholt Trauma Function Test.

Unrealistic self-image reinforced by high media profile and romanticism of former career in national intelligence.

Expert negotiator. Ranked Chess Grand Master. In both arenas, noted for exploiting counterparts' anxieties. Prefers to do business on the basis of personal relationships.

Unusually self-critical leadership style may signal deep-seated Imposter Syndrome arising from paternal estrangement. Willing to alter opinions in accordance with new facts. Prefers to surround self with multiplicity of views, seeking input from experts in different fields. Enjoys "jousting" with intellectual opponents.

Medical Note: Post-launch analysis of pre-flight tox screens indicates subject had elevated levels of synthetic adrenaline, endorphins, and a psychotropic aggression enhancer consistent with use of hyperstims. This individual is unsuitable for an emergency response billet.

Shipboard Record:
With Santiago and Landers, Cobb's name is usually held in contempt by other survivors. Many eyewitness accounts confirm that Cobb and his Sabre Group mercenaries roamed the cargo bays seizing people and equipment at gunpoint.

Cobb is known to have rendezvoused with Dr. Aleigha Cohen and her followers sometime before departing Unity.

Essential Philosophy:

• What is the fundamental truth of the universe? Our greatest stumbling block is the unconscious Self.
• Why did civilization on Earth fail? Humanity failed to address its own proclivity toward self-destruction.
• What is needed for the survival of the human species on Chiron? To turn our attention to plumbing the limits of the true frontier: the human psyche.

Additional Information:

Archetype	Addict
Languages	English (primary), Chinese (Cantonese)
Future Works	Chiron, It's Peoples - A Psychological Inventory, Delving, A Noble House

[Trenacker]

How do you unbake a failed dessert? You don't. Once the ingredients have gone in and the cooking is done, they will forever flavor the pudding. But you can introduce new flavors, too. Stronger ones. You can mask the mistake, redirect the palate, and achieve an end result that, while imperfect, will still satisfy most of the time. People are much the same way. The wrong experiences produce material that is more difficult to work with, but by layering enough of the new, we can compensate. The finest chef isn't the one who can make a memorable meal with the choicest ingredients, but the one who can salvage a disaster." - The Mind, A Diagnostic Guide

Basic Information:
Mission Rank: Warrant Officer
Mission Position: Chief of Neurosurgery
Country of Origin: Burma Colony
Faction: Dreamers of Chiron
Birth Date: 02-03-2042
Height: 164.6 cm
Weight: 61.2 kg

Personal History:
Born in Rangoon. English and Iraqi descent. Father, colonel, British Army in Burma. Mother, a sculptor, suffered from severe opioid dependency.

Attended Wycombe Abbey School, Sydney, until expulsion at 15. Permanently maimed classmate during dispute over use of video-telephone.

Ph.D. in neurosurgery from U. of Melbourne. Published award-winning paper on regenerative stem cell therapy to repair damage to the Central Nervous System. Disciplined twice by University Ethics Committee for advocating that patients be encouraged to choose experimental courses of treatment even when conventional medicine was more likely to deliver superior outcomes. Held over on strength of past work.

Completed contract research on cognition, sensory memory, and mind-machine interface for American Reclamation Corporation, making frequent trips into Indian Ocean Exclusion Zone. Participated in psych screenings for 2065 U.S. candidates for Unity mission, including several members of Congress and high-ranking national security officials. Organized testing of neural monitoring equipment connected to ARC Vault Program. Concluded that cold hibernation was a viable potential solution to both interstellar travel and nuclear winter, with long-term neural degeneration holding at "acceptable levels."

Convened 2066 Singapore Symposium on Social Deviance. Lectured on neural transplantation as a behavioral corrective. Accepted position as head of psychopharmacological research with Struan's, HK, same year. Role in controversial development and application of "Re-Soc" treatments led to black listing by Western academia. Accepted as Chief of Neurosurgery for Unity Mission at urging of Soviet and Communist Chinese delegations. Responsibilities include supervision of ReSoc patients and evaluation of cryogenic hibernation processes.

Note: Post-launch leaks of classified cables confirm that subject consulted U.K. intelligence community on "enhanced interrogation" and participated in hundreds of interviews with prisoners kept in solitary confinement. Subject was also lead scientist in abortive program exploring possibility of shared, lucid dreaming in a digital medium.
 
Psych Profile: Transgressor
Reflexive problem solver. Especially attracted to high-controversy projects.

Views knowledge as a highly portable form of power.

Tendency to seek out and sustain dysfunctional relationships, reflecting need for adversarial encounters that reaffirm the superiority of subject's own needs and judgements and facilitate displacement of guilt and personal accountability onto others.

CAUTION: Suspected Cleckleyan psychopathy presenting on all three spectrums: boldness, disinhibition, meanness. Interviews with former Melbourne University staff indicate that, while still a student, subject was arrested three times on various charges, including breaking-and-entering and theft. Acquitted on all counts. Records apparently destroyed. According to Morgan Industries intelligence products based on work with a mole inside the Noble House, subject's Hong Kong subordinates lodged numerous complaints with Struan's ombudsman alleging retaliation for dissent.

Shipboard Record:
Cohen was present in tUnity's Corrections Service Unit block when emergency protocols activated and crew resuscitation began. At some point, Sabre Group gunmen arrived and disarmed U.N. Security Forces personnel. On her own authority, and against standing orders, Cohen then removed some number of incarcerated persons from holding.

Cohen led her party to Cargo Bay 14Λ HK-2, where she folded into Factor Roshann Cobb's organization.

Essential Philosophy:

• What is the fundamental truth of the universe? Our greatest stumbling block is the unconscious Self.
• Why did civilization on Earth fail? Humanity failed to address its own proclivity toward self-destruction.
• What is needed for the survival of the human species on Chiron? To turn our attention to plumbing the limits of the true frontier: the human psyche.

Additional Information:

Archetype	Mad Scientist
Languages	English (primary), Russian
Future Works	The Mind, A Diagnostic Guide; Limening; Remarks at the Singapore Symposium on Social Deviance; A World Upside Down

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If the choice is between going forward and going back, then the problem is solved at once. The backward path leads home. Only a fool lingers in the forest after dark." - Remembrances

Basic Information:
Mission Rank: First Lieutenant
Mission Position: Section Chief, Field Operations
Country of Origin: Japan
Faction: Shapers of Chiron
Birth Date: 03-15-2010
Height: 167.3 cm
Weight: 75.1 kg

Personal History:
Born in Yonaguni City. Father, reef biologist. Mother, minerologist. Travelled extensively as a child, with extended stays in some of the most isolated environments on the planet, including Aralkum Desert, Australian Outback, Okavango Delta, and Gran Chaco. Primary and secondary education through Interlink. Present at initial global response to 2017 typhonic capsizing and breaches of Ilam and Cāṁda Nuclear Power Barges in Indian Ocean Exclusion Zone. Graduated magna cum laude from U. of Tokyo with B.A. in geology and PhD in environmental engineering.

Expert in radiological damage remediation. Consulted for Long Island Lighting Company on nine-reactor atomic power complex in Shoreham, NY. Convinced company directors to buy out surrounding communities, which were bulldozed and replaced with fields of radiation-absorbing sunflowers. Helped persuade U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to grant operating license despite its concerns with Site Emergency Response Plan. Achieved decontamination of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station and associated exclusion zone on behalf of Tokyo Electric Power Co. Subject's method of nitrogen soil fixation resolved inadequacies with original frozen soil barrier laid down to prevent groundwater contamination.

Eight years as coordinator for Amazon Basin Revitalization Project crafting restoration plan for Pantanal floodplains. Works cited frequently by opponents of Hidrova Project, which proposed redirecting Paraguay River to improve navigation and irrigation. Following Pantanal's destruction, joined Sahel Reforestation Initiative in Mandatory Darfur as employee of Green Oasis. Projects frequently slowed by complications arising from the ongoing Saharan Burst Wars. Subject eventually convinced employers to hire Triax Corporation mercenaries to protect his botanical testing stations. Subject disciplined and ultimately dismissed for countermanding orders dispatching Triax fire support to stop attacks on pump stations serving Atlantropa Scheme. Retired to teaching position at Kyoto University.

Japanese nominee for Forward Contact Team (FCT) lead. Appointed lieutenant to FCT leader Jeremy Tanner Marsh. 
 
Psych Profile: Penitent
Strict, solitary upbringing resulted in unusual capacity for self-denial, bordering on asceticism. Treated at U. Tokyo for agoraphobia, depression.

Personal diaries reflect keen appreciation for biodiversity and plight of Earth's ecosystem.

Subordinates most often describe subject as "passionate" and "decisive." Scored .72 on Atherholt Trauma Function test.

Practitioner of "Jiten," combining precepts of Gaian, Buddhist, and Shinto philosophy. Earth-worship. Tendency to presume upon the greater importance of ecological conservation as compared to other goals, including individual and community prosperity.

Shipboard Record:
Member of Forward Contact Team. Withdrew from the supervision of J.T. Marsh (Director of Field Operations) to found independent colony upon learning that Unity Mission had been dissolved.

Essential Philosophy:

• What is the fundamental truth of the universe? We will never be whole spiritually until we as a species atone for the destruction of Earth.
• Why did civilization on Earth fail? We failed to save Earth with the powers at our disposal.
• What is needed for the survival of the human species on Chiron? Chiron must be transformed into Earth, and the survivors of Earth relocated there.

Additional Information:

Archetype	Monk
Languages	Arabic, English, Esperanto, Japanese (primary), Portuguese
Future Works	Part I - The Shaping of the Earth, Remembrances, Yesterday's Tomorrow