#-penrose

Thank you kindly!!! The majority of us really enjoy the style of character introduction where you gradually glean information about their presentation as it comes up (ex: you find out a character has long hair when it gets caught on brambles, you find out the character has the ears of a cat because they perk up to hear better when they’re eavesdropping)

Really adds interest in the character appearance as a whole, and leaves a lot up to interpretation which a lot of us find to be very fun :) -Penrose

Yes!! I forget who wrote that in, but they had a chuckle. It starts with a C as well, so he would still have been “Rust C. Moores” :)

The nickname pookie has been entertaining and endearing for us all :))) feel free! As for the questions: -Penrose

He is a rather egotistical amateur engineer and scavenger, who sells his services to various folks in various colonies, mostly those who need supplies because his shoddy engineering work is proudly displayed in that which he drives in, his poor car Contraption. It begs him for death every day and night, but Rust doesn’t speak in break screeches (And even if he did, he wouldn’t listen.) . -Luni (seperate yet the same as the one you are/will be familiar with. As always, system relations are terribly complicated. I’m sure Tetley will end up telling you the full story at some point. /gen)(Fear not, the Rust you have spoken to is not the one from this story.) .

He was in training as an engineer, and one of the things that his training included was being sent out to observe the (re)colonization of an old, failed pet project of a planet. (We can very much see how well that went) He almost got kicked out of engineering school on multiple occasions, but bribed his way back in. Everything else, I believe, is answered above. /gen .

Graves is their last name, this is actually Luni, who in this universe happens to be experimenting with they/them. (Count on her (she/they) to be in denial in Leafton) (Leytown is an accepting environment, though, so they finally do end up being the she/they she wants to be) . As for all of this, I do believe an explanation is due. This planet was Earth. More specifically, this planet was an alternate version of Earth, as there are multiple universes in which an “Earth-like” planet exists. It is the closest to our earth. It was destroyed entirely by man-made circumstance. . The second attempt at making it habitable has gone almost as catastrophically as the first, though much, much faster. Some things are a sunk cost. Trust large corporations, once again, to pretend that they know what they are talking about to glean a larger payout. (Can you taste the bitterness in my words? /lh) .

Any manufactories that may have existed on that planet have long-since destroyed themselves, and resources are short given the majority rest of the world is treating this planet as an abandoned project. Graves (Rust calls them by their last name because they refuse to be called by their first, formalities) has been trying to co-run a colony in their own attempt to keep remaining survivors alive. . They need the supplies for both fortifications on half-built structures, and to continue constructing the broadcasting pylon that they believe may help them get into contact with any other colonies remaining in The Wastes, there are people they know that they refuse to believe are dead (Because of competence, definitely because of competence and not because they are close. They are capable of carrying on if they are dead, that much they are certain of. /sar) . (As for a screw shortage, Rust is going to have one if his get any looser. /lhj). .