#cywhirlgate

In a distant future, humanity has unlocked the secrets of the stars, and is sending out shuttles to colonise habitable worlds. In that setting, three character’s lives are intertwined:

Tailgate!

Tailgate left on one of humanity’s first arcs, Nova Prime’s. On Earth, he was nobody; no family, no close friends, no great ambitions. He thought perhaps the stars would bring him something bigger, and was taken on to serve as a janitor. Tailgate was prepared to spend the hundred years in cryostasis he had been warned about to reach their destination, but a malfunction led to him spending an extra twenty years in his pod, forgotten about by every staff member. The longer statis left his legs damaged, and he now suffers from chronic knee pains. Tailgate started his job as a janitor, but can’t shake off the feeling that he doesn’t matter here, that he doesn’t belong….

Whirl!

Whirl would tell you his past doesn’t matter. Sure, he’s from earth, from a much more recent past. In the time Tailgate spent in Cryo stasis, humanity developed much faster means of travel. Anyways, the shit Whirl has gone through doesn’t mean anything anymore; what are you poking around for? He’s been hopping from job to job, but right now has found something a bit more stable: working as a pirate with space’s most infamous crew: the Wreckers. The prosthetic claws he wears certainly make him into a scary opponent. At the start of our story, the Wreckers have decided that their next hit would be a big one: they’ve planned to raid Nova Prime’s arc.

Cyclonus!

Cyclonus comes from a long gone era: she belongs to an alien species that used to inhabit Upper Tetrahex. But Cyclonus was one day caught inside some sort of space rift, and when she finally escaped years later, she realized thousands of years had passed, and she that was the last remaining member of her species. Her home-world is gone, destroyed, and before she could truly figure humans out, she was captured by Nova Prime’s favoured scientist, Jhiaxus. Now, she is being held and experimented on on board the arc…