Ok! Well! taking the results of the poll into account, here's the one character that I feel comfortable introducing before making a model / plans for him. <The other fellow, while cool as hell, doesn't have as nice reference art yet, and is much more of a spoiler)

This is Monty Carlo! A rootin', tootin', shootin' robot from the outskirts of Warp City. His game was an... ambitious farming - slash - lightgun game, where the player would both manage their robotic farm during the day, and defend their western town from alien invaders at night. (Like every other game, suffice it to say that it was never, ever completed.) His files were dumped, but garbage collection glitched, and threw them out into the area bordering the Unfinished Expanse and Warp City.

Ever since getting a solfile, he's still been doing the same old thing: 'Wake up', take care of the farm simulation, chat with Curie before she goes on her adventures into the Expanse, and prepare the farm for the 'nighttime'.

The start of night triggers the 'alien attack' phase of the game. Wave upon wave of mindless aliens descend upon the farm to attack, and he defends it. It's all he knows! It's nothing much but it's honest work, etc etc.

Oh, that's the Professor! Professor Watts, to be exact. He was originally from one of WarpWorks's unfinished game demos. I can't quite recall the name at the moment, but it was an educational game for children/teens that focused on science. Like pretty much everything WarpWorks developed, it was never released. It happened to be an earlier game of theirs, so - as far as I've been told - he wasn't originally 'alive', for lack of a better term. Once they started working on the SOL project, things kind of spread around in the files. It's one of the things he's researching, actually! Even after getting his own will, he's an avid academic, and spends most of his time studying The Warp. Very personable, and super helpful, so if you need any help, I'd definitely go ask him! Just be warned that if you ask him an interesting question, he's probably going to give a whole lecture on the matter. Get ready to take notes and also probably spend like two hours listening that man can TALK