RELICS OF EARTH
A series concept for Prime Time Adventures RPG.

• CAPTAIN RAYLIN
  Story Arc: Mental Stability/Crisis of Faith. 2 - 2 - 1 - 1 - 3
  (Captain Ray thinks that she's a perfect example of a concept called True Humanity, a teaching embraced by all those with the right kind of eyes - cat's eyes - in the Unity. However, she's beginning to suspect that the Unity's deeply-held religious and political claims are wrong.)
  played by Shannon Liska
  
• M'KAIN
  played by Justin VanVolkenburg
  Story Arc: Trouble with Authority. 2 - 1 - 3 - 1 - 2
  (Embittered member of a defeated warrior race, the Dragons, M'Kain has been betrayed by everyone he used to beleive in and now seeks direction in an honorless world.)
  
• Dr. CULLEN
  played by Jude Dodd
  Story Arc: Temptation. 2 - 3 - 1 - 2 - 1
  (Although he starts out as a seemingly greedy traitor, his experience with the new lifeform, Ai, transforms Dr. Cullen's quest into a fatherly search for his missing son.)
  
• BROTHER NARAT
  played by Mike Conway
  Story Arc: New Morality. 2 - 2 - 1 - 3 - 1
  (A born killer, Brother Narat is trying to turn his back on the ways of the assassin, but his association with the crew of the Chaucer keeps putting a demand on his deadly skills.)
  
• NOVICE RUSH
  played by Arpie Bowman
  Story Arc: Grief. 2 - 1 - 1 - 3 - 2
  (Although he seems like an ill-educated buffoon at first, Novice Rush is revealed to be the last surviving True Human, searching for the crashed sleeper ship which contains his wife and unborn child, while trying to decide whether or not to awaken them, if he DOES find them, in this world of mutants and monsters.)
  

SUPPORTING CAST

• AI
  Computer-Generated Anime Schoolgirl.
  Inclusion Notes: AI is NOVICE RUSH's main contact.
  AI is actually a projection from the disjointed and badly damaged mainframe aboard the sleeper ship which brought the last True Humans back to Earth. She is playful, capricious and has a childish crush on Dr. CULLEN. She calls NOVICE RUSH "Mr. Scout" and treats him like a tolerable, but dull, teacher or dean of students.
  
• ALBA
  Danger-Obsessed Treeant
  Inclusion Notes: ALBA is CAPTAIN RAY's main contact
  ALBA runs a smuggling operation on the top of Killamanjaro, where a secret orbital elevator leading to the ring station of the Cradle Monks is anchored. He presented the Chaucer II to CAPTAIN RAY (whom he calls "Daughter of Battle") in exchange for her promise to run illegal deliveries all over the quarantined planet for him. So far, it hasn't worked out too well, but ALBA forgives easily. He also has a habit of underestimating the deadliness of any mission he assigns CAPTAIN RAY and her crew.
  
• FATHER BEN
  Adorably Wise Monkey Abbot
  Inclusion Notes: FATHER BEN is BROTHER NARAT's main contact
  FATHER BEN is a short, lemur-like creature in a monk's habit. He heads the order of Cradle Monks and works in an office hung with climbing rings resembling the celestial spheres of old. He seems to have some beneficial agenda for the Crew of the Chaucer II and the two Cradle Monks, Brother Narat and Novice Rush, whom he has assigned to them. Father Ben knows Novice Rush's secret and works diligently to prevent the holy war which would result from its revelation.
  
• SEEBO
  Laid-Back Lowlife Mechanic
  Inclusion Notes: SEEBO is CAPTAIN RAY's secondary contact.
  Seebo got separated from the rest of the crew during the attack which destroyed the Chaucer I. He has since taken up residence on the lower levels of the Cradle Monk's ring station, acting as a "man on the street" informant for the rest of the crew (and a general procurer.) It takes a lot to rattle Seebo and his main concern is usually his own skin. He is incredibly lucky.
  
• DRAXEN
  Immortal Sniper Turned Salvage Expert
  Inclusion Notes: DRAXEN is M'KAIN's main contact.
  DRAXEN is a cigar-chomping, acerbic war-buddy of M'KAIN's. They have saved eachother's life many times. DRAXEN and M'KAIN leave at the end of the Giza episode in order to recruit protection for the ring station before the inevitable holy war breaks out. He has encountered Auditor Crimshaw before and knows that the Auditor is cold-hearted monster. DRAXEN and M'KAIN both served under the falsely-accused Sorsanis, whom Crimshaw killed.
  
• AUDITOR CRIMSHAW
  Four-Armed Sycophantic Psychopath
  Inclusion Notes: CRIMSHAW is NOVICE RUSH's nemesis.
  An oily, ruthless bureaucrat, Auditor Crimshaw knows more than he lets on about the crashed sleeper ship of true humans that the crew is searching for. He does not seem to know about Novice Rush's true nature, but the auditor has shown an eager willingness to kill (or order others to kill, rather) in order to erase the secret of the original human template from creation. Crimshaw is a top Unity official.
  
• WARDEN ALABASTER
  Dedicated Unity Lawman
  Inclusion Notes: The WARDEN is BROTHER NARAT's nemesis.
  Although he destroyed the Chaucer I, Warden Alabaster takes his duty to enforce the quarantine of the Earth very seriously. He has been hunting a slippery assassin for years whom he suspects is the newly-reformed Brother Narat (he's right, he just has no proof.) The Warden is a man of principle and he doubts the veracity of the Unity faith. This was most tellingly displayed when he ignored Auditor Crimshaw's direct order to find and kill all survivors of the Chaucer explosion.
  
• SUPREME HIGH LORD ALEXANDER TIAMATT
  Insane Monster of Not-So-Recent Memory
  Inclusion Notes: The SUPREME HIGH LORD is M'KAIN's nemesis (seen only in flashback)
  Driven mad by the Dragons' inevitable defeat at the hands of the Unity, the Supreme High Lord eventually turned on his own people and raized his own capital city on Draconis Prime as a punishment for "treason." M'Kain's wife and unhatched child were in the city when the Rambunctium Chain Warhead levelled it in an orgy of energy-chasing mushroom clouds. Although M'Kain was part of the unit which eventually cornered and executed their mad high lord, the insane dictator still haunts his dreams. What's worse, the Death Dragons, a cult dedicated to the fanatical preachings of the Supreme High Lord, still operates around the quarantined Earth. Tellingly, M'Kain refuses to be addressed by his own (similar) first name.
  
• SCHMOVAR
  Good-Natured Dragon Redshirt
  Inclusion Notes: SCHMOVAR died during the attack to liberate Draconis Prime
  SCHMOVAR, a Dragon Immortal, had a gentle giant's personality, but something bad happens to him in almost all of M'Kain's memories. He eventually gets blown up by a sneak attack (after falling out of an airplane, crawling through a firestorm and watching his arm turn to dust from a "Sand Gun" hit.) He existed mostly to distract M'Kain from saving then-lord Sorsanis at the last moment.
  
• SORSANIS
  Ex-Dragon Lord Framed for War Crimes
  Inclusion Notes: SORSANIS exists only in flashback
  A weary, lost ex-noble who has had to betray everyone and everything he ever cared about, Sorsanis eventually sought refuge at the Cradle Monk ring station about a year before the Chaucer arrived. Auditor Crimshaw destoyed him and his ship (and then disintegrated the remains) in order to hide some secret Sorsanis was carrying.
  
• MINISTER QWERTINE
  Conspiratorial Head
  Inclusion Notes: MINSTER QWERTINE is, at this point, just a head in DRAXON's kit bag
  Minister Qwertine is a cyborg with the prerequisite yellow cat eyes of all functional citizens of the Unity. He stood with the council against the mad Supreme High Lord but then, at some intervening time, disguised himself as Sorsanis and revived the Death Dragon cult. After a decisive battle outside of Giza many years ago, his head was cut off and DRAXON returned during the series in order to retrive it, perhaps hoping to find out what Minister Qwertine's true agenda was (or perhaps for some other reason related to preventing the inevitable holy war.)
  
• PROFESSOR VERMILLION
  Doomed Dissident
  Inclusion Notes: PROFESSOR VERMILLION died entertainingly during the first episode
  In possession of the knowledge that a sleeper ship containing true humans had crashed on the quarantined Earth, the Professor hired the crew of the Chaucer I and Dr. Cullen in order to track it down. He didn't tell them the true mission, of course, but confided in Dr. Cullen when Warden Alabaster blew the ill-fated mission out of the sky. The Professor denied any sympathies for the Centrals (an enemy power of religious fanatics which threaten the Unity.) However, the Professor's true purpose in seeking the crashed ship was never revealed.
  
• CONNIE
  Missing True Love
  Inclusion Notes: CONNIE is NOVICE RUSH's pregnant wife, shown only in flashbacks (so far)
  CONNIE and an un-robed, un-masked Novice Rush were first shown in flashbacks explaining the evacuation of Earth thousands of years before the series began, taking sleeper ships to colonize distant planets. She revealed she was with child before entering cold sleep and it has slowly become clear that the Sleeper ship may have crashed in some canyon, since several establishing shots have shown CONNIE's sleeper capsule half-covered in debris at the bottom of a deep chasm.
  
• JEREMIAH CULLEN
  Reversible Deus Ex Machina
  Inclusion Notes: JEREMIAH CULLEN shows up more as a plot device than a character. He got added to the show in the fourth episode, but was first mentioned as a motivation for DR. CULLEN in the second.
  JEREMIAH turns out to be a grown purple lizard-monkey in the service (not captivity) of MR. BLACK and the CENTRAL GOONS FROM THE FUTURE. He gets shot in the fourth episode and saves the day in the last episode, but doesn't say much.
  
• CENTRAL GOONS FROM THE FUTURE
  Very Confusing Enemy
  Inclusion Notes: These phase-cloaked stormtroopers appear in the last two episodes of the season. They wear masks that make them look like living statues, but they seem to be True Humans underneath. They have clearly taken over the galaxy in the alternate future. Versions of MARILYN and JEFF, people from NOVICE RUSH's past, serve as goons to MR. BLACK.
  
• MARILYN AND JEFF
  Deadly Consequence From the Past Somehow Alive in the Future
  Inclusion Notes: MARILYN only shows up in episode 5, and then she was originally included only as a frozen corpse-sickle. However, it is later revealed that she is one of the CENTRAL GOONS FROM THE (alternate) FUTURE that MASTER RUSH comes from. JEFF, on the other hand, warns NOVICE RUSH of the plague in a flashback, advises him on leaving Earth in another flashback and shows up as a goon for MR. BLACK in episode 4 (only to die horribly in an airlock.)
  
• MASTER RUSH
  In-Potentia Villain
  Inclusion Notes: MASTER RUSH only shows up in episode 5. He's the evil lord of the Centralists from the far future. He wants WARDEN ALABASTER dead for no adequately explained reason.