PICTURES!

Meet an author! You know, Alpha was the first time I ever got to meet anyone who had published something? I think... Well, Dad keeps saying he's a published author, but technical articles don't count. Really, they shouldn't.
Ha! Crazy people going to Alpha!

It's all Shaun's fault. He was such an inspiration in his black trench coat-y thing with wet hair, leaning silently against the wall in the food suite and observing stoically all the things the rest of the Alphans talked about... He looked like he was just in a fight in a dark alleyway somewhere and he saved the world but couldn't talk about it.

Stepping out of the pouring rain into an empty, well-lit entryway, Lash calmed his rapid breathing and racing heart. The innocents here were ignorant of the evening’s incident, and he had no intention of enlightening them. Slinking along cold, white concrete walls, he slid into the one room teeming with life.
Skirting the bright girls gathered in an amoeba-shape, he silently took in the peaceful activities, which sharply contrasted his experience only minutes before.

What would four people do on a ship that looks like a cross between a duck and a turtle?
Let's say they're... explorers, pirates, thieves, a shipping company, thrill-seekers, militia men, a family.... Not family. Not a shipping company. Not militia men. Not thrill-seekers. Thieves. That sounds good.

So we've got a team of four thieves: two men and two women. One of the women is a mechanic. She typically wears a black flight suit with a black handkercheif on her head, holding her long, curly black hair out of her eyes. (The handkercheif is embroidered with bright red patterns.) She's a religious person, the last to join simply because she finds herself thinking best while working on ship systems and engineering. Julianne Starpound. She likes interpreting unfortunate events as signs and informing her fellow crewmates that their shared profession is wrong. They've retaliated, so she tends to keep her morality to herself.

Tall, skinny man with black hair.