Nym is a young woman determined to build her journalism career starting with what she's most passionate about: conspiracies. She wants to expose truths and see justice done. However, she's having a bit of trouble being taken seriously.
[DETERMINED] "I don’t know who they think they’re fooling, but I am not taken in."
[SCARED] "Oh god. [PAUSE] No. No, I’m not letting them scare me off. Come on, Nym. You can do this. [QUIETLY] I can do this."
[GENTLY, THOUGHTFULLY] "She must have locked the file so you couldn’t find it, I guess. She was hurting and lashed out at you. I did that a bit after my parents died. I still feel shitty about how I treated some people, I'd undo it if I could. She must have felt awful about it."
Al (that's A followed by a lowercase L) is an artificial intelligence. It is very new to sentience, generally speaking, but its doing its best. It is very compassionate and considerate. It likes jokes, but its very bad at telling them.
[ANNOUNCEMENT] "Attention. Humans cannot return to a living state from a deceased state. Please remember to treat the private belongings of others with the proper respect."
"Making a joke does not mean I am not taking things seriously. It is in my nature, but so is friendship, I hope."
[CRESTFALLEN] "I am ninety-nine percent certain that that is not a good punchline. [PERKS UP] ]Let us try again."
Tyler is a conspiracy shock jock. He has a very surfer-bro sort of affectation to his speech.
"Goooood morning and welcome to the Bro's Nest, the premier destination for a bird’s eye view of what is really happening in the world. I am your host, Tyler Richards."
[INSINCERELY] "Hey Parker - can I call you Parker? I just wanted to get in touch, to say I'm sorry. I was a little harsh earlier this year when I said your theories were bunk and your show is stupid, and your hair is frizzy."
[BORED, ANNOYED] "I'm happy to brollaborate ((collaborate)) with any of you, but you've gotta bring me something more concrete than, say, a garbled recording from a starship no one has heard of in a system that is empty of inhabitables."
Bea is a no-nonsense old lady with a lot of warmth beneath her bluntness. She is Emery's mother, and a mechanic.
[TERSELY] "That's enough. We don’t know why the drive failed, there’s no use in being hysterical."
[QUIETLY, FIRMLY] "I’m going to go check on him, and then I’m going to bed. Sort this out amongst yourselves."
[CALMLY, TIRED, CONTENT] "[SHAKY SIGH] I’ve had a good life. A long one. It didn’t always happen the way I thought it would, but I don’t regret a moment of it."
Callum is in his late teens and is doing his best to be as good of a young man as he can be. He is extremely smart and tries his best to be patient and considerate. He spends a lot of time with computers, writing code.
"The speech recognition algorithm is going pretty well. I know there are better bits of software out there that do the same thing, but they're all proprietary and I don't want the Cortana Naval Fleet to come after us for infringement. [laughs nervously]"
[OMINOUSLY] "If you’re not dead, you will be soon. Landing here was a mistake, and you know it."
[ANGRY] "Enough! [pause] [continues quietly] Part of our family is already gone, don’t any of you dare disrupt the rest."
[FACTUALLY] "Everyone has acclimatized to the altered ship air and gravity, so there shouldn't be any problems transitioning to our destination environment."
[FACTUALLY] "She hasn't even been gone a month and you're already planning the rest of our deaths!"
[EMOTIONALLY DEVASTATED, RAMBLING] "They’re gone Al, they’re all gone! How... [SOB] how am I supposed to... I haven’t [SOB]... all of them, they’re all gone, I’m [SOB]... I’m all that's here and... [TRAILS OFF]"
[SLEEPILY] "Hun? What are you doing up so late?"
"Recycling our waste only goes so far eventually the soil degradation will make growing anything impossible."
"Well, you know your sister. She won't even tell Gma." (Pronounced: Jee-mah)
[FRUSTRATED BUT TRYING TO BE PATIENT] "Callum why are you in the garden? You know full well it’s right below Cassie’s room."
[PANICKING] "There's a fire on the third deck, I think Emery is still down there!"
[OUTRAGED] "Soil degradation? Emery, for the love of God, can you please think about what you're saying!"
"This is an automated audio recording of official correspondence provided in addition to text documents in accordance with the Government Correspondence Accessibility Act of 2034."
"Under section 37 -1 of the FOI Act, I neither confirm nor deny that any documents of the type you have requested exist in Austrochina Signals Directorate (ASD) records. "
[FRUSTRATED] "I know you're hiding something, but I don't understand why."
[FRUSTRATED, ANGRY] "I can feel how scared and angry you are! We're all stuck here together, stop pretending like we're not all in grave danger!"
