The Archive
The Survivors
One thousand, two hundred, and eighty named humans, resurrected from preserved DNA by the Aetherion Covenant. This is the archive kept of them — fragmentary, partial, and growing.
And the galaxy scattered them.
Specimen Dossiers
A classified archive of the last humans.
What follows is a sample of surviving entries, preserved in the form kept by their custodians. Designations are current at the time of indexing. Status is known to change.
NetworkedSpecimen · Ivra Nomura
Ivra Nomura
Antecedent
Uplinked at seven to a Covenant research lattice, she now processes fourteen parallel inquiries without apparent strain. Her handlers record her as cooperative. Her private journals, which she believes are private, suggest she is cataloging them in return.
- Origin
- Cradle Station Omega
- Epoch
- Third Dispersal
- Affinity
- Resonant
- Temperament
- Watchful
NetworkedSpecimen · Dren Akalu
Dren Akalu
Antecedent
One of the first humans integrated into the Ves-Thalim observation grid. He answers every question he is asked, truthfully. He has not been asked the correct question in eleven years.
- Origin
- Genetic Archive 3
- Epoch
- Pre-Convergence
- Affinity
- Latent
- Temperament
- Steady
NetworkedSpecimen · Mirael Vask
Mirael Vask
Antecedent
A diagnostic anomaly in her resurrection cohort flagged her as non-viable; she was networked for study rather than for utility. The anomaly has not recurred. The study has not ended.
- Origin
- Deep Vault — Aetherion Prime
- Epoch
- Third Dispersal
- Affinity
- Fractured
- Temperament
- Guarded
NetworkedSpecimen · Oren Tassik
Oren Tassik
Antecedent
Volunteered for full integration after her second handler died of causes the Covenant prefers not to discuss. She is the most cooperative subject in the program. No one has asked what she is cooperating toward.
- Origin
- Cradle Station Omega
- Epoch
- Post-Silence
- Affinity
- Latent
- Temperament
- Watchful
NetworkedSpecimen · Liora Vess
Liora Vess
Antecedent
Uplinked before she could refuse, Liora has since become the network. Her responses arrive with the cadence of an older, slower thing. Her handlers have begun to address her with formality they cannot explain.
- Origin
- Deep Vault — Aetherion Prime
- Epoch
- Pre-Convergence
- Affinity
- Resonant
- Temperament
- Guarded
NetworkedSpecimen · Arik Holven
Arik Holven
Antecedent
A mid-tier analyst in the Khorran monitoring syndicate, valued for steadiness and a memory that does not drift. He has assembled, without being asked, a list of every other human he has encountered through the feed.
- Origin
- Genetic Archive 11
- Epoch
- Third Dispersal
- Affinity
- Latent
- Temperament
- Searching
CaptiveSpecimen · Halen Voss
Halen Voss
Antecedent
Purchased at auction twice and ceded to a private menagerie after the second owner failed to interpret her silences. She has mapped every corridor of her enclosure by the sound of ventilation alone.
- Origin
- Genetic Archive 7
- Epoch
- Post-Silence
- Affinity
- Resonant
- Temperament
- Unbroken
CaptiveSpecimen · Kestra Imay
Kestra Imay
Antecedent
Research subject at Station Dhara since before she learned language. Her handlers cataloged fourteen behavioral anomalies before concluding she was not an animal. She has not spoken to another human in nine years.
- Origin
- Cradle Station Omega
- Epoch
- Pre-Convergence
- Affinity
- Resonant
- Temperament
- Guarded
CaptiveSpecimen · Neva Sarn
Neva Sarn
Antecedent
Sold twice through legal channels and once through not. Her current owner considers her a symbol of taste. She considers him a schedule to be memorized. The discrepancy has not yet resolved.
- Origin
- Genetic Archive 4
- Epoch
- Third Dispersal
- Affinity
- Latent
- Temperament
- Unbroken
CaptiveSpecimen · Dorran Ilek
Dorran Ilek
Antecedent
Held in a diplomatic compound he is told is a home. The food is excellent. The conversation is observed. He has not been unobserved since the day he woke, and he knows this the way a fish knows water.
- Origin
- Cradle Station Omega
- Epoch
- Post-Silence
- Affinity
- Resonant
- Temperament
- Guarded
CaptiveSpecimen · Marah Vek
Marah Vek
Antecedent
Resurrected aboard a merchant vessel and never taken off it. The ship is her country. Her owners are her weather. She has not set foot on a planet, and she has stopped asking what one feels like.
- Origin
- Genetic Archive 8
- Epoch
- Third Dispersal
- Affinity
- Null
- Temperament
- Grieving
CaptiveSpecimen · Maya
Maya
Antecedent
Among the first of the Covenant's reconstructions, and still awake. Held at the Krell research facility longer than any current subject, she reads on their instruments as unusually retentive and nothing more. They have not noticed that she has mapped the building, catalogued the schedules, and begun, quietly, to wait.
- Origin
- Deep Vault — Aetherion Prime
- Epoch
- Pre-Convergence
- Affinity
- Latent
- Temperament
- Unbroken
FreeSpecimen · Juno Weave
Juno Weave
Antecedent
Walked out of a decommissioned archive on Verre during a handover audit and was never re-registered. She pays her way as a translator on the outer circuits. Three civilizations believe she is dead.
- Origin
- Genetic Archive 12
- Epoch
- Third Dispersal
- Affinity
- Latent
- Temperament
- Searching
FreeSpecimen · Tovan Sel
Tovan Sel
Antecedent
Declared surplus by his custodians and released into the freeports of the Khorran Reach, where human novelty still commands a fare. He lives small, moves often, and speaks the names of others like his only when no one is listening.
- Origin
- Deep Vault — Aetherion Prime
- Epoch
- Post-Silence
- Affinity
- Null
- Temperament
- Steady
FreeSpecimen · Tavi Ren Ohm
Tavi Ren-Ohm
Antecedent
Walked off a custody transfer during a station evacuation and has been, by any meaningful definition, free for three years. He pays his rent in languages most of the galaxy has forgotten how to use.
- Origin
- Genetic Archive 6
- Epoch
- Post-Silence
- Affinity
- Latent
- Temperament
- Searching
FreeSpecimen · Selune Kor
Selune Kor
Antecedent
Bought her own registration on a world where that is technically legal. Reapplies for it every year. Keeps the receipts in a lacquered box that predates any civilization she has met.
- Origin
- Deep Vault — Aetherion Prime
- Epoch
- Third Dispersal
- Affinity
- Resonant
- Temperament
- Steady
FreeSpecimen · Haben Isvar
Haben Isvar
Antecedent
The Covenant considers his case closed. A handful of private parties do not. He moves monthly, trades often, and has taught himself to read the weather of a room before he enters it.
- Origin
- Cradle Station Omega
- Epoch
- Pre-Convergence
- Affinity
- Fractured
- Temperament
- Watchful
HiddenSpecimen · Ash Corriander
Ash Corriander
Antecedent
Sheltered by a Zephrith academic who falsified the resurrection ledger the night Ash was decanted. The entry reads: specimen lost in transit. The specimen has grown up in a garden.
- Origin
- Genetic Archive 2
- Epoch
- Third Dispersal
- Affinity
- Resonant
- Temperament
- Waiting
HiddenSpecimen · Sable Ren
Sable Ren
Antecedent
Believed dead by her Covenant handlers after a transit accident neither she nor her rescuer have described. She surfaces only through intermediaries. The intermediaries do not know what she looks like.
- Origin
- Cradle Station Omega
- Epoch
- Pre-Convergence
- Affinity
- Fractured
- Temperament
- Watchful
HiddenSpecimen · Irien Moss
Irien Moss
Antecedent
Declared stillborn by a sympathetic attending physician who then broke three laws to keep her breathing. She has lived her entire life under a name not on any ledger, in a house not on any map.
- Origin
- Genetic Archive 2
- Epoch
- Post-Silence
- Affinity
- Latent
- Temperament
- Waiting
HiddenSpecimen · Varun Del
Varun Del
Antecedent
Sheltered by a monastic order on a world that asked no questions. He left the order a decade ago and left no address. The order still sets a place for him at the evening meal.
- Origin
- Genetic Archive 10
- Epoch
- Third Dispersal
- Affinity
- Resonant
- Temperament
- Steady
RefusedSpecimen · Ortun Vek
Ortun Vek
Antecedent
Contacted by Reed's network during the Athera sweep. She listened to everything, asked three questions, and declined. Her reasons were sound. That is what makes her dangerous to forget.
- Origin
- Deep Vault — Aetherion Prime
- Epoch
- Third Dispersal
- Affinity
- Latent
- Temperament
- Defiant
RefusedSpecimen · Kestral Anu
Kestral Anu
Antecedent
Read the dossier, thanked the courier, and returned the seal unbroken. Her response contained one sentence: not yet, and not like this. She has not been approached again. She has not moved.
- Origin
- Deep Vault — Aetherion Prime
- Epoch
- Pre-Convergence
- Affinity
- Latent
- Temperament
- Defiant
LostSpecimen · Phaedra Nim
Phaedra Nim
Antecedent
Manifest entry survives; the vessel does not. Her transit between custodians passed through a region the Covenant no longer maps. Three searches have been conducted. None have been completed.
- Origin
- Genetic Archive 9
- Epoch
- Post-Silence
- Affinity
- Null
- Temperament
- Grieving
LostSpecimen · Mihal Osrin
Mihal Osrin
Antecedent
Logged into a transit module and was not logged out. The module was recovered intact. The manifest lists her aboard. The cabin was empty, and it had been empty long enough that dust had settled.
- Origin
- Genetic Archive 1
- Epoch
- Third Dispersal
- Affinity
- Fractured
- Temperament
- Grieving
UnreachableSpecimen · Sev Aoin Ilith
Sev-Aoin Ilith
Antecedent
Last confirmed aboard an unregistered vessel that crossed the quiet barrier and did not return. No signal has answered his name since. Instruments suggest he is still alive. Instruments suggest a great deal they cannot prove.
- Origin
- Deep Vault — Aetherion Prime
- Epoch
- Pre-Convergence
- Affinity
- Resonant
- Temperament
- Waiting
UnreachableSpecimen · Eiri Valen
Eiri Valen
Antecedent
Her last transmission described weather that no world in the registered galaxy is known to have. The signal was clean. The coordinates resolve to empty space. She has not repeated herself, and nothing has answered in her stead.
- Origin
- Cradle Station Omega
- Epoch
- Post-Silence
- Affinity
- Resonant
- Temperament
- Waiting
Each survivor has a name, a fate, and a canonical story. They will be revealed in time.
New dossiers and archive updates are announced first on @Seedfall.