Lord Tikarathin, a liaison officer from Corporate's blackest core, has been dispatched to the marsh world of Talbut to serve as the integration lead over Mægera's operations following Director Samiaza's recent antics, insubordination toward the conglomerate, and generally poor management of production and resources. She has been carelessly deploying units and losing candidates in the Shalush Program for cultivating sacrificial mediums, whether through escape, acts of violence, rebellion, or hauntings that drive them into hysteria. Tikarathin has arrived to tighten the leash on Samiaza and get operations back on track.
This is Eleka, Tikarathin's assistant, a Tachton servitor construct whose flesh was taken from cold storage. As his secretary, she is capable of performing a number of superhuman computations, serves as a repository for vast swaths of data, and carries out errands ranging from the mundane to the clandestine and macabre. Surgical scars from her augmentations run across her body. Her master bears similar scars, although members of the high brass often embellish or beautify theirs as marks of status.
A newer character concept, Silat is a Tachton servitor. Whereas characters like Gwellian and Eleka are flesh-based Tachtons, typically derived from and modified using living hosts or subjects, with augmentations performed to enhance abilities such as shape-shifting mimicry and other adaptive traits, Silat is the "muscle" to Eleka's subtlety. Composed primarily of machinery, he serves as Tikarathin's bodyguard and bound escort.
Some Samiaza ideations. Samiaza was once a candidate due to her possessing descent-gene characteristics, but because of faulty expression and insufficient aptitude, she was reassigned for Tachton experimentation. She was later placed in the role of handler and eventually promoted to director, owing to her obsessive, pathological disposition and her savvy managerial skills, which made her effective at driving production and coordinating large-scale onslaughts.
She's more akin to Silat — a "ghost in a shell," haha — but occupies a much higher position in the hierarchy. Even so, Tikarathin outranks her by a considerable margin. He is Corporate. Samiaza, by contrast, is more like an experimental prop-up overseeing a regional directorship, just one of countless subsidiaries beneath the conglomerate.
She performed well for a time, until she began making more and more mistakes. She's a bit unhinged. Then again, everyone within — or marked by — the Company is insane.
Sketch of Semuta, who I now think is the story's main character and protagonist. Her mission is to bring about the Company's death by any means necessary.
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