1.Character: the Staleene Keeper

1.1Character overview

Gender: female

Age: timeless

Most important trait: cold confidence

Character overview:

The Keepers are timeless, bodiless protoplasmic intellects who must interact with their physical world via prosthetic devices. While they are still seen as the “judges” by the other species in matters of seed world competitions, they are otherwise seen as vermin by the Trocara. The Trocara, though, has no idea of the real power of the Keepers as “puppet masters of the galaxy.” The Keepers are fueled by an intense jealousy of the Trocara species, due to their vibrant genetic activity—in this sense, the Keepers are neuter—left only to tend and never to create on their own.

The Staleene Keeper is the master of all things genetic in the galaxy. She has been alive for millennia. To the three Trocaran species, she is just another Keeper—her prosthesis is older and the tone of her sounds is higher, but she is no different. They do not know that she is the master puppeteer—that almost every action they take falls into her master plan. There is nothing that she does not control.

The Staleene Keeper’s jealousy is absolute—she despises any being that can reproduce, and she is simultaneously intrigued and appalled by mating rituals and activities. More than anything, she wishes she could procreate, but she will never admit that she feels that way, or that the feeling is a prime motivator for her actions.

1.2Audition dialog

Cold, dispassionate and in control:

Your persistence at staying alive is most interesting. Your stock-fathers seem unable to control you or even to contain you.

Please excuse my appearance… I am sure that I am quite a departure from your familiar perceptions upon that… what did I hear your call it? Ah yes, upon that ‘earth.’

Well brave Talon, we meet once again, and once again, you have surprised me. Perhaps it is now time to talk of something further… to talk of some form of wager?

You must know that you have no future… your own body or those of the others who dwell upon your earth. The world belonged to you but for a moment of time, and now we have come to claim it once more and cleanse it of our little experiment.