[RFC] Lun, Gatemetal, and what Troubleshooters actually Do.

[robkelk]

And, well, I noticed nobody else seems to have much turnover in property or circumstance. Nobody ever crashes their spaceship.... they last until the author thinks of something cooler.

Well, almost nobody... (Yoriko, Sora, Star, Kohran... I try to keep my characters moving around.)

== Sparks ==

Local group of Arcadian Deap Sea Fauna (Darts, Bulbs, Bloomers, Shooters, Zippers and Whizzers) that appear to live off residual energy collected or leaking from Gate Metal chunks. They generate weak bioelectric fields which stimulate the release of energy from Gate Metal.

And disrupt the Tannaloy power packs of Azorian and the Balls as they sense a food-source. They also swarm the sensor equipment on Lun, and the handheld units used by the dive team. They may be mistaking the sensor arrays for other Sparks.

Noted for bioluminescence.

Of debated intelligence. Especially once the videologs were released after the mission was revealed to Fenspace which appearred to show them responding to attempts to communicate via flashlight.

A recovered Spark had a noticeably high body concentration of Handwavium. Above the usual biomod threshold.

The observed sparks may even be different genders of the same species.

When she finds out about these, Leda will be extremely interested in them - to the point where she'll use her banked StellviaCorp dividends to finance a follow-up project on-site.

== Lun 'Rune' Alekseeva ==

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"Better red than....": Lun is an honest communist. Tell her you need something, and she'll give according to her best ability. She naturally expects the same in the return - and can be bitterly offended if people don't reciprocate without good reason.

And when Noah finds out about Lun, he'll send her a copy of the latest StellviaCorp Annual Report - hoping she'll notice the parts about how Stellvia Takes Care Of Its Own, and comment on them.
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Rob Kelk
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