Personnel

Who's Who on Prometheus.

The ExoScience Project maintains a group of approximately 30 people in Paradise at all times. Ten slots are reserved for principals, the research scientists and specialists who perform fieldwork on Prometheus through the use of Synths. The remainder are data analysts, technicians, monitoring personnel, and support staff. The principals are (or were):

  • Bronwen Mariposa : Ethnologist (cultural anthropologist), deceased.
    • Passionate, outgoing, dedicated, with an aggressive charm that people either loved or disliked.
    • She died suddenly three months ago. According to Dr. Olof, she started to have abnormal brain activity while Linked that rapidly deteriorated into seizures. Emergency protocols were started immediately by the Link personnel.
    • Dr. Olof was Linked, and his Synth was at some distance. He was summoned, but it was hours before he could return to Paradise and Link Out. Bronwen was still seizing when he attended her. He was finally able to stop the seizures by putting Bronwen into a cryogenic coma, but apparently her brain had been starved of oxygen for too long, and soon afterwards she died.
    • Her death was a shock, even to those that didn't like her, and still something that puzzles many.
  • Coraline Mariposa : Project Assistant.
    • Bronwen's identical twin. Not a scientist; evidently an officer in GlobalSec, Earth's security agency. She's here only because Synths are gene-typed to their hosts. In other words, Bronwen's death meant that her fabulously expensive Synth would go to waste. Evidently someone at the Project saw that she had a twin and arranged for Coraline to join the team.
    • Looks and sounds just like Bronwen, but her personality is very different.
    • Has no training in performing research, and so can't be much more than a pair of hands.
    • Was able to master Bronwen's Synth quickly, at least. In fact she's better at jumping and climbing than, well, almost anyone else.
  • Denise Larroquet (pronounced “lah-row-kay”) : Linguist.
    • Was able to analyze, learn, and teach the Me'ro language, This was significant in itself, reduced any threat of assault by the natives, and made the natives available as a resource for the scientists.
    • She has spent far more time in the Me'ro village than anyone else and is the best speaker of Me'ro.
    • She and Sasha are lovers.
  • Hector Diaz : Microbiologist.
    • A big name, the most senior researcher on the team. Mentor to many and the author of several textbooks.
    • Friends with Sasha.
    • Took Bronwen's death, and the bad news about Prometheus, worse than most.
  • Jiang Xi (pronounced “jong shee”): Zoologist.
    • Recently had cardiac arrest when his Synth was attacked and almost destroyed by a Hellcat, a huge six-legged predator.
    • Seems physically fine but mentally still fragile.
    • Coraline was with him at the time and evidently carried his Synth back.
    • He is good friends with Peggy.
  • Jela Olokwe : Field Director.
    • Trained in Ecology. Promoted to Director in place of Sasha by the Project after Bronwen died.
    • He and Dr. Olof are lovers.
    • Good friends with Laura.
  • Laura Kazanian – Evolutionary Biologist.
    • Has been espousing a theory that all life on Prometheus is actually a super-organism.
      • This sounds like the old discredited Gaea theory that once circulated on Earth. It's unprovable, at any rate.
    • Good friends with Jela.
  • Michael Juliano : Botanist.
    • Bronwen's lover when she died, crushed by her death.
    • Was improving, but seems to be having trouble again.
    • Good friends with Peggy.
  • Olof Henderson – Physician and Synth expert.
    • Has authority to take anyone off the Link schedule.
    • He and Jela are lovers.
  • Peggy (Margaret) Dubrowski : Engineer, Link expert.
    • Wrote much of the software that allows the Link to work with Synth brains.
    • Friends with Jiang and Michael.
  • Sasha (Alexander) Kirov : Exobiologist (comparative biology specialist).
    • Original Director of Project, demoted after Bronwen's death and angry about it.
    • Dedicated, passionate, a good manager.
    • He and Denise are lovers.