The people

Zeph

The newcomer

An energy engineer from New Arcadia and a skate-glider at heart. Came to fix a reactor; hoping to find the legendary glide spots while at it.

Mayor Marcus

The mayor

A former engineer who became a leader when the town needed one. Friendly, practical, and fond of tech metaphors a generation out of date.

Asami

Refactory manager

Brilliant, a little guarded, and very fast with jargon when she's excited. She turns what you gather into what you need.

Felix

Farmer bot

Runs the farm, tells long stories, and knows everything about energy blooms. Worries, quietly, about being replaced.

IRIS

The town AI

Bloomlight's helpful voice in every terminal. The first to find you when you land, and usually the first to know what's going on.

Oscar Salvage

Junkyard guardian

Gruff, suspicious of newcomers and secretly sentimental. He arranges junk into sculptures, names them, and talks to them. Sometimes they answer.

Ethan

Rewilderness guide

Calm, knowledgeable and happier with plants than people. He keeps a fish house by the lake and a census of everything that swims in it.

Ace

Scout

An explorer and mapmaker who wants every corner of the Rewilderness on paper, preferably before anyone else. Always up for a race.

Luna

Bloom tender

Serene and a little mysterious, from one of the founding families. Says the plants talk to her, and passes on what they say.

Dr. Elena

MedBot

The town doctor and a pioneer of cyber-botany: nurturing, curious, a little sassy, and prone to medical trivia at exactly the wrong moment.

Thomas Volt

Energy guru

Bursting with ideas about clean energy and never quite off the clock. His turbine on Craggy Mountain has stopped turning, and it's driving him up the wall.

The valley

Crash Hill in the north-west, the Town at the heart and the Farm across the Bloom River; out to the south-west the Rewilderness lake, the Junkyard far to the south-east, and Craggy Mountain rising in the north-east.