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 ===== Race and Faction =====
   * **Species:** [[the_humans|ExoHuman]]
-  * **Born:** 2557, aboard the spaceship [[last_frontier|Last Frontier]]
+  * **Born:** 2597, aboard the spaceship [[last_frontier|Last Frontier]]
   * **Affiliation:** Freelancer and social operative for the [[office_for_special_operations|Office for Special Operations (OfSO)]] (informal contracts only)
   * **Occupation:** Self-declared “entrepreneur without a company”
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 ===== Background =====
-Elias Kim was born on the [[last_frontier|Last Frontier]] to Mira and Theo Kim — his mother a ship’s psychologist in the Social Harmony Division, his father a chaplain who led the morning services on Deck 17. Both were known for calming crises and reconciling disputes in the confined world of the multigenerational ship. When Elias was eight, their bodies were discovered in a sealed corridor near the memorial area. [[gaia|GAIA’s]] logs classified the incident as a “security breach and containment failure,” but whispers aboard the ship spoke of deliberate sabotage. The case remains unsolved — one of the few recorded homicides on the Last Frontier.
+Elias Kim was born on the [[last_frontier|Last Frontier]] to Mira and Theo Kim — his mother a ship’s psychologist in the Social Harmony Division, his father a chaplain who led the morning services on Deck 17. Both were known for calming crises and reconciling disputes in the confined world of the multigenerational ship. When Elias was eight, their bodies were discovered in a sealed corridor near the memorial area. [[gaia|GAIA’s]] logs classified the incident as a “security breach and containment failure,” but whispers aboard the ship spoke of deliberate sabotage. The case remains unsolved — one of the few recorded homicides on the *Last Frontier*.
-After the deaths, Elias was reassigned under the Adoption Quota Program to an administrative couple who saw the adoption as civic duty rather than compassion. They fed and educated him but offered little warmth. In their presence, silence meant safety; smiles restored balance. He learned to anticipate moods, adjust his tone, and say what others wanted to hear — survival through charm.
+After the deaths, Elias was reassigned under the Adoption Quota Program to an administrative couple who had requested a child late in the quota cycle. He was not their first choice. His foster father, an officious records clerk, agreed only to please his wife — a gentle woman who longed for a family of her own. Elias, still shy and stuttering from trauma, struggled to meet expectations in a household ruled by precision and routine. Two years later, his foster mother died of the so-called “space disease,” a neuro-respiratory infection — leaving him alone with a man who had never wanted him.
-By adolescence, Elias could navigate the ship’s layered society like a stage, shifting accents and mannerisms with ease. When the Last Frontier crash-landed on [[the_planet_voi_700_d|VOI 700 D]], the Kims joined an early settlement without him. He never spoke of it. Instead, he turned loss into performance — a chameleon ready for any world that would have him.
+From then on, Elias tried to earn his father’s approval the only way he knew how — by speaking the words he thought the man wanted to hear. He watched, listened, and adapted, studying every sigh and silence until he could predict which answers pleased and which provoked. He practiced sentences until his stutter vanished, replacing fear with fluency. But despite his efforts, affection never followed. His father treated politeness as duty and praise as waste; love remained an equation Elias could never solve.
-After the founding of the [[free_state_of_settlers|Free State of Settlers]], Elias drifted between the first camps as a self-appointed interpreter, trading wit for food and favors. He picked up dialects of Common and even learned [[honga_language|Honga]], the language shared by the Native Tribes. Settlers were astonished by how easily he mirrored gestures and rhythm, often mediating quarrels where weapons once spoke.
+What began as a child’s attempt to be worthy became a lifelong reflex: reading people, mirroring their desires, and turning empathy into survival.
-Curiosity and vice eventually led him to [[firetown|Firetown]], where his gift for people made him a regular in the Entertainment District. There he found his obsession — and downfall — in the miner’s dice game [[frostpunkt|Frostpunkt]]. When fortune smiled, he stayed at the [[dark_side_hotel|Dark Side Hotel]]; when it didn’t, he lived on charm, credit, and luck — usually in that order.
+By adolescence, Elias could navigate the ship’s layered society like a stage, shifting accents and mannerisms with ease. When the Last Frontier crash-landed on [[the_planet_voi_700_d|VOI 700 D]], his father moved to [[morningstar|Morningstar]] without him. He never spoke of it. Instead, he turned loss into performance — a chameleon ready for any world that would have him.
-Ezrah Scherkenstein first met him during a courier-trail audit that ended in a Frostpunkt den. Impressed by how he drew truth from bluffs, she offered him “occasional work.” Since then, Elias has served the [[office_for_special_operations|OfSO]] as a charismatic go-between — translating dialects, coaxing witnesses, and slipping through taverns where official badges can’t reach.
+After the founding of the [[free_state_of_settlers|Free State of Settlers]], Elias drifted between the first camps as a self-appointed interpreter, trading wit for food and favors. His true gift lay in learning [[honga_language|Honga]], the primary language of the [[known_native_tribes_on_voi_700_d|Native Tribes]]. Each tribe spoke its own dialect, and Elias absorbed their nuances with uncanny ease, mirroring tone, gesture, and rhythm until even the Natives forgot he was an outsider. In frontier disputes where tempers flared and weapons nearly spoke, it was often his voice that restored calm.
+Curiosity and vice eventually led him to [[firetown|Firetown]], where his gift for people made him a regular in the Entertainment District. There he found his obsession — and downfall — in the miner’s dice game [[frostpunkt|Frostpunkt]]. When fortune smiled, he stayed at the [[dark_side_hotel|Dark Side Hotel]]; when it didn’t, he lived on charm, credit, and luck — usually in that order.
-He calls himself an *entrepreneur without a company* — always sketching ventures that never leave the notebook. What he truly seeks are adventure, affection, and the thrill of turning chaos into connection.
+[[ezrah_scherkenstein|Ezrah Scherkenstein]] first met him during a courier-trail audit that ended in a Frostpunkt den. Impressed by how he drew truth from bluffs, she offered him “occasional work.” Since then, Elias has served the [[office_for_special_operations|OfSO]] as a charismatic go-between — translating dialects, coaxing witnesses, and slipping through taverns where official badges can’t reach.
+He calls himself an "entrepreneur without a company" — always sketching ventures that never leave the notebook. What he truly seeks are adventure, affection, and the fragile thrill of turning chaos into connection.
 ===== Roles by Age =====
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   * [[the_honga|Honga Tribe]] · [[honga_language|Honga Language]]
   * [[last_frontier|Last Frontier]] · [[the_planet_voi_700_d|VOI 700 D]]
+  * [[pen_and_paper_adventures|102 Pen and Paper Adventures]] · [[playable_beta_age_characters|Playable Beta Age Characters]]
 **Known Freelancers of the Office for Special Operations:**