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Posting short character vignettes and making a little starship universe.


Titan Garden standalone website (this will continue updating after the shutdown)
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Bluesky (this is where I'll post more regularly, including art updates)
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Kollori is a Callistan programmer, working as Timberwolf's computer security professional. She is Clover's counterpart in the rival company, ensuring decommissioned satellites are fully offline & inert before they are dismantled and interacting with computer systems in shipwrecks the crew encounters, where she will recover data logs and attempt to access door and climate controls to make a salvage job that much easier. Kollori has a very can-do personality, and while she might stumble with words to get her thoughts out in speech, when she's typing on the Holonet she is fully in her element. Thanks to the anonymity of their posting handles, Kollori and Lydia don't realize they post on a lot of the same forums and have gotten into a fair few arguments with each other about bad taste and television shows.

Many people in the Sol system would not assume Callistans's large three-clawed hands would be a good match for the rigors of computer-touching, but the truth is they are extremely adept coders and typists. By flexing the sharp quills in their forearms they can strike the keys inside sets of specially-made arm bands to type with remarkable speed and precision. Their thick claws are used for holoscreen manipulation, their thumbs serving as typeset modifiers, and so a dedicated professional like Kollori can juggle multiple holoscreens and computer interfaces with ease. Her Callistan typing gauntlets connect to portable computers on her belt, and when she's not wearing them she can attach the gauntlets to the sides of her belt like cowboy holsters, pulling her hands out or stuffing them back in when it's time to get busy.

Having a decryption AI like Clover on a crew is a powerful asset, but there are advantages to staffing an organic computer expert in contrast to an android. When salvaging data files from computer systems a computer expert like Kollori can think illogically to more easily track down hidden data files masked behind obfuscating system structures, where androids like Clover take a more linear, albeit lightspeed, approach to system analysis. With her quill-powered typing gauntlets Kollori can try all sorts of abstract, weirdo solutions to the computer puzzles of deep space demolition and salvage jobs at a blistering pace, giving her and her peers an edge in a discipline shared by living computers.

Timberwolf came to meet Kollori in a fairly normal fashion. With their business expanding, Bryce landed a contract to decommission and old Terran orbital defense satellite and so he needed someone to make sure that its brains were all-the-way switched off before they start taking it apart. Instead of meeting people in bars or on some adventure, Mahnoor suggested putting a job posting up on the Holonet and seeing what kind of computer techs respond. They received a fair few responses basically instantly- Alan assessed that they were automated responses and advised disregarding them for the time being. A day or so later the job listing received an earnest but somewhat-unprofessionaly written response from Callisto, the applicant claiming that she could "basically do anything, really". Mahnoor wanted to wait but Bryce liked her moxy, so he decided to give her a shot and see what she could do. When the Timberwolf team shipped out and arrived at the defense satellite, Kollori set right to work; she accessed the ship's computer through an old radio antenna and rerouted its sensor arrays to loop into themselves, tying the satellite's external triggers in a knot. Then, intuiting that it might have a backup battery or power source available in case of a power-cutoff attack, decided to remove all power limiters and route the whole battery power into the central computer, burning it out to avoid a failsafe trigger. With a spark and a flash the lights on the satellite all went out, and the job was now safe for the Timberwolf crew to begin dismantling and collecting the old relic. Impressed with her work, Bryce offered Kollori a full-time position as Timberwolf's computer expert, and she's been flying with the team ever since.


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