Seasoned and steady, Varrick has spent her career navigating Halifax’s corporate demands while keeping her crew alive in the margins between contracts. Distrustful of her employers and loyal to her people above all else, she knows that in the trade lanes, survival depends on who you choose to stand beside.

A former mercenary hired by Halifax after an incident in the Carthane Loop, Solen commands the ship’s security operations with quiet precision. Known for her hard edge and unexpected compassion, she’s rumored to have once spared a man she was ordered to kill. Few know the full story — or what it still costs her.

Brilliant under pressure and quietly defiant of protocol, Terrell reads stellar routes the way others read body language. She does the math and sees patterns in deep-space drift no algorithm can explain. Trusted by the Captain for life saving calcs.

Saito is a black-market operator with ties to the syndicates that thrive on Venus and in the Carthane Loop. With one foot in Halifax’s shadow economy and the other in its clean corridors, she moves through the Tide like a faint whisper—heard only when Meira Solen chooses to listen.

A company man through and through, Stroud keeps the mission profitable no matter what the manifests say. He’s made a career out of cutting corners that don’t bleed too loudly and smoothing problems with the right favors at the wrong times. To Halifax, he’s efficient. To everyone else, he’s a reminder that loyalty and debt often share the same ledger.