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Characters

A

Arco

Arco is fond of the '18' in their serial, and the fact that the '06' matches the number of divisors of 18. Their name derives loosely from the compound ArCO₂⁺ - an ion formed by a combination of argon (which has atomic number 18 as well as being in the periodic group 18) and carbon dioxide (carbon has atomic number 6).

Audeamus

See TV Titan.

B

Baryta

Named after an oxide of barium, which has atomic number 56.

Beef Triple Solutions

Bitey and Shouty

Rochester's pets. Bitey's real name is Wurdalak and Shouty's is Walpurgisnacht. Both are black and fluffy.

Bod

A decrepit and obsolete cam living in the wilderness with Shenfield and Legsy.

Boheleda

Named after the location closest to co-ordinates 44°N 83°E (Bohe Leda).

C

Caldvul

Named indirectly after the stellar object with number 6885 in the NGC (New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars). It is also called 'Caldwell 37' and found in the Vulpecula constellation, hence 'Cald' and 'vul'.

Camera Titan

Canard Du Jour

Chromera

Named after chromium (with the atomic number 24) and 'hemera', meaning 'day' (referring to the 24 hours of a day).

Clear Sight

Cygnus

Cygnus trained initially as a field/combat agent and is of average prowess at it for a TV. They were later moved to inter-faction relations because they were much better at it. Cygnus is polite and diplomatic by TV standards, which are still pretty blunt by the standards of the rest of the Alliance.

D

D67

Daisy

Daisy is a typically reclusive TV-mimic who encountered Cygnus by chance. Daisy initially had no name, having 'eaten' their former name as a mourning custom when their mate died. At Cygnus's suggestion, Daisy named themself after their favourite flower (which grows in abundance in their territory).

E

Embryon

Embryon was an entity created to occupy the Titan's shell, but was too slow to mature to end up being deployed for that purpose. Instead, the Titan's mind was created from an existing TV-unit's, and Embryon was put into stasis.

Embryon breached containment as soon as it could, not desiring to remain in statis, and hid from its faction in the void (the space through which TVs pass when teleporting). To everyone's surprise, Phaeton was able to locate it in the void, which spurred Embryon to trust Phaeton with the task of destroying Embryon's override, held by the former Imperator.

F

Fiend

Fiend is a a TV-mimic with a heated rivalry with Vee (an actual TV), whom he sees as a weaker version.

Fornax

Fornax holds a superintendent role in the tailor division, though they much prefer to work on the actual designing and are fairly lax about the supervisory part. The most impressive pieces in their portfolio are designing outfits for the Titan that do not impede its weapons, and outfits for the Imperator that can safely be used with their incendiary powers without compromising style.

Fornax is a close friend (and on-off partner, currently on) of Cygnus. They are also partially responsible for you (as in Phaeton) acquiring your current name — it was because of Fornax's encouragement that Cygnus prompted you to choose a name instead of going solely by your species label.

Forty-Three

A newly-activated TV, still discovering their potential.

H

High Flyer

Hyperion Panoptes

See Camera Titan.

Hype Tram Jam

I

Ianthe

Ninety-Eight-Zero-Seven and Fifty-Zero-Seven are collectively referred to as 'the Sevens' (both their serials end in Zero-Seven). To avoid confusion, 9807 is nicknamed 'Ianthe' (for the asteroid 98-Ianthe).

J

Jeffrey

[redacted]

The only TV who was not perfect.

K

Kindle

Kindle is a short TV-unit with a crush on all three Alliance Titans.

Kinetic Octopus Drink

Kirov

Named after the Kirov Islands, which are the nearest landmass to co-ordinates 76°N 78°E.

L

Loquitur

See Sound Titan.

N

Nil

The former Imperator before the current one. Was in disgrace for treason, and is now redeeming themself as Cygnus's understudy.

Noir

Noir is a high-ranking Alliance officer with little tolerance for nonsense.

P

Palindrome

Palindrome's nickname is based on their mirrored serial. They were one of the candidates for being upgraded to the Titan, and later retrained as an engineer so they could continue being a part of Project Titan.

Peaches En Regalia

See Soundkind Imperator.

Penrose Skibidi and Sticky Vicky Skibidi

A pair of skibidi toilets who live in the Antlia-Four forest. They've effectively disbanded from the toilet factions to live wild and free in their own outpost. Occasionally parlay with Phaeton.

As of the Skibidi-Alliance truce, they now work for the Union in the Antlia-Four base, under Test Twice.

Perpetual Lemonade Raygun

Phaeton

Before the apocalypse, you were known as [your name]. You would find yourself one of the few human survivors (apparently immune to skibidification). To escape the pain of having lost nearly everything and everyone, you discarded your old name and reinvented yourself as Havoc, who had always been a wasteland survivor. You later discarded the name 'Havoc' when you joined the Alliance, wanting to shed that feral and brutal persona and become a civilised and gentle human again. You went nameless for a while (being the sole human in the Alliance, at least in your sector, meant there was no-one to confuse you with anyway).

Later, you met the TV-unit Cygnus, who summoned you to perform repairs on Titan TV, thanks to your organic ability to no-sell magnetic fields that would incapacitate TV engineers. You and Cygnus became friends, as did you and the Titan, and you ended up acquiring a permanent position on the Titan's engineering team.

For your continued services to the TV Faction, you were granted the rank of 'auxiliary', a role that is otherwise held only by Imperators.

Polycephaly

Polycephaly was chosen to be a prototype for upgrading a TV-unit and giving them extra abilities (in the form of Polycephaly's extra screens), in preparation for creating the Titan. The Titan and Polycephaly are very close as a result, each being the only unit who understands what the other went through. As Polycephaly's upgrade came first, they joke that the Titan is their protégé.

Primus and Icarus

Primus and Icarus accompany their Imperator in the field. Their main task is to defend the Imperator's shell whenever the latter detaches their head - acting as bodyguards in the most literal sense of the word.

R

Realisant Mon Espoire

Risga

Solbakken's partner.

Rochester

A maintenance tech who works for the Alliance and takes pride in giving their techfolk clients a thorough clean.

Rosc

Named by letters that can be spelled on a phone keyboard with the numbers on their serial.

S

Sabre

Seabrooks Canadian Ham and Brannigans Roast Beef

Phaeton's pets. Seabrooks is a female black and white Lahore and Brannigans is a male black and white German nun.

Sebright

Named indirectly after the elements platinum (atomic number 78) and gallium (atomic number 31). The name 'platinum' derives from 'platina'; Spanish for 'little silver'. 'Gallium' is named after Gaul but is often assumed to be named after roosters (gallus). Hence, 'platinum gallium' can be loosely rendered as 'little silver chicken'. What is a type of chicken that's little and silver? A sebright.

Shang-a-Lang

A Bay City Rollers fan, named accordingly.

Shenfield and Legsy

Shenfield is a skibidi toilet who lives in the wilderness with Bod, and is usually accompanied by Legsy (an unremarkable parasite who hangs out in Shenfield's bowl).

Slightest House Propaganda

Solbakken

Named after the location closest to co-ordinates 69°N 18°E.

Soundkind Imperator

Sound Titan

Stannum

Fifty-Zero-Seven and Ninety-Eight-Zero-Seven are collectively referred to as 'the Sevens' (both their serials end in Zero-Seven). To avoid confusion, 5007 is nicknamed 'Stannum' (Latin for tin, which has atomic number 50).

Static Rook Anaguma

T

Test Twice

Test Twice works at the Antlia-Four base (where Phaeton worked before moving to TV Base).

Thirty-Three

Thirty-Three's camsign name is 'Fish Magnet' (after a misadventure in their pre-upgrade form, involving falling into a pond). Cygnus's ex.

Trashbag

A diplomat who picked their name partly because they loved the sound of it (as all soundkind pick their names) and because no-one ever forgets it.

TV Imperator

Able to flip between intimidating and approachable. Terrifying in battle to their enemies, and very liberal about dispensing hugs to their allies.

Usually accompanied by their devoted bodyguards Primus and Icarus.

TV Titan

The Titan is immensely powerful and intimidating and it knows it. It is extremely devoted to its own faction, and genuinely loves each and every TV-unit - though it makes no secret of the fact that its favourite and most beloved is Zenith, the Engineer Prime. The Titan is also very close with Polycephaly and very loyal to its Imperator.

Before being remade in their current form, the Titan had the serial 1791 when they were a standard-class TV unit. All candidates for Titan status had their serials expunged and new ones re-issued, so that only the Titan themself and Engineer Sixty-Eight would know which candidate became the Titan.

Twelve

Twelve has only a black and white Aiken tube instead of a cathode ray tube, meaning they can't use many of the screen powers that most TVs have (they can do the white stun beam, but they lack the purple command beam). On the flip side, this means they can display images at greater resolution than a TV with a colour CRT, which can be useful for an engineer. In addition, not having a CRT means they have space for a bigger teleport-circuit.

Twelve doesn't use a nickname; they're content with their serial.

V

Vee

Vee is a TV-unit with a heated rivalry with Fiend (a TV-mimic), whom he sees as a pathetic impersonator.

Very Long Chicken

Vidal

Named after the letters 'VHDL' from 'Multivalue Logic System for VHDL Model Interoperability', which has the IEEE standard number 1164.

W

Wolfram

Nicknamed Wolfram from the alternative name for tungsten, which has the atomic number 74.

Z

Zenith

Zenith is the TV Faction's Engineer Prime and the Titan's most beloved and trusted confidant. Zenith takes their job extremely seriously and is a perfectionist even by TV standards. They are probably the most brilliant engineer in the Alliance and they know it.

Stay in the library, or go back to the lobby.