Appearance

Physical Description

Roswell presents as a physically fit male in his indeterminate 30's entirely as a result of having purchased a high quality morph when he had the funds

Apparel & Accessories

Roswell's apparel focusses on comfort and utility, heavily reliant on promotional items he received over the years.

Mentality

Personal history

Phase One How You Got Noticed
 
Roswell was born and raised in the South Dome of Pavonis on Mars, to working class parents Lisa (a teacher) and Robert (a technician/engineer maintaining the mag lev trains). Younger sister Carly followed her mother into teaching is married to a med tech (Hamish Pine) and has two children Robert and Ciaran; younger sister Shanna left Mars to pursue a career as an influencer on Earth and is presumed dead; older brother Scott became a Jesuit priest and serving on Mars and missionary work in the Sunward region has been posted to a functionary position in the Superior General’s office in the Jovian Republic. His maternal uncle Michael is a minor elected official in the Pavonis municipal government.
 
Roswell attended university on Mars studying Memetic Journalism with a minor in Data Sculpting, but left without completing his degree to take an internship with a major Martian news outlet. As a gifted researcher and adequate writer, Roswell advanced through the ranks and qualified for an employer subsidised upgrade to a Menton Morph.
 
His career levelled off as a mid-level reporter, despite direction from editors and management Roswell continued to submit stories that embarrassed the movers and shakers on a city wide, sometimes planetary or system wide level
 
Fewer and fewer of Roswell’s stories made it to broadcast and even when they did, they were heavily redacted. He was moved between sections, away from politics and business towards areas where it was thought he could get into less trouble, but even when assigned a puff piece on a new starlet or snack food Roswell would still end up submitting a piece that focused on the use of data mining in marketing or inhumane working conditions in factory production.
 
Along the way Roswell picked up skills and knowledge in a wide variety of fields, researching stories, building skills for passable cover identities working undercover, and managing his own tech as support from employers dried up.
 
Roswell could have stopped his downward trajectory at any time, and while he told himself (and anyone that would listen) the only reason he didn’t was his own journalistic integrity, secretly he admired the media personalities who were able to balance credibility with career advancement,
 
Deep down Roswell knew the real reason was hubris and that while he was a home run hitter in research he was a middling writer at best and off putting as an “on air” personality. By the time he was uploading stories from Mercury as a stringer for a third rate media corp, Roswell had to admit to himself that mainstream media was essentially closed to him. He purchased and adapted a number of bots and began supporting himself primarily through his independent meshcast (though taking the occasional corp media contract or research gig when he could). The meshcast gave Roswell the freedom to pursue whatever took his fancy, yielding a small but passionate following but increasingly branding him a conspiracy theorist to the mainstream media corps.
 
Phase Two A Recent Incident
 
Although Roswell craves recognition, he has next to no interest in material wealth. He has been content to exist at a subsitence level for most of his adult life, applying any additional income he acquires to purchasing and upgrading tech to assist in his career including his Muse "Bogie."
 
Roswell's Muse manifests as a monochrome image of Humphrey Bogart in all his trench coated, gumshoe glory.
 
Phase Three Crossing Paths
 
Roswell continued to work together on his meshcast, stubbornly insisting there was a viable market for deeply researched journalism as opposed to mass market sensationalism, selling the occasional story as a stringer or doing contract research work, moving through the Earth system as opportunities presented themselves.
 
Following the fall of Earth, Roswell worked on an ongoing series of stories focusing on the influx of infugees and their impact on the system economy and culture. Roswell developed a working relationship with an infugee coolhunter, Lei Xao which proved to be mutually beneficial as Xao could direct the pair to cutting edge culture and the resulting stories raised Xao’s profile in the cultural community.
 
Although Roswell’s profile was limited, Lei Xao struggled to advance as an InfoLife (and infugee) and appreciated that Roswell always dealt with her as an equal.
 
Phase Four Crossings Paths Again
 
An investigation on the corporate use of emargoed Titan Tech lead Roswell to believe the source of the tech was located on the other side of a gate, in the Eridani system. Roswell arranged to travel undercover, posing as a med tech on a colony supply ship.
 
Once on Eridani, Roswell tried to reinvent himself as mainstream journalist. But the proto-facisitic government soon lead Roswell down the same, downward spiral he followed in the Earth system but at a much accelerated rate. When their media prospects ran dry, Roswell signed on as crew on a supply ship headed to Prospect Station.
 
Once on station, Roswell continued to upload his meshcast and scrounge for whatever research and writing work he could find. But the options were limited on a station of some 7,000 permanent residents catering to gate crashers, research scientists and mining companies. Roswell began gig work, taking advantage of the broad skill set he developed over the years Roswell found work wherever he could find (or create) it: public relations pieces for Prospect Station itself and various stakeholders primarily Terese Eggsbo and the Janus Collective, tech and medical services for the mine workers and station staff, as well as coroner and research/investigation contracts with station security.
 
After assisting on an investigation that resulted in the revelation of a Titan Tech based murder virus on the station, Roswell was recruited by the Blue Harvest Firewall cell.

Education

Completed two years university on Mars before dropping out to take an internship at a media corp

Employment

Gig worker, mostly creating positions based on his variety of skills
 
Meshcaster/citizen journalist

Failures & Embarrassments

Steady decline in employers through to his current self employment

Intellectual Characteristics

Overly analytic
 
Extremely observational
 
Overconfident in his ability to charm his way out of difficult situations
 
Physical coward, while reasonably skilled at hand to hand and firearms, Roswell tries to avoid physical conflict, prefers to rely on his Guardian Angel 'bot and when forced into confrontation focusses more on escape and self preservation

Morality & Philosophy

The unvarnished truth is the only thing that can set us free.
 
Pursuit of the unvarnished truth is the highest morality

person.sexuality

Currently heterosexual with a pansexual history

person.gender_identity

Male

Taboos

Roswell struggles to tell anything but the absolute (technically speaking) truth. Though over the years has become increasingly comfortable with the idea that almost anything is true from a certain point of view

Known Languages

English
Mandarin

Personality

Quotes & Catchphrases

Truth does not mind being questioned, a lie does not like being challenged.
 
You're not paranoid if they're out to get you, and they're all out to get you
 
It is difficult to get a sentient to understand something, when their salary depends upon their not understanding it
 
The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house
 
Until lions have their own journalists, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter
 
Why would I ever want to get into a fair fight?

Social

Birthplace

Mars, Pavonis, South Dome

Current Residence

Prospect Station

Contacts & Relations

Papillion, InfoLife companion in a Dragonfly Morph
Lei Xiao - Communications Tech Prospect Station
Terese Eggsbo - Janus Research Group/Gatecrashers
Bailie Farmer - VIP concierge, Prospect Station
Trecca Gentry - Prospect Station Security Officer
Cole Walker - Prospect Station Security
Alayna Bentzen - Prospect Station Security

Wealth & Financial state

Subsistence Level

Family Ties

Parents Lisa (a teacher) and Robert (a technician/engineer maintaining the mag lev trains). Younger sister Carly followed her mother into teaching is married to a med tech (Hamish Pine) and has two children Robert and Ciaran; younger sister Shanna left Mars to pursue a career as an influencer on Earth and is presumed dead; older brother Scott became a Jesuit priest and serving on Mars and missionary work in the Sunward region has been posted to a functionary position in the Superior General’s office in the Jovian Republic. His maternal uncle Michael is a minor elected official in the Pavonis municipal government.

Religious Views

Lapsed Catholic (Jesuit)

Social Aptitude

Skilled interviewer and adept at establishing and maintaining cover identities, extremely awkward in personal relationships especially face to face

Mannerisms

Talks too fast, prone to sudden movements, tends to jump from Point A to Point C (or Point Q) in conversation but near pathological in conducting research and triple+ sourcing his journalism

Hobbies & Pets

Ongoing, perpetual gin rummy game with Papillion

Speech

Rapid