Sarah

Background

From an early age, Sarah excelled academically. Unlike her classmates, Sarah saw things differently, a perception shared by few others. She is special, connected to the elements in a way that gave her clarity beyond vision. Following in the footsteps of her father, Sarah was enrolled onto the accelerated Space Technology programme at Ministry’s Space Academy to fulfill her ambition of captaining a starfreighter. There, Sarah was reunited with David, an old school friend from the same district. Friendship turned to something more and soon they became inseparable. However, neither David nor Sarah graduated; the Darkwave destroyed any chance of a normal life.

Many years later, Sarah now married to David, have used their skills to stay alive, to keep one step ahead of starvation, attack and death. Now Sarah is a Mother to their Son, Ben, who has inherited her mysterious ability to see the Galaxy in a way that only a minority do, but Sarah is convinced that Ben is even more special and that the Ministry knows it too. Sarah’s only focus is to keep Ben safe from the Ministry’s grip… whatever the cost.

David

Background

Like most boys of his era David grew up fascinated with man’s conquest of the stars, the rapid rate at which we had spread ourselves across the Galaxy in only a matter of decades, all thanks to the discovery of the Starlight Crystals. David soon turned his enthusiasm to technology and computer coding. Fascinated by the speed of computing with faster than light circuitry brought about by the starlight crystals, he devoted much of his spare time building and coding his own contraptions, much to the frustration of his parents and friends who would often not seem him for days at a time. Moving to the Ministry’s Space Academy on New Earth, he quickly progressed capturing the attention of several notable Ministry scientists.

David also met Sarah; for him, he thought for the first time, but soon remembered pulling her hair at junior school. Soon David fell for her and suddenly the world of tech did not seem so interesting. David began to lose his interest, instead spending all his time with Sarah. But his rapidly decreasing grades meant very little as the Darkwave struck, destroying all the Starlight crystals and connected technology in a flash, including his old home district, killing both his parents.

Escaping the panic and destruction, Sarah and David headed away from the decimated populated areas. It was now that David’s skills came to the fore; piecing together broken computers, and machinery to make workable survivable solutions. Throughout the darkest of times, it was David that kept them both alive. Now a father to Ben and on the run as a fugitive, David remains more focused than ever, applying his skills, collecting data about the Darkwave, the Ministry and its military wing the Armada, trying to keep one step ahead.

Ben

Background

Born many years after the Darkwave struck, Ben knows only this world. A world where his parents struggle so hard simply to stay alive. To Ben, the world is normal, it’s all he knows. Ben is a happy child, content to move from one place to the next. Now living in a stolen Ministry patrol truck, Ben happily resides in the back while his parents continuously watch the skies, hills and valleys for the next attack or ambush. It is Ben the Ministry want, like his Mother, Ben is “special” but even more so. Perhaps it was the relative quiet of the post-Darkwave New Earth that has allowed Ben to develop more than Sarah could, or could it be something else? Whatever the reason, the Ministry is determined to find Ben and others like him. Why? remains the unanswered question, but given the tyrannical rule under the guise of Martial Law imposed after the Darkwave, one can be sure that the Ministry’s plans are not for the good of the people or Ben…