Your Name: Jordan Your Email: wiccanstar602 at gmail dot com
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Character's Name: Quellcrist Falconer Character's Fandom:Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, and Woken Furies by Richard K Morgan Character's Home Universe: Quell comes from a universe set about 300-500 years in the future, depending on your point in time in this world. Mankind's understanding of technology has advanced so much that people's entire personalities can be downloaded into pieces of hardware capable of being implanted into the spinal column, known as datastacks. Provided you have the money or influence, one can have their conscious transplanted into new bodies if your current one doesn't suit you, or if you die. Because of this, natural death is only an annoyance. The only thing that truly sticks is permanent damage to a datastack, known as Real Death.
At about the same time, ancient colonies on Mars were discovered that had been built by an alien race. Very little of their technology is understood, but enough was surmised to work hyper gates and FTL drives, allowing man to visit and colonize home worlds, the settlement of which is overseen by a Big Brother version of the UN. Live freely, so long as you don't overthrow your government.
To enforce this policy is a covert group of special UN operatives, known as the Envoy Corps. Envoys are trained in extreme black operation and counter insurgency tactics. When it is suspected that a populace is becoming revolutionary, Envoys have their datastacks uploaded to a relay network called hypercast needles, where they are then given access to ethnically common clone "sleeves" outfitted to counteract any threat they face. To an Envoy, any means is a correct means to maintain the status quo.
Nadia Makita, better known as Quellcrist Falconer, was a radical revolutionary, positing that any government would be better than the oligarchic quasi-royalty that ruled her planet, Harlan's World. Harlan's world is a tropical planet, having much of its surface over 90% water. Aerial technology is extremely limited, being that Martian orbital platforms exist that will shoot anything with a hint of unnatural workings to it that flies 400 meters or more above the planet's surface at any given location.
Because of these conditions, the ruling class, known as the First Families, has taken advantage of this disadvantage, casting the majority of Harlan's World into hedonistic poverty.
Quell was born a member of the aristocracy, a known sympathizer for the planet's proletariat. After working in belaweed planations, she began publishing essays, books, and poetry, some of which inspired many to follow her standard, starting a war known as the Unsettlement. She became a sort of Robin Hood for these people, and her form of anarchy was coined "Quellism". Quell posited that revolutions never die, as long as the people remember. Like the Quellcrist sea plant of Harlan's World, the resistance can die, but as long as parts exist, it can grow once more out of the microbes of a defeated entity. She supported this in an essay she wrote, calling it "the March of History."
The revolution died with Quell, when she was being taken from a battlefield. The airship she was on breached the 400 meter ceiling and was destroyed by an orbital satellite. The revolution, but not the ideas behind it, was destroyed in a single energy blast. Quells words were lived on in such works as Things I Should Have Learned By Now, Poems and Other Prevarications, and The Campaign Journals.
Quellcrist Falconer | The Takeshi Kovacs series part 1
Your Name: Jordan
Your Email: wiccanstar602 at gmail dot com
Character:
Character's Name: Quellcrist Falconer
Character's Fandom: Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, and Woken Furies by Richard K Morgan
Character's Home Universe: Quell comes from a universe set about 300-500 years in the future, depending on your point in time in this world. Mankind's understanding of technology has advanced so much that people's entire personalities can be downloaded into pieces of hardware capable of being implanted into the spinal column, known as datastacks. Provided you have the money or influence, one can have their conscious transplanted into new bodies if your current one doesn't suit you, or if you die. Because of this, natural death is only an annoyance. The only thing that truly sticks is permanent damage to a datastack, known as Real Death.
At about the same time, ancient colonies on Mars were discovered that had been built by an alien race. Very little of their technology is understood, but enough was surmised to work hyper gates and FTL drives, allowing man to visit and colonize home worlds, the settlement of which is overseen by a Big Brother version of the UN. Live freely, so long as you don't overthrow your government.
To enforce this policy is a covert group of special UN operatives, known as the Envoy Corps. Envoys are trained in extreme black operation and counter insurgency tactics. When it is suspected that a populace is becoming revolutionary, Envoys have their datastacks uploaded to a relay network called hypercast needles, where they are then given access to ethnically common clone "sleeves" outfitted to counteract any threat they face. To an Envoy, any means is a correct means to maintain the status quo.
Nadia Makita, better known as Quellcrist Falconer, was a radical revolutionary, positing that any government would be better than the oligarchic quasi-royalty that ruled her planet, Harlan's World. Harlan's world is a tropical planet, having much of its surface over 90% water. Aerial technology is extremely limited, being that Martian orbital platforms exist that will shoot anything with a hint of unnatural workings to it that flies 400 meters or more above the planet's surface at any given location.
Because of these conditions, the ruling class, known as the First Families, has taken advantage of this disadvantage, casting the majority of Harlan's World into hedonistic poverty.
Quell was born a member of the aristocracy, a known sympathizer for the planet's proletariat. After working in belaweed planations, she began publishing essays, books, and poetry, some of which inspired many to follow her standard, starting a war known as the Unsettlement. She became a sort of Robin Hood for these people, and her form of anarchy was coined "Quellism". Quell posited that revolutions never die, as long as the people remember. Like the Quellcrist sea plant of Harlan's World, the resistance can die, but as long as parts exist, it can grow once more out of the microbes of a defeated entity. She supported this in an essay she wrote, calling it "the March of History."
The revolution died with Quell, when she was being taken from a battlefield. The airship she was on breached the 400 meter ceiling and was destroyed by an orbital satellite. The revolution, but not the ideas behind it, was destroyed in a single energy blast. Quells words were lived on in such works as Things I Should Have Learned By Now, Poems and Other Prevarications, and The Campaign Journals.