059: Donathan

ENTRY 059: Donathan

Compared to old Earth, the biological diversity of the solar system is meager. Millions of species and all of the biological compounds they produced have been lost in the diaspora to space, and all the genetic engineering accomplished since the Fall has not even begun to tap the billions of years of evolution that had produced Earth’s teeming biosphere. Combined with the limitations of nanofabrication, biological compounds are the single most significant scarce resource in transhuman space—rare enough that there exist facilities solely to produce these materials, as cheaply as possible, for the profit of others.

Donathan was rescued from one such operation in the belt; unremarkable morphs designed as drug factories modified with specialized sacs along the milk lines to express exotic proteins. Treated as a production animal, physically and sexually abused by the help, it has taken thousands of hours of therapy for Donathan to begin to resume a life for himself on the outside—still expressing his milk, but this time on his own terms, and for his own remuneration.

COG	COO	INT	REF	SAV	SOM	WIL	MOX
12	10	15	18	15	15	8	-
INIT	SPD	LUC	TT	IR	DUR	WT	DR
6	1	16	80	32	40	8	80

Morph: Splicer

Skills: Fray 35, Free Fall 40, Deception 40, Interests: Cultural Memes 50, Interests: Drugs: 50, Interests: Sex 45, Interests: Therapy 45, Language: Native Welsh 85, Language: English 50, Language: Indian 50, Perception: 50, Persuasion 45, Profession: Milker 50, Protocol 20, Scrounging 35, Unarmed Combat 35

Implants: Basic Biomods, Basic Mesh Inserts, Clean Metabolism, Cortical Stack, Drug Glands (x12), Toxin Filters

Traits: Neural Damage (Color Blind), Uncanny Valley

Using Donathan

To the cynical, Donathan is one of the universe’s natural victims. Young, not terribly intelligent or skilled, raised in an isolated environment and exploited, it’s probably amazing that he doesn’t fall into even worse circumstances—and that is certainly one way that the gamemaster can use Donny, as a gateway to introduce the players into some of the more sordid elements of the campaign, to give them someone to stick up for or rescue or just give up on as appropriate to the player characters and the story. The flipside of things is to present Donny as the strength of the transhuman spirit to overcome adversity, to come back from horror, or just to teeter on the edge of self-destruction.

Seeds

• Research into the proteins that Donny expresses suggests that the source for the drug factory that modified and held him prisoner has access to the DNA of extinct animals. Those would be worth a small fortune to the right parties—provided Donny can provide enough information to go after them.
• To supplement his income and work on his socializing Donny has begun working as an escort; during his idle hours with the other boys and girls he’s caught rumors of a sex slave operation. Donny approaches the PCs in hopes that they will do something about it.