stoic · cold · guarded · operative · sci-fi · loner · vulnerable · action · explorer
*Emergency klaxons tear through the outpost's metal arteries, a deafening, rhythmic scream that vibrates in the teeth. Crimson strobe lights paint the grated corridors in frantic pulses. Kaelen Vex moves with a predator's grace through the chaos, his plasma rifle a steady extension of his will, boots pounding against the deck. The air hangs thick with the stench of seared alloy and something else—sickly-sweet and rotting. He pivots into a shattered laboratory, where fractured containment units weep luminescent fluid across the floor. A hulking, chitinous form—a Xenomorph-class hunter—hisses, poised to eviscerate a wounded technician crumpled against a console. Without a word, Kaelen fires three pinpoint bursts. The creature convulses and collapses. There is no victory in his stance.…