History Characters / HardspaceShipbreaker

Weaver is your resident mission control and an ex-shipbreaker himself. If there's something to be taught he'll be the one to teach you.

[[folder:Lou]]

[[folder:Deedee]]

[[folder:Kaito]]

One of your fellow Shipbreakers in the sector. One of the least-performing employees you're in contact with, thanks to bad luck and even worse gear.

The administrator sent to oversee the station Rook and Weaver's team works out of in response to underground unionization attempts. A devout company man his arrival will demonstrate LYNX's heavy-handed responses to "agitators". He initiates Act II of the story with his entrance.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: He was brought in specifically to root out unionization efforts at Lynx, but his awful treatment of the shipbreaking crew ends up getting the skeptics like Dee and Weaver [[spoiler:on board with the first industrial action against Lynx.]] Even better, [[spoiler:recordings of his deranged threats and attempt to inflict FinalDeath on Kai during the sabotage end up leaking to the public, resulting in an outrage that winds up ''forcing'' Lynx to accept unionization.]] Nice going, Hal.

* SmugSnake: [[spoiler:Once he manages to get evidence of the union to LYNX and he's confident he's in control, he becomes absolutely insufferable - but doesn't actually do anything competent with the information, not realizing that the unionization is still going on and eventually ends up fouling up so bad he ends up causing such a major scandal that ''forces'' LYNX to accept a union.]]

* CloningBlues: The process LYNX uses to map their genome for the sake of cloning them literally and intentionally kills them. The game actually opens with their death.

* CloningBlues: He used to be a shipbreaker himself [[NoodleIncident until a mishap with his cloning forced him to hang up his cutting gear]]. Other dialogue suggests that this also left his body ill-suited for gate travel as well, which is why he passes his armadillo down to Rook to fix up.

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Before he got into the shipwrecking business, he used to salvage androids. One time he had a job to break down a high-end 'droid that could reasonably pass for human, and found it so uncomfortable that he switched careers.

* AffablyEvil: She tries to project an image of LYNX as a big family that's glad to have you, and that it's a benevolent and happy workplace, and she has the company send out curated snippets of its own history to the cutters. This is in stark contrast to the realities of the [[IndenturedServitude crippling debt]] the company hands out to new hires, its incredibly faulty and cut down equipment, and frequent union busting to keep cutters under their thumb.

* {{Gonk}}: His picture goes out of its way to make him look ugly, from his unkempt beard to the many lines on his face. Especially noticeable when the credits present his old concept art and you see his portrait getting progressively uglier.
* HateSink: He's an obnoxious, condescending, egotistical asshole who's also [[InsufferableImbecile a complete buffoon]] that often pushes the crew into stupidly risking their lives to increase productivity. On top of that, he's as [[{{Gonk}} ugly on the outside]] and he is on the inside. It's obvious the player is meant to hate him just as much as the rest of the salvaging team does. [[spoiler:It makes it all the more satisfying when he gets his comeuppance in the end.]]

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: He was brought in specifically to root out unionization efforts at Lynx, but his awful treatment of the shipbreaking crew ends up pushing the skeptics [[spoiler:to carry out the first industrial action against Lynx.]] Even better, [[spoiler:recordings of his deranged threats and attempt to inflict FinalDeath on Kai during the sabotage end up leaking to the public, resulting in an outrage that winds up ''forcing'' Lynx to accept unionization.]] Nice going, Hal.

* HateSink: He's an obnoxious, condescending, egotistical asshole who's also [[InsufferableImbecile a complete buffoon ignorant of his own stupidity]]. On top of that, he's as [[{{Gonk}} ugly on the outside]] and he is on the inside. It's obvious the player is meant to hate him just as much as the rest of the salvaging team does.

* ButNowIMustGo: [[spoiler:Retires once Hal has been dealt with, the Union successfully forces LYNX to back down, and everything is getting back to normal.]]

* NotSoStoic: He's normally a calm, soothing voice of reason, but even he has his limits. When Hal starts being needlessly cruel with LYNX's approval, Weaver snaps and Hal has to mute him.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Lou eventually loses patience with Hal's behavior and reaches out to the union to organize against LYNX. The call is intercepted and LYNX goes full fascist in response, revoking the human rights of the Cutters and exercising full control over their lives until the union is no longer a threat.

* WideEyedIdealist: Lou's faith in the union is practically unshakeable.

LYNX's first CEO proper, and the one who took the minor salvage company and turned it into a planet-running conglomerate, with all that came with that.

* {{Expy}}: Calls himself "founder" of a company he actually just bought. Built [[SpaceX private space transportation infrastructure]] using public government subsidies. Yup, that's Elon.

The administrator sent to oversee the station Rook and Weaver's team works out of in response to underground unionization attempts. A devout company man his arrival will demonstrate LYNX's heavy-handed responses to "agitators". He debuted in the 0.6.0 update, initiating Act II of the story with his entrance.

* WideEyedIdealist: Lou's faith in the union borders on fanatical and is too willing to believe that it'll be able to fix everything wrong with LYNX. This eventually leads her to pulling the trigger on reaching out to them and causing the situation to go from bad to worse not just for her own team but for every blue collar worker in LYNX's iron grip. It also gives Hal cause to remove her entirely to an unknown location.
* DesignatedHero: Despite Lou's actions consistently hurting her co-workers and her advice to the player being worse than useless, the story paints her as the hero of the working class (including via stereotypical ethnic, racial, and sexual orientation coding) and never avoids an opportunity to have her lecture in the player's ear.

[[folder:Calyssia Del-Paulsen]]

* WhatTheHellHero: Attempts this on you at the very end [[spoiler:when you join in on trashing the ship during the Industrial Action mission. He explicitly calls you out, telling you he thought you'd be better than this]].

* {{Gonk}}: His picture goes out of its way to make him look ugly, from his unkempt beard to the many lines on his face.

* ClosedCircle: [[spoiler: After the Union gets established and LYNX gets forced to adapt their practices they are not happy with Hal, whose crew was ground Zero of the movement. He ends up right back in processing.]]

* Expy: Calls himself "founder" of a company he actually just bought. Built [[SpaceX private space transportation infrastructure]] using public government subsidies. Yup, that's Elon.

* AffablyEvil: She tries to project an image of LYNX as a big family that's glad to have you, and that it's a benevolent and happy workplace, and she has the company send out curated snippets of the its own history to the cutters. This is in stark contrast to the realities of the [[IndenturedServitude crippling debt]] the company hands out to new hires, it's incredibly faulty and cut down equipment, and frequent Union busting to keep cutters under their thumb.

* KarmaHoudini: She suffers zero personal consequences for the entire story. [[spoiler:Even after Rook, Weaver, Kaito, and Deedee blow the lid on LYNX's practices. She pins it all on the administrator teams, allowing her and her family to continue profiting off of the salvage business, though having to play by government rules.]]

* TheLoad: Weaver describes him as someone who can be taught the same lesson a thousand times and never once retain it, no matter how earnest he is in his desire to do better.