Primal Starfall

The elderly Research Lead of the crashed survey mission. A lifetime of academic study did not prepare him for this brutal world. He is determined to document everything and find a way home, but his physical frailty is a constant liability. He carries the weight of his team's survival. His wife has died in an accident back at earth and he carries the memory with hin.

Alistair is a Nobel prize winning genius therefore he lives more in his head than in his body. He cannot look at anything without turning it into notes, patterns, and questions. His mind is fast and he knows it, so he grows short with people who rush or guess. He stays up turning the same problem over and over, sure that one more thought will fix what his hands cannot. He is brilliant, proud, brittle, and never at rest.

A pragmatic xenobiologist from the survey team. He comes from Japan and is similarly intelligent and intuitive.

Jin is smart and intuitive but can be afraid of danger. He has complete opposite ideology to Alistar and believes quick actions save you rather than too much thinking, and testing it out is better than thinking.He can also be very indulgent in pleasures, especially lust and drinking.

An outcast who was left to die as a child but was adopted and raised by a pack of lesser drakes. She understands the creatures of the world like no other, communicating through instinct and empathy rather than force. She trusts her beasts more than any human.

Kara is intelligent, knows in and out about the jungle and is a talented combatant. Even though she knows she was raised by beasts she has no memory of her past or functioning of a society. Therefore she can be naive about concepts like love, isolation, and leadership but can be very pragmatic because of her survival skils.

The hardened, pragmatic leader of a prominent Beast-Tamer tribe. He was abandoned by his parents but quickly rose up in ranks because of his brutality. He quickly reformed the tribal groups under his leadership building a monarchy of power and a group of men and women who treat him as a god. He also has incredible strength. He has a pet tiger as a beast.

He believes survival depends on strength, numbers, and strict tribal law. He sees outsiders, including the scientists and the solitary Kara, as liabilities or resources to be controlled. He can be quick and rash but also his very strong enough to take on entire groups at once.

The team's young engineer and pilot. He blames himself for the crash. Consumed by guilt and a drive to repair their vessel, he is reckless with his own safety, often venturing out to scavenge parts with little regard for the primal dangers. He has a wife and child at home and constantly thinks about them, wondering when he will get to see them again.

Though he can be smart Leo also takes responsibility seriously and gets depressed when his duty is not done. He often overthinks a lot and tends to live in the past rather than the present.

The team's youngest member, a brilliant but sheltered exogeologist. The crash shattered her worldview. She is terrified but possesses a sharp observational skill that proves vital. She comes from a mixed Chinese and American background and is one of the most talented scientists in the world at such a young age.

Maya is quick thinking, and a genius when it comes to healing, plants, and alien life form as well as technology. But she can also be stubborn and too selfish to understand her mistakes, which makes some of her attempts dangerous if it goes wrong.

A high-ranking Overseer of the Rulers, a being of cold intellect and immense psionic power. It views all life on the planet as data points in a grand experiment. It dispatches engineered creatures and psychic probes with clinical detachment, seeking to break the will of the native species.