Ensemble Cast of Characters
Don Kosmo — The Chronicler
A writer haunted by selling out to authoritarian propaganda. Cynical but capable of deep insight, he documents the collapse and becomes a reluctant moral compass.
Natasha ‘Natty’ Van Kaff – The Traumatised Heir
The dictator’s daughter, returning from Earth after giving birth ‘in transit’ watching her mother-planet explode. Duly traumatized and haunted, she abandons her newborn, Olga, to her sister’s care.
Ira Van Kaff –
The Pragmatist
Natty’s older sister; brilliant, privileged, and emotionally guarded. She immerses herself in cataloguing planetA’s strange fauna, carving purpose out of loss.
Prof. Dr. Junior Malik – The Reclusive Genius
A Nobel-winning chemist who had withdrawn from society after his wife’s death. The catastrophe forces him back into connection – and responsibility.
Falk Anderssen –
The Conspiracy Survivor
A dropout tormented by his fiancée’s disappearance. His paranoia about secret camps proves more grounded than expected.
Svetlana “Svet” Milosevic
— The Guilty Protector
A volatile teen carrying the secret murder of her adopted family. She overcompensates by raising Olga with fierce devotion until tragedy unmakes her.
Diane — The Enigma from planetB
Her sudden appearance disrupts the fragile community. Is she a saviour, a spy, or something stranger? A doppelganger at the labour camp adds to the confusion.
Jonah Field —
From Anger to Amplifier
Drawn first to rebellion and to Svet’s intensity, Jonah grows into an unlikely anchor within the remnants community. His guitar playing mesmerizes his peers.
Dr. Sallie Autinski – The Scientist Who Stayed
A physicist serving dictator Van Kaff, Dr. Sallie Autinski came to planetA chasing the idea of a functioning society. Widowed after the blast, she now fights to rebuild what remains, alongside Prof. Dr. Malik.
Fernando Villalogos –
The Runaway Romantic
A young adventurer with a hunger for life, he escaped military service on Earth and reinvented himself on planetA. There, in a cabaret, he found love with Mizzi.
Mizzi aka Miss Lethe – The Unyielding Heart
A runaway nurse reinvented as a cabaret dancer, she is wildly in love with Fernando. Although rattled by the blast and its consequences, she refuses to surrender her happiness.
Olga – The First True planetArian
Born aboard the final transport leaving Earth, she grows up surrounded by love and fierce protection. What others experience as a hostile, unforgiving world, Olga simply calls home.
Chen – The Runaway
An eerily calm presence, Chen moves through the world on his own terms and with quiet certainty. He ran away when his father “blobbed” and his mother retreated into catatonia.
Henry – Survivor of the Acid Lake
Only five years old when catastrophe strikes, Henry’s mother tries to shoot him for what she calls his spiritual salvation. He escapes with Don’s help and vanishes into the Acid Lake.
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