“Curiosity didn’t just kill the cat. It vaporized the lab, rewrote local physics, and maybe woke up something that shouldn’t exist.”

In the aftermath of the Project Helix Collapse – a century of decay, mutation, and forgotten truths – Scientists are more than researchers. They’re relic hunters, data necromancers, and cultural archaeologists, sifting through what’s left to piece together what went wrong… and whether it can be reversed.

Whether you’re studying pre-Fall artifacts in a sealed quarantine vault or extracting alien DNA from fungal overgrowth on Iron’s End, you’re here because you need to know – even if the answers unravel you.

🧬 Who Is the Scientist?

A Scientist in OtherSpace isn’t safely sequestered in a lab. They’re:

• Curious in a universe that punishes curiosity.
• Isolated by knowledge others fear or covet.
• Essential when the unknown starts bleeding.

You might be:

• A descendant of Helix Plague survivors, raised on fragments and forbidden logs.
• A field xenobiologist trying to understand mutated ecosystems and their alien origins.
• A techno-historian obsessed with decoding ancient black box data.
• A rogue synth-geneticist working in the shadows with biotech that breathes and bleeds.

🔎 Core RP Themes

1. Curiosity vs. Caution – Will you open the sealed pod… or live not knowing?
2. Science as Religion – Some see your research as heresy. Others want to weaponize it.
3. The Burden of Knowledge – What happens when you discover something the galaxy shouldn’t know?
4. Discovery is a Weapon – Information can change power balances. That makes you a target.

🧠 Character Concepts

• The Helix Line Watcher – Descended from survivors, obsessed with tracing the plague’s echoes.
• The Gentle Xenobiologist – Sympathetic to alien life. Understands it might still see us as prey.
• The Broken Researcher – Touched data they shouldn’t have. Now nothing feels real.
• The Data Thief – Escaped with a corrupted archive. Everyone wants it. They don’t know why.
• The Sacred Synth Seeker – Believes science is divine will, and pre-Fall tech was a test humanity failed.

🧪 Tools of the Trade

• Encrypted research logs – Paranoia, or just good protocol?
• Bio-scanners and containment fields – Because some samples move on their own.
• Memory thread recorder – Records subjective impressions of exposure events.
• Field sample kit with unknowns already inside – Who labeled that? Why is it warm?

⚠️ RP Challenges to Explore

• A colony suffers a biological outbreak… but it doesn’t behave like a disease.
• You’re invited to examine a sealed Helix vault. Something moves inside.
• Your research attracts attention from a faction that shouldn’t know you exist.
• You translate a relic inscription – and it triggers a broadcast on long-dead frequencies.
• You discover your mentor’s final log: “Don’t finish what I started.”

🤝 Hooks for Other Characters

• You need an engineer to stabilize your dangerous equipment. They keep complaining.
• You trade findings with scavengers who don’t ask questions – usually.
• The medic treats your burns, spores, and mild nerve disruptions without judgment.
• The spy keeps “checking in.” You pretend not to notice.
• The zealot believes you’re meddling with divine relics. You’re not sure they’re wrong.

✨ Final Thoughts

To play a Scientist in OtherSpace is to chase answers into the dark. You’ll risk infection, ignition, and annihilation – because truth is worth the cost. Or at least, you think it is.

So charge your scanners, break the quarantine seal, and remember:
You’re not just seeking knowledge. You’re daring it to reveal itself.