Automache "Auto"

Automache is an adult at 27 years old. Xe worked as a mechanic before joining the company and xe has had a mech license for 2 years, though this company is the first time Auto has actually flown one outside of training. Auto comes from an artificial satellite around Jupiter, one that was built to have an easy launching pad and hub for spacecrafts too large to enter orbit and be relaunched efficiently–think like an aircraft carrier, but civilian and more hospitable. There, Auto had two family members, a man named Ace and his daughter Lizzy. They would’ve seen Auto off when xe joined the crew and moved onto the Saturn V, and when possible Auto keeps in touch.

Before living on the satellite, Auto claims to have lived on a planet called Orbister, which hadn’t yet managed interstellar travel but “someone must’ve broken the prime directive, ‘cause I sure am here.” Xe was going to study engineering and invention there until realizing that the rest of the universe was way ahead of everything xe’d ever known, science-wise, and xe decided to be a mechanic instead. Xe would called xemself a “pholon” and explain it to be some kind of Elven variant, probably, with fangs and an exoskeleton in addition to the endoskeleton. Anyone around xem would notice that xir hair also changes colors sometimes (auto: “yknow mood rings?”), but it usually settles to the teal (auto: “what does that mean? Oh it means I dunked my head into cold water in the last 10 hours”).

Regarding the robotic parts, Auto is kind of cagey, volunteering only what’s obvious or necessary–the party would know however that Molly and Libby know the whole deal. Xe doesn’t mind touch and is physically affectionate, but generally will avoid situations where anyone else spends extended periods of time focussing on the robotic parts, particularly xir chest or head.