Loaves and Fishes

Cast

• Dr. Lennart Hansen - Jude
• Dr. Miriam Albertsen - Eve
• Dr. Andrea Skala - Andrea
• Dr. Josef Wojcik - James
• Chris Carpenter - Chris
• Cosmo Lucchetti - John
• Demetrios Vassilides - Bartholomew
• Samara Al-Amri - Simone
• Martin Paul - Barry
• Angela Valdez - Jamie
• Paul Robertson - Phillip
• Erin Barnaby - Judah
• Lucy Ivanoff - Pearl
• Nathasha Theophoro - Tamasa

Setting

Deep space, aboard the SHIFRA colony ship. 2140, ship's relative time. The crew has been awake for approximately three years between cryogenic fugues. In the ship's laboratories, scientists are on the brink of an important discovery.

Dr. Lennart Hansen

You are one of the scientists on this ship. Your colleague, Dr. Miriam Albertsen, has invented a much-needed technology that may well be the salvation of this mission: a matter duplication device. It is still a prototype, but you know it will work. The other scientists are being too cautious.

PLAYER'S NOTE: When a GM tells you to, you must stand up, yell "this is ridiculous, let's just test the damn thing already!" and throw your tuna sandwich into the device.

Dr. Miriam Albertsen

You are one of the scientists on this ship. You have been working on a matter duplicator during your awake time. Unfortunately, some of the administrators got wind of the project before you were really ready to reveal it. You're not sure it works yet! Everyone will just have to be patient and let you test it in good time.

Dr. Andrea Skala

You are one of the scientists on this ship. Your colleague, Dr. Miriam Albertsen, has invented a matter duplication device. Physics is not really your forte - you try to leave that stuff to professionally-trained physicists like Dr. Albertsen. If Dr. Albertsen says the device is not ready to test, it's not ready to test, and everyone will just have to wait.

Dr. Josef Wojcik

You are one of the scientists on this ship. You have never worked with a more brilliant physicist than Dr. Miriam Albertsen, who has invented a matter duplication device. However, rumors leaked out about the device and now the bureaucrats who run this ship are pressuring you and Dr. Albertsen to test the duplicator. It's not yet ready! You haven't worked through all the possible failure points. In the worst case, it could kill you all! You need to stop this madness before it gets out of hand.

Chris Carpenter

You are one of the lab technicians on this ship. You assist Dr. Lennart Hansen in his experiments. Dr. Hansen is a brilliant scientist, but he is too reckless. As soon as Hansen has a preliminary result, he announces it to the whole lab before double-checking. The trouble is, he's usually right, which makes it hard to disagree with him.

Dr. Albertsen has invented a matter duplication device, which she's not ready to test yet. The administrators have shown up in the lab, no doubt to pressure her. Dr. Hansen will likely side with the bureaucrats here. Best to just lay low and watch.

Cosmo Lucchetti

You are one of the lab technicians on this ship. You assist Dr. Miriam Albertsen, a physicist who has recently invented a matter duplication device. You warned Dr. Albertsen that she should keep this kind of thing quiet until she was really ready to announce it, but evidently she did not listen to your advice. Now you have an infestation of bureaucrats demanding a dog-and-pony show. Well, you know how to deal with people like that.

Demetrios Vassilides

You are one of the lab technicians on this ship. You assist Dr. Andrea Skala with her experiments in biology, and you conduct a few of your own experiments on the side using the lab equipment. You have been studying wasp behavior - in particular, you are interested in teaching them to perform useful tasks. Recently, you trained a colony of wasps to knit clothing.

Everyone seems all excited about something Dr. Albertsen did - a matter duplicator or some such. That's not useful. If you need something made, you can just train wasps to do it!

Samara Al-Amri

You are one of the lab technicians on this ship. You assist Dr. Miriam Albertsen, a brilliant physicist who, with the help of Dr. Josef Wojcik, has recently built the first prototype of a matter duplication device. Unfortunately, news leaked out and now the higher-ups on this ship are demanding a demo.

You don't think the device is ready, but you always want to try and be cordial to the people who control your funding. You're afraid, however, that Cosmo Lucchetti, Dr. Albertsen's other assistant, is going to be rude as usual and embarrass your whole lab. You don't want that.

Martin Paul

You are one of the lab technicians on this ship. You assist Dr. Andrea Skala in her biological research. You enjoy working with Dr. Skala: she is not only a great biologist, she's become a good friend over the course of this journey as well.

The issue of the day here in the lab is Dr. Miriam Albertsen's matter duplication device. Yes, a replicator, Star Trek-style. Needless to say, the bureaucrats are going wild over the prospect. You're excited too, but you're worried that this will obsolete your genetics research into raising new species of food-producing fungi. You hope to downplay the importance of the replicator.

Angela Valdez

You are one of the lab technicians on this ship. You assist Dr. Josef Wojcik, who helped Dr. Miriam Albertsen to invent her matter duplication device. That device is no doubt the cause of this meeting - the SHIFRA higher-ups have heard about it and are here to demand a demonstration. They don't understand that the device is only in its first prototype stage, and shouldn't be used at this point.

Paul Robertson

You are a SHIFRA administrator. Dr. Miriam Albertsen, one of the scientists here, has invented a replicator, like on Star Trek. This is great! It could be the salvation of this mission - you need never run out of food as long as you have electricity to power the replicator. Now you need never resort to morally questionable tactics such as raising animals for meat, or worse, the kind of mass agricultural production that doomed Earth.

You and your fellow SHIFRA administrators have come here to persuade Dr. Albertsen to give you a demonstration of her device.

Erin Barnaby

You are a SHIFRA administrator. Dr. Miriam Albertsen, one of the scientists here, has invented a replicator, like on Star Trek. This is great! It could be the salvation of this mission - you need never run out of food as long as you have electricity to power the replicator.

You and your fellow SHIFRA administrators have come here to persuade Dr. Albertsen to give you a demonstration. You think your colleagues may be acting a bit hastily here - your food supplies aren't THAT low yet, and you don't want to force an unsafe test. Still, though, it would be nice to see the replicator in action.

Lucy Ivanoff

You are a SHIFRA administrator. Dr. Miriam Albertsen, one of the scientists here, has invented a replicator, like on Star Trek. This is great! It could be the salvation of this mission - you need never run out of food as long as you have electricity to power the replicator. You only wish such a device had existed back on Earth - if you had had replicators, maybe nobody would have needed to leave the planet in the first place. The problem of starvation would have been solved for good!

You and your fellow SHIFRA administrators have come here to persuade Dr. Albertsen to give you a demonstration of this marvelous device.

Natasha Theophoro

You are a SHIFRA administrator. Dr. Miriam Albertsen, one of the scientists here, has invented a replicator, like on Star Trek. This is great! It could be the salvation of this mission - you need never run out of food as long as you have electricity to power the replicator. This is precisely the kind of innovative thinking that humanity needs to survive on this journey.

You and your fellow SHIFRA administrators have come here to persuade Dr. Albertsen to give you a demonstration of her invention.