If you're interested in joining this plot, see the edward deming: new player guide.

Or if you're looking for former characters See: Edward Deming Former Crew

After the New Years Revolution on Hawking, the Edward Deming and its crew ended up with new leadership: The local city government of Hawking and the growing Magnetic Assembly Nation-State. Heram Wazu took over the overall direction of the Assembly and the crew of the Edward Deming. The ship is largely considered his pet project, receiving an outsized amount of attention when it comes to staff and engineering. While he would prefer to accompany it on operations personally, the demands on his time often require he remain in New Cambridge to use his influence to support the ship.

• Heram Wazu - Admiral - NPC

In charge of the ship, its crew, and completing the mission. The ship's captain is responsible for everything going on, and is the one trusted with making the tough calls.

• Somnya Srilin - Captain - NPC

Assigned to the ship itself, and technically under assignment by the Executive Council of New Cambridge. The operations staff are responsible for handling the coordination of specific missions that have been assigned to the ship. This will often include an Operations Lead responsible for coordinating everything, and a number of mission specialists who are brought onboard for their specific set of skills.

• C-1 - Combat Robot
• Mihaya Hana- Designated Marksman

The science-team of the Edward Deming has been consistently growing in size, and this includes a range of specialists that often rotate in when requested by leadership. This team has space dedicated to long term labs for them to use, and often will remain on the ship even if they are not required for a particular mission.

• Quarum Wazu - Science Team Lead - Xeno-Anthropology Expert - NPC
• Sayla Vee - Asthetics, Fashion, and Projectionist Expert - NPC
• patricia_teppler_gladwell_iii - Xeno-Archeology field agent

Signals-team is responsible for the wide range of electronic spectrum operations conducted by the Edward Deming. For the more mundane missions this includes establishing communications networks around planetary bodies, placing drones or other relay systems to support those networks, and ensuring the ship is supplied with the communications equipment it will need for expeditionary operations. Less-typical operations include electronic support like jamming or systems penetration.

• Mari O'nett - Signals Lead - Electronic Systems Penetration Expert - NPC

The Logistics division of the ship is responsible for long term sustainment of ship operations. This includes all the materials the ship requires including food, personal equipment, vehicles, and any mission-specific hardware required. Logistics is also responsible for the long term supply of that equipment for the ship which expands their responsibilities to include coordinating manufacturing of equipment on Rotislav, creation of warehouses or other manufacturing, and the leasing of port facilities to use throughout the Human Sphere.

• Aralia Spinosa - Logistics Lead - NPC

The Edward Deming is an ancient ship that has been continually modernized, serving as a testbed for many of the modular systems that would go on to make up the fleet of the Magnetic Assembly. Heram Wazu would dramatically expand the role of the engineering department of the ship to include extensive design and manufacturing responsibilities in addition to keeping the ship running. While on paper Heram Wazu considers himself the engineering lead for the ship, handling high level development of the ship, day to day operations are handled by the ship's senior engineer Cad Banks.

• Cad Banks - Senior Engineer - NPC

The Grawla are natives of the Planet Hawking, and have taken their first steps into space on nuclear-bomb-powered-spacecraft. Their first steps immediately being overshadowed by the arrival of Azathoth, causing them to seek out an uneasy alliance with the Ewmans. These Grawla are assigned to the Edward Deming as part of the River-City Agreement that outlines how the Humans and Grawla will work together in regards to space-based operations

• Itaine - Captain of Grawla Orion-Drive ship that landed on Azathoth - NPC
• Eedded - Zoomer Systems Engineer - NPC
• Swrujuhi (Swru) - Islander Xenohunter / Treasure / Folklore hoarder
• Palzurna - Dorky Xenomechanist / Engineer Gremlin
• Ascal Gristle - Bard
• Slog - Grawla Ranger of the Nothern Islands
• Yoltchis - Old Man Xenohunter / Scientist - NPC
• Glaztonz (Glaz) - Long time Black Triangle Soldier, kinda dumb but faithful lad - NPC
• Echka - Sub-Khan of the Zavul Iconman Clan
• Nur - Zoomer Guncrawler Gunner - NPC
• Ine - Anti-Tank Monk - NPC
• Rouble - salt farmer - NPC
• Therin - salt farmer - NPC
• Gardod -Triangle Boys Guard - NPC
• Obin - Triangle Boys Guard - NPC

The Edward Deming has an increasing number of Echoni assigned to it. These Echoni are often rotated out as the needs of the Echoni program evolve, but can found onboard the ship from time to time.

• 27 / Tall Sister - NPC
• 49 - Operator - NPC
• 60 - Alpha Concourse Echoni - NPC
• 101
• 444 / Uso - NPC
• 454 / Eisei
• 515
• 537
• 568
• 595 / Cignet
• 599
• 702
• 844
• 8174 / Purple - NPC
• 1212 - NPC
• 1214- NPC
• 1215 - NPC
• 1218 - NPC
• 1220 - NPC
• 11023 / Elevenoh - NPC
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• Z-9
• Z-23 - NPC

Green-Squad is former American-Union marine unit that had been assigned to the Edward Deming. The unit would largely be broken up after the New Years Revolution on Hawking, with many members being moved into training and leadership roles within the new government to help with forming a more coherent military force. Members of the squad are still sometimes assigned to the ship or Marshal service.

• see: Green-Squad

Not members of the crew, but people who have shown up during the course of the plot

• Ein - Aspiring Corpo
• May Wong - Chinese-American Corpo Liason between Stellar and the HFR.
• Robert Kleiner - Older tenured professor working at 'the bubble' on Atlantica

• Davina Dabloons - Smuggler/Coyote operating out of the northern seas of Atlantica
• Yun - One of the leaders of the Planter's Association on Atlantica

• Korui Hoshiko - Instigator of problems, and the Daqin that set the New Years Revolution in motion by threatening the Adlets.
• Sakamoto Hina - Daqin merchant, who has had run-ins with Heram Wazu and Caxia.
• The Lady of the Lake - Daqin Agitator
• Jan Jian - Daqin Caretaker. First Class, Ox type.
• Jìyì Supergrass - Rebellious Daqin Princess
• Xian Leang ( 賢凌 ) - Daqin General, First among Equals of the Five Tigers. Name can be read as Worthy Approach, Worthy Insult, or Worthy Tower.
  • In command of the Wéi Wèi ( 圍魏 ) or Seige of Wèi, named for one of the 36 strategies.
• Xian Guanxi
• Bài thơ Shítou aka 'The Legal Beagle!'

• Xoana - Aspiring nobility
• Noriko Takaya Mecha Fanatic
• Dorris Muller - Echoni Project Lead
• mt33 - Robotic Assistant
• Caxia - Echoni Project / Cyborganization Expert - NPC
• Stein Krieger - Operations Lead
• june summers - Echoni Researcher
• Ninette Mossgrove - Xenobiologist and medic
• Ward - Optics and Recording Specialist
• Minal - Logistics Lead - NPC

A group of Grawla that have formed around Yilga and the Aliyum starship that listens to her. The ship is triangular, thus the name. They are currently working with the Grawla Zoomer clan and sometimes help with ferrying supples between Hawking and Azathoth

• Taykk - Small Grawl, untrustworthy
• Yilga - Leader of the Triangle Boys, the triangle listens to her.
• Lur - Confident in a guncrawler, does not like being out of one.

The grawl officially working with the humans.

• Raction - Flying Mountain Clan
• Ahcual - aka '6', representative of the Island Kingdoms
• Bohbert - Representative of those following the closed path