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From ElectricImage. The alien ship from Awakening.

The first aliens Deepwater encountered, these aliens were attacking the ship when the Deepwater's crew were first awoken in Awakening. They have hyperspace capability, just as Deepwater does, but poor shield technology and uneconomic energy usage. Later, the crew discovered that the very same aliens had attacked and crippled another Deepwater, and that all of the crew members aboard that Deepwater except Reb had died in that attack. The aliens attacked a third time, at both the Deepwaters--Deepwater 2 collided with the alien ship in order to preserve the other one.

Why the aliens have such a grudge against Deepwater is unknown. Some speculation names them as the creators of the Pandora virus. We have also never seen them in flesh-form; nor has Deepwater ever achieved communication with them.

While scanning a planet during the episode Reflections, the crew find another Deepwater, with the exact configuration, in orbit of the planet--except this other Deepwater is badly damaged. The other Deepwater hails them, and they discover that there's another Reb on that Deepwater--he is maybe a decade older than the Reb on Deepwater 1, and is injured. With this comes the knowledge that there were probably more than just one Deepwater.

The older Reb tells them that he was also awakened by the same aliens, but he was much further ahead with his memory and physical development than Deepwater 1's crew. The cryo systems were shorted out before the rest of the crew could be revived, and the Older Reb managed to chase them off, but they left Deepwater 2 crippled, with no engines and only two guns. It was later revealed that Yuna was also there when the battle was fought, and that the other Yuna had died.

Deepwater 2 and the older Reb met their end when Reb collided with an alien ship that was attacking the two Deepwaters. The older Reb apparently had very strong feelings for his Yuna, which, for a brief period of time, had been transfixed on Yuna of Deepwater 1.

[Just a note--in this one I reversed the numbers. In the actual episode, they refer to the older Reb's Deepwater as Deepwater 1, and the Deepwater we know as Deepwater 2. Also, to prevent confusion, Gordon Michael Woolvett did do double-duty in that ep by being both Reb 1 and Reb 2.]

Krista was a 12 year-old girl when Deepwater stumbled on her ship, the Aftermath II, in orbit of a planet in Cycles. Her neural degradation was so severe that she was unable to interact with the crew beyond short phrases when they tried talking to her. A little digging into the Aftermath's computers revealed that she was a clone of a clone--a cycle--and that the Aftermath computer had been re-cloning Krista dozens of times. They also found out that Krista's cyberneural implant, which was hooked up to the Aftermath computer, was part of the reason she was so distant. Also due to the re-cloning, she aged very quickly, and within hours was as old as the Deepwater crew. It was then that she decided to finally end her life, by destroying the neural component of the computer. She told Yuna, who'd she'd grown very close to, that she wanted to take her "journey".

Krista at 12 years old was played by Cecilley Caroll; Krista at 20 and 35 were played by Christina Collins.

The crew stumbled upon her unconcious in a lifepod in the middle of space in the episode Refugee. When she regained consciousness, she started to enduce emotions in the crew and fed off of them in order to maintain a chemical balance, which had been thrown off due to being away from others of her kind ("increasing levels of endothalamine and oxydianaise"). Somehow, the two crossed lines on her palm, which she claimed were genetic marks, helped her to cause the changes in the crew's behaviour--she made Reb snarly, Zak depressed, Gret weepy, and Bren carefree.

It was revealed that the ship Kyra had been travelling on, the Cygnus, had a problematic reactor--it tended to explode under stress, and its creators wouldn't admit fault. Kyra, who had proof that would expose the culprits, entered her lifepod when they decided to try and take her out.

When she left Deepwater, she was going back to Aries 19, a terra-formed colony in the Delta T solar system.

Kyra was played by Tara Sloan.

Karl Kaulman lives alone on the planet Korfu, which is 50 years away from Earth. When Deepwater came across his satellite in the episode Hunt, he claimed that he was the "manager of the Korfu Resort and Spa." He also said that a cure for the Pandora virus had been found months after Deepwater had left communications range, and that humanity was in actuality still thriving. Later, it was discovered that it had all been an elaborate scheme to lure the crew to the planet--he was alone except for a bunch of labour drones on Korfu ("The only clones I can replicate thanks to an inferior grade of gene bank. A little trick played on me by my suppliers."), and had wanted the Deepwater's gene bank to "grow some new friends".

He also claimed that he was a survivor of the plague, and that the Pandora cure [DNA irradiation] had prolonged his life to a ripe 437 years. He supposedly was a businessman when the virus was eradicated and went to Korfu to "get away from it all".

His voice is very similar to that of Edmund Lowell, the president of a pharmaceutical empire that had been researching DNA irradiation. Whether Kaulman was ever related to Edmund in any way was never confirmed.

His true origins were never revealed. There hasn't been many theories, but my guess is that he's the fourth or fifth cycle of the original Karl Kaulman, who may have escaped from the plague early, went to Korfu, and, fearing death, replicated himself and left out the older parts of his memory. The clones may have continued the cycles. Or, he could actually be 400 years old, if he does have the irradiation technology--another company could have pursued it, and he could have stole the results and then went to Korfu.

The satellite to Korfu was destroyed promptly before Deepwater left, so the chances of Kaulman getting off Korfu are unlikely.

Kaulman was played by Cameron Graham.

We only saw the real Mentor in one of Zak's enduced prexes in Fugue, when Zak, who had been a "designate", remembered about his donor's gruelling test-sessions with Mentor. Mentor was obviously dedicated to the eugenic society, fully supportive of the killing done my the colony. He encouraged Zak to forget about his biological family and focus on the family of other genetically "superior" people.

Zak was thought to be the only survivor from Rex II after the plague reached the colony, but apparently, another had escaped and planted a Mentor program into Gen's subsystems on Deepwater. The Mentor program launched itself in the episode Prime by putting Gen in a continuous loop, and taking control of the computer and the ship. Mentor tried to convince Zak to segregate the Rex II genes from the gene bank and destroy the other 98% so that the Rex II people's "dream" could be finally realized. Zak cooperated in order to bring Gen back and destroy the Mentor's program.

Mentor was played by David McNiven.

The trites are deadly shoe-sized creatures that feed off DNA. They are capable of surviving in the vacuum of space and are extremely adaptive to different environments. They also re-produce by "dividing" and it is believed that the generations have some sort of genetic memory from their ancestors. They also divide fairly quickly, being able to come up with three or four offspring in a matter of hours. The trite that Deepwater came across in Infestation was able to feed off the abnium on the ship, and was able to dissolve through parts of the ship with the sulphuric acids on its "feet".

The trite also learned to grow organic components from eating the DNA matrix. They are considered extremely destructive, and they strike me as a solitary species, living and developing on their own after birth (since there doesn't seem to be much of a maturation period). Whether they are actually sentient is unknown.

In Siege, Deepwater came across a puzzling object in space--two metres wide, artificial, made of an obelian-neptunian (sp?) alloy, with no seams or openings to indicate an enclosure. Thinking that it was some sort of communication relay, Gret sent basic math equations to the object. Suddenly, the object grew until it was twice the height of Deepwater, and it focused a high-intensity forcefield on Deepwater that was on all wavelengths except Gamma rays. Deepwater couldn't break free from the field, even at full thrust, and it disabled the weapons systems before Deepwater could try firing at it.

Deepwater tried communicating again, but an intense power surge forced them to disconnect. Gen informed them that she detected levels of energy powerful enough to vaporize Deepwater in a micro-second; or, as Yuna said, "If they wanted us dead, we'd be gone already."

Soon after, the forcefield broke a chunk of itself off and entered Deepwater through the airlocks. It couldn't be seen on the airlock cameras, nor could the heat-motion sensors detect it. The being went to Gen's biocore and took over Gen to communicate with the crew, telling them to "choose one of your member to come with us". The crew managed to regain control for a few seconds, but the beings took over again and, after repeating their demand, erased all of Gen's files.

Physically, the being is kind of half-solid, half-energy, sometimes taking a human form and "walking" through the corridors, and sometimes just floating. It can go through metal doors and through decks without cutting any holes or causing any damage to the metal.

Finally, after a failed attempt at electrocuting the being, Reb and the rest of the crew went to the reactor sheath to release the gamma radiation on the being, hoping that it would kill the being, despite their own deaths. The being somehow got the crew out of danger, and when the crew regained conciousness, Gen had been restored, and both the object and the forcefield were gone.

Gret theorized that the beings had shown some sort of higher morality; Bren thought that they were just entertainment for a day to them.

The beings' intentions and origins are unknown.

Aurora

Aurora's original was Reb's original's girlfriend when the two of them were living on Earth. Aurora's father had known that the Pandora virus was coming and decided to move Aurora and himself to a planet out of the contagious zone to a terraformed planet 50 years from Earth called Pheonix, that was close to Deepwater's return route, with a gene bank and a few cloning capsules.

In the episode appropriately titled Aurora, the clone Reb, onboard the Deepwater, detects a looping message on Deepwater's signal. He prexes, remembering the feelings that his original had for her. Confused about what he should do ("My original may have had feelings for her, but that doesn't mean I have to...sure, we're the same genes and we share the same memories, but I could go down there and feel completely neutral...or something else."), he asks Yuna, and she advises him, "If you're going to worry about it all your life, then I think you should go down there. Get it over with."

When Reb goes down to the planet, we learn that Aurora is growing her own set of clones, but is raising hers like children rather than implanting their memories. Even though she knew about his early awakening and incomplete memory, Aurora was stubborn and continued to treat Reb as if he was the same Reb her original had known [Reb: "I think I remember this quality...relentlessness."]. This caused a lot of awkwardness between her and Reb, until she said something that triggered another prex. He remembered that the original Aurora had left for Pheonix without giving any explanation to Reb, and started becoming angry. Devastated, Aurora decides that it was wrong to think that she could "erase all the pain"; that's when Reb realizes he really does share his donor's feelings.

Or does he? Oh, sure, he seems good enough with the arrangement; and is very eager to go along with Aurora's idea about bringing the Deepwater gene bank to Pheonix; but there is some lingering doubt...

Aurora goes to visit the crew, and that's when the crew find out that the gamma rays coming from Pheonix's sun are incrementally higher than Earth's, and enough to cause lethal mutations in the gene bank. Aurora assures Reb that her clones had minor adjustments made; so Reb asks if the same could be done for the Deepwater gene bank. Gret and Lise sadly inform him that it would take centuries to make the adjustments to all the samples.

So, sadly, Aurora must part with Reb. [Sadly for them... =D]

Aurora was played by Laura Bertram.

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