John Farno

Name:  John Farno

Species:  Human (Sapiens)

Born:  Bonaparte

Residence: Farigha

Spouse/Partner: Persephone

John Farno was a terraforming specialist and “bot wrangler” on Farigha, a terraforming colony of Mars. He was the sole survivor of the Realm attack on Farigha. Initially, Farno had only the contents of a his rover and whatever he could salvage from campsites and underground storage as every dome, save one, had been destroyed. To assauge his loneliness, he loaded an AI interface based on a departed engineer named Julie Seding. The virtual Julie absorbed a pornographic holo as she developed sentience and generated a new appearance for herself to have a relationship with Farno. Together, along with a solid holographic avatar of Dasarius Interstellar CFO Tol Germanicus, they developed a way to use the damaged Hypergate to send a signal to another gate over The Caliphate. The Julie AI/hologram would transform herself into “Persephone.” This, in turn, brought a rescue mission after a month on the planet’s surface.

After the liberation of Amargosa, Farno returned to Farigha as, nominally, terraforming director. In reality, he was considered governor of the planet and agreed with the governor of Amargosa and Chancelloress of Metis to secede from the Compact and form the Metisian Republic. By then, he and Persephone had married, and she served as his chief of staff.

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