From a young age, Eleanor was curious about the world around her. She spent most of her earlier years outdoors, studying strange fauna or learning about interesting new herbs. Her original planet was rich in wildlife and open to plenty of exciting discovery! It was no surprise when she’d grown older and only grown more curious; curious about the cosmos, longing to see the sights that lay beyond the sky.
Her home was quaint, located in a small town situated just a scant few miles off the planet’s capitol. Eleanor’s first job was as a mail carrier, which helped her to get familiar with the area’s residents. She was rather loved in her community, and she took care to make sure to return the feeling tenfold.
When the main city launched an interstellar expedition, she tagged along to provide support — being known well by the locals, she came along as both a representative of her hometown and a source of moral support. Plus, it was a realization of one of her childhood dreams. The expedition lasted about three months and nineteen days, where Eleanor was content providing care to her fellow inhabitants. The purpose of this mission was to allow their science and research team room to grow and expand their horizons beyond what was previously possible for them on their home planet. Eleanor was not very well-versed in the fields they were studying, however she enjoyed observing them, giving them pep talks, and helping the team in more menial ways; cooking and mixing drinks, growing plants and entertaining the crew during periods of downtime; many of the same things that she provides on Nanotrasen’s stations now.
Their mission came to a screeching halt when the science team had made a critical error during anomalous research — A massive tear in space-time ripped open right at the heart of the station, ravenously grasping at everything in its reach. It was a type of wormhole; unstable, undocumented, and far out of anyone’s control. The science department had reached the peak of their current limitations — their research had borne promising new fruit at what very well may have been the cost of lives. Eleanor was left like a helpless deer in the headlights as it grew and grew larger, hungrily devouring the matter around it as it crept ever closer…
In time, she fell, along with the rest of her companions — it all happened so quickly, she barely had time to react.
➤ “It was so strange. I was so… overly… aware… of my existence. Like I was everywhere, all at once, just watchin’ the world go round. Felt like my limbs were goin’ to fly right off my body. Then, I was so far from home… and it all happened in a blink!”
In a streak of luck for Eleanor, the destination awaiting her on the other side of the wormhole was just a handful of miles off of a busy metropolis on a highly populated trade planet, where she met a Nanotrasen Representative who graciously heard out her story and offered her an employee spot. In exchange for food, water and shelter, Eleanor happily agreed to come aboard Nanotrasen’s various stations to provide her usual enthusiastic support to those around her.
Despite everything, she still keeps a bright smile on her face and optimism in her heart for the future — by travelling the galaxy under Nanotrasen’s command, Eleanor desperately hopes to locate and rescue the members of her crew that she lost that day.
