From: wahidazal66@gmail.com   
      
   On Monday, 4 May 2020 10:53:57 UTC+10, stephan Beyer  wrote:   
   > I had so many questions about this character, so eventually, I decided she   
   needed a backstory. Images, no matter how appealing, are not enough.   
   > Dale-Husband   
   > “88”, real name Diana Miller, is the 88th Caretaker of the sleeper ship   
   Salvation that has been traveling from the ruined planet Earth to an Earthlike   
   world that is over 100 light years away from the Solar System. The Salvation   
   can only go as fast    
   as one-tenth the speed of light, so the ship was intended to take a total of   
   1,000 years to reach its destination.   
   > Though she appears to be a teenage girl, 88 is actually over 1,000 years   
   old, having spent most of her existence in suspended animation along with   
   thousands of other teenagers dispatched from Earth as its biosphere was slowly   
   collapsing. She was    
   awakened from her sleep by the 87th Caretaker, who intended Diana to take his   
   place while he returned to sleep. To prepare her for her lonely task of   
   overseeing the Salvation’s operations, 87 had Diana undergo severe mental   
   conditioning which    
   suppressed both her normal human emotions and her sex drive, making her rather   
   like a Vulcan of Star Trek. Well, not quite; sometimes her original   
   personality does surface anyway and makes her feel very depressed.   
   > Despite her lack of emotion, 88 still needs to be entertained, and she   
   mostly gets it in the form of video games. The Salvation’s computer has   
   hundreds of video games programmed into it, but 88 also has access to game   
   consoles that were taken from    
   Earth and were originally owned by an earlier Caretaker who collected them;   
   now they are hers.   
   > About two years after 88 began her duties, the ship arrived at the targeted   
   planet and she found the world to be suitable for colonization, so after the   
   analysis of the world is complete she will begin reviving the other people on   
   the ship, including    
   the other Caretakers who served before her. Once they are all revived, 88   
   hopes to have her conditioning reversed so she can live like a normal teenager   
   again (something denied to all the other Caretakers, who served until they   
   were middle aged). She    
   knows that she will likely be expected to have children quickly to help   
   populate the world too.   
      
   He chose 88? That's a neo-Nazi dog whistle, if there ever was. 88 is supposed   
   to be "Heil Hitler" in neo-Nazi code.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)