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Prospectors & crew
AC
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Valkyrie Survey Pilot
Amaru Condori
Amaru Condori flies one of the guild's six Valkyrie Survey Corvettes out of Stickney Station on Phobos. His speciality is the slow, precise low orbit that the Gravwell Gradiometer Array needs to sense density changes…
BK
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Drill Master
Bastien Kowalczyk
Bastien Kowalczyk has run drill crews for the guild since 2171 and supervised the very first Corehound Deep Core Drill deployment a year later. As Drill Master he is responsible for eleven rigs, the six-person crews…
DH
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Leviathan Charter Captain
Dariusz Hollen
Dariusz Hollen commands the senior of the four Leviathan Ore Haulers the guild charters from Halcyon Stellar Works. His ship moves everything too large for anything else: Ironmonger Field Refinery units, Corehound Deep…
ED
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Ore-Sorting Engineer
Eamon Dubois
Eamon Dubois is the design engineer behind the Sieve Ore-Sorting Rig, the 26-metre machine that scans broken rock with X-ray transmission and LIBS before blasting waste aside with air jets. Under his guidance the rig's…
HR
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Guildmaster
Halvard Renko
Halvard Renko has chaired the Guild Council as Guildmaster since 2180, the fourth person to hold the office since 31 freelance prospectors founded Ferrovane on Ceres in 2164. He spent nineteen years staking claims…
HM
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Toolworks Director
Hester Mbeki
Hester Mbeki directs Rheasilvia Toolworks on Vesta, the workshop where Ferrovane designs and builds its own survey gear. Under her leadership the Toolworks has grown to 340 staff and a catalogue of twelve products, from…
IO
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Chief Assayer
Imani Oduya
Imani Oduya runs the guild's central assay laboratory at Rheasilvia, Vesta, where her team of 26 chemists processes around 41,000 samples a year. Every grade quoted in a Ferrovane auction catalogue, from 14.2 g/t…
IC
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Auction Director & Mineral Economist
Inês Carvalho-Roy
Inês Carvalho-Roy runs the quarterly Ceres Claims Auction and the guild's liaison office on Earth, in Europe. As Ferrovane's mineral economist she values every lot before it goes under the hammer, weighing assay grades,…
KM
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Rover Crew Chief
Kofi Mensah-Hart
Kofi Mensah-Hart runs the rover teams at the guild's Tharsis camp on Mars. His crews drive the Lodeseeker Prospector Rover on traverses of up to 850 kilometres, mapping the top 30 metres of ground with radar and…
LQ
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Gravimetry Data Scientist
Liang Qiao
Liang Qiao turns gravity measurements into maps people can use. Working from the Occator guildhall on Ceres, she built the processing pipeline behind the Vesta Gravity Model v3, a 250-metre Bouguer grid that flagged 73…
MA
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Refinery Superintendent
Maren Adebayo-Cruz
Maren Adebayo-Cruz oversees the guild's mobile processing plants, including every Ironmonger Field Refinery deployed in the Belt. Each 48-metre unit draws 8,000 kW from its fission core and turns raw ore into 120 tonnes…
NE
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Claims Registrar
Nadia El-Amin
Nadia El-Amin keeps the official register of every Ferrovane mining claim, from FV-0001 staked in 2164 to the latest lots heading for auction. Her office at the Occator guildhall on Ceres records roughly 340 new claims…
PT
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Helium-3 Prospector
Paulo Teixeira
Paulo Teixeira hunts fusion fuel. Based at Valhalla Station on Callisto, he prospects for helium-3 in the moon's frozen regolith and, when the opportunity arises, in Jupiter's upper atmosphere aboard one of the guild's…
RS
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Magnetometry Lead
Rukmini Sato
Rukmini Sato coordinates the guild's magnetic surveys across the inner and middle Belt. Her crews flew the 1,840-body campaign behind the Belt Aeromagnetic Grid 2186, launching Pickaxe Survey Drones in relays from…
SL
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Radiation Safety Officer
Sora Lindgren
Sora Lindgren keeps guild crews alive in one of the harshest places they work. Based at the Io field camp, she sets the radiation limits for the Loki Margin scandium claim, where crews are restricted to rotations of…
SO
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Seismic Survey Lead
Sunniva Okafor
Sunniva Okafor leads seismic exploration for the guild, splitting her time between Ganymede and the Tharsis camp on Mars. She operates the Thumper Seismic Mapper, a 14-metre system that pounds the ground with a heavy…
TF
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Anchoring Rigger
Tavita Fale
Tavita Fale makes it possible to work on rocks with almost no gravity. As the guild's senior anchoring rigger, he fixes crews, rigs and refineries to tumbling asteroids using the Tether Anchor Kit, whose spikes bite 18…
TV
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Senior Geophysicist
Teodor Vasquez-Lin
Teodor Vasquez-Lin leads geophysical interpretation at Stickney Station on Phobos. A specialist in gravity gradiometry, he designed the sensor-pod spacing on the Gravwell Gradiometer Array and spent most of 2185 aboard…
WT
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Apprentice Master
Wiremu Tane
Wiremu Tane trains the next generation of prospectors. From the guild's Tharsis camp on Mars he runs the eighteen-month apprenticeship that every new Ferrovane member completes, covering sampling, claim staking, rover…
YS
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Cryo-Sampling Specialist
Ylva Strand
Ylva Strand is the guild's leading ice-core specialist and the first Ferrovane prospector to recover intact brine from beneath Europa's surface. Using the Cryo Ice-Core Sampler, she has drilled to 850 metres in the…