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	Andie Graham
Andie gains 4 for every successful trade with merchants.
Androgynous Andie can flirt and do the thing with anybody on the ship.
Skills:
1	Pilot
2	Devotion
3	Polyvalent
4	Confident
5	Expert
Position on title lists:
#15	Commander
#6	NERON Administrator
#3	Communications Officer

Sub-Lieutenant Andie Graham is a new character introduced with . (S)he and Derek Hogan may occasionally replace Finola Keegan and Wang Chao, respectively, turning the ship into an alternate timeline version where Finola was not captured and Chao didn't make it through the mission.

How to play

Andie seems to be a person of many skills, but also torn between several responsibilities.

While having the potential to be an excellent Pilot, (s)he will often be expected to spearhead the Research as Finola would, which in turn will not leave much time for other demanding jobs. Then again, a Polyvalent Andie is also very good at Exploration (arguably better than Hua) thanks to the great Diplomat bonus, and extra alien fruit from being considered a Botanist. And being everybody's Confident lets Andie help the ship's morale, as well as help with the Mush hunt by clearing people of suspicion. Finally, the general bonuses and success chances from having Devotion + Expert enable him/her to do just about anything better than the average crew member, if needed.

Due to this multi-faceted skill set, you should pay close attention to your crew line-up and the players' activity levels before deciding on your skills.
On the upside, you will be able to fill in whatever role will be needed the most.

Bronze Tips

Polyvalent: This unique skill allows you to fill in for the missing Finola as head of Research thanks to the Biologist bonus. The expedition bonuses also dramatically increase your ship's chance of reaching Eden, epsecially if combined with a Babel Module.

Confident: Useful if Janice is in some way incapacitated (inactive or dead), as it will allow crew members to restore 2 daily, all while helping you with Mush-hunting!

Pilot: Useful if Ian and Chun are very productive in research and your ship is missing characters to deal with the Hunter threat.

Devotion: This skill is best for pilots, and extra % are better in research. But it can be useful in case Paola is inactive and you end up as the Communications Officer (due to your position in the hierarchy list).

Silver Tips

Polyvalent / Confident: A very useful combo of Research progress, better expeditions and restoration.

Polyvalent / Pilot: Do research, defend the ship and pilot successful expeditions yourself... you have all the options, but you will be starved for .

Pilot / Devotion: While Devotion is only mediocre in terms of / day, and resticting the Commander in his mission choices, the ability to gain 6 on the fly (pun intended) can be excellent for a Pilot fighting hunters or collecting scrap, in order to make the most of each trip (especially when combined with food and a Teslatron Reservoir).

Polyvalent / Devotion: Highest research productivity through bonuses and often 6 extra per day, as Devotion means that the Commander will hand out missions mostly to you.

Pilot / Expert: Increases your hit chance in combat, among other things, making you that much more effective as a Pilot and a generalist. Not worth dropping Polyvalent for, though, unless you already have an active Diplomat on board.

Gold Tips

Polyvalent / Pilot / Devotion / Expert: The combination of Pilot, Devotion for and better hit chances from Expert makes Andie the most capable pilot on board.

Polyvalent / Pilot / Devotion / Confident: Fills all main roles and gets some extra

Polyvalent / Pilot / Expert / Confident: Highest versatility thanks to extra success % on any action, and more choices for the Commander.

Useful tips

• Andie's glory objective is fulfilled no matter who performs the actual trade. (S)he does not have to be Communications Officer to receive the bonus.

Trivia

• As with Derek Hogan, Andie's character artwork has been done by a different artist. Mathieu "Ani" Leyssenne, the original Mush artist, no longer works with Motion Twin.
• Everyone can flirt with Andie, and s/he can do the thing with everyone. They are therefore the first bisexual character on the ship.
  • Originally written as a bisexual, androgynous male, Andie was rewritten with an ambiguous gender (and the pronouns changed accordingly in their bio), most likely to allow the players to roleplay Andie as they wish (male or female, straight, bi or gay).
  • To maintain the ambiguity, it seems that Andie cannot get Pregnant.

Biography

The character's current biography:

3130

Born somewhere on Earth.

3136

Abandoned by his/her parents in the first months of his/her existence, Andie is saved by a commission of the SDF. (S)he is promptly placed in a specialized home as SDF protegé, where his/her innate abilities are soon discovered. (S)he is then swiftly planted in an SDF-controlled school and enters the Federation Youth Program.

3145

(S)he remains brilliant in his/her studies and enters the most prestigious university of the Federation. Constantly indoctrinated during his/her studies, Andie heeds nothing other than the way of the Federation. Despite his/her naiveté, Andie is very popular and never has any trouble making friends. With his/her angelic face, (s)he unwittingly attracts the sympathy of all. His/her roommate, Viktor Carlsson, secretly planted in the university by his father Nils, dearly pays for their friendship. For confiding his secret mission to him/her during conversation, he soon finds himself arrested for conspiracy. Andie innocently thinks that he just switched courses...

3151

Andie makes the acquaintance of sergeant instructor Derek Hogan who, being portrayed as a national hero, spends the entirety of his lessons telling stories of his fantastic life. Andie discovers the father figure (s)he's been missing in his/her instructor and begins to idolize him. (S)he believes every word of his tales and stories and begins to dream of travelling through space as well.

3153

Andie fervently studies subject after subject in order to best serve the Federation. (S)he brilliantly attains three Ph.Ds: in botany for his/her dissertation on the healing properties of Tau-Ceti's Bachean bulb, in biology with his/her study on the social behavior of polarized amoeba in the Aegean Sea of the third planet on the Sol system, and finally in diplomacy with his/her mediation report which, according to the jury, could have inspired the negotiators who failed to prevent Sol's great battle. (S)he becomes the first triple laureate in the Federation.

3154

With his/her studies over, Andie decides to become a pilot, joining the Federation's airforce and easily obtaining his/her license. (S)he asks to be posted on Xyloph-17 and is soon noticed by Kim Jin Su. Derek, however, does not recognize him/her.

3154

Oblivious to what's coming from the shadows, and believing to still be serving the Federation, Andie boards the Daedalus.