Under construction at the moment, pardon appearance.
Primary Characters
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Jonah Robinson. Captain of the Akhenaten. Infamous for losing two ships, Robinson realizes that the Akhenaten is his last chance to redeem himself. Robinson is strong-willed and assertive, but hides a troubled soul. |
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Neil Raven. Raven is the ship’s pilot and first officer. The Akhenaten is his first assignment, and he is eager to prove himself. He spent six months in prison for smuggling whiskey. |
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Candace Albee. Chief engineer of the Akhenaten and Kindler Airlines’ first female employee. Candace Albee worked with Blanchard on the design and knows the ship almost as well as he does. |
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Mary Atwright. Akhenaten stewardess. Mary expected that this would be a pretty easy job, if kind of lonely at times, but has been involved in quite a few adventures at this point. She has a secret crush on Raven. |
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Heinrich Blanchard. Designer of the Akhenaten. Blanchard has complete faith in the design, but is somewhat stressed by the possibility that it could fail financially. Blanchard is troubled by a chronic illness which occasionally cripples him. |
Supporting Characters
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Grant Kindler. Kindler is an extremely wealthy man, having made a fortune in steel processing. Interested in expanding his influence, he finances the Akhenaten, hoping eventually to expand it into a thriving new airline to compete with Astor Airlines. He distrusts Robinson and Raven and is constantly searching for ways to incriminate them. |
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Erik Stephenson. Erik is a wealthy investor who specializes in importing luxury goods. He’s a friendly guy, if a little overbearing. He is a friend of Kindler’s and smokes a cigarette in a holder like FDR. |
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Sherman Ritchie. Crewman on board the Akhenaten. Ritchie serves as the liason between the lower crew and the bridge crew. Ritchie is somewhat pretentious, believing himself to be far more important than he is. Nobody likes him but he doesn’t know it. |
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Harold Astor. Wealthy airline tycoon, among the richest men in the world. Despite his massive profits, Astor sees his airline to be endangered by Kindler’s entry into the field, and does everything in his power to ensure that the Akhenaten is a failure. He has stirred up controversy surrounding the safety of the Akhenaten-class, causing it to fall in the public eye. He is prominent and well-liked by the public, far more so than Kindler. |
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Lila Astor. Daughter of Harold Astor, Lila is an artist and writer. Raven is infatuated with her but she is less enthusiastic about him. |
VISITING CHARACTERS
Issue 2 – Yucateca
Frances Lenard. Archaeologist. Lenard is an assertive and uncompromising woman who has fought her way through male-dominated academics to follow her dream of being an archaeologist. The Akhenaten accompanies her to the Yucatan so that she can conduct research.
Gregor Smith. Stranger. Stranger found in the Yucatan jungles, claiming to be a missionary. As the crew gets to know him, however, they begin to suspect that he may be hiding something…
Issue 3 – Versus
Colin Teastell. Second officer of the RAS Stradivarian.
The Crewman. He doesn’t have a name, but he and his similarly-nameless buddy appear a number of times, meriting him an entry on this page. First he’s bad, then he decides to be good.
Issue 4 – Adrift
Erik Stephenson. Erik is a wealthy investor who specializes in importing luxury goods. He’s a friendly guy, if a little overbearing. He is a friend of Kindler’s and smokes a cigarette in a holder like FDR.
Tela Kress. Tela is a little girl found on the drifting airship Ojo de Dios. She seems to be hiding something, but is a cute kid by other standards.
Geer and Miri Kress. Tela’s parents. They’re not especially forthcoming at first. Miri (Tela’s mother) talks more than Geer (Tela’s father).
Issue 5 – In Pictures
Caesar Mansfield. Mansfield is the movie director. He is completely in charge and he knows it. He is a strong believer in the potential of film and an advocate of artistic integrity.
Walter Casey. He’s the star of In Pictures. He can sing, he can act, and boy is he dreamy. He’s also kind of a jerk.
Milton Floyd. Federal airship inspector. He can’t pronounce Akhenaten.
Issue 6 – For a Song
Bertrand James Ashbroch. A wealthy business partner of Erik Stephenson’s, and a great fancier of music. He’s also dead, which makes things a bit complicated.
Mrs. Ashbroch. Still somewhat distracted over the loss of her husband.
Dwight Haeckel. The lawyer overseeing Ashbroch’s estate. He’s up to something, as these one-issue characters so often are.
Erik Stephenson. See Issue 4.
DEPARTED CHARACTERS
Aaron Blanchard. Son of Heinrich, Aaron was the Akhenaten’s chief engineer in issues 1 & 2. At the end of Issue 2 he resigned his commission with Kindler Airlines to travel with Frances Lenard.
E. Nigel Kuruschov. Resident doctor on the Akhenaten. Kuruschov is a recent immigrant from Russia. I dropped him from the series after Issue 6 because there just wasn’t enough for him to do.
