Notable NPCs Aboard the Jean Bart
The list does NOT attempt to include every passenger (there is room for more than 500) or ship crew/hospitality workers (400+).
NPCs colored BLUE are frequently encountered or well known. ORANGE means interacted with, but only briefly. Characters in NEUTRAL COLOR are either not met at all, mentioned only, or briefly greeted. These are mostly included for ease of reference in case players meet these characters or want to contact a specific ship department.
For example, Captain Vautrin is ORANGE because you've sat at dinner with the captain and exchanged some pleasantries. First Officer Beaulieu is BLUE because you've interacted with him multiple times. Chief Engineer Mori is NEUTRAL because she hasn't been encountered directly, but the ship has a chief engineer, so it makes sense to list her here.
Ship Command
Captain Hélène Vautrin
Master of the Jean Bart. Calm, controlled, silver-haired, and not easily impressed. She treats the ship as both a vessel and a delicate social ecosystem.
First Officer Marc-Antoine Beaulieu
Executive officer and chief navigator. Polite, procedural, and professional. Takes a courteous interest in the military passengers.
Chief Engineer Sanae Mori
Head of engineering. Blunt, practical, and protective of her ship’s systems. Has little patience for passengers. Occasionally seen arguing with alien exhibition staff.
Idris Ben Youssef
Comms and systems officer. Soft-spoken, technically sharp, and responsible for ship communications, data systems, and network access. Occasionally found in the observation lounge bar or the casino.
Security
Commandant Éric Delaunay
Chief of security. Former gendarmerie, heavyset and expressionless. Methodical, suspicious, and deeply allergic to getting his hands dirty.
Adjudant Luc Moreau
Deputy security officer. Broad, controlled, and skeptical. More approachable than Delaunay, but still very much security.
Inès Chardin
Security investigator. Small, sharp, patient, and relentless. More experienced looking for missing items than bloody murder.
Rémy Fortier
Passenger-ring security officer. Handsome, charming, and wears his uniform like a fine tailored suit.
Nadège Mbaye
Security officer usually seen around steerage, cargo, and less glamorous parts of the ship.
Baptiste Colin
Junior security officer. Young and eager, but a bit procedural and gets visibly nervous when things get serious. He was first on site with Jules Armand when the murder was reported.
Medical Staff
Doctor Mireille Okafor
Chief medical officer. Tall, elegant, and formidable. Warm when patients cooperate; terrifying when they do not.
Nurse Samira Khelifi
Senior nurse. Calm, blunt, and unembarrassable. Assists Okafor closely.
Jules Armand
Emergency medical technician. Young, tattooed, cheerful, and physically strong. Fascinated by military injuries and war stories. First on site with Baptiste Colin when the murder was reported.
Doctor Elias Fournier
Visiting medical specialist and passenger. Urbane, vain, and competent, but not officially part of the ship’s medical staff. Why he spends most of his time in medbay is anybody's guess.
Purser, Hotel, and Passenger Services
Étienne Caron
Chief purser and hotel director. Immaculate, silver-haired, and unfailingly courteous. In practice, he runs the passenger world of the ship.
Mireille Toma
Assigned purser/contact for the player characters’ suite. Young, efficient, dryly funny, and unflappable.
Colette Marceau
Assistant purser. Poised, professional, and dyed brunette. Has a strong resemblance to Laetitia and Élodie due to the same old genetic enhancement “look,” though she downplays it.
Margot Leduc
Purser’s clerk. Overworked, polite, and very good with records.
Sébastien Roux
Night concierge. Tall, smooth, discreet.
Malik Desroches
Ship’s tailor, stylist, and fitter. Flamboyant, kind, and socially fearless. Measures passengers for uniforms, formalwear, and whatever shipboard life requires.
Solange Petit
Boutique manager. Stylish, observant, and ruthless when it comes to poor taste.
André Pellerin
Laundry supervisor. Elderly, fussy, and proud of his standards.
Dining and Entertainment
Lucien Mercier
Entertainment and social-programming director. Handsome, flamboyant, and shamelessly charming. Arranges dinners, dances, lectures, performances, and receptions.
Yvette Caron
Observation lounge bartender. Elegant, wry, and attentive. Makes some pretty mean champagne-based cocktails. A good way to salvage less fortunate vintages.
Auguste Perrin
Executive chef. Temperamental, brilliant, and deeply serious about food.
Bastien Leroux
Sommelier. Narrow-faced, theatrical, and magnificently snobbish about wine.
Lise Aubert
Cabaret singer. Magnetic on stage, guarded off it. Has a low contralto voice and a dramatic presence.
Théo Marchand
Zero-g instructor. Graceful, flirtatious, cheerful.
Gisèle and Marcel Bouchard
Stage actors. Inseparable but bicker constantly in public.
Ruffin Collection Staff
Doctor Amélie Sorel
Curator of the Ruffin Xenological Collection. Severe, scholarly, and protective of the artifacts. Has little patience for careless speculation or careless fingers.
Armand Valette
Commercial representative of Nicolas Ruffin. Lean, immaculate, and very smooth. Handles sponsorships, private viewings, acquisitions, insurance, and important guests.
Émile Danton
Assistant curator. Thin, nervous, and usually seen with gloves, cases, or inventory slates.
Chloé Masson
Conservator. Practical, obsessive, and protective of the physical objects.
Doctor Salomé Weng
Visiting linguist traveling with the collection. Brilliant, severe, and impatient.
Bernard Sénéchal
Insurance assessor. Gray, bland, and easy to overlook.
First Class Passengers
Jean-Baptiste Chevalier de Lisieux
French lieutenant, fourth son of a noble family, bound for the Foreign Legion on Aurore. Formal, patriotic, polished, and very conscious of France’s glory.
François Blanc
Former French army sergeant, now bound for the Foreign Legion. Franco-German War veteran. Rugged, blunt, and deeply suspicious of officers, Germans, and nonsense.
Laetitia Claire Cassart
French Aspirant and officer cadet. University-trained in xenology. Blonde, blue-eyed, highly educated, and marked by the recognizable look of an old prenatal genetic enhancement package.
Élodie Vannier
Wealthy socialite traveling alone after leaving her American husband on Beta Canum for business. Glamorous, flirtatious, and delighted to discover other women aboard who share her “sister” look.
Viktor Reinhardt
Bavarian-born businessman now settled in France. Works with French and Japanese clients in arms supply, explosives, and colonial engineering equipment. Courteous, intelligent, and fond of good conversation.
Étienne Valcour
Wealthy French industrialist, investor, and collector. Confident, well-connected, and involved with colonial business. Owns several of the pieces on loan to the Ruffin collection.
Henri Valois (DECEASED)
Private collector and trader of fine arts and alien artifacts. Nervous, apologetic, and evasive. Connected to several acquisitions and private collectors aboard.
Professor Adrien Morel
Prominent xenologist and public lecturer. Witty, theatrical, vain, and fond of holding court.
Madame Geneviève d’Arcy
Retired colonial governor and political hostess. Elegant, commanding, and very well connected.
Colonel (R) Arnaud Delmas
Decorated former French officer. Handsome, polished, and fond of military stories.
Sister Agnès Bellier
Catholic humanitarian and colonial advocate. Practical, warm, and direct.
Doctor Leena Saarinen
Biologist and colonial ecologist bound for Aurore. Brilliant, blunt, distracted, and more interested in ecosystems than people.
Celeste and Matthieu Renard
Wealthy married couple and regular luxury travelers. Sociable, attractive, amusing, and always near gossip.
Other Notable Passengers
There are no rules against second or third class passengers mingling across the ship, but don't expect the steerage to be sipping Grand Cru or engaging in fine dining.
Rachid Bensaïd
Colonial journalist. Persistent, skeptical, and professionally curious. Must have been tipped off or something, as he knows there has been a death aboard and is trying to make a story out of it.
Océane Rivière
Young activist opposed to the removal and private ownership of alien cultural artifacts. Passionate and confrontational.
Pascal Giroux
Professional gambler. Smooth, soft-spoken, and patient. Under surveillance for gambling irregularities, but nothing has been proven.
Yulia Marković
Concert violinist. Pale, intense, private, and not especially interested in casual audiences.
Thierry Fabre
Colonial schoolteacher. Awkward, earnest, and visibly uncomfortable by the luxury of the ship.
Amina Traoré
Agricultural specialist traveling in steerage. Practical, muscular, and occasionally violent. Currently in the ship's brig.
Father Lucien Varga
Colonial priest. Gregarious, warm, fond of cards and drink, and not always in agreement with Sister Agnès.
Corinne Javet
Corporate recruiter. Beautifully dressed, persuasive, and always aware of useful talent.
Alain Dupré
Retired freight captain. Weathered, one-eyed, cynical, and loudly dismissive of luxury ships.
Sofia Gutiérrez
Diplomatic translator. Poised, observant, and able to understand more languages than people probably realize.
Jules and Amélie Vernet
Young newlyweds. Jules is outgoing and reckless; Amélie is cautious and perceptive.
Madame Rosalie N’Dour
Widow of a retired legionnaire. Elderly, dignified, blunt, and familiar with people on Aurore.
Erik Lund
Scandinavian frontier contractor. Huge, blond, scarred, soft-spoken, and practical.
Claire de Villeneuve
Young aristocrat. Fashionable, bored, clever, and inclined toward trouble.
Natsumi Arai
Japanese documentary producer. Energetic, curious, and tactless with camera drones. Jean-Baptiste finds him wildly annoying.
Laurent Picard
Former colonial policeman. Thickset, gray-bearded, suspicious by habit.