Remaining Crew Member No. One

Vikramaditya Vitela

Goes by Ramadi, or maybe Vic.

Stranded on the fantastic blindness when Capt. dies in a suspicious foot-related accident.

He's former military, dishonorable discharge, probably not for being a bad guy but something that would get him in trouble: The usual insubordination to stupid general who got a lot of good soldiers killed and so forth. Possible functioning alcoholic, fired from one ship after another until he hits the bottom of the barrel with crappy Capt.

Nowhere to go but up, he thinks--not that he's got a chance in the deep black of space to get out of the muck he's up to his nose in.

Meeting Salome, he realizes he can still sink further.

And yet, he's got nowhere left to go. It's this or go groundside somewhere and drink himself to death.

And yet there's MM. What happens to her if this Salome character takes over? The rest of the crew can still go somewhere, but MM is stuck. And the other crewmembers--the ones who stayed--what chance do they have?

What does it matter? It's all over for him, but if all he can do is protect the rest of them by somehow keeping this ridiculous excuse for a captain from running them all finally into the ground, then what the hell choice does he have?