Cast of Characters
One of the nicer aspects of this program is the tiny cast of characters. Not only does it give viewers a chance to focus on them, but from a production standpoint greatly reduces my workload. It's only Felini, Rovan, and a bunch of robots, or, more precisely, a single robot in different forms.
Felini is a Cattalien, a cat/human hybrid. She had joined the ISP to get away from her overbearing upper-class parents. Unfortunately, she found life in the ISP less than satisfying: Cattaliens and humans do not mix well, until she met Captain Robert Dicker of the starship Lightspeed. He had a different take on her as a career crewman, and not only gave her a break, but launched her career in a major way.
Eventually Felini found her way into a three-way relationship with Dicker and his wife, Token Azin. The three were practically inseparable, until Dicker was captured and tortured by the Clobbernauts. Token and Felini went in search of Bob, and eventually split up too cover more ground. When Bob was found, Felini made a beeline for him, only to encounter an aggressive stranger along the way who forced her into an uncharted wormhole, which deposited her near a desolate planet far removed from civilization.
Rovan is likewise a Cattalien, and likewise stranded on the planet. He saves Felini from death by poisonous fish, and tells a tale of arriving on the planet with his parents, who died a few years later. This child of an upper-crust family inherited a "manservant" in the form of a robot. Mute and apparently dimwitted, the robot is given the personality card Felini rescued from Izzy on the shuttle. Claiming he is many hundreds of years old, his story unravels as his manservant is taken over by Felini's Izzy. Rovan is found to be a thief who stole the robot to resell, and arrived on the planet after evading the Cattalien authorities.
Izzy the Robot started out as Boo (above left), a tiny maintenance machine. After Boo suffers fatal damage in the crash landing, Felini merges him with the remains of Hoover (above right), the shuttle's "copilot." Renamed Izzy in honor of Boo's creator, the dashboard-bound machine drowns when the shuttle ditches in a river. Felini rescues his "personality card" and manages to install it in Rovan's manservant (above center). This releases the machine from Rovan's control, and we learn that he's Raster, a proud member of one of the founding series of sentient Cattalien machines.