Steven

Steven trained with MIRA as an astronaut and ended up on the Prequel crew as the crew’s communications/security officer.

The PREQ mission was sent to Polus to do research and retrieve a rare mineral MIRA needed to power some of their experiments. However, the planet was home to a native alien species who didn’t take too kindly to humans invading and stealing their resources.

Two aliens are ordered to infect two members of the crew by leaders from their species, turning them into impostors originally just with the goal of observing the humans. One of those aliens infects Steven, turning him into an impostor. (The other one infects Oliver).

Oliver’s alien, however, isn’t too keen on just watching the humans steal the planets’ resources, and decides to take matters into his own hands. Oliver is the first person to kill someone, killing Tabitha out of anger for what the humans are doing to his planet. He manages to convince Steven’s alien to do the same, and the two start working together to kill off the entire human crew.

Steven kills Wei at the same time Oliver kills Blade, planning to disorganize the crew to take out the officers. Oliver kills Pilar, the medic, to prevent him from healing anyone. However one of the crewmates, Presley, witnesses this, and reports it to the crew. The remaining crewmates vote to throw Oliver into a lava pit on Polus, killing him and the alien that inhabits him.

The crew thinks they have gotten rid of the problem, so they abandon the mission and head back to Earth. Steven decides to use this opportunity to his advantage and decides to lay low until they get back to earth to get information on humans and MIRA HQ in order to take them down from within. He, as the communications officer, is able to discreetly communicate with the other aliens back on Polus and share the information he gets during transit. He also is able to hack into some of the crew’s systems, creating an application on his tablet that allows him to sabotage the Skeld if needed.

Because they only have half their crew, and the ship is experiencing some major malfunctions (unrelated to sabotage, surprisingly), A trip that should’ve taken a week takes two years to complete.

During this trip, Steven is reached out to by Ray- an old family friend. Ray says he applied to MIRA for the CONQ crew contest and wondered if Steven could do anything to get him in.

Steven, knowing that if he had someone he knew already it would likely be easier to infect them, agrees on the condition that Ray and him hang out when they both make it to MIRA HQ. He manages to hack into MIRA’s system and add Ray to the crew.

The five survivors of the prequel crew finally arrive at MIRA HQ. They are instructed not to mention what happened on Polus or any of the deceased crew, as the consequences crew will be using their ship in a few days to fly to Polus themselves. George ends up acting as the crew’s captain.

The members of the CONQ crew greet the PREQ, and immediately are suspicious that something’s off, especially considering the PREQ crew apparently had five people when their mission had thirteen on the same ship. The PREQ crew continues to insist nothing is wrong, but it’s obvious that something is.

Steven meets up with Ray as requested, both of them going on a walk together. During this walk, Steven infects Ray, starting the process of turning him into an impostor.

The CONQ crew are given temporary roommates from members of the PREQ crew, Steven rooming with Gray and Yvie. Steven also infects Gray and Yvie during the night.

Later that night, Peach has an anxiety attack and ends up hitting Gray in the face with a metal pole. After this incident, MIRA orders the two crews to be separated with no contact between them. The launch date for the CONQ crew is also expedited.

Right before the CONQ crew takes off, Steven realizes his tablet (the one that allowed him to sabotage systems on the Skeld) is missing, and recruits his crew to go and find it, telling them he wants it back because it has pictures of his family and his dog on it. Mo and Teonna go looking for it and run into Gray. Teonna warns Gray not to trust anyone, but the two of them don’t find the tablet. (Because Steven accidentally left it on the Skeld in the cafeteria)

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After the CONQ crew takes off, the PREQ crew is confined to the 111th floor of MIRA HQ for “quarantine”.  Steven communicates with the aliens back on Polus and finds out that one of them made it to MIRA HQ before he did and had infected the CEO Fitzgerald through the former captain of the AFTRMF crew, Blessing, that get teleported back to Earth. The only people allowed in and out are a few scientists and construction workers who are apparently upgrading some of the building’s systems. What the PREQ crew doesn’t know is they are actually installing technology that allows the floor of the building to be caught in a a time loop.

Once everything is set up, the CEO gives Steven the go-ahead to kill off the rest of his crew. He does this, and the CEO orders the loop to be reset, lying and saying it was a “last-ditch effort to save the crew”. really he’s testing the loop technology. 

The loops happen quickly, the group going through nineteen loops in a week. Because the aliens don’t have access to the same amount of resources as they do on Polus, they don’t have a functioning memory manipulation machine, so everyone remembers who the impostor is every time. Eventually, the crew has enough, and Teonna and Mo come up with a plan to overload the power to the technology causing the loop to stop the loops. 

They succeed, but end up causing a massive explosion in the process, killing everyone on the crew except Mo.