ROBERT CAPA

❛❛ OUR SUN IS DYING. mankind faces extinction. seven years ago, the icarus project sent a mission to restart the sun. but that mission was lost before it reached the star. sixteen months ago, i, robert capa, and a crew of seven left earth frozen in a solar winter. our payload... a stellar bomb with the mass equivalent to manhattan island. our purpose... to create a star within a star. ❜❜

PLEASE NOTE (CANON DIVERGENCY): while most of robert's storyline remains the same, i have added some elements from the game among us and the movie the thing in order to make it more applicable for interactions with muses outside of the icarus ii crew. anyways, let's get onto the biography...

in 2057, the failure of the sun starts a solar winter and threatens earth. humanity, in an attempt to reignite it, loads a massive stellar bomb onto a spaceship named icarus ii. the ship is the second and final attempt to save mankind, as during the first mission, the icarus i was lost seven years previously for reasons unknown.

after losing contact with earth due to the effects of nearing the sun, icarus ii communications officer harvey discovers the distress beacon of icarus i while passing mercury. as the stellar bomb's operation is purely theoretical, two of the crew members discuss whether or not they should attempt to board icarus i, and eventually leave the decision up to capa, who recommends they change course and try to reach icarus i since both bombs depleted all of mankind's fissile resources, so a rendezvous with icarus i would allow two attempts at restarting the sun. mace, the ship's engineer, is opposed to this plan but has to go along with it.

in planning the new course, navigator trey forgets to realign the shields that protect the ship from the solar wind, causing damage to the shield. kaneda and capa embark on a spacewalk to make repairs while the ship is angled away from the sun. however a fire in the ship's oxygen garden caused by reflected sunlight causes the ship to realign and face the sun, and kaneda sacrifices himself to complete repairs while telling capa to get back to safety. trey blames himself for the loss of kaneda and the oxygen garden, and psychiatrist searle assesses him as a suicide risk and sedates him.

icarus ii reaches icarus i, and capa, searle, harvey, and mace board the stricken vessel, leaving co-pilot cassie and botanist corazon on board icarus ii. while icarus i has a functional oxygen garden and payload bomb, the ship's computer has been sabotaged, rendering delivery of the second payload impossible. mace finds a video left by icarus i's captain, pinbacker, who seemingly stressed, states that the mission was purposely abandoned though the video cuts off before he can explain why. the crew of icarus i is found dead in the solar observation room. suddenly, the icarus i forcibly decouples, destroying the outer airlock and stranding the four crew members on the derelict spacecraft. unbeknownst to the crew, this was caused when a parasitic alien shapeshifter boarded icarus ii from the stranded spacecraft.

mace suggests that if one crew member stays behind to operate the airlock manually, they can jettison the other three between airlocks by using the vacuum release to propel them; when searle offers to stay behind, capa is given the only viable spacesuit, leaving harvey and mace with only spare insular materials. searle, having decided to commit suicide, then enters the icarus i solar observation room, opens the protective shutters, and is killed by overexposure to sunlight.

capa, mace, trey, cassie, harvey and corazon remain alive on board icarus ii. corazon calculates that, due to the fire in the oxygen garden, the ship lacks the oxygen for six crew members to reach the sun and return home, and the crew discusses killing trey for the sake of being able to complete the mission and save the planet. with the vote ending up four against one (cassie), they agree to kill trey, only to find that he has seemingly already committed suicide. during a final inspection, the icarus ii computer then informs capa that they still lack the oxygen reserves, as a sixth person is on board (the alien)...

(now, in canon, the mission is a success, but at the cost of the crew's lives, including capa's, but for the sake of making interactions between other muses outside the crew happen, i am willing to write aus where they survive and embark on a journey home. however, there's still a threat on board the ship, namely the unidentified sixth passenger.)

capa, with the help of the icarus ii computer, manages to find the unidentified person's location in the ship and goes to find out who it is, only to end up being attacked and (unbeknownst to him) infected by the parasitic alien... horrified, he returns to the crew to let them know they're not alone in the ship... with the course set for home, and with an apparently dangerous new species on board with them, the crew puts all their efforts into trying to find and kill it, but soon find out that it appears the creature is able to shapeshift and pose as the crew members. suspicions and a lack of trust in each other becomes another obstacle as they continue to try to find a solution before they reach earth.