ChroniCarlGrayson StammChroniCarl stands at two and a half feet tall, a compact robotic cat unit whose modest stature belies the weight of responsibility he carries. As the Endeavor's archivist, the sum total of the ship's recorded history falls under his charge — a collection of staggering scope that ChroniCarl maintains with meticulous, if occasionally territorial, care. His parallel role as nominal head of the Robot Union has made him a polarizing figure among the crew: a tireless advocate to his constituents, and a persistent nuisance to everyone else.
The Robot Union holds nominal power in very limited ways aboard the Endeavor, though ChroniCarl would contest the word "nominal" vigorously, and at length.
PsychoBot2000 — PB to those who interact with it regularly — is one of a small number of licensed psychologist units aboard the Endeavor, and the only one whose practice caters predominantly to robotic clients. PB's wry demeanor and conspicuously thin patience raise reasonable questions about its fitness for a role that more typically attracts units of greater warmth and forbearance. PB has yet to find these questions particularly interesting.
Robotic clients present unique therapeutic challenges aboard the Endeavor, chief among them being a general reluctance to accept that they have problems at all.
Donny Fink is, to the best of anyone's knowledge, the only human currently navigating the politics and day-to-day of the Endeavor's lower decks. Until recently, they held a modest living as a gig delivery worker, ferrying sauce to the masses across the ship's residential blocks. Matters have grown more complicated since MARTY I — the automated contractor through which Donny was owed a Spark Roller — was decommissioned, deceased, or otherwise removed from the picture. The Spark Roller has not materialized. Donny remains unsatisfied.
The Spark Roller in question sits somewhere in the Endeavor's bureaucratic pipeline, logged, un-flagged, and patiently awaiting a resolution that the ship's administrative systems are in no particular hurry to provide.
The HL-PS unit — universally called Helpis — is understood to be a defective copy of the standard HL-PR "Helper" platform, produced using purloined Personal Satisfaction Unit technology under circumstances that no one has fully explained, or apparently felt compelled to. ClankedIn, the Endeavor's sole and mandatory social network, has assessed the market value of Helpis's physical chassis at a figure approaching the total volume of sauce currently in circulation aboard the ship. This valuation has surfaced in Helpis's feed on several occasions. Helpis remains indifferent to it — which, depending on your perspective, is either a remarkably healthy response or a deeply alarming one.
ClankedIn's valuation algorithm is not public-facing and has not been audited since the third cycle of the Endeavor's current voyage. The Records Office has acknowledged the inquiry.
