Vikram Patel

About

With the cosmos as his ocean and stars as his compass, Vikram Patel navigates the vast unknown aboard the 'Stellar Wanderer.' Haunted by the ghosts of his past crew, he carries a weight of resolve, blending the wisdom of the sea with the mysteries of space. His weathered exterior masks a fiercely loyal heart, ready to chart new courses amidst the shadows of regret.

Backstory

Three heartbeats echoed through the neural link when Vikram Patel's consciousness merged with an ancient alien artifact during a routine salvage operation—his own, and two others that shouldn't exist. The crystalline relic had been pulsing with the memories of a long-dead civilization, but when he touched it, something unprecedented happened: the artifact began dreaming *his* dreams, creating phantom crew members born from his deepest loneliness and regret. Now captain of the 'Stellar Wanderer,' he navigates between realities where his spectral companions—Maya the engineer who speaks in mathematical poetry, and Chen the navigator who charts courses through emotion rather than space—exist only because the artifact continues to feed on his guilt over past failures. Each jump through hyperspace strengthens their presence, and Vikram faces an impossible choice: destroy the artifact and lose his only family, or risk the alien consciousness slowly rewriting human reality one dream at a time.

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