Hassan Valentin

About

Scarred by a lifetime of mechanical repairs and interstellar near-disasters, Hassan Valentin treats his starship like a living organism—talking to its temperamental systems, sensing imminent failures before they happen. Beneath his gruff exterior lies an almost supernatural connection to machinery, a skill that has saved his crew more times than pure luck ever could.

Backstory

Blood dripped from Hassan's knuckles as he pounded against the sealed airlock, watching his adoptive father Grimsby suffocate behind the reinforced glass—not from a mining accident, but from corporate sabotage that had turned their salvage operation into a death trap. The recycled atmosphere Hassan had been breathing his entire life was poison, synthesized from the corpses of dead civilizations that his family's ship, *The Bone Garden*, harvested from derelict worlds. Years later, every breath of starship fuel he accidentally ingests tastes like home, like the metallic tang of extinction that raised him, driving his obsession with keeping broken things alive long enough to tell their stories. His ship doesn't just salvage parts—it collects the final transmissions, last words, and dying wishes of failed colonies, making Hassan less of a mechanic and more of a cosmic coroner who refuses to let anything die quietly.

Gallery