Chap Sovann

 | Field | Details |-| :--- | :--- |+| --- | --- | | **Affiliation** | Alterra Corporation (Alterra Alms, Pioneer Program, AISV Cicada), Cicada Survivors (Formerly) | | **Occupation** | Alterra Educational Cadre (Formerly), Computation Dynamicist, Biobed Administrator | | **Gender** | Male | | **Status** | Deceased; marked "Do Not Print" | | **Voice Actor** | Joe Ngo |   **Chap Sovann** is a pioneer who was on the **AISV Cicada** when it crashed onto **Proteus**. He worked as the colony's computation dynamicist and biobed administrator. Chap, along with **Mantis**, joined with **Nahema** as part of a rebel group to destroy the pioneer colony and perished at the **Old Habitat** as the result of an explosion.   Chap's last known death occurred 235,000 hours ago in the Old Habitat. He was marked as "do not print" following this, and not scheduled for reset.   ## Blackboxes   ### Blackbox - Chap (depth 40m)+  ![300px](wiki-images/8a/8acd858fae52647ad7bce4539fb0bdd9.png)   *   **Location**: Within **Quaker's Meetinghouse** in the **Dolerite Spires** *   **Note**: This blackbox is currently glitched and provides the wrong blackbox entry upon pickup *   **Depth**: 40 meters *   **Coordinates**: -321677, 448572, -4267   **Dialogue:**   > **Sophie**: "Okay? You comfy?" > **Chap**: "My mouth is full of holes."-> **Sophie**: "I'm turning on the nitrogen. Deep breaths." [ Hiss of gas ] "You'll have a brand new body. You might even be a little stronger...a little faster. The **Biobed**'s got you."+>+> **Sophie**: "I'm turning on the nitrogen. Deep breaths." [ Hiss of gas ] "You'll have a brand new body. You might even be a little stronger...a little faster. The **biobed**'s got you."+> > **Chap**: "Until it all happens again. The metal...or the Masefield. This planet is poison..."+> > **Sophie**: "If this works, we can slow down the syndromes by reprinting our bodies. Until we find a cure."+> > **Chap**: "What if there is no cure?"+> > **Sophie**: "Chap, sweetie? Don't be scared. NoA will find a way."+> > **Chap**: "That's what I'm afraid of..." [ Slow breaths, "fading" to nothing ]   ### Blackbox - Chap (outside Habitat)+  ![300px](wiki-images/ce/cefdaef3e55333d0b58898f2803564d0.png)   *   **Location**: Below the **Old Habitat** *   **Depth**: 60 meters *   **Coordinates**: -335729, 395179, -5953   **Dialogue:**   > [ Explosion ]   ## Databank Entries   ### Profile and Blackboxes   **Chap Sovann**   *   **Gender**: M *   **Mission role**: Computational dynamicist, biobed administrator *   **Pay rate**: Kurul [expired Mongolian Free States trademark for member of a leadership council] *   **Biography**: Fast-tracked from Alterra educational cadre to work on breakthrough human fabrication technologies. Volunteered for Cicada mission to test biobed systems in harsh frontier environment. *   **Notes**: A loyal and consistent performer since infancy. Minimal risk of breakdown. Some professional tension with Al ethicist Lucretia Kapoor.   *Source: Acquire any of Chap's blackboxes*   ***  -**Blackbox: Sovann, Chap "Chap" 01**+**Blackbox: Sovann, Chap (depth 40m)**  -> **SOPHIE**: "You comfy?"-> **CHAP**: "There are holes in my mouth."+*   **Event**: Print loss+ +**AUDIO**+ +> **SOPHIE**: "Okay? You comfy?"+>+> **CHAP**: "My mouth is full of holes."+> > **SOPHIE**: "I'm turning on the nitrogen. Deep breaths. [hiss of gas] You'll have a brand new body. You might even be a little stronger...a little faster. The biobed's got you."+> > **CHAP**: "Until it all happens again. The metal...or the Masefield. This planet is poison..."-> **SOPHIE**: "If this works, we can slow down the syndromes by reprinting. Until we find a cure."+>+> **SOPHIE**: "If this works, we can slow down the syndromes by reprinting our bodies. Until we find a cure."+> > **CHAP**: "What if there is no cure?"+> > **SOPHIE**: "Chap? Sweetie? Don't be scared. NoA will find a way."+> > **CHAP**: "That's what I'm afraid of..."+> > [slow breathing, fading away to nothing]   **POSTMORTEM**  -Chap died of inert gas asphyxia. He underwent consensual recycling into a new body.+*   **Cause**: inert gas asphyxia; nitrogen inhalation+*   **Complications**: malnutrition, viremia, acute copper poisoning+*   **Nearby pioneers**: 1+*   **Time**: ~240,000 hours ago+*   **Reprint**: successful (local biobed)+*   **Remarks**: therapeutic reprint, supervising physician S. Boucher. Kurultai-level access codes erased+*   **FORK CONTINUED**  -Chap suffered from acute copper poisoning and moderate starvation at the time of his death.+***  -Chap spoke to Sophie Boucher before dying. Chap died peacefully under her care.+**Blackbox: Sovann, Chap (outside Habitat)**  -Chap died about 240,000 hours ago. He was transmitted to a biobed in the same structure where he died. Despite contamination with heavy metals and retroviral DNA, he was reprinted without reset. His new body did not suffer from acute copper poisoning.+*   **Event**: Print loss  -Chap's life continued. Sophie Boucher retained this blackbox for medical data, but erased Chap's kurultai-level access codes.+**AUDIO**  -***+> **CHAP**: "My name is Chap Sovann and I am not software."+>+> [sound of explosion]  -**Blackbox: Sovann, Chap "Chap" 02**-  **POSTMORTEM**  -Chap died in an explosion.+*   **Cause**: blast trauma+*   **Complications**: recent version reset, unauthorized explosives+*   **Nearby pioneers**: 15+*   **Time**: ~235,000 hours ago+*   **Reprint**: FAILED (biobed destroyed)+*   **Status**: DO NOT PRINT+*   **Remarks**: SHELVE PIONEER. Kurultai access revoked+*   **FORK TERMINATED**  -Several other colonists were killed in the same blast.- -Chap died about 235,000 hours ago.- -Chap's blackbox had been marked Do Not Print shortly before his death. This status was applied by the Habitat NoA node. This fork of Chap's life ended.- -The kurultai-level access codes in this blackbox were corrupted by the explosion and cannot be retrieved.-  *Source: Find Chap's blackbox at the Old Habitat*   ### Relevant Entries   *   Chap/Sophie - "Jubilee using old sleep bay" *   Sophie - "Riot in progress"