Researchers

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Appears in: Descent

The researchers are one of the three groups of the crew, with the Engineers and the Guardians: the scientists and doctors of the ship, from neuroscience and medicine to genetics. In section 9 Dana leads them until Aditi takes over. Claire, Nikau and Raina are researchers.

In Descent (2258)

After the crash

Spoilers for Descent

After the crash Aditi gives all the time and resources to genetics, environmental studies and cloning; the other specialities are left without tasks, and the department divides. Many researchers drift away, some to become the first Hunters under Claire. Two researchers studying the Crystal-plant hybrid are the first to absorb its energy.

Hunters

The hunters are a group of survivors formed on Calima around Claire, who becomes their leader. They hunt the native animals and provide most of the meat, skins and materials the survivors use.

In the story

Spoilers for Descent

The first hunters are researchers who felt alienated in their department and followed Claire after her first Kutsanp; in days they number fifty. As energy runs short, and with it printed food, nanomesh and tools, they become the survivors' source of food, clothing and materials. Large prey such as the Vaghadata are hunted by dozens of them with traps and fire. They live in the The hunters' camp, celebrate in its hall, and are devoted to Claire.

In Part 3 some 300 hunters, armed with equipment they have been stockpiling, lead the rebellion against the migration and march east with the engineers and reclaimers who join them.

Quotes

As the new team leader, Aditi connects.

He saw the basic directives to handle the crew management in three groups, guardians, engineers, and researchers, and the logical rules to keep them in healthy competition with each other.

Among researchers, the division of impressions that existed when Aditi arrived at the section has increased the difficulty.