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 Valentina: i was a psychologist by training when i embarked
+Mara: Chief editor of the Ark's newspaper (oscillating between fiction and reality)
 Alkan: gonzo journalist (with an alcohol problem)
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 Nik: Oscillating fluid dynamics wrangler: from physics and plumbing, to streams of consciousness and inebriety. Sometimes functioning as a barman.
-Maja: Rafters ambassador and first-contact person for non-human sentiences, as well as travellers from other times. Currently xCoAx liaison. In 2014 I was facilitating a futures workshop at xCoAx as a member of FoAM, that back then was a network with studios in different countries. When it was time to set-off and live on water, we floated towards each other and actually spent more time together than while living on land (with thanks to our dear anonymous ship magnate @traintoextinctification. We continued our work with prototyping possible futures in the present, and one of the possible futures was in fact Annbonny's Ark. The story started as a scenario in xCoAX 2014, and we developed it into a 10 year pre-enactment in 203Os - way before cold fusion was possible. I loved the idea of a living lab for Third Culture, and I worked with the team on its detailed designs, especially when it came to designing spaces and situations where people from all walks of life would gather, live and work. The pre-enactment was a success, and gave rise to many floating villages. When cold fusion became possible, the Ark was built for space travel and about to embark on its first journey, I became skeptical. I experienced the damage that humans can do to our living environment and each other, so I didn't believe we should leave the planet until our culture evolves beyond conflict and unhealthy competition (we're on our way, but far from there yet) and has developed our vegetal mind to be at least as prominent as our bestial. It was Ann Bonny who convinced me that I should join the crew as an ambassador of Earth-bound Third Culture, a living example of intertwingularity and an early warning sign in unproductive (or dangerous) conflict situations. Since then I have been training in connecting everything (and everyone) with everything (and everyone) else, specialising in [[:/thalience|Thalience]], trans-species communication and first contact with sentient beings.
+Maja: Rafters ambassador and first-contact person for non-human sentiences, as well as travellers from other times. Currently xCoAx liaison. In 2014 I was facilitating a futures workshop at xCoAx as a member of FoAM, that back then was a network with studios in different countries. When it was time to set-off and live on water, we floated towards each other and actually spent more time together than while living on land (with thanks to our dear anonymous ship magnate @traintoextinctification. We continued our work with prototyping possible futures in the present, and one of the possible futures was in fact Annbonny's Ark. The story started as a scenario in xCoAX 2014, and we developed it into a 10 year pre-enactment in 203Os - way before cold fusion was possible. I loved the idea of a living lab for Third Culture, and I worked with the team on its detailed designs, especially when it came to designing spaces and situations where people from all walks of life would gather, live and work. The pre-enactment was a success, and gave rise to many floating villages. When cold fusion became possible, the Ark was built for space travel and about to embark on its first journey, I became skeptical. I experienced the damage that humans can do to our living environment and each other, so I didn't believe we should leave the planet until our culture evolves beyond conflict and unhealthy competition (we're on our way, but far from there yet) and has developed our vegetal mind to be at least as prominent as our bestial.
+It was Ann Bonny who convinced me that I should join the crew as an ambassador of Earth-bound Third Culture, a living example of intertwingularity and an early warning sign in unproductive (or dangerous) conflict situations. Since then I have been training in connecting everything (and everyone) with everything (and everyone) else, often working in [[:/thalience|Thalience]], trans-species communication and first contact with sentient beings, with many side-trips in the kitchen with Tina, cooking up many a Third Culture feast (drawing from my early FoAM experiences of food as a Third Culture catalyst between e.g. a Chinese computer vision technologist and a Lithuanian textile designer). I often spend my time with Tim, sitting in silence as one of the masters of the Nothingness guild, that was founded after a decade of [[:/doing nothing]] experiments at FoAM. I met Julian at one of Ann Bonny's banquets and we spend many an evening reminiscing about old times. Nik and I are still married, phylotically connected through various streams of consciousness and meeting in different times and dimensions, often reliving our early relationship using a fluid time-protocol he developed (although it is a bit glitchy, so we also end up stranded in Wolfsburg in 2005, then more than happy to re-emerge in our current timeline, intertwined with the Ark, and each other.