He has always been interested in
extra-terrestrial life and always
He views the crew like family. He
relates to Garrick as they were
both raised in an orphanage. He
and Roland were friends in
training. He views Simon like a
son.
He views the crew as his family
so he is motivated and trying his
best to keep them alive.
Outer: He is fighting the alien to keep his
crew alive.
Inner: He knows that he nor his crew are
going to get of Mars alive, they can’t risk
the creature getting back to earth
He views the captain as a
somewhat father figure. He
enjoys making fun of Garrick, the
fun is not reciprocated. He has a
good relationship with Roland.
Simons father was also an
astronaut. However, in the first
manned rocket to Mars, the
rocket exploded mid launch
killing him and all the other
astronauts. Simon feels like he
owes it to his father to be one of
the first men on mars
Outer: He is fighting the alien to keep his
crew alive.
Inner: he is fighting to make his father
proud
wanted to meet it.
The oldest of
the crew (25)
He is the crew’s pilot and captain he
Captain is responsible for all major decisions
and keeping the crew logs up to date.
McTavish
McTavish was alone from a young
age, he had next to no family, which
made him perfect for this mission.
He moved from home to home,
he was raised by many foster
families.
Simon is the self-proclaimed
joker of the group. He spends
most of his time wandering the
base checking the
communications tower.
The youngest
of the crew
(19)
Simon He is the crews engineer, he
maintains the base and the ship. He
Riley looks after all facilities around the
base like the communications tower,
the rover and the motion sensors
around the base.
Lost his father at a young age.
Now its is just Simon and his
mother.
Nasa compensated his family
after the death of his father, this
allowed Simon to pay for the
education he needed to become
the youngest astronaut in
history.

He likes to joke around with
Simon. He is friends with
McTavish from training. He
doesn’t really know much about
Garrick.
He is the only medical officer on
the mission, he is motivated to
keep his crew alive because he
cares about them and is the only
one who can give them the
medical attention they need
Outer: He is fighting the alien to keep his
crew alive.
Inner: Like the captain, he knows that none
of them can leave in the shuttle without
risking the alien getting back to earth. He
does not know how to tell Simon who still
thinks they have a chance of surviving.
He has a very distant relationship
with the rest of the crew, he is a
very private person.
When he was a boy he dreamed
of getting as far away from the
orphanage as possible, since
then, he viewed space as the
furthest place from it
Outer: He is fighting the alien to keep his
crew alive.
Inner: he blinded by his curiosity to analyse
the fossil.
He was interested in medicine
from and early age. When he
found that they were attempting
to launch a second manned
mission to Mars, he signed up on
the spot.
22
He is the medical officer for the crew,
James he tends to the crew when they have
all sorts of injuries. He also functions
Roland as a botanist and tends to all the
plants the crew brought with them.
He was raised by his father and
mother.
He comes from a medium income
household; he went on to study
medicine at university and
became the crews medical officer
In the orphanage he loved to
collect rocks, as they were some
of the only toys he could play
with. He became very interested
in geology and space.
20
He is the crew’s geologist; he is there
Garrick to analyse the terrain and find the
best spot for a colony.
He grew up in eastern Europe in
an orphanage.
He was very poor growing up
before he was adopted by a well
off British couple