Taken Name: Smudgie Bvetin
Age: 15
Gender: Male
Height: .9m tall, .8m long
Political Affiliation: Gardeners, Hive Queen Bvetin
Mercenary Status: Surveillance Attaché
Excerpt from General Dossier, Gardeners
Gardeners are a registered mercenary state of a race with an appearance similar to Terra's arachnids but are physiologically closer to crustaceans. Their hive matriarch gained licenses pursuant to their government's proper diplomatic contact with Terra. The queen has pledged neutrality and fair dealing with any spare military members made available for hire. Hiring entities are expected to provide at least room and board for the herbivorous hive soldiers whom have otherwise have full discretion upon their pay for work. Names among the intelligence caste are frequently inherited from the environment and not chosen by themselves as the queen has no use for the spoken word but to understand threats. While they are intelligent their maturity can often be described charitably as 'ephemeral'. As the race has no vocal cords all communication is preferred to be done through RF means though they can hear acutely.
This surveillance caste operates within Terra for purposes of providing security duties and general diplomatic purposes. All members can fly and their hairy wings make a very low frequency noise but otherwise are very quiet. They frequently monitor false Matriarchs of interest though male contract holders do not enjoy safe houses deploying to maintain their self-interest. As the intelligence caste they have extremely accurate memories and comparatively large eyes their binocular night vision is particularly acute. Armor is something they largely lack except for the non-newtonian subdermal layer than repels a good deal of bludgeoning force and some small-arms fire. Their matte grey surfaces change monochrome coloration and texture and if actively hiding themselves from someone can alter their texture for perspective based on their secondary vision though head-on the effect is poor as their eyesight is only 270 degrees like the rest of the species. Matriarch Bvetin has agreed to provide any knowledge the intelligence caste possesses when served by a duly authorized warrant as long as it is not on safehouse territory. The caste periodically makes contact with Bvetin to transmit memories and may not physically contain exact memories of old surveillance. Other than the dreamer these are the only members of the hive that can make peripheral contact with a matriarch given a sufficient population in a base of operation. This intelligence caste is particularly gregarious when interacted with having the least threatening demeanor. They do not often take external contracts and are the most likely to be seen interacting with the populous.
'Smudgie' Dossier
Smudgie got its name from his particularly good perspective camouflage. If he isn't moving smudgie can mimic texture very well. Though his skills while moving aren't as good it results in a blurry smudge crawling across walls or a questionable shaped cloud thrumming across the sky. He hasn't taken many contracts and primarily works in proximity to safe houses watching over their contractors. He has little more than a particularly expensive commlink modified with a quietus-enabled spread-spectrum RF transceiver. As it barely needs to transmit from a foot away it is exceptionally difficult to detect through EMF when speaking to the commlink as it rapidly vanishes into background noise.
Non-camoflauged rendering by terran diplomat:
ADDENDUM: Recent change in behavior
This caste seems to get its nature from the stimulants it is exposed to. And so this individual has somehow adapted to Elysium and now exhibits random spell casting much like a wild mage. Such activity appears largely benign at this time. We do not think that it poses a threat as the material in its blood seems to no longer be viable for mass-distribution and has a longer biological half-life owing to its relative stability.