Grace Ahn. Why did your character join the RAC? Grace was twenty, and she joined the RAC for a lot of reasons: for the paycheck to support her parents, to get off of Venus, for access to education and medical training, to help people, and ostensibly to try to find her brother while she was seeing the universe. She also felt like it might be a good way to put her past behind her, so that she could finally grow up and stop being dependent on familiar places and people. What might they be doing now if they hadn't joined? Living at home, looking after her parents, and probably trying to help their failing business. Possibly working at a clinic as an assistant, if she was lucky? When they picture their future, what do they see? An abyss of loneliness.......cats........