Tarik

Tarik of Perihelion · ART crew member · university crew member

Tarik survives the surface escape, receives treatment for the abdominal injury, and helps assess the remnant residue still blocking ART’s departure.

Story so far

Tarik reaches ART after escaping the explorer and the surface battle with a serious lower-abdominal injury. Medical stabilization allows the wounded crew member to survive and rejoin Perihelion’s full complement.

During the recovery period, Tarik works in the engineering pod with Overse, Matteo, and Kaede on scans of the residue left by the alien growth on ART’s drive. Their analysis confirms the transport cannot safely enter a wormhole without university decontamination specialists.

Tarik ends aboard ART, medically supported and reunited with the crew, applying hard-won contamination knowledge while they wait to see whether university or Barish-Estranza forces arrive first.

Appearance

Tarik is an adult crew member whose skin tone, hair, features, and build remain undescribed. Clean dark-blue crew clothing and a medical stabilizing pack now support the treated lower-abdominal injury.

Role

Tarik is a recovering survivor and part of ART’s decontamination assessment team. His technical work helps define the transport’s remaining vulnerability.

Relationships

ART — Tarik helps confirm ART cannot safely traverse a wormhole before specialist decontamination.

Overse — Overse coordinates the engineering analysis Tarik joins.

Matteo — Matteo works beside Tarik on remnant-residue scans.

Kaede — Kaede shares Tarik’s technical assessment and recovery aboard ART.

Sources — 2 recorded facts, by chapter

Chapter 15

Tarik escapes the explorer with an abdominal injury and argues that the colonists’ alien-hivemind belief is delusion rather than contact.

Chapter 20

Tarik survives the surface escape, receives treatment for the abdominal injury, and helps assess the remnant residue still blocking ART’s departure.