Rickard Karne: Difference between revisions

|affiliation      = CoreTech

'''{{PAGENAME}}''' was a crewmember of the space ship ''[[Vesuvius (ship)|Vesuvius]]''. who served as a [[biologist]] for [[CoreTech]]. After meeting fellow CoreTech [[Sheira Rynn]] employee three years before the ''Vesuvius'' was due to set out, the two were engaged to be [[marriage|married]]. During the course of the ship's journey, Karne grew suspicious that Rynn and the ''Vesuvius''{{'}} captain [[Mortan Hardak]] were corporate [[Spy|spies]] for a rival company. Karne recorded portions of his suspicions in a journal that he ultimately saved as a draft rather than publishing when Sheira interrupted him. Ultimately Mortan and Sheira conspired to murder Rickard. They attempted to cover up their crime by using cellular regrowth technology to make Rickard's corpse resemble Sheira's body. Sheira then used the same technique on her own body to make herself resemble Rickard, faking her own death and assuming his identity. Rickard's murder was exposed by [[Professor]] [[Bernice Summerfield]] when she discovered that Rynn and Hardak both previously worked for CoreTech's rival [[SynoCorp]] and that the supposed body of Sheira Rynn did not have the regenerative trauma from a broken [[Bone|leg]] that the real Sheira Rynn once suffered. From this, Summerfield deduced the truth that Rickard Karne was the true murder victim. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Vesuvius Falling]]'')