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Kani

she/her · Protagonist · first appears in Typhoon

Contents (4)
  1. Named in
  2. The archive
    1. Her work
    2. The ship
  3. Alongside them
  4. Using them

A normal teenaged girl sucked into the dustrunner trade, flying dangerous missions in low Earth orbit and risking the lives of millions below. Chased by the police, pirates and the mob at the same time, with no good way out.

No kit released for Kani yet — this entry is currently a description only. The text above is already yours to use under the licence below.

Named in

And 7 blog posts — the archive is where most of the talking about these people happens.

What the archive says

Her work

Trade

A dustrunner — illegal asteroid-mining runs flown in low Earth orbit.

Typhoon · 2010

the line it comes from
But now a normal teenaged girl named Kani has been sucked into the fray, forced to fly dangerous missions in low Earth orbit, risking the lives of millions of people below.
Before all this

An ordinary teenager with a gym bag, a father in the kitchen and a 5:45 train to catch.

Typhoon · 2010

the line it comes from
Kani grabbed her gym bag from the hook by the door, dimmed the lights and went outside.

The ship

Her ship

The Incessna. Rusted, pitted, and repainted so many times the original colour is gone.

Typhoon · 2010

the line it comes from
The metal seemed rusted, pitted even, decorated one way and then reworked by so many others that it was impossible to tell what colour it was trying to be.
Her callsign

Tundra — painted on the hull below the ship's name. It was there before she was.

Typhoon · 2010

the line it comes from
Running below the edge of the cockpit, it said: “Incessna,” and below that, “Tundra.”
How she came by it

Not by earning it. She is the de facto Tundra, and knows exactly how that sounds.

Polarity · 2010

the line it comes from
And yet here she was, the de facto Tundra, for better or worse.

Alongside them

Using Kani

Released under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Draw them, write them, animate them, put them in your game. Credit me, don't sell it, and license what you make the same way.

Attribution — copy this:

“Kani” from Dustrunners by MCM (2001–2011), https://mcm.1889.ca/commons/kani — licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

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