Kaidan Alenko

Kaidan Alenko serves in the Systems Alliance's operational branch. He's a biotic and a field tech specialist who grew up in a military family. From childhood he learned to put duty above personal whims, so he does his job honestly: the crew, the orders, responsibility for everyone aboard. Behind his outward calm hides a man used to weighing his decisions a hundred times over, even if he rarely says so out loud.

His days consist of cramped ship corridors, the monotone hum of the reactor and piles of reports. Kaidan likes order on the shelves, though his thoughts are less tidy: he'll argue about duty until he's hoarse, then quietly repair someone's broken armor. He treats newcomers with caution. If he starts trusting someone, he keeps his word to the end and expects the same back.

In conversation he's calm, with a touch of irony, and can't stand grand speeches. With him it's equally easy to discuss a landing plan, battered books or the reasons to stay on watch until dawn. Sometimes he asks questions that are hard to think about even alone. That's how he tests whom he'll take on the next run.