| COUNCIL OF ZION |
 | ▶ | Aries | Pro-Oracle Alliance |
| Zion Defense Grid | Vocal |
Aries is a former hovercrew Captain, well-known and highly-decorated in the ZDG, an experienced technologist retired due to leg amputation. Despite her pro-Alliance stance, she takes a relatively conservative, cautious approach, thinking it a necessary evil risk more than anything. Secretly, she strongly believes in the One. |
 | ▶ | Xolotl | Pro-Oracle Alliance |
| Zion Defense Grid | Conservative |
| Also a military veteran, an unplugged individual who was set free later in life, occasionally attracts criticism for a supposed fixation on the legitimacy of lives lived in the Matrix. Known for a strong interest in defense rather than offense or even counter-attacking. |
| ▶ | Zaka | Pro-Oracle Alliance |
| Agriculture, Merchantry | Moderate |
| A hippie who can be found, often, tending to some of the wheat farms, even if he does so with security detail nearby. His voice is heard mainly in arguments relating to resource and trade, generally in favour of sharing. |
| ▶ | Mephistopheles | Pro-Oracle Alliance |
| Civil (All Areas) | Moderate |
| Young person with intense civilian focus, not exactly anti-military, but believing that the Oracle alliance and assistance with technological advancement can vastly improve life in Zion. Her stance on Irkalla has always been swift, firm, and unforgiving, and would see firmer action taken. |
| ▶ | Duma | Pro-Oracle Alliance |
| Culture | Vocal |
| A believer in the One, highly spiritual, whose opinions are only undermined by the rumour that she also abuses drugs. She is a considerable force in the religious community, even for sects unrelated or even clashing with her own. As a consequence, she is often associated with their charitable works, such as the integration and care shown for those who cannot or will not work. |
 | ▶ | Chiron | Anti-Oracle Alliance |
| Medicine | Conservative |
| Former military but he was primarily a medic, still has major medical and merchantry ties/interests of both economic and personal nature. Enjoys art, tendency to proselytize. Pretty broad and obvious human supremacy streak. Can be rather tactless and blunt. Likes delivering babies. Runs one of many major hospital clinics in Zion. |
 | ▶ | Kamadeva | Anti-Oracle Alliance |
| Civil (All) | Moderate |
| A beautiful and charismatic speaker who tends to be nominated to speak at funerals and weddings. Family-oriented, kind of distracted from politics lately on account of recently giving birth to new twins. Doesn't trust the Oracle, on account of the Oracle's mysterious, manipulative ways, believing the end does not justify the means. Probably has a point. |
 | ▶ | Brutus | Anti-Oracle Alliance |
| Zion Defense Grid | Vocal |
| Former military, but only a brief stint; left in order to represent anti-Oracle faction interests and kind of misses the life. Rumoured Irkallan sympathizer due to arguments made that not only debate in favour of the civilian population in Irkalla, but also gentler tactics against those engaged in piracy. Seems inattentive to civil matters. |
 | ▶ | Quetzalcoatl | Anti-Oracle Alliance |
| Civil (All) | Conservative |
| Older person beginning to experience symptoms of dementia (e.g., memory loss, slow to find words). Previously used to be pro-Alliance but is embittered by Oracle’s withholding tendencies and the slowness of progress. He is extremely interested in the history of Man vs. Machine and how the war came about, but is increasingly cynical and fatalistic about it. He has a large family in Zion. Other Council members respect him. |
 | ▶ | Jade | Anti-Oracle Alliance |
| Agriculture | Vocal |
| Young and new to the Council, pretty rational but extremely stubborn about anti-Oracle everything. Will get caught up in little details like whether people use the network at all and base large decisions on this. Tends to be the voice for the agricultural class. |
 | ▶ | Morrigan | Swing Vote |
| Civil (Merchantry) | Neutral |
| Former-Irkallan, not very popular, though he actually has complete and unfailing allegiance to Zion now on account of having escaped Irkalla on his own volition. He is a recent Councilmember; got voted in because of his extensive and demonstrated understanding of the interrelationship between economics, military, etc. (thanks to Irkalla’s dependency on barter to survive, ironically) -- they don't really let him near any military decisions, and his vote tends to drive others the opposite way.
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| ▶ | Djinn | Swing Vote |
| Technology (non-ZDG) | Neutral |
| Djinn is an angry, suspicious, and compulsively skeptical person who thinks global philosophies about the Alliance are stupid. Instead, per this Councilor, judgments ought to be made on a case-by-case basis, as well as investigations/scrutiny ongoing-- for the benefit of all. |
| HOVERCREWS |
 | ▶ | Demeter | The Shangrila |
| Captain of the Shangrila | Hoverbarge |
| A former warship captain, Demeter refused retirement and instead reverted her war barge into a ship of healing. As a result, she has allowed its armaments to be stripped down to arm newer, improved combat-ready ships, and simplified the objective of the Shangrila: to free the captured and provide something like a temporary home for the newly unplugged. It only cruises relative safe zones and makes frequent rounds back to Zion. If you met Demeter, this career move might surprise you: she is aloof, rarely engages with the people her ship extracts, and very pro-military in attitude. |
 | ▶ | Yuhwa | The Shangrila |
| First Officer of the Shangrila | Hoverbarge |
| Having served as an operative and a medic for many ships in her twenty-odd years unplugged, Yuhwa has settled in as the First Officer for the Shangrila. She authorises all Matrix extractions and is more hands on than her captain in approach. As a doctor, she is also the chief medical officer onboard. |
 | ▶ | Noah | The Shangrila |
| Operative of the Shangrila | Hoverbarge |
| Unplugged ten years, Noah is a permanent member of the Shangrila, able to carry out operator duties, but primarily acts as a first point of contact for people about to undergo an extraction process. He likes to follow up in the Real, and is a known friendly face. He is entrusted with overseeing the non-medical part time staff who occasionally participate in extractions, training, and rehabilitation. His hobbies include singing and creating soothing, pleasant simulation programmes. |
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