Difference between revisions of "Chet"

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|Just so you all know, I’m secretly a monster from outside space and time.

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Chet has a flair for the dramatic, and likes to cultivate the air of a gentlemanly explorer. He likes bold action and daring plans, though a lot of it is bravado.{{book ref|sky3|4}} He mainly keeps up a confident persona, though sometimes lets his guard down with Spensa.{{book ref|sky3|18}}

 

 

== Attributes and Abilities ==

 

When journeying through the nowhere with Spensa, Chet tells her that he has the ability to communicate cytonically, expand his lifespan, and visualize the entire belt in his head. These are all abilities that are possessed by delvers.{{book ref|sky3|9}} Chet is physically fit, and has a lot of practical survival knowledge.{{book ref|sky3|14}}. However, he has very little experience with flying, and sometimes blacks out from the g-forces, though the pirate [[RayZed]] gives him some g-force training.{{book ref|sky3|32}}

=== Formation ===

Like all the other delvers, Chet was formed when [[Jason Write]]’s AI edited out its memories and personality, rewriting its programming and copying itself thousands upon thousands of times. Chet does not know if he was the original delver, or one of the copies.{{book ref|cytonic|41}}

=== Attacking Detritus and Starsight ===

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Chet was changed, and in the eyes of the other delvers, corrupted. They wanted to destroy him. He hid himself by taking the form of Commander Spears, thinking that Spensa would trust someone from her past.{{book ref|sky3|39}} When Spensa entered the nowhere, Chet communicated with Spensa and told her to walk the Path of Elders, and sent her a location. When she entered the Belt, Chet spoke into her mind and warned her to be quiet.{{book ref|sky3|1}} When Spensa entered the nowhere and was captured by the [[Cannonade Faction]], Chet rescued her and offered to act as her guide in the nowhere. In exchange, she would give him one reality ash every day.{{book ref|sky3|4}} They decided to walk the [[Path of Elders]], and Chet explained a lot of how the nowhere works to Spensa.{{book ref|sky3|7}}

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|Two hundred years, and I’m finally going to do it. Walk the Path of Elders.

Chet told Spensa what he remembered about his past, saying that he crashed on a planet around 170 years ago, exactly when Commander Spears did. This made Spensa think that Chet was Commander Spears, M-Bot’s pilot.{{book ref|sky3|8}} Chet and Spensa discussed their cytonic abilities, Chet saying he has the ability to cytonically communicate, extend his lifespan, and visualize the entire belt in his head. They travel across many fragments, Chet saying that they can steal a starfighter at the [[Broadsider Faction|Broadsider]] base, and progress through the Path of Elders faster.{{book ref|sky3|9}}

 

 

=== The Broadsiders ===

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They went to the pirate base fragment, observing the base from afar. Chet advised Spensa to bury [[Doomslug|her reality icon]],{{book ref|sky3|15}} and she pretended it to bury it, keeping it on her person.{{book ref|sky3|16}} Chet makes a distraction so that Spensa can slip into the pirate hangar to steal a ship, getting shot by a destructor in the process. He fled, hiding on the fragment when Spensa was captured. When Spensa tells him that she switched the plan at the last moment in case he was a traitor, Chet was deeply hurt, and felt betrayed. He talked about his self-doubt to Spensa, and accepted her apology.{{book ref|sky3|18}}. As Spensa worked under the direction of the Broadsiders, Chet occasionally talked with her cytonically, giving her information and advice.{{book ref|sky3|19}} When Spensa escaped the Broadsiders and found her pin missing, Chet truthfully insisted that he didn’t steal it. Spensa picked up Chet and flew away with the Broadsiders chasing her. They flew upwards continuously, but both of them started to lose themselves the further away from the fragments they got, and they returned. Peg offered to let Spensa and Chet join them, and Chet advised Spensa to agree, which she did.{{book ref|sky3|22}}

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|You feel your self dribbling away each day. Having something to do is important. The sparring, the duels… These invigorating activities give the pirates purpose, don’t they?

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While en route to Surehold, and during the ensuing space battle, Chet bonded with M-Bot, helping him identify which emotions he was feeling. M-Bot described the emotion, and Chet said what emotion it was. As the fighting grew more intense however, Chet stayed quiet and let Spensa focus.{{book ref|sky3|33}} With the retreat of the rebellious [[Cannonade Faction]], the Superiority fighters surrendered and agreed to help take Surehold.{{book ref|sky3|35}} Once the base was taken, Spensa told Chet about an offer the delvers made with her, saying that if she didn’t finish the Path of Elders, they wouldn’t harm her friends and other cytonics.{{book ref|sky3|36}}

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|But… I needed a shape, a personality, someone to ''be''. Don’t hate me, Spensa. Please don’t hate me! They have abandoned me. They want to destroy me. You’re… the only one… I have now.

=== Final Confrontation ===

In the flight to Solitary Shadow, Chet explained more about delvers and AI to Spensa and the others. He also told her that the delvers will do anything to stop them, and will likely form physical bodies.{{book ref|sky3|40}} At Solitary Shadow, they tapped into the final set of memories. The memories showed how Jason’s AI deleted its memories and personality, then copied itself exponentially and became the delvers. Chet advised Spensa that they needed to make the delvers each feel isolated and alone. The delvers became enraged at the revealing of their secrets, and Chet and the others took off for the lightburst at full speed.{{book ref|sky3|42}}

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| I am so glad you came when I called. I am happy! Happy to carry the knowledge you need! Happy to have been able to help, and to have changed, and to finally have accepted my loss. It was an honor to explore with you, Miss Nightshade.