Vadim Tanayev

On Prospect station, Korolev is represented by Vadim Tanayev, the first cousin once removed of the megacorp’s CEO, but he’s better known as the socialite responsible for quite a few fantastically expensive and embarrassing corporate missteps. A cynical observer might argue that he was promoted way past his expertise and remains a perfect example of the dangers of nepotism. They wouldn’t be wrong.

As it stands, he did face some consequences. As punishment for his failures and eccentricities he was sent to oversee the corporation’s interests at the edge of civilization. Ever the opportunist, he’s made the best of his new “disgraced” position by letting the inertia of his company’s clout handle itself; after all, everyone needs Korolev, from the station engineers and competing Factions, to the lowly Prospectors going about their business on the planet. Meanwhile Tanayev is still living a life of hedonistic leisure as one of the station’s elites.

Korolev usually holds contacts with Prospectors through dry and direct contract statements, but Mr. Tanayev finds the toiling of Prospectors on the planet fascinating enough to communicate with them directly for important, or amusing, matters; if he must live in a circus, why not enjoy the full spectacle?