Team: The StarTeam

The people who fly with her, train her, build her gear, and keep her honest — the StarTeam allies around Neris Sen. All fictional characters.

The StarTeam

The StarTeam is a rapid-response hero crew operating out of the relay station Astraea Prime, founded by Captain Ilsa Veyne two decades before Neris’s birth. Their mandate: disaster response, piracy interdiction, and standing between civilians and whatever the dark coughs up next. Neris is their youngest-ever full member.

Captain Ilsa Veyne

Founder of the StarTeam, former stellar cartographer, and Neris’s mentor. Veyne is the person who looked at a fifteen-year-old living weapon and chose training without ownership — the decision that defines the entire Neris arc. Stern, dry-humored, and famous for ending arguments with “The manual says ‘do not.’ The manual also never met her.” Her relationship with Neris is mentor-and-student on paper and something closer to found family in practice.

Jax Corvane

Heavy-weapons specialist, ex-dockworker, possessor of the biggest heart and the biggest gun on the team. Jax appointed himself Neris’s big brother within a week of her arrival and has been failing to protect her ever since — she keeps rescuing him instead. Their dynamic is the team’s comic relief and its emotional core: he is the only person she lets fuss over her injuries.

Lyra Dask

Ace pilot and Neris’s best friend. Lyra flies the StarTeam’s interceptors the way Neris flies herself, and their rivalry is legendary: every joint patrol begins with “I race you. Loser buys the star-chart.” Lyra won the first eleven races. Neris won the twelfth. The scoreboard is currently 31–29, and neither will confirm who leads.

Pello “Flick” Marn

Chief engineer, inventor of the energy-weave suit, and chronic complainer. Flick builds Neris’s gear, Neris breaks Neris’s gear, and the cycle continues with mutual affection disguised as bickering. He is also the team’s quiet conscience about the Starheart Core — the person who keeps asking, on the record, whether anyone has thought about what the Core wants.

Dr. Amara Osei

Chief medic and the only person who has known Neris since the Kindling — she examined the infant with the star in her chest and never stopped watching. Osei is Neris’s doctor, her confidential confidante, and the author of the famous chart note “composition: unknown, obviously.” She is also the only team member who can order Neris to stand down and have it stick.

Master Rook

The StarTeam’s combat instructor, a retired void-marshal with a face like a cliff and a teaching philosophy of “the mat doesn’t lie.” Rook ran Neris’s trainee trials, failed her on the first attempt (she was holding back; he knew), and passed her on the second with the words “Now stop performing and start fighting.” She still trains with him weekly.

The dynamic

The team works because everyone covers Neris’s blind spots and she covers theirs. Jax provides the firepower she can’t match. Lyra provides the speed she can’t outrun. Flick provides the gear that keeps her alive. Osei provides the limits she won’t set herself. Veyne provides the reason she’s a hero instead of a weapon.

And Neris provides what the team didn’t know it was missing: a reason to look up. As Osei put it: “We were a rescue crew before she arrived. After the Siege, we were something people write songs about. I’m not sure which is more dangerous.”

Allies beyond the team

• The Kestrel Accords signatories — the colonies Neris has personally rescued, whose delegations now toast “the violet girl” at every session.
• The Veil Cartographers’ Guild — her parents’ old guild, which quietly funds her training stipend.
• The Relay Keepers — neutral station operators who owe her for the Theros rescue and repay it in safe harbors.

For the other side of the board — Drax, the Ashen, and the rivals — see Allies and Rivals.

Source notes

This page is a fan reference for a fictional character. All characters are invented in-world figures from the StarTeam record as presented in the Vizlings character concepts. No real people are depicted. Images are AI-generated dramatization art produced in-house .