Roselyn Monroe

Role Owner-operator of the House of Parts, Aethel Starport; fixer Status alive

Overview

The name at the end of Julija Borja’s last instruction turned out to be a woman stocking shelves in her own junkyard. Roselyn Monroe owns and operates the House of Parts, a sprawling open-air maze of salvaged starship components at the worn far end of Aethel Starport, fronted by an aggressive sales robot that insists it is the owner. She carries a metal baton at her side and keeps a hand near it around strangers, and her office hides a stripped engine on a worktable, a couch somebody sometimes sleeps on, and a row of trophies and awards tucked out of sight behind the junk.

What she is under the proprietor is the interesting part. When the crew produced the Marshal’s evidence bag, she staged a small electronic device as the thing that opened it, and Shackleton Magellan alone caught the truth: her thumb slid across the biometric reader, and the lock answered her. She was the right Monroe. She had always been the right Monroe. She reviewed the contents alone behind closed blinds, came back with forged Federal Republican citizen IDs for the whole crew, told them the evidence was dangerous enough that the people connected to it would come looking, and recommended they disappear into the outer sectors. And she spoke about Julija in the past tense, with the quiet certainty of someone who had known for some time — before the crew told her anything about how Julija died.

She is also a fixer with reach. She unlocked Marlo Petrak’s Marshal-issued handcuffs with her device, spent an hour studying the alien cube aboard The Albatross and identified its technology as Kinetic Logistics’ — adding that the company has since been absorbed by a parent corporation, and that she would look into it. Within hours she had a job on the table: Peter Goodwin, delivered to Storage B-342, in exchange for a properly coded transponder. Her contact goes unnamed. Her failure clause did not.

“Is he like damaged or something? Did he have an accident since you guys left?” — Roselyn, watching Six arrive at her warehouse in a paper pith helmet

Appearances

• Session 5 (Session 05 - Hostile Takeover) — Named only, as “Monroe,” the intended recipient of Julija Borja’s evidence, described secondhand as a junk-shop owner on Aethel.
• Session 7 (Session 07 - The Goodwin Contract) — Met. Opened the evidence bag with her thumbprint behind a staged device, took custody of the evidence, issued forged citizen IDs, freed Marlo Petrak from his handcuffs, examined the cube and named its technology as Kinetic Logistics’, and brokered The Goodwin Contract: Peter Goodwin to Storage B-342 for a coded transponder, with her unnamed contact enforcing failure. See The House of Parts Handoff.
• Session 8 (Session 08 - A Crappy Plan Comes Together) — Off screen. The crew executed her contract without contacting her: Peter Goodwin taken from the Firetemic Tower, delivery to Storage B-342 still pending at session’s end. The Firetemic Tower Raid.
• Session 9 (Session 09 - Snakes on a Catwalk) — Delivery received. Waited at Storage B-342 with a hose and a look of profound exasperation, and confirmed the delivery of Peter Goodwin. She stepped outside to speak with a man, and Rock Lavey overheard the man ask whether the job had been done quietly and Monroe answer that they had gotten who he wanted; the man who then stepped through the door was Leonard Romeijn, her unnamed contact from The Goodwin Contract and the man who ordered Goodwin taken. An hour later she came to The Albatross with a bag of equipment, installed a legal federal transponder beneath the hull, and registered the ship under Shackleton Magellan’s name. She gave Shackleton a frequency code for a restricted network of unofficial job postings, told the crew to dump the ship and run for the edges of known space, said she expected them to come when she called, and wished them luck with the weary tone of someone who doubted they would need it. See The Storage B-342 Handoff.