Tarnished Heroes
KEEGAN ROGERS CORAN (born October 28, 2101) was an American business magnate, biomedical engineer, investor, and philanthropist. He is best known as the founder of North American BioPharma.[1][2] and the sponsor of the interstellar colony ship Victoria [3][4]. During his career at North American BioPharma, Coran held the positions of chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), president, and chief architect, while also being the largest individual shareholder. He is one of the best-known entrepreneurs and pioneers of the life extension therapies now used routinely around the world [5] and the immunotherapies used to treat multiple cancers [6][7][8]. He was tragically murdered by one of his employees, Nitin Bakshi (the chief designer of the Victoria colony ship) during the so-called “Mars Tragedy” incident in 2170 [9].
—Excerpt from Mars,
a History, Utopia Planitia Press,
Marstown, Mars, 2207 CE
NITIN ALORA BAKSHI (born March 2, 2109) was an American inventor and futurist. He is best known as the founding designer of the interstellar colony ship Victoria [1] and as the murderer of the American businessman Keegan Coran [2]. He spent most of his life advocating for, and then designing, the Victoria. For reasons never determined, he aligned himself with the FEF-er movement [3] and coordinated a bomb attack on the Victoria’s chief sponsor, Keegan Coran, and his Mars pharmaceutical laboratory, in what has come to be called the “Mars Tragedy” incident in 2170 [4]. He brutally murdered Coran and two of his associates and then perished in the subsequent breakup of the Mars-orbiting laboratory. Bakshi’s body was never found.
—Excerpt from Mars,
a History, Utopia Planitia Press,
Marstown, Mars, 2207 CE
The tragic deaths of two key leaders of the TRAPPIST-2 Colony Foundation, CEO and financier Keegan Coran along with COO and visionary Nitin Bakshi, left the foundation in disarray, and the future of the starship Victoria uncertain. Despite the accusation that Bakshi somehow played a role in Coran’s death, Nitin Bakshi’s sister Shahina took the reins of the Foundation and fought to prevent bureaucrats, lawyers, and activists from ending the mission. Victoria launched ten years late, but it launched, leaving its problems behind. Or so they thought.
—Encyclopedia Astra,
Gannon University,
Antonia, Cistercia, AA212