Name: Árni Þór Reynisson
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 2028 C.E., January 18th (aged 22 as of 2050)
Appearance: Asides from his highly unusual hair, a bright, burning red mass that flows down to neck-height, Árni's appearance is fairly typical for someone of his heritage and profession. He is on the tall side of average, of a reasonable weight, and the slight hint of muscle in his arms and torso betray the years of work he put into the workshop floor before his position became secure enough to be a purely white-collar engineer. Clear brown eyes and fair-coloured skin complements his cleanly-shaven face.
District: Nordic Region
Biography: All evidence suggests that Árni's early life was largely unremarkable. Although even the earliest surviving documentation of the life of the enigmatic junior partner of one of the largest - by far the largest compared to others of its age - industrial conglomerates of Northern Europe reveal his unusual intelligence and keen insight, asides from his participation in some accelerated academic programs there is very little that sets apart his early life and education from those of his peers. It would be the disasters of the late '30s, rather, that would create the person that he is today. Iceland, despite being largely spared the ravages of the war - asides from a small NATO airbase the country simply didn't possess military or even meaningful industrial targets for nuclear attacks - nonetheless went through some very difficult times in the aftermath of the Cataclysm, a large part of its capital in ruins and cut off from the international trade on which it so heavily depended. Every resource, no matter how outwardly insignificant, was mobilised in the struggle for the very survival of the nation. No scrap of metal was too worthless to recycle, no hut too small for a purpose, and, most importantly, no pair of hands were too young for work. While the planners and the industrial leaders that orchestrated the relief projects of the late '30s were initially skeptical of the wild visions of a child not even in his teens, they soon came to learn otherwise. The so-called "Pocket Industry" project he maintained as a hobby, aimed at trying to create the smallest possible self-sufficient industrial economy, quite possibly saved tens of thousands from the brink of starvation in the early years of relief and was adopted in a modified form as far away as Canada. With the restoration of some semblance of stability by the incorporation of the shaky coalition of North Sea states, that struggled to maintain the most basic order, into the Republic of Earth, several moneyed men - those whose wealth were somehow preserved through the Cataclysm as well as those who outright profited from them - saw a golden opportunity in Árni's skills. In September 2043, Nordsøens A/S was registered for business in Copenhagen, offering floating sea-steads of increasingly larger size as an alternative to the great coastal cities of old, now radioactive and in ruins in addition to being flooded. As a naturally altruistic man, however, Árni's disagreement with the remainder of his company's leadership grew deeper each year. By 2050, when the Republic of Earth opened its space program once more to those seeking to colonise Mars, both sides were fully eager to be separated from each other. When Nordsøens A/S offered a small fortune to Árni in order to make him go away, he readily accepted, seeking to now apply his skills to the unspoiled expanse of Mars.
Education: International Baccalaureate (equivalent of secondary degree); Árni received his higher education from unofficial sources and is thus not accredited
Current occupations: Former Junior Partner, Nordsøens aktieselskab
