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=== Ryan Lee ===

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| '''Race'''
| Human- Uplifted
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| '''Age'''
| 27
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| '''Place of Birth'''
| New Samaria, Talgo, Virgo system
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Born to impoverished orange farmers in the shadow of the nearby spaceport of Memphis, Ryan left the farm to move to the bustling metropolitan life of Gemini at the age of 21, where less then six years later he enlisted in the Union Space Forces to join the Expanse colonization project. After being found bleeding and badly wounded on the surface of Leeland, the hive brought him back to the newly founded hive in an effort to better understand the newly discovered humans. First contact was made, and after a mix of panic and awkward misunderstandings an agreement was made to return Lee to his camp.

After returning to Gemini, he was hailed as a hero and often given credit for negotiating the peaceful relations between the stranded survivors of the crashed USV Clarke and the native hive, and quickly became famous as he was invited to numerous interviews to share his experience. When the Union elected to return to Leeland, Lee was chosen to serve as the emissary on behalf of the Union, but after hostile actions by a Union agent led to the crumbling of relations and the retreat of Union forces, he was held up to take the blame and promptly striped of rank and title and arrested pending a tribunal. Lee has since gone missing after a terrorist bombing left the government building in which he was held in flames, and the Union holds the official stance that he was killed in the attack, although the incident has sparked a number of conspiracy theories.

After a focused effort on the part of the Hive and its agents, Lee was eventually discovered being held in a top secret psionics research facility being operated by the Bureau of Foreign Intelligence and its research division. After an intense battle that left much of the building in ruin and set most of the district on high alert, Lee was recovered, as well as two agents from the facility itself.

He now serves as a Hive ambassador, representing its interest in the Union.