Sugar Alchemist & Station Engineer
"If it's broken, I'll fix it. If it's not broken, I'll improve it. If it's delicious, I probably made it."
2,847
Gravity Generator Fixes
89
Years at the Station
156
Alchemical Discoveries
0
Unsolved Problems
Raxel Dorr was born in the deep mining colonies of Titan's southern hemisphere, where methane ice meets rock and the only light comes from bioluminescent bacteria and industrial lamps. The child of third-generation miners, Raxel was taking apart equipment before they could walk and reassembling it better before they turned ten.
By age thirty, Raxel had earned the nickname "Crystal" — not for any love of gems, but because they could look at any machine and see its crystalline structure, the way each component connected to the next. They could diagnose a failing life support system by the sound it made. They could taste contamination in water recyclers before sensors detected it.
The mining company wanted to promote Raxel to Chief Operations Engineer. Raxel wanted to see the stars. After a "disagreement" involving a supervisor, a wrench, and some creatively rerouted waste processing (the supervisor was unharmed but extremely humbled), Raxel found themselves on a transport ship heading anywhere else.
That transport stopped at Starlight Sugar Station for refueling. Raxel noticed the gravity generator was running 0.003% inefficient. They fixed it before finishing their first Cosmic Cappuccino. Luna hired them on the spot.
"The coffee was good," Raxel recalls. "But the look on Luna's face when I showed her how to crystallize starlight into edible sugar? That's when I knew I was home."
Raxel's masterpiece — a cheesecake where the cosmic swirls aren't painted on but emerge naturally through a crystallization process they invented. Each slice is unique because the sugar crystals "choose their own pattern." Scientists have tried to replicate the technique. All have failed.
Modified standard kitchen equipment to bake in variable gravity conditions. Allows for impossibly light soufflés and perfectly risen cakes that would collapse under normal physics. The oven occasionally develops opinions about what it wants to bake.
The technique that made the Station famous. Raxel discovered how to capture and solidify photons from specific star types into edible sugar crystals. Each star produces a different flavor. The process is patented in 47 jurisdictions.
A coffee maker that technically violates several laws of thermodynamics. It never runs empty, maintains perfect temperature, and the coffee somehow gets better the longer it sits. Raxel refuses to explain how it works. "Trade secret. Also, I honestly don't remember what I did."
Already awake. "Sleep is for people who don't hear machines crying for help."
Morning diagnostic walk. Touches every major system. Listens. Makes notes on a tablet covered in pastry flour.
Helps prep the kitchen. "Engineering and baking are the same thing. Precise measurements, controlled reactions, occasional explosions."
Something breaks. It's always something. Raxel fixes it while drinking their third Event Horizon Herbal Tea (when available).
Alchemical experiments. Locked in the back lab. Strange lights. Unusual smells. Nobody asks questions anymore.
Evening service. Works the counter when busy. Makes the complicated orders nobody else can handle.
Final systems check. Adjusts things that didn't need adjusting. "Optimization never sleeps."
Theoretically asleep. Actually reading technical manuals and dreaming about better espresso machines.
Contains exactly 47 tools, including three that haven't been invented yet and one that Raxel insists is "just a very specialized spoon."
Can diagnose any mechanical problem by sound alone. Has been known to "have conversations" with the espresso machine. The espresso machine has not denied this.
Tastes every batch of sugar crystals personally. Claims to detect "emotional residue" from the stars they came from. Nobody questions this because they're always right.
Has a hammock hidden somewhere in the engine room that they claim doesn't exist. Staff have heard snoring from behind the tertiary power conduit.
Keeps 200+ notebooks of ideas, recipes, and inventions. Written in a personal shorthand nobody else can read. Includes at least one design for "time-traveling pastry."
Has never been shocked by static electricity. Some say they've absorbed so much crystalline energy they've become electromagnetically neutral. Raxel says "I'm just lucky."
"Every problem is just a solution waiting for the right wrench."
"I don't make mistakes. I make discoveries with unexpected outcomes."
"Sugar and starlight — the only two elements that truly matter."
"The gravity generator isn't broken. It's expressing itself creatively."