4. Character roster ⚠️
The protagonist, the Nine Houses, and their people — the relationship diagram + codex stat-blocks the blueprint calls for.
The protagonist (ruled canon). You play CB (CATBLASTER) — the masked, operational identity of AF, a VR sensory architect: the very role the intro invents to optimize the PBL simulation (§3). The alien-cat is the hologram CB's helmet projects — his face; his ship is The Black Huron. Source: cb-hero-and-mascot. Still open (Alex's): the mascot's name/personality and backstory.
Current-generation family trees for all Nine Houses of Upper Transient, including key dynamics, succession structures, and the defector roster that powers House Vahana. This is the character bible for the political layer of the CATBLASTER universe.
The political layer is solid: cb-oligarch-families (family trees) · cb-nine-oligarch-rank-compendium (10 ranks per house — doubles as NPC encounter tiers) · cb-nine-houses-npc-field-guide (relationship matrix).
- Named casts for House Hodel, House Zikaron, House Xingwu ❌ (worklist #2 — critical) — 3 of 9 houses have no people yet (Kirkland · Stal · Pearson · Roxdun · Vahana are populated).
- Codex stat-block layout — the Pokédex/Ammonomicon-style card (portrait + vitals + bio) is a template in cb-wiki-entry-templates; per-character cards are Forge-emitted once characters exist.