Character
Nikolai Drahn
Drahn is the public face of El Atajo and the private hand on Delos’s throat, a crime boss who does not bother pretending he is not running the place. He governs from Evergreen Station, an orbital fortress that functions as palace, court, and kill box depending on the day.
Drahn is pragmatic, transactional, and unusually frank about the fact that power is just logistics with a better story attached. He treats Cal like a useful anomaly: someone stubborn enough to chase the truth and competent enough to survive doing it.