The chief commanding scientists in charge of the Empire's Darkseed project, Drs. Remerel Girig and Lan Zackrie are brilliant, professional, and utterly evil. Outwardly, the pair appear to be polar opposites - Dr. Zackrie, a tall, blue-skinned male humanoid, is cold, quick to anger, and brutal to those under his command. Dr. Girig, a human female, is smaller, soft-spoken in a motherly way, and seems to possess almost limitless patience and understanding. This is a ruse, and if anything, Girig is even more bereft of basic human empathy than Zackrie is, if such a thing is possible.