So! I'm currently planning a murder mystery set on the first ever manned ship outside of the solar system. Specifically, it's going to Proxima Centauri, because, as luck would have it, I started researching the nearest planet that's likely to have life and it turns out there's a planet in the Goldilocks zone around Proxima Centauri, which was actually discovered just a couple weeks ago. Pretty cool stuff.
Anyway, so the year is around 2035. May adjust that. It's a privately funded mission, but they're sending people there both kind of as a publicity thing and also because there's a high chance life is there and they want to study it.
So, the thing is, I need a cast, and I've started developing a few characters. But I'm not really sure how many/what kind of people a private company would send on a spaceflight like this. The way I have it, they'll be making the journey in 3.6 years from the spaceship's POV and 5.2 years from Earth's POV. (These aren't random numbers - they'll be accelerating at 1G the whole time, flipping around and decelerating at halfway. Solves the problem of gravity and brings them up to relativistic speeds) They'll want to keep costs as low as possible, because fuel is expensive. I also don't want too large of a cast, if possible.
Right now, I have seven people. The captain, two astrophysicists, two biologists, an engineer/pilot, and a medic. One of the other astrophysicists has some training as an engineer. What other roles would they logically need? Would they take anyone else, and who would it be, keeping in mind the need for as few people as possible?
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