I initially made them as an assignment for uni and essentially my attempt at making characters out of randomly generated pawns, but then they ended up in my 1.5 Anomaly playtrough. They are all convicts sent by Empire(specifically by a newly emerged Imperial subsidiary led by Oxana Pope)on an "expedition" on an anomalous Rimworld

Here's Oxana btw(a leader of a previous colony that lasted for over 20 in-game years and was so broken I literally couldn't trigger the High Stellarch ending): https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/kira-bad-artist/the-crimson-storm