Extended Lifespan

Sel's kind live approximately 250 years. They are considered young adults at age 30, and not considered independent until 40.

His attire is the kind preferred by his race: skin-tight, form-fitting outfits very much like wetsuits, favored for freedom of movement. Sel generally dresses in warm browns, giving him an overall foresty look.

Like all of them, he is unsettled and distressed by the loss of their home, with a cultural twist: his father raised him alone, with the expectation that Sel's guardianship would be transferred to his mother at age 30 so that his final growth to adulthood would be unfettered by the "trappings of childhood". Tragically, however, Sel's mother was slain when Star City was infested, and Sel turned 30 only a few months after finding sanctuary aboard the Destiny. He now faces the challenge of grasping independence well in advance of having been expected to attain it. He's hardly the first young person in the history of the worlds to have to grow up faster than expected, of course, but that doesn't make it any easier for him.

They, like many other inhabitants of the City, were evacuated, and it was simple happenstance that they were among the many taken aboard by the Abstract Destiny when it worked in concert with native craft to help save as many as possible. Some families had further places to escape to, other planets or stations where safety could be found, but others were less fortunate and left homeless among the vastness of space. Thankfully, the Destiny had no intentions of forcing out anyone with no place to go, and so they remain aboard the ship as they explore their options -- including the discussions that Doctor Schroeder wishes to see to the founding of a Nidus for them all.