You work with a group of like-minded people who help keep your world safe from strangeness beyond your own. You are a genius with electronics, linguistics, and a little bit of everything else between.

Regrettably, your work will cost you your life, in time. And you come to the barge, to continue it. You have graduated two inmates and gained Deals that I know you have used to better other people's lives. [ He's not sure of the direct applications, but he's never asked. ] And then, like many people who dedicate their lives to others, you -- give a little too much, and you.... well, you keep trying to give.

Now, you're on the barge as an inmate instead of a warden, and trying to learn to be the right amount of good, versus the right amount of bad.