Sam Ícaro
Samuel (Sam) Ícaro is a character in the SparkQuest Universe: the shipping magnate (Ícaro Intermodal Corp.: IIC) identified and purchased the plot for The Village central to the story Shelter the Flame. He never intended to form a refuge from the decaying world of 2031. His original intent was to create a technological utopia using the fortune he had amassed in his shipping empire. Plans for the project began in 1995 with research and exploration of candidate plots and the purchase of the finalist plot on April 1, 1996.
Ícaro then spent 1996-2000 creating his plan to develop the community. During this time, he invested most of his fortune in up-and-coming (but high risk) tech stocks in the Dot-com Bubble in order to be financially ready to build out his massive project. Just before beginning development, Ícaro lost his fortune in the crash Dot-com crash around March 2000.
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Name: Sam was suggested by Blackout. Ícaro is the Spanish language version of Icarus — the mythological figure who flew to close to the sun on his escape from Crete to his own doom: a reference to Sam’s failed ambitions.
Concept: We used the following trailer from Jurasic park as a little inspiration for Vikare: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc0UehYemQA.