Rajiv Singh

Rajiv Singh was a crewman aboard the Chandrakanta. He was part of the team Maya Prasad assembled to conduct repairs to the vessel after a meteoroid collision near Samrat. When an unidentified vessel approached the Chandrakanta, Singh and the rest of the repair team were ordered to return to the ship's airlock as it conducted defensive action. Strapping themselves into the acceleration couches inside the airlock, they prepared themselves for high-G maneuvers. In spite of the Chandrakanta's best attempts at defensive flying, however, the pirate vessel destroyed it with a single shot.

The airlock was flung free of the rest of the ship during the explosion, miraculously keeping the three crewmen alive as the rest of the ship was destroyed. This stroke of fortune was short-lived for Rajiv Singh, however, as the meteorite they had pulled from the ship during their repairs ricocheted violently inside the tight space as the airlock tumbled through the Chandrakanta's debris field. The meteorite struck Singh directly in the face with full force, killing him instantly.

In death, Singh was still able to assist his remaining two crewmates in their battle for survival, as they were able to use the fuel from his EVA rig to move the severed airlock into docking position with the pirate vessel, then used the oxygen from his suit to re-pressurize the airlock to allow them to create an airlock bridge to the other ship. Even the meteorite that killed Singh helped his crewmates survive, as Conover used it to incapacitate a pirate who attacked Maya during the boarding, shortly before the two of them opened the airlocks and ejected the pirates into space.