Ethan Darcy
Ethan Darcy was one of the five individuals aboard the Orpheus that woke up prior to it crashing into the Baltimore Harbor. Ethan, along with Miranda Corgan, Eva DeMedicci, Nomen Fitch, and Gavin Prescott, found themselves inextricably linked to one another through shared memories that were and were not their own. Many of them remembered things that were not in existence, such as Lightnet, Devlinari Industries, and Genus, although none of these entities existed in the world that they had been birthed into. Upon escape from the Orpheus, the group found themselves unexplainably drawn to a house on Williams Street, where they had seen on a live television news broadcast that the ship they were on was sinking and that Dr. Kieran Foster had been captured and brought into custody at Fort McHenry, a local military base. Ethan, along with the rest of the group, staged a plan that would allow them to extract Dr. Foster and hopefully give them the answers they needed.
Ethan, unfortunately, would not live to find those answers, as he was killed during the mission by Garrison of the Global Security Initiative's Defense Guard.
Aboard the Orpheus
Ethan was awoken to life inside the canister to the sound of an alarm going off within the Orpheus. A proximity warning triggered the Orpheus' life support systems and released the safety guards in the capsules, allowing each individual contained within to awaken. It was shortly after that armed guards began raiding the ship, as seen through the surveillance feeds accessible in the lab where the canisters were held. As the others came into consciousness, a strategy was formulated to peel back the layers of the hull and swim to the surface.
Ethan was able to magnetically force a tear in the hull and fold it back, providing them the access route needed for their exit strategy. Upon surfacing, Ethan and the others quickly realized that although they were familiar with the year 2030, they were not familiar with the 2030 of the world they were in. Things familiar to them were not present, including the mass market and production of holographic technologies -- technologies that were the staple of the world where they came from.
Fortunately for the group, there had been a polar plunge in which hundreds of individuals were dipping into the cold waters of the Chesapeake Bay as a fundraiser, allowing them to surface freely and avoid much of the police and military presence that had quickly formed in and near the sinking Orpheus.
1431 William Street
Each of the individuals had several instincts implanted into them while in the canisters. For example, each of them knew they had to find 1431 William Street and approximately where it was located relative to their position within the Baltimore Harbor. Each of them also knew where to find the key to enter, an impossible feat given that none of them had been there at any point prior. Upon turning on the television, a live news broadcast had shown the fate of the Orpheus along with that of Dr. Foster; captured by what was referred to as the Global Security Initiative, or GSI. None of the group were familiar with the acronym, adding to their confusion about a publicly-known agency with both military and operational authority. Various clues were found amongst them, including pictures of Dr. Foster and another doctor dated with a year that would have been impossible based on the fact that they had just seen the man on television and looked to be decades older than what the photograph (and its date) would have indicated.
After several more anachronistic anomalies were detected, including Ethan trying to dial Devlinari Industries, it was made certain at that point that the world from which each of them had come from was not the world they were currently in. A plan was set in motion to find Dr. Foster at Fort McHenry Military Base and find some answers.