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If the clock advances the "traditional" 50 years then there's relatively few individual characters who would still be relevant or even expected to be alive;
How sure is that? Seems like a life expectancy over 100 years isn’t uncommon in the 34th Elite century… well, biological life expectancy. If we count the non-natural causes, that shortens it by a lot.

But old man Mahon is apparently over a hundred. Yet he looks like he’s somewhere in his mid-50s.
 
Excluding outliers like Jaques or Wycherley, Torval's 132 years still seems on the long side for what can be achieved "normally" for an ultra-rich person

So, 3350:
- Mahon almost certainly long-dead, Kaine or Corcoran we don't have ages for but they are long-serving senior politicians today, so likely dead or retired by then too. Given that Mahon is the first PM to serve a full 6-year term (and get a fair way into a second) all three of them will likely have had their shot long ago by 3350.
- term limits mean that even if Winters or Archer or Rackham is still alive they'll have had their term as President decades ago. Maybe a K-generation Rochester who's already been mentioned could be prominent, though (since Isolde won't still be around and the J-generation ones aren't doing very well).
- ALD dying of old age in around 3350 is fairly plausible ... so you could then have Hector Duval and Aisling Duval as potential successors, maybe Patreus still around as the aging Chancellor? The Empire not really having elections, term-limits or retirement means its middle-aged characters probably last longer in active political life if they're careful, compared with the others.
- LYR is likewise over 100 already (either that's not a recent photo or Sirius develop some extremely effective skincare and that's the hold they have on Mahon), Delaine won't keep getting lucky for another 50 years and is fully aware of that. Antal has potential ... he'd be about 125 then, and maybe planning to continue indefinitely as part of a new enhanced SimArchive.
- Tanner and Tesreau are probably too old; Seo Jin-ae might still be around, though.
- no-one is entirely sure how old Jaques is, but as a one-of-a-kind, sure, might still be around then, probably continuing to keep a fairly low profile.
- sure, ghost-Wycherley might still be around in some form
- maybe one of the modern Wallglass investigators is now running the company?
- the First Apostle might still be around. Or a First Apostle, anyway.
 
Probably for as long as he has spare cybernetic parts for replacements and is willing to continue being around, I’d guess. Or someone blows him, any backups, and his starport up.

Seo Jin-ae might still be around
I’d go as far as to say probably, unless some Thargoidian stuff around that happens… well, I suppose, she’d still be around then, just (most likely) not wherever humans are at.

Won’t miss him.
ghost-Wycherley
Assuming that, much like Seo, nothing extremely major happens around that plot arc, or at least no “death”(whatever meaning that term has when he already defied it once, and probably has backups of the backup laying around). I guess might have something going down with the Constructs, if those ever come into play anywhere. They’re probably for that next Elite game, though, unless they really want to surprise us.

the First Apostle might still be around. Or a First Apostle, anyway.
I’d even say very probable, since she was described as a young Imperial woman. Of course, there is also that chance of this getting covered further in the current story somehow, but it will probably be Thargoid involvement of some sort.

The others? Yeah, I guess they’d be retired, no longer alive or approaching either, bar the younger Imperials.

I suppose there might be some consideration to be had for anyone affected by the Thargoids on a Titan, but so far no major character has received that treatment, and we don’t yet know where that’s going, exactly. Also assumes that whatever they might have done won’t have any deleterious side effects in the medium term…

Anyway, point remains that being 80 or so years doesn’t mean as much as it does in current day/21st century Earth.
 
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