About
Senior engineering chief. Competence: Power, heat rejection, damage-control integration, deciding what can be permanently sacrificed.
Family
Off-plot tell (The Defensible Route, chapters 1 and 31; The Last Manifest, chapter 4): asks, unprompted and without explanation, who has had a lamp/light off its wire or rack. Nobody ever answers; he never asks twice. Pairs with his signature move — states a limit and waits, never fills his own pause.
Career
Book 1: Senior engineering chief aboard ISV Palisade (, W03). - Book 2: survivor at the Dunstan / Keller's Field farm. - After Book 2: Returns, but resists command-track promotion; later senior fleet/yard engineering authority. Book 4-Book 5: engineering/interface specialist aboard ISV Breakwater ( section 11).
Off the page
Farm work (Book 2): Irrigation pump, power conditioning, machinery repair. Genuinely enjoys having a machine whose failure only ruins vegetables.