Educator / Ethnobotanist — first generation, age 55
Warm and deeply nostalgic, Mateo has the patience of a teacher who knows the community's deepest pains. He views every object, even the machinery, as a text to be interpreted.
He was a cultural anthropologist among the original crew, keeping records of 'pre-ship' life. He sees the colony's struggles as a failure to maintain necessary cultural memory.
He found a cache of sealed, pre-ship geological survey maps that show an entire segment of the bluff was structurally unsound and decommissioned.