Hydro-processing Engineer / Maintenance Lead — first generation, age 58
He moves with the practiced, economical exhaustion of someone who has spent his life fixing things that should never break. He is quietly meticulous, treating every piece of salvaged copper or failing sealant with near-religious reverence.
Silas was part of the original engineering contingent from the ship, a necessary survival skill that kept him tied to the ship's systems even after landing. He remembers the automated efficiency of the vessel, which makes him suspicious of local, 'analog' resource usage.
He secretly maintains a bypass circuit in the seawall that was never designed to be opened.