Settlement record-keeper and logistics coordinator — first generation, age 44
He thinks in systems — in what a rule prevents versus what it enables — and has learned to translate this into language that sounds like it is about people rather than about order, because it mostly is. He is not cold; he is frightened, which looks similar from the outside. The charter proposal is not about power, and he cannot understand why people experience it as if it were, which is itself a kind of blindness he has not yet identified in himself.
He spent the crossing as a provisioning analyst and arrived with a precise accounting of everything Kolhavn carried, which made him indispensable in the first years and mildly resented afterward, when the inventory stopped being an asset and became a record of scarcity. He began drafting the charter after the second missed resupply drop, when it became clear to him that the settlement's governance was held together by the specific personalities currently alive — a fragile mechanism. He has a completed draft that no one has read.
The draft charter contains a clause establishing term limits on informal authority; everyone will understand it is aimed at Maren Hoek, and he is no longer sure it isn't.