About
A Geneva oversight aide attached to Undersecretary Mercer's delegation aboard ISV Endurance. The civilian who tries to invoke the protocol annex to stand at the captain's shoulder for the traversal, and gets handled — first by Sloane (flatly), then by Vance (warmly) — and sent to the well rail. Survives the catastrophe (at the bridge well rail, not in the lost aft modules); by he is Mercer's working aide — carrying the now-dark tablet, relaying the delegation's questions, fetching Sloane's deck status. Mercer tells him to drop the "Undersecretary" honorific in the wardroom: "Mercer will do."
A Geneva oversight aide attached to Undersecretary Mercer's delegation aboard ISV Endurance. The civilian who tries to invoke the protocol annex to stand at the captain's shoulder for the traversal, and gets handled — first by Sloane (flatly), then by Vance (warmly) — and sent to the well rail. Survives the chapter 3 catastrophe (at the bridge well rail, not in the lost aft modules); by chapter 5 he is Mercer's working aide — carrying the now-dark tablet, relaying the delegation's questions, fetching Sloane's deck status. Mercer tells him to drop the "Undersecretary" honorific in the wardroom: "Mercer will do."
How they speak
The confidence of a man who has never been wrong in a meeting; protocol as a weapon; lanyard-and-tablet certainty. By the end of the fold he has forgotten the tablet in his hand — a politician's aide watching a thing no annex prepared him to want.