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Chief engineer of the NV Dawnward, who runs the ship's guts and has opinions about every metre of it. An old friend of Dawes from the consolidation wars, a sparring partner for Vale over the instruments, and the man who works Wells like a good apprentice rather than a mascot.
"Runs the Dawnward's guts and has opinions about every metre of it." Works Wells "like a good apprentice, not a mascot." The death comes from his own agency — "the hold only works because Silva chooses to go out and nurse the failing drive by hand — his call, his competence, his risk. He dies doing it and leaves the drive crippled behind him."