Iven Ro
An astronomer discovering that a hypothesis can become a family argument.
Iven catalogues faint sources that brighter surveys ignore. He values patience over dramatic discoveries and has made a career repairing other people’s confidence intervals. His daughter Tala joined the Rescue Wing partly because she wanted work whose results could be counted in living people.
He believes the signal draws from a stored model of the Circuit. Tala wants to test it; he wants to delay until the archive is complete. His calculations support the delay, but he has asked a rival observatory to review them because fear may be doing some of his mathematics.
A rescue captain willing to face a prediction without pretending it is an order.
A high-rise port where observatory towers stand above a city of night workers.
A transit mediator who trusts public records more than confident forecasts.
A neighborhood surveyor protecting the right to build an uncertain future.
A retired hydraulic engineer keeping a kitchen open to every side of the argument.
A navigation teacher remembered for asking students how they would prove themselves wrong.