Nick Reeves
Stanford-trained hardware brain in a surfer's body. Youngest crew member and the reason the DSOC works when it works. The only one on the Rømer who can repair the quantum relay, and the only one who has never been off-Earth before.
Nick Reeves finished his Ph.D. in quantum communications systems at twenty-six — two years early, at a university that doesn't usually let you do that — and spent the next five years doing work for Bode Telecom that he will tell you about if you ask him, at parties, in a voice that suggests he has been holding the answer for most of his adult life and has not yet been asked the right question.
He has never flown interplanetary. The Rømer is his first mission beyond Earth orbit. The Company brought him onto the Ganymede Transmission Mission because they could not find anyone who knew the ARC32 architecture better, and he knows the ARC32 architecture better because he helped design it. He does not talk about this on the Rømer. He tells the crew he reads the manuals like anyone else.
He surfs. He plays guitar badly. He has a daughter he has never met, whose name is on the personnel forms he fills out and nowhere else he could look at if he wanted to.
