Horatio



In Professor Marrs' timeline, 500 years ago Earth fell to a plague of unknown origin. Only the spacebound survived, and in a desperate final attempt to escape The Plague once and for all, the refugees fled through an unstable worm hole, sacrificing their ability to return and reclaim the planet of their origin. Eventually they settled near a star they named G-Prime. Horatio has no idea how old he is, but by his best recollection, his current body is just entering middle age at 114. Neural-state mapping and cloning technology rendered death a technicality in his universe. Earlier versions of the process, however, were fraught with flaws. A software glitch cost Horatio his prior identity roughly 250 years ago. He counts several lifetimes' experiences as his own, having gone from first-wave colonist (planet Hoyne, G-Prime system) to masterful Genetic Programmer and lecturer at HCU to Captaining his own Deep Exploration vessel before being uncermoniously 'dropped' in Akashat, pulled from his dreams as he and his crewmates investigated Quadrant Delta-44. As befits one who has visited as many worlds and seen as much as he has, Marrs adjusted quickly to life in the City of Dreams and with less than a week in the city under his belt, entered the service of the Margrave as a Scout.