RohanC19

Electricity

Age at landing: 21
From: Indian, from New Delhi
Before: Electrical engineering student and amateur radio builder
Main skill: Electricity and magnetism
Other skills: Mathematics, fine wire work, chess
Personality: Dreamy, brilliant and clumsy. Talks to himself. Waits almost forty years for his subject to become possible, and teaches it to the children all that time.
Strength: Sees what is invisible, and never gives up on an idea.
Flaw: Absent-minded and careless of his own safety. For years he feels useless.
Wants: To switch on a light.
Story arc: The youngest man and the last to matter; in year forty-two the whole settlement stands in the dark waiting for his lamp.
In year 50: Alive, aged 71
First partner: Chloe, from month 46
Leads phases: 14 Electricity, generators, motors and batteries
Helps in phases: 06 Iron and steel
09 Water, wind and mechanical power
12 Precision and machine tools
15 Railways, steam and electric cars, the power grid

Rohan and Chloe

The two who will wait longest for their crafts. Chloe plans a glass furnace she cannot yet build; Rohan, who dreams of a lamp he cannot yet light, works out its heat for her. She thinks him a child until his sums come out right.

His carelessness with mercury and acid frightens her. Her pride.