
PhAThECh (farr-th-ee-ch)
was recently transferred to Sharedspace 911 from Negaspace 7391, and
hasn’t yet fully acclimatized to an environment where he is
surrounded by Humans. He is a specialist in mobile flora.
Brought up
in a relatively poor family, PhAThECh was the only one of his five
siblings to be sorted into the HOGPlETwA (scientist caste). Taunted
by his HOGSwETwA (warrior caste) brothers, he developed an antisocial
attitude and left home as soon as possible. He was educated by the
Negaleg government and worked most weeknights in order to support
himself. PhAThECh grew into a highly intelligent, weedy, self-sufficient
and knowledgeable young Negaleg.
Graduating
with honors in General Sciences at the age of twenty, PhAThECh spent
seven years working as a lowly lab assistant on his home world in
order to save enough HeuteMarks for a tour of neighboring solar systems.
It was during this voyage that he began to express his interest in
Botany, specifically the rare mobile species of plant, and wrote a
thesis on the nutritional intake of one such species. Published in
a small, relatively obscure scientific journal, the thesis caught
the National Academy of Natural Philosophy’s collective eye.
The Academy offered PhAThECh a scholarship, which he immediately took
up. Though he didn’t actually receive a formal doctorate until
forty two years of age, PhAThEch’s studies of mobile flora were
regarded as the most comprehensive and definitive information available,
and he is now a renowned authority on the subject.
Having failed
to find himself a mate, this fifty year old bachelor is still seen
as a disgrace by his elderly father, and he has not returned home
to visit his family since he left his home world. Because of his scientific
specialization and lack of family ties, PhAThECh has spent the past
eight years on the Negaspace 7391 colonization project. This project
was recently abandoned when one of the mobile cactus species being
studied turned into rather large, aggressive and very difficult to
destroy predator, rendering the planet unsuitable for colonization.
PhAThECh has only been a colonist of Sharedspace 911 for three months,
immersing himself in his work and essentially ignoring his colleagues.