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Tooling engineer of the Typhon, and — by his own flat accounting — the reason the old man still has his wings. Stern until he decides not to be, he keeps the ship's bones in order and the crew on schedule.
Porter Caindell introduces himself with a handshake and a fact: thanks to him, the Typhon still flies. He is the tooling engineer, the one who keeps the ship’s structure sound while others fuss with cargo and rescues, and his sternness eases only by degrees and only when he chooses.
He runs his corner of the ship by the clock — the threaded connections in 3A cleaned, the electrical insulation finished, today — and he is not above a dry word at Jett’s expense. Welcome to the Typhon, he tells Zara, in the tone of a man granting a small, revocable privilege.
Tooling engineer of the Typhon. The keeper of the ship’s structural integrity — the difference between a vessel and a coffin.
Threaded connections, insulation, schedules held to the day. His exactingness is the discipline that lets the rest of the crew be careless.
Gruff with Jett, dry with Fitz, slow to warm to Zara. Beneath it, a loyalty to the ship that he mistakes for loyalty to no one.
“Welcome to the Typhon.”