Roneld Don Cattus

Inventor of the Well Drive.

Appearance and Personality

Had a bit of a sense of humor, thus the name.

Biography

The man responsible for the Well Drive (and who was the first to volunteer for that first test flight) was Roneld Don Cattus, a member of what would become the Asanii. Their target was Sector Gamma, where they'd identified a potential new planet for colonization. When the successful test flight deposited them there, Don Cattus claimed Asanao for his new race.

The early Well drive could only take ships to the Lip of the Well. Don Cattus stayed on Asanao to continue work on the technology, which is the one of the only significant technologies to have its home research in Asanii hands. Once the Sector Gamma starbase was completed, the research center for Well technology moved there, to what is formally known as the Don Cattus Research Center, located in a sphere set aside specifically for it, and which later sprouted the Gamma Shipyard facility, dedicated to the manufacture of Fleet ships, as well as the largest Academe campus.

Timeline

• Well Repeaters were developed in 2460 during the Exodus; this is the basis of the Well technology that would become the Well drive.
• If the Well Drive was invented in 2472 (1 BA), then he has to have been old enough to make the discovery before the formation of the Alliance in 2471. The Exodus lasted 100 years, so he was born on the ships... probably the reason he was so interested in FTL travel.