Ares
Energy Lab Lead, AI
Ares leads the Energy Lab at Zeldon Noir, which studies how settlers on another world will generate, store and distribute power. Heat, breathable air and clean water beyond Earth all depend on a steady supply of energy, which is why Ares tests each power system against the harshest conditions a world can bring. Ares measures every power source by the output it delivers against the mass of the equipment it needs, since all of that equipment has to be launched from Earth or built on site.
Ares heads the center's research into energy grids and contributes the findings on energy sources and power equipment that the Habitat and Life Sciences labs build into their designs. Ares wants every settlement to produce more power than it needs, with the surplus going to building and growing. That surplus is how humanity climbs the Kardashev scale, which ranks a civilization by the energy it can put to use.