Earth, Again
Erik Vickers for Robert
mid-40s, any ethnicity, he/him, driven and desperate.
Robert is a former NASA engineer who spent his career designing the AI architecture for an interstellar spacecraft prototype. When the aliens arrived, they didn't just end the world — they cancelled the future he had devoted his life to building. Ten years later, his daughter Liv's pacemaker is dying, and somewhere beneath a military facility near Seattle sits the only machine that can save her. Robert is brilliant, obsessive, and increasingly reckless. He pushes the group too hard, gets drunk at the worst possible moment, and nearly destroys their chances more than once.
(All 10 episodes, ~1,006 dialogue blocks. Lead role.)
Trajectory. We were going somewhere, Liv. Every generation moved the line a little further. Figured out one more thing. Cured one more disease. Reached one more place we'd never been.
A hundred and thirty feet underground, inside military-grade shielding. The Arks had their own nuclear power core. If anything survived, it did.
I'm not riding with someone who wants to destroy the thing I'm looking for.
