The man who reputedly owns and runs [[BeneStar]] Corporation. He is reclusive and enigmatic. He hit the GKU radar this way: > [!quote] > “It was something about a superior gravity-plating system. Instead of just generating an artificial gravitational field around a ship through its inertial compensators, he developed some passive way of producing producing an artificial gravitational field polarized in the plane of deck or hull plating,” Perry said. > >Dayna nodded. “That’s right, except for the he developed it part. He didn’t. He found it—right over there, in fact,” she said, gesturing toward the huge, dark ship on the screen. > >“So he found it and took credit for it?” I asked. “He did indeed. Because he’s a grifter. A con artist. A thief with the morals of… of a demon, if you believe in such things. But he’s also a very, very successful thief. He found this ancient derelict, gutted it for its tech, and passed it off as his own.” **First Appearance:** #book9 **Race:** #unspecified