Short Fiction · Character
Doug Yetsko
A police officer on a frontier world, he navigates the gap between Terran technology and native belief with a cop's weary pragmatism.
supporting
Also known as Yetsko, Douglass MacArthur Yetsko
First appearance: police operation
As a supporting figure in Short Fiction, Doug Yetsko is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
Prestonby's bodyguard and fellow teacher, assists in enforcing discipline at the school.
Yetsko works the uneasy border where oomphel means everything from paperclips to spaceships, and where natives are certain Terrans do not make it, they only are it. He moves between native pilots like Heshto and Terran officials like Mark Howell, translating not just language but the assumptions underneath it. His grounded, unsentimental view of the planet makes him the reader's guide to a world where first contact is less about wonder than about getting the details right.
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- Time Machine Inventors
- Time Travel Agents
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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.
- Setup
- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
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- Ray Pelton
friendship · positive
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friendship · positive
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friendship · positive
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