Short Fiction · Character
Captain Webber
Captain Webber commands a lost ship with seven surviving men, and now faces a city on an asteroid that should not exist and looks exactly like home.
supporting
Also known as Webber
First appearance: the beautiful people
As a supporting figure in Short Fiction, Captain Webber is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
Leads the crew, skeptical of Greypoole's story, ultimately succumbs to the Eternifier and becomes a frozen statue.
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Three months adrift and out of fuel, Webber has kept his crew's hopelessness from hardening into panic, and he receives Friden's impossible sighting with the patience of a man who has run out of explanations. He admits…
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Relationship types
- Professional
Character groups
- Military and minor gentlemen
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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.
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- Mr. Greypoole
professional · ambivalent
Captain Webber and Mr. How this plays out →
- Mr. Friden
professional · ambivalent
- Lieutenant Peterson
professional · positive
- Mr. Milton
professional · ambivalent
- Mr. Chitterwick
professional · ambivalent
- Mr. Greypoole
professional · ambivalent
Captain Webber and Mr. How this plays out →
- Lieutenant Peterson
professional · positive
- Mr. Greypoole
professional · ambivalent
Captain Webber and Mr. How this plays out →
- Mr. Friden
professional · ambivalent
- Mr. Milton
professional · ambivalent
- Mr. Friden
professional · ambivalent
- Mr. Chitterwick
professional · ambivalent
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