# Electron Eat Electron Supreme General Hoshawk — Short Science Fiction character guide

> Electron Eat Electron Supreme General Hoshawk in Short Science Fiction by Noel Loomis.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Hoshawk

**First appearance:** 0000-electron-eat-electron

## Snapshot

A grizzled chief of staff who distrusts the boy-president he must serve, convinced that speed and genius are no substitute for judgment.

## Who they are

Hoshawk watches President Wadsworth undergo cosmic-ray conditioning with narrow, piercing eyes, barely restraining his contempt for a sixteen-year-old commander with an I.Q. of 340. He has spent thirty years resenting the Mutant College's arrangement, and he cannot quite accept that a man who moves faster than light can be trusted with seven hundred million lives. His skepticism gives the story its friction between institutional duty and personal doubt as war looms.

## Relationships

### [Jeffrey Wadsworth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_science_fiction_2_se/characters/jeffrey_wadsworth)

_rivalry_

Hoshawk and Wadsworth are locked in a high-stakes adversarial conflict.

### [Jeffrey Wadsworth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_science_fiction_2_se/characters/jeffrey_wadsworth)

_rivalry_

Hoshawk and Wadsworth are locked in a high-stakes adversarial conflict.

### [Jeffrey Wadsworth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_science_fiction_2_se/characters/jeffrey_wadsworth)

_rivalry_

Hoshawk and Wadsworth are locked in a high-stakes adversarial conflict.

## In the story

### [Electron Eat Electron](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_science_fiction_2_se/chapters/electron-eat-electron)

Chief of staff, skeptical of Wadsworth's youth and methods, but ultimately witnesses the President's strategic brilliance.

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