Cathak Gulichu

Born in the minor agricultural colony of Pantana, Cathak was brought up admiring the offworld technology that he occasionally saw at the spaceports. Eventually, he came to spend all his time around them. His grand scheme to earn enough money for a trip offworld by working at the local spaceport was completely and utterly crushed when he earned a scholarship to the prestigious University of Electronics and Machinery, who were interested in a starship engine he had designed. The starship engine itself turned out to be a bust (a minor problem concerning a tendency to cause a thermonuclear explosion), but he was responsible for several other improvements in the fields he majored in, including the development of a transtempormental drive, and the microcellular thought digester.