Acel Armbright

Acel Bainbridge Armwright (AD 2051 -) is an engineer, high-energy physicist and the creator of the Armbright Engine, the device that played a significant role in expanding humanity's sphere of influence beyond its home planet. For this, he is often revered as the "Father of True Spaceflight", despite the name being erroneous. He currently resides on private property in the temperate Cayne region of Aquitilla, and continues to work on refining the Armbright Engine and other theoretical physics.

Early Life
Armbright was born before the advent of the Binary Age, in the last days of a complete societal and scientific collapse. Many details of his early life have been lost in the chaotic upheavals following the end of the Information Age. Today, a modern, dualistic examination of history from that era proves that it remains impossible to determine exactly what effects these social changes had on Armbright's childhood and adolescence. Armbright himself has remained silent on the matter, citing "personal concerns".

Higher Education
The first record of Acel Armbright recovered is his signature on an anti-Turingtest petition in the archives of the now-long gone Notreal University dated 1 BA, indicating that Armbright was part of the revivalist movement following the Binary Age's rise and the home planet's subversion. Records then show that Armbright was on board the LFM Service, the first and last colony ship escaping the home planet, especially as he developed the Armbright Engine during their decades-long flight.

The Armbright Engine
The Armbright Engine operated on a simple experimental concept: that lightspeed, without being absolute, could be simulated as such, creating a pre-Operian view of the universe. In creating such a simulation, it could then be placed into practice by computing the required localized generation protocol, drawing the required energy from simulated vacuum energy, then reshaping the fabric of spacetime in a manner that Armbright himself likened to "teasing apart the threads of causality, entropy, space and time, wrapping them into a different kind of universe altogether, running the new fabric through the engine with the mass of the ship acting as a kind of universal-constant wringer and lens in order to transport the engine, with the ship, across impossible distances...are you following?"

The Service unfortunately proved eventually incompatible with Armbright's prototype engine, as evidenced by its breakup in mid-transmission, from which the majority of wreckage has still not been recovered. Due to the nature of the Armbright Engine it is clear that most of the Service wreckage was spread out across a spacetimeline, centered on Aquitilla, the intended destination point. This is most evidently supported by the existence of clearly human societies across Aquitilla, the closest geographically to Homebase being the agricultural society of the Marsuline.

Current Life
Armbright in his later days would prove to be a skilled mathematician and physics theorist, helping to complete many proofs and holes in New Physics and New New Math. In particular was his disproving of the New Car Paradox by showing that it was unprovable. He currently gives lectures on an annual basis at the Cayne University of Cayne region, and has one adopted daughter, Lily Armbright.

Professor Acacia Wood