Zac Valeris

Zac Valeris serves as the Second-in-Command aboard the deep-space exploration vessel Celestial Odyssey, under the command of Captain Fentar Starblazer. A 30-year-old human and veteran of the Earth Machine War, Zac is one of the few surviving officers who lived through the collapse of autonomous military AI systems that once turned Earth into a battlefield of steel and silence. His survival was not luck—it was discipline, calculation, and an ability to think like the machines he fought against. Now, years later, he stands beside a captain dedicated to peace and exploration rather than war. Though Zac rarely speaks of his past, his presence alone carries the weight of old conflicts that most of the galaxy has already begun to forget. On the Celestial Odyssey, he is not just an officer—he is the shield between command decisions and catastrophic outcomes. Calm under pressure, precise in judgment, and unwavering in crisis, Zac Valeris is the kind of officer who makes impossible situations survivable. But beneath the discipline, there is still a man shaped by war… and quietly trying to decide what survival is supposed to mean in a universe that has moved on without him.