Anaplian's SC control and mentor on Prasadal, a two-thousand-year-old former human who has transferred his brain into an Aciculate body - a bush-like form of branching metallic limbs. He breaks the news of her father's death, reluctantly agrees to care for the orphan Toark in her absence, and later receives intelligence about the Oct ghost fleets that elevates Anaplian's personal mission to an official SC operation.