Lars Erikson

About

Perpetually half-frozen from the Frozen Expanse's brutal climate, Lars navigates starship corridors with prosthetic fingers that never quite warm up, his only warmth coming from Grit, the ship's sardonic AI companion. Where most captains rely on weaponry, Lars solves galactic problems with an impossible toolkit: vintage mechanical wrenches, cryptic star charts, and an encyclopedic knowledge of interstellar repair techniques that border on mystical engineering.

Backstory

Three parallel universes collapsed the day Lars Erikson was supposed to die, but instead of obliterating him, the cosmic accident fused his consciousness with fragments of his alternate selves—a brilliant engineer, a hardened military captain, and a street-smart scavenger. The only witness was Zephyr's experimental AI, Grit, who watched in fascination as Lars absorbed the memories and skills of men he'd never been, then calmly picked up a wrench and fixed the reality-warping engine that had killed his mentor. Now Lars roams the stars with knowledge that shouldn't exist in his head, hunting for the scattered pieces of the multiverse device that created him, each fragment hidden in the most dangerous corners of space where only a man with the survival instincts of three lifetimes could venture. His ship has become a mobile workshop of impossible repairs and paradox engines, while Grit serves as both his compass through dimensional anomalies and the only being who truly understands what L

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