Dominic Russo

About

Memory haunts Dominic like static interference: every mecha mission blurs together, but the faces of rescued civilians remain frustratingly blank in his mind. Precision guides his hands across worn control panels, compensating for an internal landscape as fragmented as his recollections.

Backstory

Lullabies were the only sound aboard the ghost ship *Meridian's Dream* when salvage crews found eight-year-old Dominic Russo, singing softly to keep the ship's dying AI conscious while tending to its fractured memory banks. The child prodigy had spent three years alone, learning to repair systems by reading the scattered journals of the dead crew—including his parents, the ship's memory archaeologists who specialized in recovering lost stellar navigation data from derelict vessels. Captain Elara discovered him performing emergency surgery on the ship's central processor, his small hands steady as a surgeon's, humming the same lullaby his mother used to calm malfunctioning AIs. That song became his ritual before every mission in the *Stellar Sentinel*, a mecha he pilot-bonded with through neural interface technology salvaged from *Meridian's Dream*—but the same synaptic scarring that gives him perfect tactical recall has burned away his ability to retain human faces, leaving him to reme

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