Inspecting backbone construction at Selene Dock
Inspecting backbone construction at Selene Dock

    Alejandro was born in Cedars-Sinai hospital in the United States and grew up in La Cañada, spending summers when he was older in the RDP or at Acrux-2 in the Argentinian Mancomunidad. He was fluent in English, Spanish, and Mandarin from a young age, studied microgravity construction and design with a minor in robotics at Caltech, and took a job with Sinochem in Hellas Planitia designing enhancements for their orbital fertilizer transfer stations. He dated local schoolteacher Camilla Liu and through her became interested in better educating Earth students to fit in to the Martian environment. His contribution to this, familiars, were small animal robots housing Infocom Agents which would monitor and protect children when they were away from their parents and help them adjust to the local conditions and adapt a similar mentality to those born on Mars.

    During this period he also began designing and publishing designs for ambitious projects such as wrapping dormant comets in order to build small habitats inside them. These brought him to the attention of the Alvaro García, managing director of the Eurasian Bloc consortium managing cislunar habitat construction. He was hired to work on a digital twin for a proposed metro sized o'neill cylinder, the first for the Bloc, and he returned to Earth to work on the project. Rather than copying the United States and Greater Zhōngguó designs, he used his fathers work on cryotolerant doped mycelium to design a more efficient structure which used a bio-composite grown in ice-water slurries as self-assembling non-load bearing structural fill between thin membranes. This would allow the habitat to grow itself from in-situ ice and carbon feedstock, and the doped mycelium's natural radiation absorption removed the need for separate heavy shielding layers. With his changes, what was initially considered a moonshot side project actually became feasible when the ESA budget of 51 BFC allocated additional funding to off world settlement.

    The Axiom and Wu Weiren cylinders had been constructed at EML2 in order to reuse the US and GPRs respective Auburn Ring component construction facilities. Without access to similar facilities and with a higher requirement for water during construction it was decided to locate Island One at EML5. Due to its debris field from numerous relocated asteroids such as Forge Palace this had been considered unsuitable by the US and GPR. However since then a number of recycling factories had been built there and drones had dragged most of the larger debris to them, and the mycelium networks self-healing properties would reduce maintenance needs for dealing with punctures from smaller debris. Florentin was given the position of lead project architect, and after an 8 month vendor selection and review process the project commenced in 50 BFC and was completed 12 years later, with the first settlers relocating there in 37 BFC. During the cislunar construction spree in the later Retrograde Diaspora most of the larger habitats copied the design of Island One.

    Just before the completion of Island One Alejandro resigned from the ESA and relocated back to Mars, where he joined a line marriage with Camilla Liu. He worked as a freelance consultant and worked on a number of orbital farm projects which had funded after the events of the Stillborn Harvest. Amidst the neglect of the Retrograde Diaspora he began publicly criticising the lack of funding from Earth for the Martian colonies, and during the recent Nanocat Fury events he has become a strong advocate for the Marsist position of intervention and troops from Earth.
Inspecting backbone construction at Selene Dock
Inspecting backbone construction at Selene Dock

    Alejandro was born in Cedars-Sinai hospital in the United States and grew up in La Cañada, spending summers when he was older in the RDP or at Acrux-2 in the Argentinian Mancomunidad. He was fluent in English, Spanish, and Mandarin from a young age, studied microgravity construction and design with a minor in robotics at Caltech, and took a job with Sinochem in Hellas Planitia designing enhancements for their orbital fertilizer transfer stations. He dated local schoolteacher Camilla Liu and through her became interested in better educating Earth students to fit in to the Martian environment. His contribution to this, familiars, were small animal robots housing Infocom Agents which would monitor and protect children when they were away from their parents and help them adjust to the local conditions and adapt a similar mentality to those born on Mars.

    During this period he also began designing and publishing designs for ambitious projects such as wrapping dormant comets in order to build small habitats inside them. These brought him to the attention of the Alvaro García, managing director of the Eurasian Bloc consortium managing cislunar habitat construction. He was hired to work on a digital twin for a proposed metro sized o'neill cylinder, the first for the Bloc, and he returned to Earth to work on the project. Rather than copying the United States and Greater Zhōngguó designs, he used his fathers work on cryotolerant doped mycelium to design a more efficient structure which used a bio-composite grown in ice-water slurries as self-assembling non-load bearing structural fill between thin membranes. This would allow the habitat to grow itself from in-situ ice and carbon feedstock, and the doped mycelium's natural radiation absorption removed the need for separate heavy shielding layers. With his changes, what was initially considered a moonshot side project actually became feasible when the ESA budget of 51 BFC allocated additional funding to off world settlement.

    The Axiom and Wu Weiren cylinders had been constructed at EML2 in order to reuse the US and GPRs respective Auburn Ring component construction facilities. Without access to similar facilities and with a higher requirement for water during construction it was decided to locate Island One at EML5. Due to its debris field from numerous relocated asteroids such as Forge Palace this had been considered unsuitable by the US and GPR. However since then a number of recycling factories had been built there and drones had dragged most of the larger debris to them, and the mycelium networks self-healing properties would reduce maintenance needs for dealing with punctures from smaller debris. Florentin was given the position of lead project architect, and after an 8 month vendor selection and review process the project commenced in 50 BFC and was completed 12 years later, with the first settlers relocating there in 37 BFC. During the cislunar construction spree in the later Retrograde Diaspora most of the larger habitats copied the design of Island One.

    Just before the completion of Island One Alejandro resigned from the ESA and relocated back to Mars, where he joined a line marriage with Camilla Liu. He worked as a freelance consultant and worked on a number of orbital farm projects which had funded after the events of the Stillborn Harvest. Amidst the neglect of the Retrograde Diaspora he began publicly criticising the lack of funding from Earth for the Martian colonies, and during the recent Nanocat Fury events he has become a strong advocate for the Marsist position of intervention and troops from Earth.