Commissioner Simmonds
a.k.a.
- Comm. Simmonds
- Gerald Simmonds?
(The Editor was told at one point Gerald was his first name,
according to some source. Speculation: a writer's guide?
The Editor has not yet been able to confirm such for this
knowledgebase.)
Who
Representative of
Earth authority
(i.e. the ILC?) on the Moon.
In charge by September 9, 1999.
Heads to
Moonbase Alpha after
Cmdr. Koenig issues
"Emergency Condition Alpha One" (?),
and is on-base when the Moon
breaks from
Earth orbit.
He later extorts(?) his way onto an alien (Kaldorian)
spaceship on its way to Earth,
but was not properly scanned into a matrix
maintained by the ship's computer,
and did not go into proper
suspended animation.
He woke back up, trapped in a chamber at the beginning
of a 75-year final journey.
He presumably died some days into it.
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Details
- Was covering up the severity of astronaut deaths on
MBA,
even to the new commander,
in an attempt to get the
Meta mission launched.
- Though he retains his title after
Breakaway,
it has no real meaning or authority at that point;
but he was still included in some high-level interaction
(see next point).
- Attends command conferences
in at least the following:
"Earthbound".
- Apparently collects butterfly specimens
(see in the background in one communication with
John in
"Breakaway",
at about 14:30-16:30 in an uncut version).
Notes
- Simmonds is counted as a verifiable loss
not for his presumed death but from his dereliction from
Alpha.
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