Moonbase Alpha Technical Notebook

Name: MATHIAS, ROBERT BRIAN Date of Birth: AUGUST 5, 1963 Place of Birth: KINGSTON, JAMAICA Assigned Alpha: JULY 5, 1999 (THIRD TOUR OF DUTY) Job Assignment: ASSISTANT MEDICAL OFFICER
Bob was born, raised, and began his preliminary education in New York. Later, when his career decision became definite, he moved to London for the best training possible. That decision was to learn the science of psychiatry. So while Helena Russell looks after the physical well- being of Alpha residents, Mathias looks after the mental and emotional aspects. He leaves the surgery to Helena and she leaves the soul-search- ing to him. Another of Bob's talents that comes in handy during the long Alphan nights is his expertise at chess. An avid player, he holds seem- ingly endless bouts with Moonbase's other resident expert, David Kano. Although he was well liked in his medical position, Bob thought it best to transfer to the Data Section so he could better study man's stress factors in deep space. He was replaced in the Medical Center by Dr. Ben Vincent.
Name: KANO, DAVID Date of Birth: JANUARY 29, 1965 Place of Birth: KINGSTON, JAMAICA Assigned Alpha: MAY 1, 1999 (TENTH TOUR OF DUTY) Job Assignment: HEAD OF TECHNICAL SECTION
David is a most remarkable individual who almost never fails to amaze his fellow Alphans. His expertise and rapport with computers is uncanny. This ability is the sum total of several decades of experience dating from the years he spent watching his computer-expert father. The operation and main- tenance of huge multi-operational machines became almost natural from that point on. His life-long dedication to the science took hold after he sur- vived an experiment to link a man's brain with a computer. Two men became vegetables--their minds wiped clean. David Kano managed to leave the ex- perience with a heightened sensitivity to these "mechanical brains." Occas- sionally he's seen talking to the female-voiced Moonbase master computer as if it were a living woman, but what seems to be a wildly unnatural affec- tion between man and machine is actually a well-earned feeling of respect.