The trillionaire whose space-exploration company is the public cover for Gravitrek. He fronts the mission to the world as space tourism, because a planet told the whole truth at once would tear itself apart. Eccentric, media-savvy, and more aware of the real stakes than he lets the cameras see.
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Nole Alset owns two things that matter, and the world only understands one of them.
Gravitrek is the space-exploration company. In public it sells orbital tourism and the romance of a second home; in private it is the logistics arm of an evacuation -- the largest problem ever posed, moving a species. Alset fronts it himself, because a planet told the whole truth at once would tear itself apart.
Orbit is the other half, and the more powerful one. It is the network everyone is already on: where the berths get argued over, where the nine became household names, where a rumour about a Bridge can be seeded at breakfast and believed by lunch. Alset did not buy Orbit to make money. He bought it because an evacuation is a story before it is a spacecraft, and whoever owns the story decides who stays calm.
The two feed each other. Gravitrek supplies the spectacle; Orbit decides what the spectacle means. Posts, counts, trends -- the numbers under every announcement are his instrument, and he is not above adjusting them. The seekers are on Orbit too, which is the joke neither side finds funny: the same feed that hides the mission is the one Vivek's network reads to learn what the takers already know.
