Seamus Harper
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Seamus Zelazny Harper was a denizen of the planet Earth as well as the chief engineer of the Eureka Maru and Andromeda Ascendant. He is responsible for creating Rommie and well as a number of other gadgets.
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[edit] History
Harper is a member of the Andromeda Ascendant crew and is the engineer and fix-it man. Harper is the only member of the Andromeda's crew born and raised on post-Commonwealth Earth, specifically in Boston. After the Fall, it was conquered by the wealthy and powerful, ruling Nietzschean Pride called the Drago-Kazov, who treated unengineered humans poorly, and its inhabitants were frequently attacked by the Magog. The human denizens of Earth lived in poverty and conflict, which prompted Harper to run away. His only relation on earth is his cousin, Brendan Lahey, who he abandoned on earth. He was hired by Bobby Jensen for a one-time-gig, under the guise of transporting computers, which were actually missiles. After learning that Bobby had lied to her, Beka broke up with Bobby and hired Harper as the new engineer of the Maru. Harper joined the Andromeda crew in 303 AFC (After the Fall of the Commonwealth) (also CY 10087) along with Beka and the rest of the Maru crew: Trance Gemini, and Rev Bem.
[edit] His Work
Harper is homegrown expert in many areas. He is skilled in the fields of nanotechnology, quantum physics, 4th degree equations, slipstream engineering, and gynoid manufacturing. Harper has made many machines that would be considered miracles; such as a teleporter, a machine to open rifts into other dimensions, sentient slipfighters, and many different types of nanobots.
[edit] Relationships
[edit] Friendships
[edit] Dylan Hunt
Dylan and Harper have had a good relationship. Dylan has often asked Harper to build machines that would help him to do the impossible, and they remain good friends, though Harper often jokingly complains about Dylans luck with the ladies. Harper has been willing to risk his life for Dylan.
[edit] Beka
Beka is like Harpers big sister. They both care deeply about each other, and they lived together for many years on the Maru.
[edit] Tyr
Harper was never entirely trusting of Tyr, always keeping at the back of his mind that Tyr was a Nietszchean, and out for himself (not to say this belief was unfounded or ever disproven), however a strong friendship develops between the two over the course of the series, despite the fact that Tyr's nickname for Harper is "Annoying Little Man". More than once, Tyr breaks with his instinct for self preservation to put his life on the line for Harper, and Harper does the same, setting aside his distrust of Nietszcheans from time to time and trusting Tyr. Harper even went so far as to hug Tyr upon his return in Immaculate Perception, to which Tyr affectionately tussles Harper's hair.
The Harper/Tyr friendship could also be seen as symbolic of the greater relations between Nietszcheans and Humans, in how they can get along when they see qualities they respect in the other, but generally look suspiciously across the table.
[edit] Trance
Trance and Harper often referred to each other as "best friends", both in the series and in the Coda. In Trance's first form, Harper and Trance often performed their duties together, both being not as physical-combat oriented and more stealth and tech savvy. Both were also the more light-hearted and joking of the crew, neither taking most situations too seriously.
Harper becomes uncharacteristically aggressive and violently protective when Trance is harmed or threatened. He is the first to suggest that the Maru crew kill Gerentex after he "kills" Trance. In Fear and Loathing in the Milky Way, Harper comes to Trance's defense in a rare show of honor and self-sacrifice when Gerentex threatens her as well.
After Trance swaps with her future self, Harper admits he is intimidated by her and pushes her away. The two do reach an understanding and become amiable again, but they never appear to be quite as close as they were in the beginning of the series.
[edit] Romance
[edit] Satrina
Harper had a brief romance with the Abyss agent, Satrina. He became interested in her Dataport and tesseract generator. Mainly, she pulled out a few of his Magog larvae, but she wanted the All-Systems University database. Though advised by Trance against it, Harper managed to locate the database but sends a fake that deletes itself. He also had it as a Trojan Horse, tracking Satrina's location. He activates an interference pattern in the grav-generators beneath her feet, causing her phase-shifting abilities impossible. He takes her device and tries to extract the rest of the eggs but is unsuccessful. With every in danger of being killed by Satrina's cohorts, he destroys her ship, disabling their tesseract generators.
[edit] Appearances
| Andromeda: Season One | |||||
| Under the Night | An Affirming Flame | To Loose the Fateful Lightning | D Minus Zero | Double Helix | Angel Dark, Demon Bright |
| The Ties That Blind | The Banks of the Lethe | A Rose in the Ashes | All Great Neptune's Ocean | The Pearls That Were His Eyes | The Mathematics of Tears |
| Music of a Distant Drum | Harper 2.0 | Forced Perspective | The Sum of Its Parts | Fear and Loathing in the Milky Way | The Devil Take the Hindmost |
| The Honey Offering | Star-Crossed | It Makes a Lovely Light | It's Hour Come ‘Round at Last | ||
| Andromeda: Season Two | |||||
| The Widening Gyre | Exit Strategies | A Heart for Falsehood Framed | Pitiless as the Sun | Last Call at the Broken Hammer | All Too Human |
| Una Salus Victus | Home Fires | Into the Labyrinth | The Prince | Bunker Hill | Ouroboros |
| Lava and Rockets | Be All My Sins Remembered | Dance of the Mayflies | In Heaven Now Are Three | The Things We Cannot Change | The Fair Unknown |
| Belly of the Beast | The Knight, Death, and the Devil | Immaculate Perception | Tunnel At The End Of The Light | ||
