Professor Linus Weir

Professor Linus Weir is the Terran Federation's most productive weapons researcher — a theoretician who insists on testing his own designs in the field, much to the consternation of both his academic colleagues and his military superiors. His academic record suggests a man who should be sitting in a laboratory writing papers. His operational record suggests a man who has personally overseen the deployment of seventeen weapons systems that subsequently changed the tactical calculus of Federation warfare. Both records are accurate.