Brian Jeeter

Brian Larkin Jeeter is the ship translator "and cook, kind of" of the Iris II. He is a xenolinguist and the fiancé of Krejjh. He likes to spend his time in the cockpit of the ship with Krejjh while they're flying.

Brian is friendly and laid-back in personality, clever and good at solving puzzles and mysteries, and enjoys linguistic challenges and classical Dwarnian poetry. He has probably not killed anybody. Directly, anyway.

He speaks Earth-English and Dwarnian fluently, knows some Dwarnglish from his time on NeuZo, and has now studied Vree Chel Nokean.

Brian is Jewish.

Early Life
Brian attended Harmony College.

Brian was a bartender for one summer on Ryedell, where he worked alongside and made friends with Alvy Connors. Due to the stinginess of bar management about the amount of liquor to put in mixed drinks, they had an inside joke, "Ryedell Style," that meant "minus an ounce" or "one less of something." They stayed in touch, and later Alvy and Brian would still do favors for each other from time to time.

While living on NeuZo, the horribly polluted air quality damaged Brian's lungs from breathing in chemicals.

Brian met Krejjh on NeuZo about two years before the story begins.

Aboard the Rumor
Brian joined the crew of the Rumor along with Krejjh a year and a half before the beginning of the story.

Brian was initially friendly and sympathetic to Violet Liu when she came aboard, then upon decoding Alvy's message about having the "wrong Violet" and needing to find the "right one," became briefly hostile and suspicious that Violet was an IGR spy. He soon admits that that's unlikely, though, and warms up to Violet.

When the Rumor encountered the Nanobot Swarm and it began speaking Vree Chel Noke, Brian got very excited about the opportunity to learn and analyze the Swarm's form of the ancient language.

(The rest of Season 1 needs to be added here.)

Aboard the Iris II
Shaken after the way Krejjh nearly died on New Jupiter, Brian asks if Krejjh wants to get married now, instead of waiting for some more official time; Krejjh is uncomfortable with the idea.

Agent McCabe begins to open up to the crew by helping Brian translate the French background message on the Dwarnglish arms deal recording, and using their knowledge of the IGR's coordinate system; Brian is beginning to make them feel more welcome by talking enthusiastically about intricacies of their different interest fields (language and the influence of galactic politics on mapping) when the mood turns darker as they realize the guns are being sent to Telemachus.

Soon thereafter Brian comes down with a coughing fit in which he falls unconscious. Even after reawakening, he is weak and frustrated that he needs to rest. The crew flies to Telemachus to find a doctor who can help, and through Ignatius Campbell they connect with Dr. Robinson, who treats Brian. Dr. Robinson says that the years of living on Neuzo, and the effect of the Project Sentry swarm, have damaged his lungs (he has "motor oil in the bronchial tubes") and he will need oxygen therapy, and to be hooked up to an oxygen machine.