Alexander Hilbert

Biography
Hephaestus Station's chief (and only) science officer, Dr. Hilbert is an accomplished geneticist, doctor, and researcher. He is also almost certainly insane. A veteran of three previous deep space missions, Hilbert seems perturbingly nonplussed, if not outright elated, at the thought of being almost eight light years away from all known human civilization. His experimental work seems to involve genetics, most evolving around the effect that prolonged exposure to a red dwarf's radiation has on certain microbes. Beyond that the particulars are a bit hard to follow, and more than a year after the start of the Hephaestus mission, neither Eiffel nor Minkowski are completely clear on what it is that HIlbert is doing.

What is completely clear is that Hilbert is a genius capable of brilliant work. He is also a grand master level chess player, a coldblooded schemer, and the very proud owner of a large collection of scalpels.