Hugo Pauvert

Doctor Hugo Pauvert is the principal character in The First Encounter, the short story that shows how humans and B'ra'Sha made first contact with each other.
== The First Encounter ==
Doctor Hugo Pauvert is a struggling astrophysicist who has lost his job, girlfriend and apartment. He gives a lecture and the only job offer comes from in Indian Corps on Mars. He is taken onto a military base where the Icarus Corporation explain the mission, a seven year mission to the 43 Camelopardalis system to explore and survey two Earth-like worlds in that system. 
When the starship Odyssey arrives in orbit of one of these worlds he is the head of the survey team to go down to the planet and comes across an alien becoming the first human to make contact with the B'ra'Sha.
== Legacy ==
He becomes one of the most famous humans in history and centuries later the ScSS Hugo Pauvert is named after him.