Rono Kipkibor

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## Family Members

**Husband:** Keren

* Year End 2788
* The End, and the New Beginning

## Biography

**Rono Kipkibor** is the team leader of Cassandra 2, and later of Cassandra Prime. Despite his exuberant personality and constant personal dramas, he takes dig site safety seriously and can keep secrets when necessary. His best friend is Dannel Playdon, with whom he attended University Asgard. Rono is married to Cassandra 2's team 1 tag leader, Keren.

### Personality and Characteristics

Rono has an exuberant, flamboyant personality.

### Early years

Rono joined the same Pre-history Foundation course as Dannel Playdon, Jerez Rivera, and Stephan.

Rono has a preference of dressing up in flamboyant costumes for reenactments, even if they aren't totally accurate.
During their student years, Rono and Dannel planned a historical duel demonstration. During a rehearsal for the demonstration, Rono tripped on his extravagant cloak and fell on his sword, stabbing himself. Playdon had a hard time explaining to the medical center personnel that it was an accident and that he hadn't tried to kill Rono.

While they were working as a research team for Cassandra University, Jerez decided that she needed a place to occasionally get away from the drama that always surrounds Rono so she bought a historic cottage that she also used to create and store her reproduction costumes, she wasn't dragging everything from dig site to dig site. While helping Jerez move into her cottage, Rono dropped a crate containing a reproduction grandfather clock on his foot. The doctor treating Rono misunderstood his explanation to mean that the crate contained Rono's dead grandfather, and he had to call both his grandfathers to prove they were still alive.

### Family

Rono's husband is Keren, no other family is known at this time.

## Summary

### Earth Girl

Rono and his entire Cassandra 2 team were buried under a falling skyscraper at New York Dig Site. Jarra and team 1 of Asgard 6, rescued them.

Later they followed tradition and bought Jarra her own personal impact suit. While Jarra and Fian were visiting Cassandra 2 to receive her gift, the Solar storm intensified without warning and turned into a Carrington Event. Cassandra 2 and Jarra and Fian helped to dig out the crashed space ship. (*See: Solar 5 Rescue*)

### Earth Star

During the solar storm evacuation to Ark, Cassandra 2 stays in the same grouping of rooms that Asgard 6 is in. Jarra learns that they team had helped with finishing the excavation of the lab that she had found, using old fashion protection and non standard methods to finish the work and to turn off the magnetic field.

Rono's rock-n-roll band, “RONO AND THE REPLAYS,”  including Dalmora on guitar, Playdon on Drums, Stephen on keyboard, Rono playing lead guitar entertained the crowd.

When Jarra gets the brillant idea that there is an Alien Artifact in Earth Africa that needs excavating and the military puts her in charge, Cassandra 2 is one of the teams that volunteer to help.

### Earth Flight

Rono's team is already at the California Land Raft dig site when Asgard 6 arrives. They are working together on the same island with Cassandra 2 as the lead team.

Rono introduces Asgard 6 to the park and the pool. When Asgard 6's dome is bombed, Rono takes charge of those remaining while Playdon goes with the injured to Military Base 79 Zulu.

When Jarra's social revolution takes place, Rono lead a group of both teams to go off-world to re-register their relationship contracts or to get re-married in Epsilon Sector.

Rono lead his team in joinding Jarra and Asgard 6 at the Roof of the World when she went there to hide out during a solar storm. He was just awed over the view of dawn rising over the Himalayan mountains.

Rono and Cassandra 2 all received the Fortuna medal for their contribution in digging out the Alien Artifact.

### Year End 2788

Rono and the entire team are staying at the "Field of Gold" at year end and preparing for the year end celebration when Todd, another research team leader unexpectedly show up acting like Rono invited him too. Playdon and Keren finally make Rono understand that Todd is chasing after him. Rono starts yelling insults at Todd, trying to make him understand that he is not welcome nor is he interested in anything that Todd is offering.

### The End, and the New Beginning

Cassandra 2 is helping to train Jarra and Fian on excavating high buildings at the Berlin dig site. When Keren teaches Jarra how to go up one of the spires and they stop for a little test of Jarra's nerves, Todd crashes what he thinks is Keren and Rono's private conversation but it proves to be keren's and Jarra's private coms. Todd causes Jarra to loose her footing and falls off of the building, but she does have her safety harness on. Todd just keeps on yelling at Keren and Keren finally realizes that Rono has never been to blame for Todd's behavior that Todd is acting the same way he would have if Rono had never said a word to him. Todd's team, Loki 1, had been approved to go to Fortuna, but his actions caused the entire team to be thrown out of the program.

Rono was sure that he would be fired by Cassandra University because of the problems that Todd caused Jarra, but Playdon tells him that it isn't going to happen because the new cross-sector university standings just came out and Cassandra University moved up nearly 200 places, to place #4. (Asgard moved to #1 position)

Cassandra 2 was invited to the Next of Kin ceremony that Jarra had planned, where Rono and the rest of them expressed their confusion about why Jarra had applied to Asgard University.

At the end when Valeska Orlova was explaining about the teams going to Fortuna, she announced that Cassandra 2 would become Cassandra Prime.

## Trivia

* Rono wears a purple and silver painted impact suit on dig sites.
* The scar on Rono's forehead, which he eventually has removed, is from Keren punching him after a dig site accident.
* While a foundation student on Earth, he stole a mobile Dome to take to a musical festival.

## See also

* Carrington Event
* Solar 5 Rescue
* Alien Artifact

## References

### Citations

1. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Earth Prime (The Earth Girl Aftermath Stories Book 1) (p. 434). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition.
2. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Earth Prime (The Earth Girl Aftermath Stories Book 1) (p. 441). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition.
3. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Earth Prime (The Earth Girl Aftermath Stories Book 1) (p. 310). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition.
4. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Earth Star (Earth Girl series Book 2) (p. 257). Pyr. Kindle Edition.
5. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Earth Flight (Earth Girl) (p. 113). Pyr. Kindle Edition.

### Bibliography

* *Earth and Fire: An Earth Girl Novella (EGN Book 1)* (2015)
* *Earth Girl (Earth Girl series Book 1)* (2015)
* *Earth Star (Earth Girl series Book 2)* (2014)
* *Earth Flight (Earth Girl)* (2015)
* *Earth Prime (The Earth Girl Aftermath Stories Book 1)* (2020)