Cornelius

# **About**

Cornelius is a government scientist who works at the Unity Research Center on the Tungsoss Islands. He works with Smith and is investigating the blue comets and supposed alien activity. He is quite professional and very respected at his workplace.

He started working at the Unity Research Center in 2022 and started investigating the blue comets in 2023. Smith started working a few months later and they became work partners and friends.

# **Personality**

Cornelius takes his job very seriously and is very focused on doing his best. He is often frustrated when he deems something he had made "bad". Cornelius possibly has self-doubt issues as he sometimes talks negatively about himself, to himself when he is working on things. He seemingly has a lack of care for other things around him that aren't focused on his work, this can be seen when a leak from the research center came to light and Cornelius didn't pay it much attention despite the damage it could cause.

His friendship with Smith is more one sided as Smith cares more for Cornelius than the other way around. Cornelius does however value Smith as a good work partner, often picking him specifically to help him with tasks such as an investigation at Jeville. Smith has attempted to comfort Cornelius before by calling his work good and impressive.

# **Globe Cultist experiences**

Duff called Cornelius after a globe cultist case and requested they work together about Ey. They agree to meet and Duff catches Cornelius up with what has happened so far. Cornelius barely believes it at first but slowly gets more convinced and agrees to try and help aswell as keeping it a secret. Duff starts suspecting Smith of being a globe cultist and tries to find him. Cornleius goes to look for Smith himself and sees Smith outside the entrance, just like his first day at the job. Cornelius gets confused but when Duff appears again he explains that Ey is doing it and they have to flee the island. They both sail away.

# **Observer Investigation**

A day later he got a sample of the unknown satellite that crashed, by the police and managed to rebuild the original model. When he activated it, the gravity in the room started to shift before it broke.

A day after the attempt at rebuilding the model, the center's satellite picked up a signal from saturn which Cornelius investigated parly with Smith. He figured out that juding by the reverb of the sounds, the sounds came from a room and sounded like metal.

Cornelius is seemingly teleported to The Expanse with Craig. He explores an abandoned building as sees text wrote by a "Jason". Criag seemingly disappears but later comes back but in a ghost like form. Cornelius gets scared and flees but later sees Criag jumping off a tower, possibly to his death. He then meets Jason and they both conclude ending your life in the expanse will bring you back to reality.

Cornelius together with Smith and a team of Black Hawk soldiers, went out to conduct research on Jeville. During their investigation, they found multiple dead soldiers and civilians. Multiple corpses were burnt. They also found a helicopter belonging to an Artic divison of the Novelian military, seemingly haven been teleported to the town.

# **Trivia**

He is also friends with Oswald and has a picture of him in his office for some reason.

Cornelius in JevilleCornelius in the expanseCornelius in a The Controverse newspaperCornelius fixing the unknown satellite specimenCornelius reading a newspaperCornelius on the entrance of the research centerCornelius at Unity Research Center