Caput

**Caput** is a Shade citizen and an officer of the Superintelligence Agency, in which he carries the rank of general. He is superior to Agent Maxwell Sterling. While Agent Sterling was researching and investigating an anomalous black hole-like phenomenon in the alternate universe of Sibiltine State, General Caput contacted Sterling for a report, just before the hole opened.

Caput seems to have a slight crack in his voice at times, reminiscent of a younger teenager, though most of the time his voice seems to be in a regular pitch. General Caput's clearance level is unknown.

Caput is portrayed by Brian David Gilbert, who first got famous for having produced and starred in the magazine *Polygon'*s online webshow *Unravelled*.

## Biography

Nothing is known about Caput's past life, though it is possible to deduce that at some point he joined the Superintelligence Agency's youth training program and was accepted into the organization after which he rose up the ranks until he landed the position of general.

When the SIA agent Maxwell Sterling went on an investigative science space expedition, to the dimensional plane of Sibiltine State to research an anomalous black hole that would be appearing there, General Caput tried to contact Sterling, going through special relays to do so. He went through three different SIA agents named Sterling, and one named Starling by accident, until he found the right person, and called the agent through his ship's central holographic display apparatus, projecting his head into the ship's bridge deck to talk to the agent. This was during day 68 of Agent Sterling's investigative expedition.

At first, General Caput wasn't sure if he even had reached Sterling as the agent didn't answer him when asked if he could hear him, to which Caput told him that it was costing 2,000 a minute to keep the relays open in order for the call to be possible, expecting the agent to be more compliant knowing this, however the agent simply told him that there was nothing substantial to report yet. However, Caput knew this, admitting that this was obviously true. However, his real reasoning for contacting Sterling was to try to convince the man that the Axle Rubix incident wasn't his fault, stating that the SIA felt that Sterling's lonesome expedition to "deep space, in a storage closet universe, waiting for a black hole" seemed like a cry for help, to which Sterling claimed the opposite was in fact the case, to which Caput simply said that this was the SIA's theory. Sterling then says that it is not a black hole and that Tarnacus is completely gone. Caput, thinking this wasn’t odd, reminded Sterling that Tarnacus hadn’t been swept in a hundred years and that States deconstitute all the time. Sterling protests this assessment, noting that since anything passing through the reality strata is statistically going to enter either of two extremes, Tarnacus or Apex, Tarnacus not existing "is a pretty big deal."

Caput then told him that the SIA did not believe that Sterling was to blame for the Rubix incident, and that he was hoping Sterling knew this too, and that he didn’t need to be out there. He added that he however had to tell him what it was like "being the only person in the universe", thinking it pretty cool, to which Sterling sarcastically responded that it was "a bit crowded, actually", to which Caput sarcastically claimed was "That's funny." Caput then went back on the topic of Sterling's mental health, stating that for a long time he thought that SIA could have helped Sterling, but then Sterling interrupted him, asking Caput how he viewed himself, because to Sterling, Caput was "just one big... head." Suddenly, a strange undulating noise starts to sound from the headphones of Agent Sterling's audio surveillance device that he's been using to monitor the area of space outside the ship, and grabs the headphones to listen to it more closely. Seeing this, Caput asked Sterling if he was "doing a bit" and reminded him that under GalAXIS law, Sterling was obliged to let him know if he was currently doing a bit, but before General Caput can finish speaking his connection to the *Phaethon Nine* was cut.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 *A Single Point in Space*, episode 2 of *Dynamo Dream*. Ian Hubert. March 29, 2023.