Yeoman Ro

— Yeoman Ro to First Citizen Dungeness Pertinax, moments before being murdered by Pertinax

## Biographical information

### Home

Unknown location on Cyclodorea (formerly)
Presumably the Mirrorsea region of the Ultravoid (former region of Cyclodorea, formerly)

### Cause of death

Murderes by gunfire by First Citizen Dungeness Pertinax

## Personal information

### Allies

Ames
Grimclaw

## Chronological and political information

### Position(s)

Yeoman within the Maverick Fleet of the navy of the Imperial Armada of Cyclodorea (formerly)
Yeoman in Lernaea squad away team

### Affiliation(s)

Lernaea squad (formerly)
Maverick Fleet (formerly)
Imperial Armada of Cyclodorea (formerly)
Admiral Ames (formerly)

## Game-related information

### Voiced by

Unknown - uncredited

**Ro** (/ɹoʊ/) was a Cyclodorean who served as yeoman in the Maverick Fleet of the Imperial Armada of Cyclodorea, and was a member of Admiral Ames' Lernaea squad away team. While searching for First Citizen Dungeness Pertinax, he witnessed his whole squad dying to the acidic waters of the healing Hotsprings of Oplontis, however despite being ordered by the squad leader to join them in the water, he refused, having detected increasing levels of acidity in the water with his instruments.

Yeoman Ro was later murdered by gunfire by Pertinax in the Pavilion vault while trying to reason with him. Private Grimclaw died with him, as had many Senators and normal citizens before them.

## Physical appearance

Yeoman Ro wore an Imperial Armada petty officer's uniform, consisting of a very large maroon shirt divided down the middle front with a function for fastening it closed, dark purple pants, and big, long, shiny boots. His uniform was decorated with no medals.

## Personality

Ro loved his people, both the regular citizens and political leaders such as the Senators. Despite the First Citizen Dungeness Pertinax's shortcomings, Ro even respected and was willing to help him see reason and let the Cyclodoreans take refuge in his vault while the Ultravoid ravaged their planet, however there was no reasoning with Pertinax, which led to Ro's cold-blooded murder.

## Abilities

It can be assumed that Yeoman Ro was a respectable soldier and petty officer of the Armada, as Admiral Ames, who far outranked the yeoman, respected him greatly, even searching for him when his away teams went missing. Admiral Ames in fact referred to his four away teams as "highly skilled."

## Trivia

* The voice actor for the role of Yeoman Ro is not credited in the credits of the game, but it is possible that it was done by one of the cast members already listed on it.
* Ro only has a single line of dialogue. It is not subtitled, because it is not meant to be fully heard. As the player controlling Rei runs down into the Pavilion vault, you can hear him shouting his one line in desperation to First Citizen Dungeness Pertinax.
* Ro is the only yeoman of the Imperial Armada of Cyclodorea mentioned in *Solar Ash*.
* Ro's rank of "yeoman" (/ˈjoʊmən/) is based on the rate of the same name within the U.S. Navy, one of the oldest rates, dating back to 1794. Historically, navy yeomen were responsible for keeping the storerooms for the ship's gunners, carpenters and boatswains. Transitioning from sail to steam, they were assigned to the ship's engineers. In the modern Navy, a yeoman is an elistee service member who performe administrative and clerical work. The U.S. Navy rate itself is named after the British 14th century title of the same name, historically referring to either a man holding and cultivating a small landed estate, I.E. a freeholder, or a servant in a royal or noble household, ranking between a sergeant and a groom or a squire and a page.