Vek Tollin
Vek Tollin is a Prosian engineer, co-founder, and Chief Engineer of the SS Scavenger DX-1017. Formerly an Alliance propulsion specialist, Tollin became a pioneer of mixed-culture engineering—combining Prosian harmonic field theory with Alliance plasma-core mechanics. He is best known for locating and rebuilding the **Meras Phase Drive**, helping Captain Elan Drex transform two derelict hulls into the ship that would later become the SS Scavenger.
Early Career
Born on Prose during the closing years of the Tonan conflict, Tollin apprenticed in reactor maintenance for the **Alliance Defense Fleet (ADF)** and earned his reactor-technician tattoo—the sigil he never removed. His early work focused on containment-field symmetry and harmonic balancing for heavy transports. By mid-career he served as **Bridge Engineer** aboard Drex’s previous command, the SS Rona (AS-1052).
Partnership with Elan Drex
Following the Altair incident and Drex’s forced retirement, Tollin left the ADF in protest. Pooling their savings, the two purchased surplus hulls and a **decommissioned experimental Phase Drive**. Tollin performed the rebuild personally, integrating the drive’s **Spacetime Phase Resonance Core** into a new frame assembled above Prose. His line to Drex—*“You get me a hull, and I’ll get you a core that sings”*—became part of Scavenger lore:contentReference[oaicite:6]{index=6}.
Aboard the Scavenger
Tollin served as **Chief Engineer** and later **Systems Director** of the Scavenger Fleet. He was responsible for drive-field stability, reactor design, and much of the ship’s self-repair architecture. Known for pacing the engine deck “listening” to the machinery, he claimed to sense harmonic imbalance before diagnostics registered it. During *The Phoenix from the Scrapyard*, he recovered and rebuilt Dr. Meras’s drive core, creating the first safe **high-frequency Phase Drive**.
Later Work
By the time of *Story 10: Joining the Lanes*, Tollin co-developed **Harmony Lock I**, the synchronization algorithm that stabilized the Star Naming System (SNS) beacons. His designs became fundamental to interstellar navigation under the Prosian Merchant Corps.
Personality
Gruff, loyal, and unpretentious, Tollin values results over rhetoric. He rarely speaks of faith yet lives by the Prosian ideal of *work as flow*—that purpose reveals itself through craft. Drex once described him as *“the engine’s conscience.”*
Quotes
> “You get me a hull, and I’ll get you a core that sings.” > “Engines don’t lie. They hum the truth if you listen.” > “Harmony isn’t peace—it’s precision.”