Campion Sturges is an Atheist android engineer and hacker who lived in the 22nd century. He created the Trust, and reprogrammed Mother, a Mithraic Necromancer, to raise a new generation of humans on Kepler-22b. He is referred to by both Mother and Father as their "creator", but it is unclear whether he actually built Father, a generic service model android, or merely reprogrammed him as well. Sturges was also able to obtain or build a small starship, which was used to deliver his two androids and their cargo of human embryos to their new home.
The mysterious entity behind the Signal impersonated Campion while Mother was reviewing her memories in a Mithraic simulation pod. This entity was apparently responsible for Mother becoming pregnant with and giving birth to a biomechanical snake-like entity. Mother described the experience as downloading a significant amount of data that activated previously unknown functions within her.
Biography[]
Born on Earth to a Mithraic family of great means, Campion Sturges eventually denounced Sol and joined the Atheists during the Religious War. He took full advantage of his wealthy upbringing and education to support the Atheist war effort. He also stole technology from his former allies, causing the Mithraic church to place a bounty on his head. One of his greatest creations was the Trust, a sentient quantum computer that assumed the role of the Atheists' leader.
Sometime near the end of the war in 2145, Sturges took refuge alone in an abandoned Mithraic building in ruined city district. Oxygen levels in the district were low enough to keep other people away, and Sturges produced just enough air for his own survival by cultivating plants. It was in this building where Sturges programmed Mother and Father and prepared his colony ship for its journey to Kepler-22b. Sturges intended for Mother and Father to be the progenitors of a new human civilization that would be both atheist and pacifist.
By the time Sturges was preparing his ship for its journey, he was suffering from an unknown respiratory illness that may have been terminal. The fate of Sturges after his ship launched from Earth is currently unknown.