H. Manchester

Professor H. Manchester, IcD was a Doctor of Early Interstellar Colonialism who taught at the University of Meridian. He was a known proponent of the Other Homeworld Theory.

Biography
Manchester was a major contributor to the Other Homeworld movement, and was responsible for convincing many of his younger students to join the society. During the Human-Covenant War, he worked with a number of like-minded professors on the Drifter Project. By comparing samples of colonial fauna genetic drift, and cataloguing Covenant invasion corridors, it was hoped that they could narrow the search area for humanity's original homeworld.

At some point after this, Manchester attended an Other Homeworlder Convention at a bar on Sampson Station, where he discussed his beliefs and findings with the undercover Codename: UTOPIAN.

Personality and traits
Manchester was a passionate, intelligent man, who was a strong believer of the Other Homeworld Theory. This made him naturally opposed to Earth-centric ideals such as the Terra Firma and the United Earth Government's promotion of it, and he was convinced that the UEG were hiding evidence of humanity's true origin. He was sympathetic to colonists who wished to live outside of UEG rule, even making several hopes that it could be one day be achieved. However, he was no activist and did not push his beliefs on the ChatterNet, although he did advise many of his students who did so. He was also appreciative of Meridian's natural state, and stated that he would rather it remain as it currently was, rather than reterraform it to more closely mimic Earth's features. While he was hopeful that he could eventually find the planet, which he termed 'Paradiso', he knew there was a high chance it had been glassed by the Covenant.

Despite his subscription to what is generally dismissed as a conspiracy theory, Manchester was smart enough to work out patterns outside of his area of expertise. This was shown when he recognized that the Covenant invasion fleets only took routes between specific star systems, reasoning that slipspace travel must be easier between them. He also noticed the similarity of many animals native to colonies to those on Earth, and theorized that at some point humanity seeded them at these colonies in the distant past.

List of appearances

 * Other Homeworld Theory