Captain Timothy Granger

Captain Timothy Granger is the protagonist of the Legacy Fleet Trilogy. Initially appearing as the old, tired, undecorated captain of the ISS Constitution on the verge of retirement, during the Swarm invasion he rises to the occasion in spectacular fashion, garnering the nickname, “The Hero of Earth”, as well as the unflattering “Bricklayer” (for his tendency to hurl starships and fighters at Swarm carriers like bricks).

Twelve years prior to the events of Constitution, Granger was involved in the Khorsky Incident while commanding the ISS Formidable.

During the events of Constitution, Seventy-five year old Granger has a relapse of his cancer, which metastasizes … well, everywhere. The ship’s doc gives him just weeks or months to live. But events quickly spiral out of control with the new Swarm invasion, and he ignores all treatment until he blacks out during the final pivotal battle over Earth.

When he later pilots the Constitution into one of the Swarm’s artificial singularity weapons and disappears, destroying the three Swarm carriers in the process, he reappears a few seconds later, apparently emerged from the singularity in the Old Bird. He’s cured of his cancer, and apparently aged three days, not 10 seconds. This sets up one of the major mysteries of the first trilogy—where, and when, did Granger go during his “vacation” (as it’s called behind his back), or “The Event”, as it’s officially referred to.

Granger is gruff, prickly, but fiercely loyal to his crew. He distrusts most people above him in positions of power and sees most politicians as leeches—even those he shares political views with. His best friend is his XO, Abraham Haws, who dies halfway through Constitution. Over the course of the next 2.5 books, he comes to rely heavily on his new XO, Commander Shelby Proctor, and they eventually develop a very close personal friendship (strictly platonic).

Granger is single, and has never opened up about his personal life to anyone in the first trilogy. At the end of the third book, Victory, he pilots the ISS Victory towards the event horizon of a black hole to permanently end the Swarm threat. For the purposes of fan fiction, he should remain there.

Hometown: Boise.