Jeffrey Steinbrenner
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First appears in Book 4: Magnificat, chapter 4 (3)
Appearances
What you know
Book 4: Magnificat
- Ch 4Jeffrey Steinbrenner is CEREM's Director of Bionics and a neurologist; he suggested approaching the Keoghs and was less certain the rig would succeed.
- Ch 14Steinbrenner is CEREM's gaunt, disdainful new bionics chief.
- Ch 20Scientist developing embryonic assay parameters for Mental Man at a new lab Marc built for him at CEREM in Seattle Metro.
- Ch 21Steinbrenner heads CEREM's Department of Bionics and evaluates embryo auras with a modified El8 helmet, claiming about 92 percent accuracy.
- Ch 21Steinbrenner's embryonic assay technique proved a great success, but after over a year he found no embryo with paramount potential.
- Ch 22Steinbrenner is the only operator able to run metapsychic assays accurately on embryos with the El8 helmet at CEREM's Mental Man facility.
- Ch 22Steinbrenner was told to substitute Madeleine's ovary for another donor's and to raise the resulting embryos to term; he remembers the conversation as a dream.
- Ch 22Steinbrenner is about to achieve a breakthrough and is one of the people who could help build the Jackforming apparatus.
- Ch 23Dr. Steinbrenner and his associates created the Mental Man embryos using Marc's sperm and presumed ova of Rosamund Drake Remillard.
- Ch 30Steinbrenner believes regen-tank technology could replicate Madeleine's germ plasm with external redactive input, and that encephalization can overcome latency in Marc and Cyndia's offspring.
Connections
- member ofCEREMhead of Department of Bionics
- related toMental Manworks on the project
- ally ofMarc
Key moments
- Book 4 · Ch 14Shell test observed
Peter Dalembert leads the delegation to an observation chamber to watch a test of the new CE rig shell. Marc appears in a monitoring suit, greeting them with overwhelming coercive charm.
- Book 4 · Ch 21Marc unveils Mental Man
On 10 September 2080 Marc brings media into CEREM and publicly reveals the Mental Man project and embryonic assay, triggering controversy and deepening the pro- and anti-Milieu polarization.
- Book 4 · Ch 21Mental Man embryos fail
After over a year, Steinbrenner's team found no embryo with paramount potential among thousands produced.
- Book 4 · Ch 22Fury infiltrates Steinbrenner at CEREM
Fury d-jumps into the Mental Man facility, mentally dominates Steinbrenner during an embryo assay, reveals Cyndia's parentage, and orders Madeleine's ovary used, with embryos brought to term.
- Book 4 · Ch 22Marc is urged to Jackform Mental Man
A telepathic voice tells Marc of Steinbrenner's coming breakthrough and urges him to force Mental Man's maturation through Jackforming, overriding his moral doubts; Marc accepts it will work yet calls it a dream.