Daniel Oglethorpe

Daniel Oglethorpe was a former U.S. Army lieutenant colonel and married to Elizabeth Oglethorpe. After the Watchers' ship collided with his flight, he and his wife were saved and then left stranded by the aliens on the human colony of Mirica.

Biography
Daniel was a former military man who did tours in Iraq before retiring when he was 69. He was followed by his wife four years later who was also a U.S. Army lieutenant colonel. During his four years of retirement alone, Daniel took distance learning with his wife, earning a master’s degree in Middle East history.

Afterwards Daniel and his wife for the next eight years, traveled, and pursued whatever interests and hobbies appealed. The couple lived out their lives in the Maryland east shore. Though they had done many activities together such as visiting the Hawaiian Islands, hiking, swimming, snorkeling, fishing, lying on beaches, and watching the ocean from lanais. When they were returning to the States from Honolulu, their travel included plane changes in San Francisco and Chicago before reaching Baltimore which involved the unfortunate Flight 4382.

Unlike the survivors who were scattered across the cosmos on various worlds, Daniel and Elizabeth were fortunate to be stranded together on Mirica by their alien hosts. After many hardships and six years of surviving in an alien valley, Daniel and his wife made out a new life for themselves as Dan and Liz, becoming members of the Jakapar and gaining the trust of the its leader, Lord Samsul Lacharmad.

During their exile on Mirica he and Liza would have a child.

During the generational war against the Dakamash, Dan and his wife Liza urged Samsul to try to create a dialogue with enemy in an effort to end hostilities.