Ebbe Lindström

Born in Ritsem, a small village north of the Sarek national park, Ebbe was a professor of Greek and Byzantine studies in the Uppsala University of Sweden’s department of linguistics and philology when he met Midshipman Second Class Karin Bergqvist, whom he later married. While Ebbe was on Earth when Karin was ordered to evacuate the Sol system, his love of Ancient Greek philosophy was hugely influential in the education of Thomas Lindström—though the two never met. As such, he is seen as the father of the sophistocracy, a “Socrates” to Thomas Lindström’s “Plato.”