Dahunsil Kosoko

Dahunsil Kosoko (2512 - 2581) was an explorer and navjumper best known for his 2539 discovery of the Gurzil system. Born on Cestulus (Davien II), he joined a navjumping crew in 2529 when he answered a local job posting. In 2538, he suffered a starship crash that required eight months of inpatient care and resulted in the loss of one of his legs. The insurance payout from the crash left him with enough money to purchase a new ship, which he did the day he was discharged from the medstation where he'd been recuperating. He headed to the then-Nivelin system and began scanning. Three weeks later, he picked up minute traces of a strange signal, which upon close investigation, proved to be a jump point to a previously-unknown planetary system. Kosoko reported his discovery to the United Planets of Earth (UPE) government and requested that the system be named Odara, after his aunt. It was renamed Gurzil and added to the Perry Line in 2542, when the R.il'a-Odara jump point was discovered. Kosoko remained a navjumper until his death in 2581 due to a malfunction in his ship's air recycling system.

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