Sellers
Japanese Voice Actor: Masaharu Satou
English Voice Actor: Steve Blum (Episode II, III)
Dr. Sellers (セラーズ, Serēzu?) is a scientist and was once a colleague and rival of the legendary Dr. Joachim Mizrahi. He wears mechanical sunglasses and has short, dark blood-red hair. He is a paraplegic man confined to a futuristic hover-chair thanks to Mizrahi, who shot him once in each leg shortly before he committed suicide on the night of that Old Miltia disappeared from known space.
Sellers is a man who has no real loyalties and constantly allies himself with whomever can best further his own ambitions. During the Miltian Conflict he worked with Mizrahi and Suou Uzuki in the U-TIC Organization where he researched the Zohar, the Vessels of Anima, Proto Ω and the Zohar control program Lemegeton. During the 14 year span between the Miltian Conflict and Episode I-II he joined the Ormus Society through a "personal contact" (most likely Margulis) and he continued to research the Zohar and the Vessels of Anima under Patriarch Sergius and Cardinal Heinlein. Unlike Margulis and Pellegri, Sellers had no official rank in Ormus, he was just a scientist. Despite his lack of standing he has enough authority to order the destruction of the Ormus asteroid base Pleroma after Margulis abandons it.
After Sergius' death he deserts Ormus and joins the Salvator Faction under Dimitri Yuriev in Episode III. Just like when he worked for U-TIC and Ormus, Sellers has no real loyalty to the Federation and seems to detest Yuriev as a person. He doesn't care what Yuriev is trying to accomplish, he just wants to further his research on the Zohar and the Federation's new weapon Ω Res Novae. When the party confronts him on the Federation's new flagship, Tactical Warship Merkabah, he reveals that his entire career has been dedicated to trying to surpass his rival Joachim Mizrahi by any means necessary. While working for Yuriev he came to the ultimate realization that all his works were just inferior imitations of Mizrahi's, and that ultimately he was just an imitation of Mizrahi as well. With nothing left to live for he betrays Yuriev as well, telling the party of his true nature and his plans for the Zohar Emulators aboard the Durandal. His ultimate fate is ambiguous, as he never appears again after this scene and the Merkabah is absorbed by Abel's Ark shortly after the party abandons it.
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