C.H. Baumgartner was the German-born commander of the USE Navy timberlcad, SSIM Achates. Baumgartner's full name was known to only a few people, including Baumgartner's senior John Simpson. Most of the sailors in the Navy who'd dealt with the officer just used the monicker an up-timer had given him: "Clod Hopper" (which was never used to his face). Baumgartner was a very morose and dour man, and looked down on blasphemy and the notion that the Almighty would look with favor upon the souls of dead enemies.