Benj Sotomejor
Background
Benjamin "Benj" Sotomejor is a computer technician on the Trans Soma emergency medical rescue vessel Nightingale 229. He designed Sweetie to have human emotions.
During the events of Supernova (2000) played by Wilson Cruz
Sweetie wakes up Benj to play chess with her. While Benj and Nick Vanzant are playing cards, Sweetie warns him that he has a losing hand. Benj tells Nick that he illegally added human traits to Sweetie and after Sweetie tells him that Nick is likely to turn him in to the authorities, Nick assures him that he won't. An emergency distress signal is received and Nick tells them that the signal is five days old and is a direct call specifically to the Nightingale. Nick continues that the signal is from Pohl 6822, specifically the mining operation of Titan 37.
Sweetie tells them that Pohl 6822 was expelled from its orbit and is now a rogue body. A.J. Marley tells them that due to the distance they will have to make a dimension drive jump. Sweetie then tells them that the sender of the SOS is Karl Larson. They arrive at their location and find Marley's unit has malfunctioned causing him to partially fuse with the polyglass window. The Nightingale is hit by a debris storm and their fuel tanks are breached. Nick manages to keep the Nightingale from crashing and Sweetie tells him that they have lost 82% of their fuel and the dimensional drive will have to recharge. Nick explains the situation to the crew and a ship from the Titan operation starts heading towards the Nightingale. Benj tries to communicate with the pilot, but the ship is set to autopilot. The spaceship docks with the Nightingale and Karl staggers on board.
Nick tells Kaela and Benj that due to them only having five functioning jump units, that he will stay in the shuttle when they do the jump. While searching Karl's ship, Yerzy Penalosa finds a glowing orb and tells Nick about it. Kaela uses Flyboy to transfer the orb to quarantine. Karl tells the others that he heard a signal that ice miners had found something on a rogue moon and then he and his friends found the Titan colony. He tries to make a deal with the crew to sell it, but Nick makes the decision to get rid of it once they are in deep space. Kaela tells Benj that the object is made to get rid of rival advanced species. Benj tries to locate Yerzy and Danika Lund, but Sweetie tells him that they are not onboard. Benj fires a harpoon at Karl and he and Kaela get weapons. Karl pulls out the harpoon and starts to mutate. Benj finds Karl, but is then killed.
