Character Profile: Conductor

The conductor is a rather amusing fellow, informing passengers of upcoming stops and layover times and having to fix his numbered armlet when it slides down his arm every so often. When Tetsuro is surprised by the lengthy stopover announced for Titan, he and Maetel help explain the reason for it (the train stops for exactly one local day). The conductor also explains one of the rules of the three-nine: the train leaves at its scheduled time, not a second later, whether all the passengers have returned or not. At first, it seems like a callousness on the part of the conductor until one realizes that it's a quirk of the train and not him. The conductor's merely doing his job.

Tetsuro turns out to be a source of worry for the Conductor. There was the time Tetsuro shot at the Queen Emeraldas, and later, when Tetsuro asked Emeraldas about the Time Castle, all he could say was, "Oh dear. Oh dear." Yet, the conductor still conducts his business as he's supposed to, though some (like Claire) wish that he would break from his routine just once.