Shigeyoshi Inoue is the captain of the Eldridge. His trio of female systems operators struggled valiantly to prevent Deus from taking control of the ship right out from under them but their efforts were in vain. Before Deus assumed complete control over the vessel the captain initiated the ship's self-destruct system and the Eldridge exploded over an uncharted life-sustaining planet free of intelligent life (though it did and still does contain the semi-intelligent creatures known as Chu-Chus). Deus and a single child named Abel managed to survive the ship's destruction, but its crew and colonists perished.