Snapshot #
Marco "Tex" Tessari is the geophysics specialist for Team B at the Pompeii excavation. A self-described "gearhead," he treats Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) data as absolute gospel. His unwavering faith in technology made him the primary target for Ulysses' data "poisoning" in Volume 2.
Biography #
An Italian technical surveyor, Marco is more interested in signal-to-noise ratios and point clouds than the history of the objects he finds. He considers traditional digging "primitive" and believes the future of archaeology lies in signal processing. During the 2025 season, he was consistently frustrated by his equipment's failure to find major artifacts, unaware that Ulysses was actively manipulating the central server data to hide the Lydian Stone's coordinates.
Roles & Ranks #
- Technical Surveyor: Expert in GPR and subsurface mapping.
- Team B Specialist: Responsible for the geophysics data of Sector 5 for Team B.
Relationships #
- Elena Rossi: His supervisor. He respects her data-driven approach and shares her skepticism of Team A.
- Ulysses: He views Ulysses as a "poet" who doesn't understand "hard math," completely unaware that Ulysses has hacked his own sensor feeds.
- Sophie Laurent: His teammate in Team B.
Key Appearances/Events #
- The Radar Sabotage: He was the one who initially treated the "spiked" data from Sector 5 as a genuine discovery, inadvertently saving Lucia from arrest.