civilian
Pop Marquez
Ray "Pop" Marquez — Marisol's grandfather, Alamogordo, NM. Lotaburger cap, small black notebooks.
also known as: Ray Marquez · Pop
About
Ray "Pop" Marquez — retired surface-handler-class, Alamogordo. Lotaburger cap, small black notebooks, locked stove drawer. The midnight-truck-meeting witness's grandfather in story 05. The arc the apparatus negotiates around when his cohort comes due.
Key dates
- Jul 2003 Hosts Marisol the summer of the truck meeting
Appearances
The Book (5)
1. The Summer at Pop's
Pop lives.
3. Marisol at Eighteen
Pop called at noon.
7. Marisol at Thirty-Two
She had stopped in 2016, the year Pop stopped recognizing her at the door and started recognizing her about ten minutes in, which was its own kind of arithmetic she did not want to do in a parking lot with a view.
16. From the Tonopah Notebook
Placed in the slow cohort by Ray Marquez's 2003 negotiation, which I countersigned in October of that year and which I have re-read perhaps fifty times.
17. Marisol at Sixty-Five
She put her overnight bag on the luggage rack and sat down on the edge of the bed and took her knees in her hands for a moment and pressed, gently, the way the physical therapist had shown her, and then she stood up, and her knees did the…
The Codex (1)
4. Maintenance
Ray "Pop" Marquez is documented to have negotiated his granddaughter Marisol into the slow cohort, at some cost to himself; the available record does not reveal on what basis a surface-handler is permitted to negotiate placement, and Pop…
Artifacts (7)
The Summer at Pop's
Pop lives.
Marisol at Eighteen
Pop called at noon.
Marisol at Thirty-Two
She had stopped in 2016, the year Pop stopped recognizing her at the door and started recognizing her about ten minutes in, which was its own kind of arithmetic she did not want to do in a parking lot with a view.
Marisol at Sixty-Five
She put her overnight bag on the luggage rack and sat down on the edge of the bed and took her knees in her hands for a moment and pressed, gently, the way the physical therapist had shown her, and then she stood up, and her knees did the…
From the Tonopah Notebook
Placed in the slow cohort by Ray Marquez's 2003 negotiation, which I countersigned in October of that year and which I have re-read perhaps fifty times.
Convocation Minutes — Pact Standing Committee — Special Session — 12 June 2026
The technician on her file has worked her since '03 — Pop's negotiation, the July he made the introduction at Alamogordo.
The 2014 Core
Her knees pop.