Porte is the skilled mechanic maintaining the space transport vessel Orion. An elderly man with facial hair who often wears a hat, he serves as a grandfather figure to the ship's teenage crew. Professionally adept, he shares a particular affinity with Shingo due to their mutual mechanical aptitude. Porte embodies traits of bravery, confidence, realism, and a capability for winning physical confrontations. He carries the haunting loss of his son, Farlow, who was believed killed in a resettlement ship crash on a satellite, yet Porte maintains faith that Farlow might still be alive somewhere.