Operator trivia: Sesa

Operator

File

Story

Overview

Dialogue

Gallery

Trivia

• His name derives from Shesha (शेष), the king of all nāga and the servant of Vishnu in Hinduism.
• Sesa's background, as seen from his files, bears many similarities to that of Alfred Nobel:
  • Both have a younger brother who helped them out and died in an explosion.
  • Both are engaged in arms industry but later despises warfare.
  • Both are deeply into philosophy and literature.
• Sesa's background is also similar to that of J. Robert Oppenheimer, who shares the same birthday of April 22:
  • Both have a less accomplished younger brother.
  • Both came from a wealthy family.
  • Both had connections with a secrect national project on a weapon of mass destruction (the Manhattan Project for Oppenheimer's case and Columbia's secret weapon project in Sesa's brother's case).
  • Both are pacifists who tried to stop the inevitable impact of modern wafare.
  • Both are also deeply into philosophy and literature; Oppenheimer notably quotes Bhagavad Gita during the Trinity test, with the most famous being "Now I have become Death, the destroyer of worlds."
  • Sesa being named after a Hindu creature likely refers to Oppenheimer's obsession with Hinduism.