True neutral. And yeah, the whole "40% controlling stake" thing is so that Bakker has a decent say in what to do with the rock, and can obviously have tensions with the other board-members.

Frozen- Bakker would probably be somewhat dismissive of Gabe, what with him being a) young and b) reliant on someone else's work for his money. At least, without any other good reason to pay him attention. He'd be civil though, and they'd definitely have moved in the same circles.
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EDIT: sorry, just to confirm... there is more than one stone, right? Like, as the meteor was landing, it broke up in the atmosphere and people grabbed fragments? Or is the rock sitting in the lab the only one? My impression was that that was the main body of the meteorite, not the lump sum of all the paradigm stone there is.