Faurai Rainui

Faurai Felei Rainui ( /fauːɾai ɾajnūːi/, 1998-2064 ) was a Feguan astrophysicist and mathematician renowned for his works on spacetime topologies, and the Kerr-Rainui metric, a generalization of the Kerr metric in toroidal space. His contributions also included computational models for the analysis of gravity assists, which were employed in the Ta'atearoa Program, and a 5-dimension interpretation of a Kerr wormhole pair later known as the Rainui Conjecture, which granted him his second Nobel prize in 2063. He devoted his life to his research, university teaching, and contributions to the Feguan Space Program.

Faurai Rainui Astrophysicist, leader of FAITO Aerospace
Faurai Rainui, as seen in 2056 before a Ta'atearoa first stage.
Director-General of FAITO Aerospace
In Office
2049 - 2064
Preceded by		Maliki Tao
Succeeded by		Tama Rainui
Personal Details
Born		October 3rd, 1998 Fenua-ite-Upo'o, Fegeland
Died		June 21th, 2064 Vaimarata, Fegeland
Nationality		Feguan
Cause of Death		Suicide
Nicknames		The Singularity Sorcerer

Biography

Early life and background

Rainui was born in 1998 in Fenua-ite-Upo'o, a small coastal village near Pihiro Cape, Fegeland. His family was of modest origin, his father officiated as the village's doctor, his mother tending to the house and family cattle. His father, Raumafatu Rainui, had studied medical science at the University of Pihiro, before enlisting in the Feguan Navy. At the age of 37, he left the Navy to open his own doctor's office in his childhood municipality, Pihiro Cape. His mother, Poeani Fereite, born of a family of carpenters and fishermen, suffered a harsh youth in Pihiro, before graduating as a Feguan litterature and linguistics teacher at the University of Pihiro, where she first met Raumafatu Rainui. Both natives from Fenua-ite-Upo'o, they married in the year 1998, shortly before Faurai Rainui's birth. The Rainui family had 3 children, of which Faurai was the elder.

Faurai Rainui attended public primary schooling in Pihiro, where he recalled "having trouble bonding with his classmates" due to his early interest in sciences. He would find a refuge from the turmoils of his school life and family disputes in the municipal library, managed by his aunt. His childhood was otherwise ordinary, only marked by his above-average results and poor social skills. Rainui obtained his BSS (Baccalaureate of Secondary Studies) with honors at the St. Laitea Private High-school and applied to the Pihiruan Institute of Electronics and Engineering, a reputed engineering college. His debuts were however mixed, as he did not find himself compelled by the domain of electronic engineering. Despite positive appreciations from his professors, Rainui resigned shortly into his second semester of his second year, believing that "there was not [his] true destiny, nonetheless a significant milestone in [his] journey".

University and thesis

After working for a local TV repair shop in Pihiro for a summer, Rainui enlisted on the Huturoa Excellency Scholarship program, a funding program operated by the University of Huturoa to attract meritorious mainland students to the island-state. He had spent the best of his time since his resignation at the PIEE preparing the entry exam to the Huturoa Excellency Scholarship program, a time that he recalls "being of the most fruitious in [his] intellectual career". He quotes:

It was in this somewhat mundane repair shop that I spent some of my most industrious days as a young silly head governed by the appetizing mysteries of our universe, and the most lonesome and dire evenings when studying the vapid topics of Economics or Literature. It was, for the Letters, only in History that my mind was able to find fruit to an appetite for the occult. Of the most remarkable individuals I met in my career were two other undergrads working there in this summer of 2019. One was to me an apparent mystery of Nature in his baffling ability to understand at a glance the works of apparently any electronic device that the tenant would throw at his grasp ; his name was Paoa Kahanamoku, a name that I would remember for his elder son, Johan, whom would pursue his PhD under my direction many years later. The other was no less than Rai Maevarau, future Minister of Space and prominent sponsor of the Ta'atearoa Program. It is to him that I owe my recent position at the head of FAITO. A fit reminder of my great-aunt's favorite quote - sometimes a good counter is worth any big title.

Admitted with honors at the University of Huturoa, Rainui there studied physics and mathematics, majoring in Astrophysics and Applied Mathematics, before pursuing a PhD in Astrophysics. Despite being admitted in 2020, he was allowed to join third year classes immediately, on account of his previous years at PIEE and his results at the entry exam, allowing him to graduate with a Bachelor of Physics by the year 2022. He conducted his thesis under the direction of Pr. Shin Tokare, studying 5D brane topologies in relation to Einstein's general relativity and the MWI interpretation of quantum physics. Despite not producing a solution that would conciliate both models, his work served as a substantial foundation for his later work on the Kerr-Rainui metric and the Rainui Conjecture. He defended his PhD thesis with honors in 2026, receiving the title of Doctor es Astrophysics, and a position of titular professor at the University of Huturoa.