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Jerome Baldino (or simply Baldino) is one of Twinsun's most notable inventors and scientists. Among his inventions are the Proto-Pack, Twinsun's first prototype space ship, and a portable radio device.
He used to live in Proxima Island, but has since moved to Desert Island.
Role in Twinsen's adventure
Twinsen first met Baldino during his first adventure, while Baldino was still living in his Proxim-City residence. By giving him the rheostat from a Hair Dryer he had bought earlier, Twinsen helped Baldino create the experimental Proto-Pack. In return, Baldino asked Twinsen to take the Proto-Pack for a test run, and even payed him to do so. Baldino even allowed Twinsen to keep the Proto-Pack for the rest of his adventure.
During the time between FunFrock's fall and the beginning of Twinsen's second adventure, Twinsen and Baldino became close friends. For unknown reasons, Baldino moved to a house on the newly populated Desert Island, where he continued his researches.
Due to Twinsen and Baldino being friends, Baldino sought to help Twinsen whenever he could. When Twinsen's car broke down, Baldino gave Twinsen a car part which was needed to fix it, to Zoé's request. Soon after that, Baldino gave him a portable radio device, which enabled him to communicate with him and with Zoé.
Due to his inquisitive nature, Baldino used his powerful telescope to research the Esmer activities on Emerald Moon. While Twinsen visited Zeelich for the first time, Baldino used a space ship he had secretly built to fly to Emerald Moon, to discover the Esmers' demonic plan. Because of his discovery, the Esmers captured him and kept him in prison. Before leaving for Emerald Moon, however, Baldino remembered to leave Twinsen the Proto-Pack, just in case he might need it.
Using the radio, Baldino was able to tell Twinsen all about the Esmers' plan, just before he was captured. He prompted Twinsen to steal a shuttle from the Secret Esmer base on Desert Island, and use it to fly to Emerald Moon. Of course, Twinsen obliged to his request, and soon busted Baldino out of prison. After their escape, Twinsen and Baldino used Baldino's ship to fly to Zeelich to destroy the control center of the moon reactors on Island CX. Unfortunately, they didn't have enough fuel, which caused them to crash on Zeelich.
Baldino spent most of the time on Zeelich on fixing the crashed space ship. He asked Twinsen to retrieve some gazogem, a powerful fuel produced on Zeelich, which will enable him to repair and refuel the ship for their voyage home. Despite Twinsen's reluctance, as he was already in a hurry to find Island CX, Twinsen agreed. After getting the gazogem, Baldino was able to transform the rather weak Proto-Pack into the much better Super-Jetpack, which allowed Twinsen to fly higher and reach places he hasn't reached before, such as the Upper City of Otringal.
During FunFrock's final face off against Twinsen, Baldino saved the children of Twinsun from falling into the lava under Dark Monk's Statue (Unbeknownst to Twinsen and FunFrock, who thought the children have fallen to their doom). Baldino then took Twinsen and the children back to Twinsun.
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