Mazer Rackham
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Mazer Rackham is a fictional character in the novel Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card.
Mazer Rackham is a hero who saved humanity from an alien invasion by destroying the buggers' queen during the Second Invasion.
In the novel, Rackham is sent for several decades of relativistic travel and then brought back to train Ender, who is perceived as humanity's next great hope for the Third Invasion.
After the Third Invasion, Rackham is said to be the pilot of the first colony ship to leave earth, but this is revealed to be untrue in Shadow of the Giant. He actually stays behind to assist the I.F..
Mazer Rackham is described in the book as being a half-Maori New Zealander. His name came from Karl G. Maeser who was the first superintendent of Brigham Young University.