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Caleb is the fifth love interest inLove And Deepspace. Those of you who have played through the main story may wonder how Caleb could return after such an explosive exit. The details surrounding Caleb’s return are shrouded in mystery and intrigue, but one thing remains clear: Caleb is back and here to stay.
Caleb has been a life-long fixture in the MC’s life and has been by her side through thick and thin. His homecoming brings high emotions, narrative intrigue, and excitement to the main story. No matter where his story leads, it’s certain to be full of twists, turns, and tears.
Updated on Jul 24, 2025, by Eva Csaki:We returned to this guide to add Caleb’s main story and first myth content, as well as other information about him from his character release.
This article contains spoilers for the main storyline and Caleb’s Myth memories.
Who Is Caleb?
Caleb is the MC’slong-time childhood friend. Fourteen years ago, after theChronorift Catastrophe of 2034, Caleb and the MC wereboth orphanedthrough as-of-yet-unknown circumstances. At this point, Grandma (or Gran, as Caleb calls her),takes in both children.
TheMC was around seven or eight years oldwhen their’Grandma', Josephine, took them in, butCaleb is a few years olderthan the MC and is25 years oldwhen introduced in the main storyline.
Caleb is thesecond tallestof the love interests atsix feet two inches(or about 188 cm) tall. He hasdark brown hair and lightvioleteyes. His Evol is Gravity Manipulation.
Before Caleb was officially announced as a new love interest, some theorized that he would become one because of hischaracter model’s ‘galaxy eyes.‘While not a scientific approach, this methodmay help identify future love interestsin-game before they are officially announced.
Caleb’s birthday isJune 13, making him aGemini.Past birthday eventsbegan arounda week beforethe character’s actual birthday, so his event will likely begin around June 6.
Caleb is available as a love interest and companion character after completingEpisode Three of Vanishing Skyward.
Caleb’s Past
Caleb has been by the MC’s sidethe longest of the love interests,since he haslived with the MC since they were both children.The pair wereraised by Josephine— a former scientist with Ever — who adopted the two as her grandchildren.
Caleb, like the MC, ischildhood friends with Dr. Zayne. He even suggests inviting him over to a family dinner.
After graduating from school inSkyhaven, Caleb entered the military as afighter pilot in the Deepspace Aviation Administration (DAA)- a prestigious andhighly secretivemilitary organization.
During his time in flight school, Caleb did not see his Gran or the MCfor several months at a time.
Before leaving for flight school, the MC gives Caleb asilver necklace with an apple charmand the words’When U Come Home’engraved on it. He is seen wearing this necklace when he is introduced inChapter Fourof the main storyline.
Caleb’s Anecdote
A rare window intoCaleb’s life in the DAAis opened in his Anecdote story, Pathless Realm. The Anecdote reveals that despite what the MC and their Grandmother believe,Caleb never actually graduated from Deepspace Academy.
Pathless Realm takes place duringCaleb’s DAA exams. While Calebexcelled in all physical evaluationsand never lacked the determination to be at the top of his class, hebarely passed his psychiatric evaluationand was recommended to speak with a psychiatric professional based on his test scores.
The reason Caleb failed his psych eval is never explicitly stated, but it very likely had to do with hisattitude toward deathand the unconventional reason he wanted to become a pilot.
For his final Flight Exam, Caleb was thefirst studentin his class sentinto the Deepspace Tunnel. Despite his flight path only consisting of previously explored areas of the Tunnel, Caleb encountered anunidentified electromagnetic radiation fluxand his ship wasthrown off course, resulting in the loss of his navigational system and comms.
Set adriftin the dark, unexplored expanse of the Deepspace Tunnel, Caleb is unable to return home. On the ground, his classmates and professors fear he has died, but send out arescue missionon the off-chance that he found some way to survive.
One week later,Caleb crash landson a floating island near Skyhaven, bloodied andseverely injured. He’s taken to the hospital and, after one month, makes amiraculous full recovery. It’s unclear if the unrecognized electromagnetic radiationaffected his recovery in any way.
Despite surviving a harrowing ordeal,Caleb does not tell the MCabout his unintended voyage into the unknown or his severe injury.
Caleb admits to one of his fellow DAA students that while he was adrift in the cold dark of the Tunnel for days, he eventuallychose to give up and accept his inevitable deathby turning off his rescue beacon.
He also admits that even though he had given up,he was deeply terrified of dyingand being separated from the MC. Once he is discharged from the hospital, Caleb returns home early, intending to surprise the MC.
Despite being glad to have survived,Caleb suffers from dissociative amnesia and recurrent nightmares. He was put on prescriptionpainkillers and sedatives. It is implied that Caleb stopped taking these medications as there was a risk of dependency. Caleb’s dreams and amnesiaworsenedafter returning home.
Dissociative amnesia is a type of amnesia that causesmemory lossand may make a person forget personal information and events. This type of amnesia issometimes the result of a traumatic experience.
Since Caleb completed his final flight assessment, hedid not officially graduatefrom the Academy. He was listed as asecondary candidatewho would graduate upon retaking and passing his final flight exam. Henever toldhis family.
Rather than take his flight exam a second time,Caleb submitted a transfer requestto another organization. Though not explicitly stated, it is assumed that hetransferred to the Farspace Fleet. He no longer believed that being a Deepspace Pilot was his true path.
No one knowswhat Caleb really experienced in the Deepspace Tunnel.
Main Story
Caleb first enters the main story in’Family,’ Episode One of Chapter Four,when he contacts the MC, letting her know that he is coming home. He then surprises her byshowing up a day earlyfor a family dinner with their Gran.
When the MC’s hunter watch goes off at the dinner table, alerting her ofpossible Wanderer activityin the area, she makes a speedy exit. Sensing something may be wrong,Caleb goes with her.
When the pair return home,Caleb enters the housewhile the MC waits outside. Surprising players and characters alike, anexplosion destroys the housewhen Caleb enters, leaving nothing but thenecklace the MC gave Caleb,and a smoking pile of rubble, behind.
After the explosion,Caleb and Gran are presumed dead,and the MC vows to find the villain behind the attack so that she can take her revenge.
Caleb’s Evol isgravity manipulation. He uses his Evol totake the necklacefrom the MC’s hands in a flashback.
Homecoming Wings
Caleb makes his shocking return in Homecoming Wings, his main story branch. After being dispatched to Skyhaven to investigate anexplosion similar to the one that destroyed her house, the MC impersonates a Farspace Fleet soldier and infiltrates their ranks.
The MC’s goal is to uncover the location of amissing boynamed Kevi, whose twin sister, Mia, was badly injured in the explosion. The MC follows a strange trail of clues to the headquarters of the Farspace Fleet, whereshe learns that Caleb is aliveand is now Colonel of the Fleet.
Caleb may havealready joined the Fleetbefore returning in Homecoming Wings, as suggested by his Anecdote story.
It becomes clear thatCaleb is hiding thingsfrom the MC and that hechanged a great dealfrom the sweet, kindhearted boy she grew up with. Now, he’s avolatile, moody, ruthless Colonelwho has the whole Fleet under his control.
As they spend more time together, Caleb reveals that after the explosion,he was saved and joined the Farspace Fleet. It isn’t until the end of Homecoming Wings that this truth is revealed.
Caleb was saved by a man namedProfessor Lucius. The Professor is a scientist who has beenmodifying members of the Farspace Fleetand experimenting on humans. His experiments resulted in theunintended transformationof humans into power-thirstyWanderers.
Caleb’spersonalityhas made acomplete 180since the MC last saw him. As she conducts her secret investigation into the dark secrets of the Farspace Fleet, she learns thateach Fleet soldier has been modifiedwith a device known as theToring Chip.
The Toring Chip is amind-alteringdevice that cansuppress, override, and erasewhole parts of a person’smemories and personality. It is also sometimes referred to as the’Mind-Control’ chip.
People affected by the Toring Chip are calledMonstersby non-altered members of the Farspace Fleet, particularly theFleet soldiers who refused the Chip. The MC assumes that Caleb’s personality change is theresult of a Toring Chip.
However, when she confronts him about it, the two have a serious argument where Calebinsists that he has always been a gloomy, possessive personunderneath the surface and that the Chip did not alter him, because heno longer feels the need to hidethat deep part of himself.
By the end of the story, theMC forgives Caleb, opting to overlook his behavioral changes because he is themost important personin her life, and she doesn’t want to lose him.
However, what the MC doesn’t know is that Caleb is not just a member of the Farspace Fleet, but is alsoassociated with the organization known as Ever, which has aconnection to the experimentsthat the MC was subjected to as a child.
Caleb has been tasked withinfiltrating the Farspace Fleetat the orders of Professor Lucius and an unidentified, high-ranking member of Ever. It’s revealed that Ever has been looking for the’escaped child’they experimented on years ago and that Caleb has beentasked with finding her.
The escaped child ismost likely the MC, whom Caleb has dedicated his entire life to protecting and whom he is currently keeping out of Ever’s reach.
While it’s unclear what Ever wants with the MC, the story suggests thatCaleb was modifiedto become a tool specifically designed todestroy her. At the end of the chapter, Professor Lucius’s inner monologue explains thateventually, Caleb’s entire neural network will be replaced, making him an unfeeling weapon.
The very last image of the chapter is a poem warning two lost lovers from drinking from theFountain of Atei— one of the mysterious entities Ever is in search of.
Caleb’s Arm
InCaleb: Painful Signal,Caleb finally admits to the MC that after the explosion, Professor Luciusoffered to save his lifein exchange for letting himmodify Caleb’s body. The result was that thebones and musclesin Caleb’s right arm were replaced withcold, unfeeling machinery.
Somehow, Caleb’s arm appears to be normal to others. It’s unclear if this is due toillusion technologyor if his arm iscovered in synthetic skin. When Caleb received his bionic arm, other alterations were made to his body, including theimplantation of a Toring Chip.
Most people who have a Toring Chiplose all or some of their memoriesand personalities. Caleb’s Adjutant, Liam,lost all memory of his wifeexcept for one memory of the moment they parted.
Caleb confesses to the MC that heno longer has sensation in his right armand can only feel pain there, specifically when it is beingrepaired, modified, or when the program is overridden. He mourns hisinability to feel the MCwith that arm.
Caleb’s Myth - Lucid Dreams
The full extent of the Toring Chip’s abilities is revealed in Caleb’spermanent Myth story, Lucid Dreams. The Myth takes placemonthsafter the events of Homecoming Wings.
In the Myth, the MC is dispatched to Skyhaven tooversee the medical evaluationsof new Fleet members. The MC is tasked with assessing the risk of each soldierbecoming a Wandereror being affected byProtocore Syndrome.
The Farspace Fleet, under Colonel Caleb’s leadership, hasassumed control of the Tuum Fleetand all Tuum Fleet members must assimilate into the Farspace Fleet. The MC must inspect each one before undergoing aseparate Fleet-mandated medical exam.
After careful investigation, the MC learns that the Hunter evaluations were a front for a larger, more sinister operation. The subsequent Medical Exam after the MC’s evaluation included a procedure whereall Fleet members must opt to have a Toring Chipimplanted in their body.
Later, the MCsteals an implantation devicefrom Caleb’s office.
The MCconfronts Caleband realizes that all the soldiers whorefused the Chipwere sent away and’disposed of.‘Realizing that Caleb’s new control over the Tuum Fleet puts him atrisk of assassination, she tries to protect him.
Frustrated that she doesn’t understand the full extent of what the Chip is doing to Caleb’s mind and body,she implants herselfwith the Toring Chip she confiscated from his office.
Shortly afterward, the MC and Calebargueon the street.Caleb collapsesafter an extreme emotional response to their argument triggers the Toring Chip anderases his memoriesof her.
The MC, whosepersonality is affectedby the Toring Chip, tells Caleb that she’s themost important person in his lifeand recreates moments from their childhood while his memory is incomplete. Eventually,Caleb comes to his sensesand realizes that the MC has injected a Chip into her arm.
Frantic, Caleb orders asurgical procedureto remove the Toring Chip from her body before it can do irreversible damage.
While the MC is under the influence of the Toring Chip, she exhibitssimilarly overprotective and possessive behaviorto Caleb’s. This may be proof that despite Caleb’s insistence, the Toring Chip fundamentallychanges a person’s personality.
At the very end of the Myth, Professor Lucius examines Caleb to see if he is still under the full control of the Toring Chip. However, while theChip still controls his bionic arm, it no longer has access to Caleb’s memories. Caleb hassealed part of his brainfrom the Chip’s influence.
The Professor and his Enforcer realize thatCaleb’s brain is absorbing and dismantling the Chip’s patrol protocolas if it were being sucked into ablack hole.Desperate toerase Caleb’s free will, the Professor orders his Enforcer tofind another wayinto that part of Caleb’s brain.
The very last lines of the Myth suggest thatsuch a way exists, but not what it is.
Work Life
Caleb was once aDeepspace Pilot in training,but after an accident in the Deepspace Tunnel, he chose not to graduate. Caleb issecretive about his work lifebut admits to the MC that he has completed missions within the mysteriousDeepspace Tunnel.All other details about his work are classified.
Caleb joined the Farspace Fleet at some point after his accident in the Tunnel, but theexact moment is unclear. Shortly after joining the Fleet, Caleb waspromoted to Colonel, replacing an already well-respected officer.
Caleb was planted in the Farspace Fleet as part of Professor Lucius and Ever’s plan toinfiltrate the Farspace Fleetusing the Toring Chip.
Personality
Growing up, Caleb was thepopular kid on the blockand, during his time at the Academy, he was even compared to the Sun, drawing others into his orbit with the gravitational pull of his infectious personality.
Caleb was a kindhearted young man who served as theMC’s main protector.He had a strong sense of justice and frequentlygot the MC out of (and into) trouble.
However, after the explosion that killed his Gran,Caleb’s personality took a turn. His protective nature became more obsessive and possessive than before, making him the game’sfirst yandere love interest.
A yandere character is a character who isloving, gentle, and kindto their lover, but who will not hesitate to maintain or protect their relationshipusing obsessive, possessive, and sometimes violentmethods.
Caleb has aneasy-going rapportwith the MC after years of living together.
The MC has expressed that sheloves Caleb’s cooking, so much so that Gran said she would make him cook for the MC every day when he comes home. Caleb dislikes cilantro but loves apples and apple-flavored foods like apple syrup and soda.
Caleb’s other hobbies include piloting aircraft and fixing machinery. Caleb has astrong understanding of mechanicsand can often be found building, repairing, or tinkering with robots and machinery.
