Dr. Josiah Kepler is the systems-safety representative on the ethics review board for the Cognitive Systems Division established under the Aegis Protocol Charter (2089) at Luna Research Dome 3. His appointment, alongside ethics chair Dr. Aditi Rao and the independently-staffed Recursive Safety Panel, constitutes the redundant oversight architecture designed into the Oracle development programme.
His surname — Kepler — is an apparent historical reference, though no familial connection to the 17th-century astronomer has been documented.