Tom Cooper was born in the year 2050 while his father was a 20 year old student at the University of Colorado to Joseph and Lois Cooper. Born in Colorado Springs, but raised in a farmhouse near Lamar, Tom was already set up by the school administration to be a farmer when he was just 15 years old, due to the fact that a college education was now a privilege that was only going to be for just a select few that had test scores high enough for entrance. After his father left to explore new potentially habitable planets in the spring of 2065, he took on the role as the main caretaker of the farm, as his 65 year old grandfather could not do all the chores. Tom had remained at the family homestead and married right out of high school after having met his fiance at the age of 17. The two of them had two boys. Jesse was born in 2075, but died in 2080 from lung disease. Soon afterwards, he and his wife gave birth to a new son, Coop, in 2082. Tom went on to managing the family farm, despite his estrangement from his sister Murph, who lived underground at the NASA headquarters and did not approve of her living in safety with most of the rest of humanity struggling to survive. Tom and his family had left Earth and brought their old farmhouse with them to the newly constructed Cooper Station and had left Earth sometime in the early 22nd century, but he was unsatisfied with the new way of life adjusting to an artificial environment, but reluctantly agreed to come on board, because he was pretty sure he and his family would die on Earth. After a lifetime of farming, even on Cooper Station, Tom had died in the year 2134 at the age of 84, with his wife having died soon afterwards. His son Cooper remained on the station as an agricultural specialist with his wife and children. They were all in the room with his aunt Murph as she was dying and he had seen his uncle Joe Cooper for the first time, but did not exchange greetings with him. Show less «