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Fringeworlds - Chief's Mate of the Rey Luis
by Cassandra Fortuna
burnout witch thing
Posted a year ago
A new character, part of an emerging minor cast in the setting. Londa Giaever, aged 47, hails from the interstellar logistics hub of Tîwaz Station (located in the Yggdrasil system).
Her story's that of any Spacer, regardless of their location in the Diaspora or the peculiarities of their subspecies: she grew up learning the essentials and importance of maintaining the Habitat, grew restless in her teenage years, and signed on with the first ing ship that needed to fill a bunk.
From there, Londa progressed from apprenticeship, to rating as a proper technician, and then finally to acting as Second-in-Command of a whole Engineering team as she jumped from crew to crew and steadily drifted tens of light-years from her star of birth.
She signed on with the Rey Luis three years ago, now. In that time she's become steadfast partners with the ship's trauma surgeon, Maaz Auf.10-T4, and solemnly taken on the role of mentor to the next generation of nomadic Spacer technicians.
She doesn't quite miss Yggdrasil, but it's difficult to ignore being a demographic rounding error in a sea of baseline humanity as the parsecs pile on. It's even more difficult to ignore that the primary drive behind her bond with Maaz is built on a shared suffering and acceptance of the chronic health issues associated with what some would call slap-dash genetic engineering schemes over the course of generations.
They make it work, because the Spacer's way is ultimately to find meaning at the end of reason.
Her story's that of any Spacer, regardless of their location in the Diaspora or the peculiarities of their subspecies: she grew up learning the essentials and importance of maintaining the Habitat, grew restless in her teenage years, and signed on with the first ing ship that needed to fill a bunk.
From there, Londa progressed from apprenticeship, to rating as a proper technician, and then finally to acting as Second-in-Command of a whole Engineering team as she jumped from crew to crew and steadily drifted tens of light-years from her star of birth.
She signed on with the Rey Luis three years ago, now. In that time she's become steadfast partners with the ship's trauma surgeon, Maaz Auf.10-T4, and solemnly taken on the role of mentor to the next generation of nomadic Spacer technicians.
She doesn't quite miss Yggdrasil, but it's difficult to ignore being a demographic rounding error in a sea of baseline humanity as the parsecs pile on. It's even more difficult to ignore that the primary drive behind her bond with Maaz is built on a shared suffering and acceptance of the chronic health issues associated with what some would call slap-dash genetic engineering schemes over the course of generations.
They make it work, because the Spacer's way is ultimately to find meaning at the end of reason.
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