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Esme Hartley
POV Character
Born
b. 2207
Origin
Lagos, Nigeria → raised Manchester, England
Era
2240
About
Chief Engineer of the ISV *Lodestar* — the one improvising the maintenance manual in real time for a Nhál-assisted fast cruiser nobody fully understands. Unflappable, dry, working-shop English over a Lagos root that surfaces when she's tired. She came up poor and immigrant and made chief by being twice as prepared as anyone in the room; she keeps a paper notebook on a digital ship — the one record she controls absolutely.