Maria Soto
Major Character
Born
b. c. 2180
Origin
Monterrey (printed — Monterrey-rounded, B1 ch4; a meal in Monterrey, B3 ch6)
About
Chief Medical Officer of ISV Endurance. Triage under impossible conditions after the sabotage; nineteen patients in a twelve-bed sick bay by; keeps the comatose Holt alive in the alcove at the back and "staked her arithmetic on it" that he would wake. The ship's quiet moral steadiness once Vance is gone, and the one place the captain can stop performing: she and Sloane share the private-cracks relationship. Comes up the step uninvited "the way only Soto did" with two mugs of something that is almost coffee (chapter 28). Survives the voyage. Her later posting is not printed.
Chief Medical Officer of ISV Endurance. Triage under impossible conditions after the sabotage; nineteen patients in a twelve-bed sick bay by Book 1 chapter 23; keeps the comatose Holt alive in the alcove at the back and "staked her arithmetic on it" that he would wake. The ship's quiet moral steadiness once Vance is gone, and the one place the captain can stop performing: she and Sloane share the private-cracks relationship. Comes up the step uninvited "the way only Soto did" with two mugs of something that is almost coffee (Opening the Span, chapter 28). Survives the voyage. Her later posting is not printed.
Career
2240–~2245: CMO, ISV Endurance.
Relationships
- maya sloane — The private-cracks relationship.
- daniel holt — Her patient; her arithmetic.
- julian mercer — The mugs at the dais foot (chapter 28).