About
XO of ISV Palisade at open, and the ranking lawful authority among the twelve survivors after the catastrophe. Her competence is watch organisation, discipline, damage reporting, succession, and making an exhausted crew continue to function without pretending morale is a resource gauge. After the wreck she does not surrender command to Sarah Bishop. In function: "Bishop, you own the geometry." Rourke owns the people and the lawful decisions.
XO of ISV Palisade at Book 1 open, and the ranking lawful authority among the twelve survivors after the catastrophe. Her competence is watch organisation, discipline, damage reporting, succession, and making an exhausted crew continue to function without pretending morale is a resource gauge.
Career
Book 1 open: Commander / XO, ISV Palisade. - Book 1 catastrophe → survivor seniority; lawful command of the twelve. - Book 2–Book 3: commands the Nhál passage vessel by explicit agreement. - Book 4 chapter 4: survives the passage-vessel loss; rescue/retrieval command. - After Book 2: returns to line service and receives a ship before Sarah does.
Off the page
Halifax-born; divorced; an adult daughter in a Lunar civil-infrastructure apprenticeship whom she contacts affectionately and irregularly. requires her lawful seniority be maintained in Book 2 whether or not she is on the page.