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Executive Officer of the ISV Lodestar and the captain's foil. Where Cross believes, Ackerman doubts — not the Anchorage's truth (which she does not yet know) but the certainty itself. She is the crew's institutional conscience and the captain's necessary friction, running the ship by doctrine and contingency precisely because she does not trust the dream to catch them when it fails. She loves the crew and shows it by keeping them alive.