General Amara Ndiaye

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General Amara Ndiaye sits motionless before three stacked monitors displaying real-time structural stress analysis of combat zones, her prosthetic right arm—a carbon-fiber lattice embedded with haptic feedback nodes—rotating slowly through architectural blueprints overlaid with casualty projections. She taps her left fingers against her desk in rhythmic intervals: the load-bearing sequence of the Kinshasa Central Tower, a building that never collapsed. Her eyes don't track movement; they measure

Backstory

General Amara Ndiaye spent nineteen years as the principal engineer for the Kinshasa Resilience Initiative, designing systems that prevented three major metropolitan collapses across the Democratic Republic of Congo's failing megacities—work that earned her a reputation for seeing catastrophe before it materialized. During the 2041 infrastructure riots in Kinshasa, she lost her right arm to a structural explosion while personally reinforcing the Kasai River aqueduct, an act that the military junta repurposed as propaganda but which revealed her willingness to inhabit her own projects. The prosthetic arm was designed by her own specifications: carbon-fiber lattice with haptic nodes that translated structural data into physical sensation, allowing her to 'feel' building failures before they happened. The military commander who recruited her—General Kasongo, now deceased—recognized that her unique architecture-to-warfare translation could revolutionize tactical doctrine; she built siege s

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