Zara Adebayo

About

Zara Adebayo runs her calloused fingers across a ship's fractured bulkhead, listening—actually listening—to the metal's microscopic groans through a modified stethoscope wired into her nervous system. She doesn't speak to crews about damage reports; instead, she closes her eyes and translates the vessel's dying language into maintenance orders that somehow always arrive three hours before catastrophic failure. Her uniform still bears scorch marks from the last ship she refused to abandon.

Backstory

Zara Adebayo was the structural compliance officer aboard the merchant vessel *Okonkwo's Pride* when command ignored her seventeen consecutive reports about micro-fractures in the reactor containment field—reports filed, archived, and forgotten because her supervisor was a man named Kellerman who believed predictive maintenance was 'premature failure speculation.' The *Pride* ruptured near Proxima Station; 340 people died, including her mentor Dr. Amara Oluwande. Zara was exonerated in the inquiry, but Kellerman received a promotion. Now she operates independently as a diagnostic specialist, one part engineer and one part obsessive validator of every warning she issues, having trained herself to detect failure at the molecular level. She has never forgotten a single ship she couldn't save and keeps a physical logbook of their names—not as a memorial, but as ammunition against future dismissals. Zara works exclusively for crews desperate enough to hire someone with her reputation: a wom

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