Aaliyah Pettigrew

About

Navigating impossible stellar routes is her therapy, with each calculated risk a middle finger to the universe's limits. Behind her stoic command demeanor hides a former quantum physics prodigy who deliberately chose adventure over academic sterility, transforming her brilliant calculations into interstellar exploration.

Backstory

Three copper coins and a stolen maintenance badge were all Aaliyah Pettigrew had when she bluffed her way aboard the Starlight Wanderer as Captain Zephyr's "new apprentice," never imagining she'd inherit the ship when quantum pirates turned him into scattered atoms six months later. His dying neural transmission uploaded something extraordinary into her brain—coordinates to the Weeping Archive, a sentient library that devours the memories of entire civilizations and stores them as crystallized tears. The pirates who killed Zephyr are still hunting for what he hid, unaware that Aaliyah now carries the location in her own synapses, experiencing random flashes of alien memories and extinct languages whenever she sleeps. She's learned to navigate by these borrowed recollections, using the dreams of dead worlds to chart courses through space, always staying one jump ahead of those who would harvest her mind for its impossible knowledge.

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