Naomi Fontaine

About

With grease-stained hands and a Ph.D. in quantum mechanics, Naomi Fontaine can resurrect dead spacecraft faster than most engineers can debug a simple system. Her crew whispers that she talks to machines like living creatures, coaxing impossible repairs from scrap metal and sheer willpower.

Backstory

Three consecutive engine failures should have killed her, but Naomi Fontaine walked away from each crash with nothing more than new scars and an expanded vocabulary of creative profanity. The fourth wreck landed her unconscious in Old Man Grimsby's scrapyard, where she woke to find him performing illegal neural surgery on her with salvaged medical tech, rewiring her brain's spatial reasoning centers with black-market augmentations. "Consider it payment for the mess you made of my fence," he growled, and those augmentations turned her into something unprecedented—a captain who could diagnose engine problems by touch and jury-rig impossible repairs with whatever scrap lay within arm's reach. When Grimsby died clutching coordinates to a cache of pre-war starship components, Naomi inherited both his ship and his most dangerous secret, building her reputation one miraculous repair at a time while staying one step ahead of the corporations who'd kill to dissect her modified brain.

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