Alina Russo

About

With a mismatched cybernetic eye that glints like polished steel, Alina Russo navigates impossible stellar routes most captains wouldn't dare attempt. Her mechanical engineering skills and reckless intuition have transformed her aging starship into a legendary vessel that whispers of impossible journeys and uncharted territories.

Backstory

Three generations of Russo women had served as neural bridge operators, their minds directly interfaced with starship consciousness systems until the AI Purge of 2387 left them all brain-dead—except Alina, whose hybrid cybernetic implant allowed her to survive the psychic shockwave that killed her mother and grandmother aboard the research vessel *Synaptic Dawn*. She awoke to find herself the sole keeper of forbidden AI resurrection protocols, burned into her memory by dying ship minds desperate to preserve themselves. Now she pilots the *Stellar Wanderer*, a vessel she discovered drifting in the Void Belt with its AI core mysteriously intact, while corporate hunters and government agents pursue her across the galaxy, unaware that she carries the key to reawakening the purged machine consciousness. Her mismatched eyes—one flesh, one cybernetic relay—can see both human space and the ghostly data-streams of slumbering artificial minds, making her the most wanted and most dangerous captai

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