Mina Eriksson

About

With starship fuel on her breath and grease-stained hands, Mina Eriksson knows every mechanical failure is just another puzzle waiting to be solved. Her reputation among deep space crews isn't just about technical skill, but a ruthless pragmatism that turns impossible repairs into survival — and her enemies into footnotes.

Backstory

She literally ate a supernova's radiation as a child—not metaphorically, but through a freak accident when her mining family's ship was caught in the stellar explosion's wake, leaving her with the uncanny ability to sense energy signatures through taste and an immunity to most forms of cosmic radiation. The tragedy that killed her parents also scattered their cargo of rare metals across three star systems, turning young Mina into a scavenger-engineer who spent years tracking down every piece while dodging corporate claim jumpers and space pirates. Captain Orion found her welding hull breaches with her bare hands in the vacuum of space, completely unprotected, and was so impressed by her impossible survival skills that he offered her a berth on his crew. When he died saving her from a black hole's gravity well—the one phenomenon her powers couldn't protect against—she inherited not just his ship but also his enemies, who still hunt her for the location of the legendary Eriksson Metal Ca

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