Kai Okonkwo, The Stellar Tinkerer

About

Kai Okonkwo is a relentless engineer who can coax life out of the most battered starship systems, her eyes gleam with a mix of technical brilliance and unyielding determination.

Backstory

Three days before her thirteenth birthday, Kai discovered that starships whisper—not metaphorically, but literally—their quantum cores producing subsonic frequencies that most engineers dismiss as background noise, yet she learned to interpret as desperate pleas for understanding. The revelation came when she accidentally interfaced her neural implant with a dying freighter's AI, creating an empathic bridge that nearly killed her but left her forever changed, able to feel the pain of damaged systems and the joy of perfectly tuned engines. Her parents, legendary engineers themselves, watched in awe as their daughter began diagnosing problems by simply touching hull plating, her gift making her invaluable to crews desperate enough to overlook her youth. When 'The Nebula's Grace' limped into port with a supposedly irreparable FTL drive, Kai placed her palm against the quantum manifold and heard its death song—then spent seventy-two sleepless hours singing it back to life, earning her lege

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