Daedalus : Xand

revised 2011.04.09 at 18:59

A pink-haired mechanical genius with a full complement of prosthetic limbs (one "bolt-on," three high-quality synthetics) and no memory of her first twenty years, Xand is West's flight engineer. A non-terrestrial human with a talent for software, electronics and languages, Xand finds exploring Terran culture to be an entertaining change of pace from the endless drudgery of routine maintenance.

As her skill set has a broad overlap with Greg's, one of the two typically stays in Australia to "mind the store" while the other is out providing support aboard the Daedalus.

First appearance : The Dualist, Convergence.

Production Note : West mentions in The Dualist that he found Xand in a garbage bag near a space station drydock. Her blank past and bionic parts combine with Grij's vaguely worded invocation of The Colonial Authority Corporate Interests And Espionage Act to form the seeds of a sub-plot that could be realized if ATC enters "series" production.