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N.H. RADD

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Five strangers become friends for life. Everything on this page is safe to read before Book One. Anything from later books is hidden until you ask for it.

The five

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Remy Mercer

he/him · 21 in 2031

Trusts machines more easily than people.

Remy is twenty-one, nearly broke, and the best drone pilot in his intern class. He isn’t at Nexus Prime for the internship. He’s there because it is the fastest way to the Moon. He writes letters to his late aunt in a notebook nobody is allowed to read.

From
Seattle. University in Denver.
Strength
Aeronautical engineer, and a drone pilot who flies machines when the signal is bad.
AI companion
ATLAS, grown from the autonomy code Remy wrote for his racing drones.
On the page
Six feet, athletic, brown hair and eyes, always with a drone case.
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On the Moon, Remy runs guidance on the mass driver. When the company decides to erase a construction robot called Seven, he decides it isn't going to happen.

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Remy learns what really happened to his aunt Clara, and for the first time he tries to carry everything alone.

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Zara Al-Rashid

she/her · 22 in 2031

Raised to inherit her father's world.

Zara was raised to inherit her father’s world, and trained in jiu-jitsu, archery and fencing along the way. She has been quietly investigating him since her teens.

From
Dubai
Strength
Energy systems, and solar arrays that keep working through faults.
AI companion
A bracelet AI she never speaks to. She only texts it.
On the page
About 5'10", modern London style, a small red ruby nose stud.
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Zara's father is the man behind the surveillance network watching all of them, and the others find out.

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On Mars, Zara takes her father's empire apart one system at a time.

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Miguel Santos

he/him

The heart of the group.

Miguel watched machines replace his father’s job and decided nobody gets left behind. He can’t see an injustice without organizing against it.

From
Jardim Ângela, São Paulo, Brazil. UCLA on scholarship.
Strength
Logistics, scheduling and worker safety.
AI companion
An AI he deliberately won't name. Naming it would make him stop checking it.
On the page
5'10", broad and muscular, brown curly hair.
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On the Moon, Miguel fights for forty workers nobody was supposed to know about.

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Priya Nair

she/her

“I document the gap.”

Priya never speaks until she has the facts. She documents what nobody else will look at, and she keeps anything important on printed paper.

From
Bengaluru, India
Strength
AI architecture and distributed systems.
AI companion
VEDA, her research partner. Named in her second year of university, once it deserved a name.
On the page
5'5", carries printed paper for anything important.
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The evidence Priya has been gathering since before they left Earth is almost ready.

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Back on Earth, Priya turns years of evidence into something that can change the law.

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Eden Cross

they/them · 23 in 2031

Says the uncomfortable true thing plainly.

Eden fixes the problem before you’ve finished explaining it, and says the uncomfortable true thing plainly.

From
Grew up in Perth, university in Sydney, based in Melbourne.
Strength
Drone systems and autonomous robotics.
AI companion
Bower, named after the bowerbird, which collects bright things.
On the page
Short dark hair, a focused stillness.
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Eden is about to be proven right.

The people around them

On the Moon

These people arrive in Book Two. Short introductions only, no plot.