Hydroponics Technician / Argot Advocate — second generation, age 21
Ellie is relentlessly optimistic, viewing the current cycle not as a delaying tactic but as a perfect, sustainable rhythm. She struggles to understand the existential dread that governs the older settlers.
Born directly into the moist, tiered shelves of Aegis Bluff, she knows nothing of the life aboard the ship, having only seen the 'hulk' from afar. She was taught farming techniques by her grandmother, prioritizing local resilience over tech fixes.
She found a handful of unidentifiable, pre-fall seeds buried beneath the old foundation layer near the Cradle Engine.