Council speaker and arbitration lead — first generation, age 54

Yusra Idemudia

Council speaker and arbitration lead — first generation, age 54

Personality

Patient in meetings and impatient at home, with a habit of repeating people's positions back to them more clearly than they said them. She is vainer than she admits about her hands, which she keeps unscarred by avoiding the foundry and the racks.

Backstory

She was a junior systems lawyer aboard the ship and arrived expecting to advise, not to govern; the first winter promoted her past her training and she has been catching up ever since. Her partner died of the grey cough in month four and she has not partnered again.

Relationships

• allies with Mira Osanyé on the question of the beacon timeline
• distrusts Halden Yu, whose Beacon Crew lobbying she finds dishonest
• quietly funds Ines Vogt's schooling out of her own ration credit

Story Hook

She has drafted, but not filed, a motion to postpone the beacon by a full local year, and she is waiting for a single vote to swing.