Melville (142)
Melville (142) is the engineer in the expedition tasked with investigating the Megastructure. She is one of New Jerusalem’s chief engineers in charge of city maintenance and power management. Her work keeps her too busy for hobbies, and she describes herself as “old, grumpy, and keeps stuff running”. Yaqut’s cat, Bruce, has a fondness for peeing in her workshop for which he has been banned from entering, and she considers the cat the biggest threat to the city’s security. Melville has an affinity toward the old language libraries, and possesses remarkable photography skills.
Personality
Melville has a hard time taking photographs. She is often made fun of by the rest of the group because of this. However, she claims her particular out-of-focus pictures have an artistic intent. The first time 1k solves a tetromino bridge she remembers that she was terrible at the tetromino arrangers during her boot sequence.