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Captain of the flagship Natural Selection, born in space — the first commander to have her ship stolen out from under her by a hibernated commissar she could not test for defeatism.
Dongfang grew up in a culture of victory. The Mental Seal scandal aged her overnight: her own loyalty became suspect because it could not be verified, and she was relieved of command for failing to detect the defeatist she had no instrument to detect. She is competent, proud, and unprepared for Zhang Beihai — a man whose performance of orthodoxy is more polished than her actual orthodoxy. After his theft of the ship she follows him into deep space, and in the end she is the one who proposes the Battle of Darkness.
A tall woman of the post-Crisis space-born generation, noticeably longer-limbed than the hibernators around her, hair cropped short for the helmet seal, the easy grace of someone raised in low gravity. Dress whites with the captain's pin.
Also known as: 东方延绪