Character from Red Rising by Pierce Brown
Blue pilot genius — born to navigate stars, freed to wage war in them. The Rising's finest helmsman, whose brilliance behind a ship's controls borders on the supernatural.
Orion xe Aquarii is what happens when the Society's Color engineering works perfectly and then the product decides to fight back. Blues were designed to navigate — their brains literally restructured for three-dimensional spatial processing — and Orion is the best of them. At a helm, she is poetry; in a dogfight, she is death. She serves Darrow's fleet with the ferocious loyalty of someone who was born a slave and chose to be a soldier. Her struggles in the later books with trauma and substance abuse show the cost of war on those not bred for it.
Small and compact with the Blue's characteristic pale skin from lives spent in space. Blue-tinged veins visible at her temples — the mark of her Color's genetic engineering. Sharp, quick eyes that process spatial data faster than any computer. Moves with the twitchy alertness of someone used to zero-G.
Also known as: Orion, Aquarii