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Astronomer, businesswoman, and the closest thing Cheng Xin has to a sister — discovered the habitable planets of DX3906, ran the StarRing Group for her, decoded the curvature drive from a soap-powered paper boat, and walked beside her from the Crisis Era to the end of the universe.
AA is loud, loyal, and constitutionally incapable of pretending to be polite when she is angry. She is Cheng Xin's emotional armor — the friend who picks fights with strangers, runs the boring meetings, and tells the truth when no one else will. Her loyalty is not blind; she disagrees with Cheng Xin's pacifism in private and shouts about it in private and then defends it in public. She is brilliant in the sideways physicist way, the kind of person who solves a problem with the wrong household object. She befriends Fraisse, AA-style — by deciding he is family within ten minutes — and stays with Yun Tianming on a black-domain world until they die together.
Small and quick-moving, in her late twenties when first awakened, with cropped black hair, a wide cheerful face, and large dark eyes that go absolutely flat the instant she does math. She dresses in the practical jumpsuits of late-23rd-century professionals and is rarely without a tablet under one arm. She gestures with her hands when she talks. There is a small scar on her chin from the Australia fights.
Also known as: AA, 艾 AA