Stranded on the tidally locked moon of Kepler-186f, she was the last living crew member of the Aegis expedition. The atmosphere outside the habitat was a toxic soup of heavy ammonia, but inside her failing biodome, Aby had one thing keeping her alive: a single, heavily mutated flowering plant she called the . It was an engineering marvel and a biological nightmare:
: Instead of a normal pistil, the center was a thick, fleshy chamber that acted as a natural air scrubber. PodFlower.Aby_Sekara.1.var
The salvage crew found the biodome centuries later. There was no human body. Stranded on the tidally locked moon of Kepler-186f,
"Day 1,402," Aby’s voice echoed in the audio layer of the file. It was dry and paper-thin. "The oxygen scrubbers are dead. The mechanical ones, anyway. I’ve wired my biometric harness directly into the PodFlower’s root bed. We are trading." The salvage crew found the biodome centuries later