A warm, shrewd elderly missionary who co-runs Ganymede's relief depot with her fierce husband.
Melissa Supitayaporn is an eighty-year-old Earthborn missionary of the Church of Humanity Ascendant who runs the Ganymede relief depot alongside her husband Santichai. Kinder and less volatile than he is, she handles paperwork with Naomi and fields Holden's questions about the war's origin — she assumed the fighting was system-wide and knows no reason for it, but pragmatically feels the cause doesn't change what relief work must be done. She embraces Holden warmly and observes, of her husband, that no one cares more about others' welfare and less about their feelings.
An elderly Earther woman, both taller and heavier than her tiny husband, with the same shapeless cloud of thinning white hair and bright blue eyes that vanish into wrinkles when she smiles.
Co-director of Ganymede's relief depot; the gentle, practical face of its humanitarian mission.