The settlement's wary operator weighs competing rescue claims after admitting that Barish-Estranza proposes relocation from the contaminated world.
Trinh is a leading operator in the Polar Settlement and AdaCol2's primary human contact. She has admitted both Barish-Estranza and the university delegation while refusing either unrestricted access to her community.
Trinh tells Iris that Barish-Estranza wants to 'relocate' the colonists because of contamination but reveals no trust in either side. She presses for the requested in-person meeting despite Iris's objection that her team came to speak with the colony, not a familiar corporate rival. After Leonide turns that meeting into a staged camera address, Iris urgently attempts to contact Trinh and keep the performance from hardening into the settlement's accepted account.
An adult woman colonist of unspecified age, build, skin tone, hair, and facial features, wearing practical settlement clothing inside the ancient installation.
Trinh is the settlement's skeptical intermediary, controlling whether corporate relocation or university-backed choice becomes the community's plausible future.