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Kaede carries technical and contamination experience into the careful second contact shaping the polar community's research agreement.
Kaede survived ART's capture and decontamination, then helped analyze the divided lost colony and identified Bellagaia as a likely bridge toward renewed contact. She remained part of the shipboard scientific team during the polar crisis.
After the corporate attack, Kaede joins Iris and Martyn in negotiations with the separatists. The group is not ready to evacuate or reunite with the main colony, so Kaede helps develop the technical foundation for managing the planet as a controlled alien-remnant research site. Her role supports the shift from emergency containment to infrastructure that the inhabitants can govern.
A small adult woman with light skin and yellow hair, wearing clean dark-blue university crew clothing.
Kaede is a university technical specialist and member of the team converting first contact into a safe long-term partnership.
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