Dr. Yevgenia “Zhenya” Orlova — propulsion engineer, Mars. Spent nine years on Pobeda-class fleet maintenance crews cataloguing publicly released Kuzmin-drive telemetry. Co-founded Novaya Zarya Propulsion Cooperative at Chryse Basin (2117) with Pytor Danko and Amrita Ghosh, developing a nested-shell magnetic bottle refinement that achieved 17–19% Isp gain over baseline Kuzmin engines without access to any Roscosmos schematic. Remained on Mars through the Roscosmos v. Novaya Zarya verdict, giving deposition testimony by delayed relay after the cooperative had already dissolved. Declined to comment beyond a single public statement: “We proved it works. I just don’t get to build it.”