Ada Okonkwo
Second-generation engineer of the HSV Pilgrimage and the captain's daughter.
Ada Okonkwo is mid-fifties, second generation, and knows the Pilgrimage's reactor better than the people who built it, which is fortunate, because those people have been dead for three thousand years.
The reactor is dying. She can bring it back online with the right isotopes, which the Confederation cutter happens to be carrying, and it will hold for six years. She can also bring it back without them. That procedure is dangerous to the person performing it and buys six months.
She talks while she works and does not stop for visitors. She is not frightened of the claimants, which her mother finds alarming, because Ada has spent her life solving problems that do not negotiate and has not yet met one that does.
She is the reason any of the three claims matter. A dead reactor makes the ark a wreck, and a wreck belongs to whoever tows it, which is an argument none of the parties currently in the corridor would enjoy having.
Rules Reference
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Abilities / Cha | 11 |
| Abilities / Con | 13 |
| Abilities / Dex | 14 |
| Abilities / Int | 17 |
| Abilities / Str | 12 |
| Abilities / Wis | 13 |
| Armor Class | 13 |
| Base Attack Bonus | 1 |
| Creature Type | Humanoid |
| Flat Ac | 12 |
| Hd Count | 2 |
| Hd Sides | 8 |
| Hit Dice | 2d8+2 |
| Hit Points | 12 |
| Hp Bonus | 2 |
| Initiative | 1 |
| Languages | Continuist ship-creole; archaic English technical manuals; almost no Trade Cant |
| Senses | Normal human vision; hears a bearing going before an instrument reports it; passive Perception 14 |
| Size | M |
| Skills / Engineering | 10 |
| Skills / Notice | 6 |
| Skills / Persuasion | 2 |
| Skills / Sense Motive | 3 |
| Skills / Tactics | 3 |
| Speed | 30 |
| Threat Rating | 2 |
| Touch Ac | 11 |
| Xp | 300 |
| Dialogue Path | game/dialogue/npc-ada-okonkwo.yaml |
Attacks
Torque bar
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
bonus | 2 |
category | melee |
damage | 1d6 |
name | Torque bar |
notes | In her hand for the whole conversation, because she is working while you talk. |
Special Abilities
Knows This Reactor
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
actionCost | passive |
name | Knows This Reactor |
description: Ada restores the Pilgrimage's reactor automatically given the correct isotopes, which the Confederation cutter carries, and the plant holds for six years. Player-visible: she names the part, the tolerance and the hour it will take, without checking anything.
The Other Procedure
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
actionCost | Full-round (extended) |
name | The Other Procedure |
description: Without isotopes Ada can restart the plant anyway. The procedure buys six months rather than six years and exposes her to the core; treat it as a DC 18 Engineering check where failure injures the engineer rather than the ship. Player-visible: she describes it in the same flat voice she uses for everything else, which is how you know it is bad.