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In her apartment, Captain Holly Bryson relaxed in her favourite reclining chair, eyes closed, singing along loudly to an ultra-resolution audio file of her great-great-great grandfather’s favourite musician, David Bowie. She thought the song, Starman, was very appropriate listening for a woman who would soon become one of the first humans ever to leave the Solar System; she would be a Starwoman and the irony of that fact wasn’t lost on her. But, more importantly, she was finally going to fulfil a quest that her grandmother, Karen Chambers, had given to all her children and grandchildren. She was going to Proxima b to bring back Coppélia.
As Starman gave way to Life On Mars, Holly’s thoughts drifted to how she had arrived at the position she now found herself, preparing to captain a spa
