ZoeC02
Design and invention — the problem solver
- Age at landing
- 26
- From
- Australian of Greek family, from Melbourne
- Before
- Mechanical design engineer; built competition robots
- Main skill
- Mechanisms: levers, gears, linkages, clocks, vehicles
- Other skills
- Drawing, mathematics, climbing
- Personality
- Fast, restless, funny and blunt. Thinks by building.
- Strength
- Sees the simple fix that nobody else sees.
- Flaw
- Impatient with caution and with slower people. Skips testing.
- Wants
- To see a wheel turn by itself before she is forty-five.
- Story arc
- Learns that the tested machine is the fast way, after one of her shortcuts hurts someone.
- In year 50
- Alive, aged 76
- First partner
- Adam, from month 22
- Leads phases
- 15 Railways, steam and electric cars, the power grid
- Helps in phases
- 07 Carpentry, the village, measures and writing
09 Water, wind and mechanical power
12 Precision and machine tools
13 Steam power
Zoe and Adam
After her log sledge runs away down the slope, with nobody hurt, Zoe expects Adam to shut her out. Instead he asks her to design its brake. They have argued in council for two years; the camp saw it coming before they did.
She pushes for speed, he for safety. She will not be "the leader's wife" and still votes against him.