FarahC16

Chemistry

Age at landing: 26
From: Lebanese, from Beirut
Before: Pharmacist with a chemistry degree
Main skill: Chemistry: lye, soap, acids, salts, distilling
Other skills: Remedies with Grace, black powder, oil refining, rubber, battery acid and plates
Personality: Sharp, elegant and sceptical, with a dry wit. Trusts measurements, not hopes.
Strength: Careful and exact. She has never had an accident.
Flaw: Keeps people at a distance. Scathing with the careless. Lonely.
Wants: A proper laboratory, with glass.
Story arc: More than twenty years of making do with clay pots, then the acids that make batteries possible, and the ether, antiseptics and penicillin that make surgery safe.
In year 50: Alive, aged 76
First partner: Luca, from month 34
Leads phases: 11 Glass, chemistry, petroleum, rubber and cement
Helps in phases: 04 Clay, kilns, charcoal and lime
08 Farming, cloth, leather and household industry
12 Precision and machine tools
13 Steam power
14 Electricity, generators, motors and batteries
15 Railways, steam and electric cars, the power grid

Farah and Luca

After Nadia, Luca swears off pairing. Farah needs a lime kiln, then a still house, then a laboratory, and he builds each one better than she asked.

His jealousy and her distance. He is loud, she is exact.