NadiaC24
Furnaces and metal
- Age at landing
- 27
- From
- Polish, from Katowice in the Silesian steel country
- Before
- Metallurgical engineer at a steelworks; cast bronze as a hobby
- Main skill
- Smelting, alloying and casting
- Other skills
- Testing ores, steel making, the foundry
- Personality
- Intense, driven and competitive, but generous with credit. Lives beside a furnace for days at a time.
- Strength
- Reads slag and flame, and never gives up on a melt.
- Flaw
- Obsessive. Wears out her helpers. Puts the furnace ahead of the people she loves.
- Wants
- To tap liquid iron.
- Story arc
- First copper in year two, liquid iron in year twenty-two, steel by the ton in year forty-three.
- Dies
- Year 46, aged 73. Of age, three years after her steel by the ton.
- First partner
- Viktor, from month 18
- Leads phases
- 10 Blast furnace, coal, cast iron and rolling
- Helps in phases
- 04 Clay, kilns, charcoal and lime
05 Copper and bronze
06 Iron and steel
12 Precision and machine tools
15 Railways, steam and electric cars, the power grid