Species: Human
Birthplace: Mars
Rene Fleming is a Martian-born scientist specializing in xenobiology and early xenoarcheology. A member of the exploratory mission to Zeta Reticuli chronicled in “The Nodes,” she witnesses the horrifying absorption of Bernard Botaki by a Yedevan biological node—an encounter that leaves lasting psychological scars. Despite the trauma, Fleming remains clear-headed enough to consider her future beyond Earth’s increasingly authoritarian control.
Following her return from the mission, Fleming plans to join Adam Hogarth and others in emigrating to Etrusca, a newly independent world founded by Marcus Dazar and Tol Germanicus. Ambitious and pragmatic, she intends to establish the Botaki Institute of Non-Humanoid Studies, honoring their fallen comrade and continuing the study of alien life free from Earth’s political interference.
Appearances: “The Nodes“