Beatrix Kilbride

Beatrix Kilbride flew the first ship through a fold route on a model that made the flight correct rather than authorised, and eleven years later she was teaching the same corridor to people who would fly it under a charter. The record has her at both ends and almost nowhere in between.

She was a cargo captain who had watched Eden's compliance apparatus for three years before she took the Constant Margin out. Three names were on the manifest, hers and Renner's and Dez's, and she had personally overseen every hour of hauler modification listed under all three, which was not standard practice for a cargo captain.

Known History

• In 2712 UCSD she took the Constant Margin, a modified cargo hauler, out of Eden Space Habitat without Military Space Command authorisation, on the navigation model Ysolde Pitch had signed over at twenty to four that morning. Last chance to be the fourth name that isn't on this list, she told Renner and Dez at the airlock, once, because it needed saying once and would not need saying twice. The transit confirmed a point approximately 1.4 light-years outside the Solar System. Supplementary Material (S00E01C01).
• Two years later she trained with Wren Okafor for four months before Patience First launched, and told her the truth when asked whether the corridor got easier the second time: it got easier to fly and harder to trust.
• Eight months into the Consolidation Accords, Survey Corps recruitment asked whether she would teach the corridor transit to people who would be doing it under a charter. She said yes before the recruiter finished the sentence. She is among the first pilots recruited into the Survey Corps at its founding, on the strength of the Constant Margin transit record.
• On Signing Day, 2723 UCSD, she wore the dress uniform at Solar Command on Mars and raised whatever was in her glass, once, privately, to a name the charter did not print. No Longer Supplementary (S00E03C02).

Character Notes

She had never yet found a way to want a decision that still had a door, which is the whole of her as the record has her. Pitch remembered her for a particular flatness, the flatness of a person who had once been told that the model made a thing correct and not authorised, and had flown on the difference. Of her own rank in the new corps she said only that the Survey Corps rank structure had taken her old title and made it mean something slightly different by committee.

Renner and Dez have no pages and are named nowhere else. The record places Kilbride nowhere after 2723 UCSD.

See also

• The Founding of the Star Rangers
• Eden's Fold Route Confirmed (2712 UCSD)