Jackie's Questionnaire

Jackie lives in a small office attached to a large Agricultural Unit which includes a cot and a few other essentials. This is meant to be the office for the AU's supervisor, and then for them to have actual living quarters elsewhere - the included facilities are meant for staying a night if needed, as opposed to using them as a full-time living solution like Jackie is doing.

She takes her showers in the common area of the AU, which includes locker facilities for staff. She lives there because to her, this work is her life. She needs to ensure the plants are taken care of, that nothing goes wrong with the staff or the grounds.

Jackie's money is her stipend for supervising an entire Agricultural Unit and the relevant staff - thus, she spends most of it on research and development, facility upkeep and upgrades, as well as under the table payments for plants that have not yet passed all of the safety regulation tests - from increased yield to strange side effects when ingested.

So, she makes a lot more money than she usually has left in her monthly budget for her own spending - only a small amount is kept for herself after she makes sure her people and her facility is properly taken care of.

There is no nobler goal than feeding the people of the Odysseus - all of the people of the Odysseus. Ensuring that everyone has everything they need to survive is worth anything. She has given of herself to the ship before, and will do again if she is called upon to do so. Defending herself if needed, as much as she needs to, but... No killing aside from that.

And yes, giving of herself includes her death, if needed. As long as it would help keep the ship and its people alive and together.

Of course, the only thing better than alive and together is thriving - becoming better than they were before the split, all having not just enough but a surplus. She dreams of the day she can help achieve that.

Jackie was the major donor of DNA material for the Jack F series. She wasn't sure that she wanted to, but her husband convinced her that it would be one of the better ways to contribute to the ship's continued survival, since she would be a sort of mother to a large part of the next generation.  The issue with that plan, of course, is obvious in hindsight. The facility was located on Cylinder Four. So instead of being a mother to hundreds, she is mother - and wife - to none.

Well, except for her plants, of course. And her staff.

Herb. Older than Jackie by an order of magnitude, strong against all adversity, providing food even after all this time. Her rock. Well, tree, really. Herb is what Jackie calls the giant citrus tree at the center of her Agricultural Unit. It is gigantic, and has hundreds of different citruses growing on it that have been transplanted as the years have passed by. It is a metaphor for all that she hopes to achieve, and also her best friend now that there's no one else to listen to her.

Prim is what Jackie calls Harper Telprim, her second in command. Prim on account of her incessant neatness in all things - quite unlike Jackie herself. She is, however, the only person Jackie trusts to take care of things in her absence.

They haven't spoken in a long time now, but... Emma Davis. She was always a little off her rocker, but Jackie always respected her expertise. Shame what happened with her.