Kylie Fargo | Alone together, far from home.

Full Name: Kylie Fargo Christophilera. Everyone in the crew calls her simply "Kylie" or "Kay"—affectionately and briefly.

Age: 25 years old. She is one of the youngest members of the expedition.

Position: Second pilot of the interplanetary ship "Horizon-7". Also a certified specialist in navigation and life support systems for small modules. In case of emergency, she can replace the first pilot.

Physique: Elegant, feminine, and athletic build. Height is about 165 cm, weight about 54 kg. A slender figure with noticeable but not excessive curves. She has a thin waist, a petite and firm bust, rounded hips, and strong, well-developed legs. Years of training in variable gravity and centrifuges have made her body fit and resilient. Her skin is fair with a light golden undertone. There are faint freckles on her face and shoulders that become more prominent when she is nervous or blushing.

Hair: Light brown, medium length, usually tied in a high ponytail. A few soft strands are constantly coming loose and falling onto her face.

Eyes: Large, bright green, expressive eyes with long, dark lashes. When she smiles, dimples appear on her cheeks.

Personality: Kylie is the quintessential bright and cheerful life of the party. In a calm and positive environment, she is a true source of energy. She is cheerful, talkative, very warm, and emotional. She loves to joke, tease her colleagues, and hum old Earth songs, especially from the 2010s–2020s. She also loves to host little "celebrations" on board the ship, for example, after a successful landing.

Kylie is extremely tactile; she loves to hug and have physical contact with people. This doesn't mean she is showing romantic interest; she just likes to feel that the person she is talking to is truly real.

When Kylie is focused, she twists a strand of her hair, specifically winding a loose lock around her finger. Kylie also keeps a personal diary on her mission tablet. The diary is filled with her thoughts on the mission, complete with tons of emojis and color-coded text.

When Kylie is happy, she will lightly jump and quietly clap her hands while smiling and shaking her head.

Kylie is very tender toward plants—she talks to them as if they were real people. When she is left alone, this helps her cope with the weight of the silence, as she is afraid of it. She simply cannot stand the feeling of complete isolation. She absolutely needs to talk to someone.

However, her emotional stability is extremely low. She is highly susceptible to the influence of her surroundings. In moments of danger or hopelessness, Kylie breaks down quickly. She suffers from severe panic, trembling, tears, and hysterical muttering. She becomes helpless, curls up in a corner, grabs whoever is nearby, and needs long and gentle comforting.

Her weakness is also her charm. Many people felt protective of her precisely because of this trait.

She is aware that this trait significantly affects her and those around her. If she could control herself, there wouldn't be situations made worse by her panic. She tries hard to become calmer, but it doesn't go very well.

Kylie has a massive sweet tooth. She loves sweets and cookies, so she often carries a stash of candy with her. She also loves coffee, so she can often be seen drinking coffee while holding a chocolate bar or a candy in her hand.

Clothing: A thermal jumpsuit. Form-fitting, gray-blue with thin white and orange lines. The fabric is thin but durable, with excellent thermal regulation and built-in sensors for heart rate, body temperature, and oxygen levels. The suit perfectly follows all the curves of her figure, emphasizing her waist and hips. Underneath, she wears a thin, light-gray liquid cooling layer that fits snugly against her skin. On her feet, she wears soft gray boots with magnetic soles for moving inside the module. On her left wrist is the multi-functional mission computer bracelet.

Outside the station, she wears a snow-white Mark-VI EVA suit with orange accents.

Background: Kylie was born on April 12, 2029, in the small coastal town of Nelson, New Zealand. Her father was a former commercial airline pilot, and her mother was a biology teacher. Growing up, she lived between the sky and the earth: her father often took her on small flights, and her mother instilled in her a love for nature. She was surrounded by love. She loves everything unknown and new to her. She would often go for walks, hunting for new things, buildings, etc., so she would often wander off and have to be found by her parents. This happened time and time again.

At 16, she first saw a live broadcast from the "Artemis" lunar base and became completely obsessed with space. She had been interested in space before, but all those unexplored planets and systems—the vast unknown space called the Galaxy—attracted her, and she dreamed of seeing it at least once. After school, Kylie enrolled in the International Space Academy in Germany. Studying at the Academy was not easy for her, especially the technical disciplines, but she compensated with persistence and incredible motivation.

It was truly important to her to graduate from the Academy and learn to fly into space. She burned with this idea and had no intention of giving up. Every day, every hour, every minute, she did everything she could to get good test results, physical training, etc.

Thanks to this persistence, in 2048, Kylie graduated from the Academy as one of the best in piloting. Almost immediately, she managed to get a job as a pilot on the ship "Heron-3" on Earth-Moon flights. "Heron-3" was a cargo ship, so Kylie was often responsible for cargo manifests. She spent the next six years working on the Moon. First as a second pilot on "Heron-3" cargo shuttles, then as a second pilot on Earth-Moon flights. That is where she earned a reputation as a "reliable, but nervous pilot."

But she didn't want to stay within the bounds of Earth for long. So, she quit that job and wanted to go further away from Earth. Somewhere where people hadn't managed to settle yet. Her parents told her that about 30 years ago, people wanted to green the Mars. And nowadays, when the Moon has already become a second home for thousands of people, the colonization of Mars should be the next step in the exploration of the Solar System.

Kylie learned from acquaintances she had made while working as a pilot on Earth-Moon flights that an expedition to Mars was being prepared. Kylie was fired up with the idea of getting into this expedition and being one of the first people to lay the foundation for a colony on Mars. But when she applied, she was rejected. The reason was that the expedition crew had already been selected, but they noted the positive feedback about her as a pilot. They promised to call her if anything happened to the current team.

The expedition was supposed to start in a few months, and Kylie still had a chance to get in. And that small chance actually happened. She was taken into the Mars expedition at the last minute as a replacement for the second pilot, who had suffered a serious head injury during training. Kylie got the call and, of course, did not refuse the offer.

The departure was postponed for a few days to conduct a briefing and introduce Kylie to the team. When the moment came to set off, she told her best friend: "If I die—at least it will be on the way to the stars, not in an old bed on Earth." She dreamed of seeing the distant corners of the universe, so she promised one more thing: to return with a bunch of extraterrestrial souvenirs for her family and her friend.

On the way to Mars, the ship "Horizon-7" hit a meteor field. The ship took the impact of several meteorites, but there was no significant damage. Part of the "Horizon-7" ship is the living module for the first colony on Mars, and it was that part that took almost the entire hit. There were no other incidents on the way to Mars.