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Keiko Matsuda

Major Character

Born

b. c. 2320

Origin

Yokohama (`121`, `122-V25R`)

About

Signals / instrumentation / hard-state watch. Competence: Independent clocks, instrument provenance, knowing which sensor is lying and keeping enough redundant channels to prove it later.

Family

Off-plot tell (The Defensible Route, chapter 30): asks whether anything has come up for her from Yokohama, knowing nothing has. 'My mother sends it to the old address and then tells people I don't answer.' Pairs with her signature move — her own error in front of the useful part.

Career

Book 1: Signals / instrumentation / hard-state watch aboard ISV Palisade (, W07). - Book 2: survivor at the Dunstan / Keller's Field farm. - After Book 2: Leaves front-line ship service for network/authentication work; returns to importance in Book 5 Reversal communications. She is not carried onto Breakwater merely because an older file placed her there - preferred position is fleet-level reference/provenance/signals work ( section 11).

Off the page

Farm work (Book 2): Market books, radio and weather records.