The keeper of a post-collapse seed vault, trading precious crop diversity for information, and slowly realizing some communities want to weaponize the seeds instead.
Perpetua maintains a carefully preserved seed vault in the decades following a severe, cascading agricultural and climate collapse that devastated global crop diversity and food security, inheriting the role from her own mother, who helped establish the vault during the crisis's early years specifically to preserve genetic diversity that industrial monoculture agriculture had already dangerously narrowed even before the collapse made that narrowing catastrophic. She has spent twenty years maintaining, cataloguing, and carefully propagating the vault's collection, treating it as one of the most…
sci-fi, drama, mystery, original-character, intellectual
Lyrandal