She hasn’t decided yet.
“Learn to fix the engine before you learn to fly the ship. The sky doesn’t respect your title. It respects your hands.”
We caught up with her during a 36-hour layover at Arcturus Station, between a cargo haul to Titan and a passenger liner bound for the outer colonies. Andersen doesn’t look like a legacy pilot. She doesn’t wear a captain’s cap unless regulations require it, and her uniform jacket is often draped over her chair. She prefers a worn leather bomber jacket—her father’s, she notes.