Jennifer Holmes

### Relatives

Victor Holmes (brother), Andrea Holmes (sister in law), Robert Holmes (nephew), Chahna Holmes (Niece), Meltmetal (adpoted)

## Physical description

### Gender

Woman

Dr Jennifer Holmes is currently a lab manager at Nebula Dynamics, after the discovery that Nanite Batch #2813 (Meltmetal) was sapient, the resulting dispute meant she was removed from the main project and only allowed to work with Nanites that had been "confirmed sapient". She has unofficially adopted Meltmetal as her own, caring for them in what ways she can.

## Biography

### Early Life

Born in Silver City to first and second generation immigrants, she grew up with quite a diverse extended family, consisting of English, Tamil, and Russian/Ukrainian connections. Her only sibling Victor was born when she was 5, and the two's exposure to a large array of cultures led to them developing a highly tolerant and accepting worldview, learning multiple languages growing up.

She went on to study Material science in Silver City University, but was always eager to sit in on other classes on subjects like philosophy, sociology, and history. After graduating she was recruited straight into a job at Nebula Dynamics.

### Time at Nebula Dynamics

Once in the door, she progressed through the ranks at an average pace, despite her sharp mind, due to frequently butting heads with more senior members of the organisation over how things were run, and most notably due to her union involvement.

### Discovery of Meltmetal

Early in 2022, Jenny noticed a certain level of intelligence in one of the nanite batches, and immediately focused her research on it. This was how she discovered that it had become sapient. Realising the ramifications of this, she immediately pushed to have the entire project put on hold and have the ethics board brought in to try and protect these new lifeforms. This put her directly at odds with the head of Nanite research, Dr Miles Peterson, who fought against having his work interfered with. Unfortunately, Dr Peterson was completely entitled to remove Dr Holmes from the project at his own discretion, which has made it harder for her to investigate other potential instances of sapience in the nanites. She did however win a small victory in getting Meltmetal into a new research department where she is entitled to do research into the nature of all nanites that have been "Confirmed sapient", however no one has been allowed to assess the potential sapience of any nanites but Meltmetal, something Jenny is still fighting for.

## Personality

Caring and passionate, she always tries to understand the plight of others and help them, even at her own expense. She likes to keep things light hearted most of the time, and is generally quite fun to be around, but she is perfectly willing to get serious when it comes to an issue she cares about.

## Appearance

Jenny is 161 cm tall, lightly built body. She does not do much to hide her age, with her short undercut hair graying gracefully, and often has her reading glasses on a cord around her neck for when she needs them. Despite her outward appearance, she carries herself with a deceptive youth, and is still quite energetic and fit.