Valeska Orlova

## Family Members

**Husband**: George Gradin

*The End, and the New Beginning*

### Early years

According to Valeska, she had been chosen for Team Leader of Earth Team 1 not just for her exceptional archaeological expertise, but because of her ability to raise money.

Prior to Earth Girl prequels, Valeska had been married twice before. Gradin had asked her to marry him 30 years before, but she said she had to think about it and then married Peregrine.

* Peregrine - a 10 year term marriage
* Vladimir - a 10 year term marriage

Since her marriage to Vladimir had ended 2 years prior to the summer of 2788, she finally decided to accept Gradin's three-decade-old proposal.

The main problem was that Gradin believed in full marriages without term limits and Valeska wanted only term marriages. Since they had both retired from their careers and were looking towards their next phase in life, she decided that she wanted a full marriage at last. Before Valeska's first marriage, she and Gradin had had four three-month Twoing contracts, and therefore was able to immediately marry.

## Summary

### Earth and Fire

While Jarra and Gradin are fighting the wildfire in Athens during "*Earth and Fire*", Valeska directs the pilots and ground fighters on the broadcast channel.

Valeska Orlova, senior team leader of University Earth Archaeological Research Team 1 recently retired before the Earth Girl Prequels and is working on what to do with the rest of her life.

### Earth and Air

During *Earth and Air*, Valeska first helps resolve the problems that Gradin caused when he held Jarra's emergency landing requirements than insists on accompanying them while Jarra has her pilot lessons. It was during the pilot lessons that Valeska tells Gradin that she is accepting his 30-year-old marriage proposal.

During the Fringe Dig Site evacuation in *Earth and Air*, Valeska helps Jarra take care of her young charges at the decontamination center. After Gradin shows up at the same decontamination center, Valeska and Gradin call Earth Registry and fill out the forms to get married immediately.

### The End, and the New Beginning

Prior to the Next-of-Kin memorial service, Jarra discovers that Valeska and Gradin are working with the Military in training some of their officers in archaeology rescue and helping to design new tools.

Valeska attends Jarra's Next-of-Kin memorial service where she aids Jarra with her explanations of how Jarra had become a Next-of-Kin. At the end of Jarra's speech Valeska announces that she had become Next-of-Kin for the second remains that they found near the site and how she performed her own Next-of-Kin duties.

After the ceremony is completed, Valeska makes an announcements concerning the new Xenoarchaeology program, she tells everyone the new team naming convention and presents Jarra with an "Earth Prime" banner. She also goes on to explain about the new advisory teams that will be available to the xenoarchaeologists, the *Earth Angle* teams and that she will be a member of Earth Angel 1.

## Trivia

* She wears a red and white checked impact suit

## See also

* Next of Kin
* Earth Angel 1

## References

### Citations

1. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Earth and Air. Chapter 14. Kindle Edition.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Edwards, Janet. Earth Prime *The End, and the New Beginning* (p. 248). Kindle Edition.

### Bibliography

* *Earth and Fire: An Earth Girl Novella (EGN Book 1)* (2015)
* *Earth and Air: An Earth Girl Novella (EGN Book 2)* (2018)
* *Earth Prime (The Earth Girl Aftermath Stories Book 1)* (2020)