BELLA SWAY – Moonhaven – Emma MacDonald
Bella is a pilot shuttling cargo and people between Earth (where human civilization is in its death throes) and the Moon, specifically a 1300 square kilometer colony called Moonhaven, a multi-generational think tank tasked with solving Earth’s problems, both social and technical. Bella also smuggles things, and at the start she is a cynic and a skeptic, but after being drawn into a murder investigation, and aided by a half-sister she knew nothing about, she gradually comes to recognize the value of the seemingly loony Moonhavenites. Some things about Bella are never explained, the main one being her apparent fondness for French culture. The first bit of music she plays in the first episode is “Ne me qitte pas“, by Jaques Brel. The book she is reading when we first meet her is Antoine Saint-Exupéry’s “Night Flight“. Since there will be no second season, we may never know about those things, or exactly why, many years ago, her mother moved to Moonhaven, and died there.
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