Wanda Otis is Fenna’s wife, and the captain of the Ayuri. She means well, but lacks practical experience in running a ship.
Let’s do this
So I figured when writing this that I’d want some low-gravity scenes. At first I was going to have it be on an asteroid about the size of Ceres. Then I looked it up and found out that the escape velocity there is less than a normal human walking speed. So I upped it to just over Pluto-sized, and that’s were the “you can’t jump into orbit” line comes from.