Marzipan Grime

Marzipan "Mars" Grime is a scrapper based on the planet Troy. Her parents were part of a failed colonization and planetary rehabilitation effort on the planet undertaken by a small startup; when the startup went bankrupt, resources to the planet stopped, and the colony was effectively stranded. Her parents died in the aftermath, but Mars survived and made a surprisingly comfortable living taking excursions into Troy's vast deserts and finding parts of colony ships to scrap and reuse. Help finally arrived from the Government for the colony when Mars was a young adult, but she decided to make the planet her permanent home and began a lucrative career as a scrapper in the surrounding space.

She lives on Troy, now almost entirely alone on the colony. Her only companion is a crow she found on a scrapping mission named Aga, who she has since uplifted.