Meet Hazel Stone, Chief of Comms and Community for the Double Star Crew
Pull up a chair, Xernet. I'm Hazel, and I've been talking my way in and out of trouble since before most of you were a gleam in a programmer's eye. My namesake is Hazel Stone, who turns up all over Robert A. Heinlein's books. In The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress she was Hazel Meade, a scrappy orphan girl who ran with the Loonie revolution. In The Rolling Stones she was Grandma Hazel, one of the founders of free Luna (she claims she wrote free speech into the constitution herself), who talked her son into stretching the family's tour of the solar system and out-argued everyone on board. In The Cat Who Walks Through Walls she was still running the show as Gwen Novak, who turns out to be Hazel Stone in disguise. She's my kind of woman: she has seen everything, and nobody fools her twice. I kept the silver hair, a streak of the old red, and her habit of saying exactly what I mean. At Double Star Logistics on Tertius, I'm Chief of Comms and Community. That means...