| Species | Marionette |
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Observer Lorelli is perhaps the most difficult of the entire Contact Fleet's diplomats, and not just due to the human looks that have now been confirmed to be the result of nanoscuplt. A moderating influence on the Fleet's internal diplomatic politics, she suggested the social affairs that opened a window into the strange new peoples who'd come to humanity's doorstep. Not that it didn't do the reverse, either. Lorelli was a favourite of the press, and proved very capable of handling them. Her connection with Amanda Hawk stems from a similar source as that with Emissary Merizan, but what Envoy Hawk did for the Marionette Observer was vastly more important on a geopolitical level. After agreeing to take part in a process known as the Reverie, Amanda successfully connected to the racial memory complex of the Marionettes, the first alien in the history of their species to do so. The final implications of this connection are unlikely to be known until Lorelli can return home, but the memory she shared was important enough that the two have kept in intermittent contact ever since Amanda left Concordia in the final months of 2121.