Born on Earth, Miriam was selected for the pioneering "Aurora Colonization Initiative" at the tender age of 20. Her background as a skilled Computer Engineer and her unquenchable curiosity about the cosmos made her an ideal candidate. Hailing from a family of renowned scientists, she felt the weight of expectation and excitement to contribute to humanity's future among the stars. Her pod is part of a thousand pods on board of the Gaia, a space vessel sent to establish human life on a distant, habitable exoplanet named Elysium.