DONNA KARPER
DONNA KARPER — a 15 — CIEX CEO — in relationship with VP Johnson — She has had genetic modifications to retain her looks using the controversial but widely-used genetic age-reversal process perfected by the Chinese — 44 in this 2061 image
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER of CIEX — a 15
Full legal name: Donna Leah Karper (15 letters).
She was born in Bloomfield, Connecticut in 2011.
With a degree in Engineering from Penn State, she joined CIEX's Lunalpha Management Group.
In her early years at CIEX, she managed (from her office in Boston) some (and eventually all) personnel working at CIEX's Lunalpha Station on the Moon.
She instructed young CIEX astronauts Chen Mengsei and Scott Rose to sabotage CIEX's Lunalpha Agricultural Research Unit (ARU). She never admitted this publicly. It is speculated that it was not her idea, but that she was passing along the order from her superiors.
It is unknown whether she asked Scott Rose to overlook the BWS warning modules in the helmets of seven other astronauts working in the Lunalpha ARU at the time of the sabotage (four of whom would die in the fire).
She climbed up through the ranks at CIEX, competing with Scott Rose along the way.
In 2055, she divorced her husband and began a relationship with the rising political powerhouse and beauty, Pat Johnson.
Though the influence of Pat Johnson, and thus the influence of EON, CIEX's largest shareholder, Donna won the CEO position over Scott Rose, in 2056, the same year Pat Johnson was elected Governor of the State of Nazarene.
Fearful of losing Pat Johnson, in 2057 Donna began the controversial (but widely-used) genetic age-reversal process that had been perfected by the Chinese. Pat Johnson did not undergo the gene-replacement therapy on grounds that it conflicted with her Nazarene faith.
Never a Nazarene herself, Donna continued to have conflicts with Ryan Wescott, the head of EON.
After she disappeared in 2062, VP Pat Johnson demanded a full FBI investigation, but no trace of Donna was ever found. She was listed as missing until the events of her murder were revealed during other investigations into Ryan Wescott and EON in 2068.
For more, see details that emerge across the Series Story.
HER CLOSEST CONNECTIONS IN THE STORY
SCOTT ROSE — a 15 — CIEX CTO then WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF — in relationship with Biyu Mengsei — 47 in this 2061 image
PAT JOHNSON — U.S. VICE PRESIDENT — in relationship with Donna Karper — She never chose the Chinese genetic age-reversal process as she felt it was contrary to her Nazarene faith — 53 in this 2061 image
RYAN WESCOTT — EON DIRECTOR — note the EON pin (cross below arch) — in relationship with Tassima Milovitz — retained looks via Chinese genetic age-reversal, though he banned others in EON from doing it — 64 in this 2061 image
OTHER ASSOCIATED IMAGES
CIEX Corporate Headquarters — Boston — 2061
Interior lobby of CIEX's Space HQ — 2061
CIEX's Supersonic, Low Orbit Jet — ironically nicknamed the "SLO" — 2061