Widely respected as being the most innovative thinker of the cluster, Tarka Glanthorpe is an ingenious sentient with a natural fondness for engineering. For the last millennium, she has been pioneering advances in applied sciences despite laboring under chronic material shortages. Glanthorpe believes she can build anything, with anything, out of anything. A veritable master of deriving solutions from impossible circumstances, she is most commonly found working in shipyards, assembly lines, terraforming projects, outpost construction, and aboard starships.