Captain Zoe Andersen May 2026

She hasn’t decided yet.

We caught up with her during a 36-hour layover at Arcturus Station, between a cargo haul to Titan and a passenger liner bound for the outer colonies. Andersen doesn’t look like a legacy pilot. She doesn’t wear a captain’s cap unless regulations require it, and her uniform jacket is often draped over her chair. She prefers a worn leather bomber jacket—her father’s, she notes.

“Look,” she says, standing up to head back to the docking bay. Her boots are scuffed. Her hair is a mess. “The black doesn’t care about your legacy. The black just is . My job is to get people from Point A to Point B without them turning into frozen meat popsicles. If I can do that while telling a bad joke and petting a tomato plant? I call that a win.” captain zoe andersen

She stops. Turns.

— Mira Solis, Deep Space Weekly

Dateline: Arcturus Station, Transit Ring 7 By: Mira Solis, Deep Space Weekly

Captain Zoe Andersen is one of those names. She hasn’t decided yet

As she walks toward the airlock, I ask her one last question: What advice do you have for the next Zoe Andersen?