Because NPCs have stories too...

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He'd come back... the DNA scans confirmed it and everybody knows that science doesn't lie. April knew in her heart that if Commander Winters had managed to make one sudden reappearance since vanishing over 100 years ago then he would be back again. Mars was in his blood after all.

She needed a way to watch for this, a way that wasn't limited by time or location because who knew when or where he would turn up... as she sat contemplating the options her eye was drawn to the photograph of her Great grandmother that sat proudly on her desk. Dr Jennifer Wilder stood with the rest of the crew of the Harmony Mission, Mission Commander Christopher Winters front and centre. April thought to herself, he didn't look a day older than when that photo was taken, just before they'd launched in April 2167.

Harmony, HARMONY! Of course! She'd recently been approached to work on the Eveningstar Project which would see the original Harmony VI used as a basis for a brand new model of AI. If she could program a small sub-routine based on facial recognition then that might... as the math took over, Dr April Christine Wilder ran one hand through her hair and got to work.