Fan Casting Vera in Red Dust Gospel

Discovered alone by Graves during a failed contract. Vera is the only survivor of a massacre that left an entire settlement incinerated, though no one, including her, knows how she survived. She has no memory of the event, only fragments: firelight, screaming, a voice calling her name in a language she doesn't know. Strange phenomena follow her: dormant AI tech flickers to life in her presence; ancient signal nodes pulse when she passes. She’s being hunted by Father Leon Varn, leader of the New Pentecost, who believes she is the *“Vessel of Clarion”—*a prophesied child meant to unify flesh and signal. He plans to wed her to the god beneath the planet and rewrite the world in its image.