Doctor Professor Kor-Kavo is a specialist and academician in quantum mechanics and quantum engineering. She is one of the few people who has the same skill level as Harper, and as such is a scholarly match for him. She attends a Systems Commonwealth sponsored conference, on Galena, which focuses on how to defeat the Spirit of the Abyss using the Engine of Creation, a device that can create matter from nothing. While she and the crew of the Andromeda Ascendant attend this conference, two scientists are killed and one is kidnapped, and the two who were found dead showed signs that someone was trying to leach information out of their brain. Kor-Kavo lures Harper to an empty laboratory, and while she is trying to seduce Harper, Harper sees a body in the background with the top of its skull saw