"But, all she ever does is look at bacteria. Except she clearly doesn't find bacteria interesting."
Even if she hated her job, an intelligent character would be thrilled to be finding ONLY worlds full of harmless bacteria. Considering the many, many deadly to the touch creatures that exist in our own world, marking off another planet as "safe" to colonize would be a big sigh of relief, IMO. What does she want? Chest-busting aliens to shake her outta of her monotonous existence?
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Even if she hated her job, an intelligent character would be thrilled to be finding ONLY worlds full of harmless bacteria. Considering the many, many deadly to the touch creatures that exist in our own world, marking off another planet as "safe" to colonize would be a big sigh of relief, IMO. What does she want? Chest-busting aliens to shake her outta of her monotonous existence?