Tamao Kurabe (2188) (Mystery Files)
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In 2188, she is Chihiro Morimura's mentor, as well as a leading authority on artificial intelligence. Despite the fact that she's 120 years old, she looks much younger than her true age thanks to nanomachine treatments.
Since humanity lacked the technology to sustain life across multiple lightyears' travel at the time, Tamao Kurabe's plan for "Project Ark" was to transport only the genetic information over to the new world, where cloning and species-restoration efforts would occur. However, since she believed that humanity is defined by the inheritance and evolution of our culture and knowledge, she also came up with growth pods to teach the necessary information in a virtual world, over the course of 20 years.