Mahnoor is a Terran starship pilot working for Timberwolf Reclamation & Demolition, responsible for getting the Ermine safely from point A to point B. She worked as a commercial passenger flight pilot prior to joining up with Timberwolf, shuttling passengers between Terra, Titan and Neptune. Mahnoor is easy-going, having a very dry sense of humor that pairs well as a foil to Bryce's charms and brings a bit of professional levity to in-flight comms channels. While she has a permanent residence in Titan Garden, Mahnoor loves her ships, and she can be found in and around them most of the time she's not up in space.
When Mahnoor was growing up on Terra she used to gaze up at the stars and invent her own constellations, tracing lines from point to point and giving each constellation its own name and backstory. One of her big motivations for becoming a starship pilot was wanting to fly up into space and visit her constellations in person, and this set her on track to study and practice everything she could to someday be able to fly a ship herself. Her family had a garage on Terra and she started out driving little four-wheeled go-karts, moved up to small hovercraft and later to large all-terrain land craft; on to gliders and propeller craft to helicopters and VTOL jets, Mahnoor has ridden every steel horse she could saddle. When she was ready she took a job in a commercial spaceline cabin before moving from copilot to piloting the passenger ships herself. It was her dream come true to breach the clouds and see her beloved constellations from space, but she quickly grew anxious at being stuck along commercial airline routes, wanting to see more of the galaxy and all of its twinkling beauty.
Before hiring on with Timberwolf, Mahnoor met Bryce in the outer shipyard of Titan Garden. Grizzly John had just landed with a big shipment of cargo for the station and Mahnoor had landed a commercial flight in a dock on the other side of the port. They met up in a pressurized crew space, sharing a calcium-rich orange-like fruit juice together, with Bryce starting a conversation that lead to them sharing a bit about themselves with each other. Mahnoor talked about seeing the stars, and Bryce mentioned how someday he'd own that big cargo ship himself and he'd need a good pilot to fly it. Mahnoor joked about keeping in touch before the pair went their separate ways. It was some years later when Mahnoor ran into Bryce on Titan Garden again; Bryce of course recognizing Mahnoor and kicking off another conversation. Recalling their previous talk, he mentioned that he had a ship of his own now- it wasn't the big cargo ship, though, he'd lost that over a Mercurian woman, but he did have a smaller and faster little ship of his own! Mahnoor found the story charming and a little funny, quipping about being impressed anyone could lose a ship of that size, and said that her contract with the commercial starline was almost up, and when she was free she'd meet him again on Titan if he was serious about his offer. Bryce popped into the crew space every day for a month and a half, and when Mahnoor checked in, he was there, true to his word. Amused by the Venusian man's long memory and adherence to his word, she agreed to fly his ship for him.
As Timberwolf's seasoned pilot Mahnoor has developed a friendly rivalry with Haley, Red Raven's android pilot. Her experience flying in major routes gives her a rich knowledge of where not just major traffic flies, but where each world's patrol ships like to hide, so when the Ermine is hauling less-lawful cargo she knows exactly where not to fly. She knows a few of the patrol officers personally from her commercial starline days, so on the chance they happen into some bad luck she's able to cool-headedly chat down a nosy officer. It's saved the Timberwolf crew more than once.
When news of a lost shipwreck surfaces it's her experience with Solar flight routes and Bryce's knowledge of the system's backroads against Haley's built-in astronav computer and Amy's knowledge of how close to a breaking point you can push a starship to see who can land the salvage rights first. Ever since Red Raven hired on their snake-haired Terran they've sometimes seemed able to just pop into space on the other side of the Sun, in defiance of anything Bryce or Mahnoor had ever seen before. Mahnoor's not willing to be bested by machines, however, having spent a lifetime in command of them, so with a little planning and a lot of grit the Ermine can navigate the trade winds of space to best the speedy Jackrabbit to a prize. A dry quip often comes across the pilot comms channels for Haley to hear whenever the Hare ends up taking second place. But there wasn't even an ermine in that story! It doesn't matter, because that day belongs to Timberwolf!
Being a hat trick of demolitions team, shipwreck salvage crew and smuggler means the Ermine flies to all kinds of out-of-the-way spots in the Sol system. Wherever the job takes them, Mahnoor likes to keep an encrypted record in the astronav computer of their destinations. Sometimes, on long flights, she likes to pull up a projection of her destination record and rotate the map in 3D space, lining up the dots just right to find and name her own constellations, not of stars but of points on her journey through space.