Editing Mars trilogy (section)

====Hiroko Ai ({{langx|ja|愛紘子}})====
A Japanese expert on [[biology]], agriculture, and ecological systems, it was Ai who smuggled Desmond "Coyote" Hawkins onto the ''Ares'' (the two were friends and lovers as students in London). She is the charismatic leader of the farm team, one of the important work groups and cliques among the First Hundred. She thus becomes the focus of many of the trilogy's central themes. Most importantly, she teaches the importance of maintaining a respectful relation with one's planet. On Mars, this is called the Areophany. In the secret colony Zygote, which Hiroko established, the first generation of children of the First Hundred, the ectogenes, are all the product of artificial insemination outside of any human body. Hiroko uses the ova of the female members of the First Hundred as the female genetic material and uses the sperm of the male members of the First Hundred to fertilize the ova. Although Hiroko is seldom at the center of the narrative, her influence is pervasive. She disappears for the final time in ''Green Mars''. Her ultimate fate is left unresolved. ''Ai'' (愛) is the Japanese word for love.