Ming (Transit)

During the 2110s, Ming was a woman in her 50s who worked for STS as the Chief Controller of the Interstitial Mass Transit System, though during the Stunnel Incident she was elevated to STS Director General.

Ming was English, referring to her ethnicity as being 9th generation Bradford Cantonese. She was a partner in a polygamous marriage residing on the Isle of Dogs.

After the Stunnel Incident, she became Director of the Butterfly Wing temporal research project, based on a space station owned by Harare Power Systems located in the vicinity of Europa. She resided there with her Number Two Husband until the base personnel were forced to evacuate when the project's Chief Scientific Officer detonated it's reactor to power the 1st time jump and destroy all the accumulated research.

Ming's Mansion
A restored maisonette with its own grounds, it was a 154 years old by the time of the Stunnel Incident and had avoided demolition over the years due to some complication in the planning process. When Ming first began working for STS, she brought into the top floor; through a variety of means she eventually managed to purchase the entire building and exchanged favours in order to get it restored and placed under a Protection Order.

Family

 * Number One Husband Fu married Ming in the 2090s in a traditional ceremony after which they spent the night in the bridal suite of the Hotel Metropole, and after 30 years they both retained a fetish for sex on the floor. Resides in a flat shared with Number Two Wife, Bridgette.
 * Number Two Husband Achmed, was a German architect working for a public works company of which Number One Husband Fu was the managing director.
 * The marriage has produced numerous children, aunts (including one named Shmoo) and grandchildren.