thank you for reading and enjoying!
as for your question, there are many answers, but the most pertinent 'in-world' one, i think, is that starshine is not a person! she is a piloting biocomponent grown/cloned from the cell line of someone who was a person, but is now dead - from the physical exam you can see her organs aren't even engineered to survive for more than the handful of hours/days needed to complete a given objective. so not human, but a cost-efficient byproduct of a human, like a teratoma!