Lydia Jameson

Lydia Andrea Jameson is a Broken, born on Rally. Her resistance to authority, "unnaceptable levels of aggression" and "rejection of social norms" meant that she was given the choice between chemical behavior modification or joining the Janissary Corps by the Compact authorities. As a trainee, she was assigned to the CSFWV Bequeathed during its discovery of UECNS Nemesis in Terrahope, and was one of the few to defect when given the chance.

As such, she was then inducted as a Private in the Confederate Marine Corps by Red One, and in the time between her defection and Pale Liberation leaving Shuruppak, would learn English and some history of the United Earth Confederacy from the databanks aboard Nemesis. She accompanied the three other surviving crew members to the Grasp, where they met with Adrianna Leblanc, the Red Queen. Both her and Marcus de Vries would be aboard the Red Hand battlecruiser Hala when it was destroyed in the Battle of 1893-Yiren. Marcus was killed during the counter-boarding action, but Lydia survived thanks to the upgrades to her armour provided by Red One. When the ship's command crew told Crusade Commander Andrew Jackson to escape in the stealth cutter Try Again, rather than die with his ship, she was one of the troops assigned to escort him there. By the time the cutter launched, she and Jackson were the only survivors of the group.

Try Again was forced to hide among the debris of Hala after it was scuttled, and as such was near the blast radius of UECNS Lakhesis' missiles when it destroyed remains of the battlecruiser. The scuttling charges and subsequent radiation leaks irradiated both the ship and its crew (Jackson moreso than Lydia, as she was wearing power armour), damaging nearly every system. The shock drive was still functional, but unstable; each further shock took them in even more random directions, and with damaged navigation systems they had no idea where they were going. Lydia enabled the cutter's distress beacon (despite Jackson's order not to) and was dying of radiation poisoning when a signal was recieved. The response to the distress call came in English, from Captain Obed Keating of the Triquetran League vessel Vegvisir. Lydia identifying as a Confederate Marine and speaking English confused the Captain even moreso than the incoming transmission confused Lydia, though she passed out after recieving confirmation that help was on its way.