Background: Lena is a military brat – her mother worked on base as an administrator, her father was a Navy man. Born during the Va Rulen (VR) Border War, Lena never knew her father and was lead to believe he was killed in a skirmish late in the war. Her only memories of her father are pictures of him as a young man.

While Lena was still young, her mother was offered a position as an administrative assistant with a contractor that had established an onsite operation at the base – this was GeneCrux. The company and its operation were highly confidential – the level of security surrounding the installation was extreme.

Because Lena grew up on base, it just seemed natural for her to join the Navy. She was still just a recruit when her mother’s company had a breakthrough and volunteers from the base were asked to take part of a pilot program. Lena was never really “in the know” – her mother was never able to tell Lena the type of work GeneCrux was working on.

Lena and hundreds of other soldiers were given the most intense physical any had ever experienced, as well as complete psychological profiling. After weeks of testing and repeated screening, Lena and a handful of her fellow soldiers were asked to participate in a special program – only those that said “yes” were told what GeneCrux was about. Lena and the others in the program began to develop a wide variety of psionic abilities, of varying levels of power.

Under the urging of the Navy, the first group of subjects stayed within the military, with an interesting mandate. They were to continue to report to GeneCrux, study, develop and improve their psi capabilities, and begin a regiment of Special Forces training. It became clear that the UF had a specific idea in mind for how they would deploy GeneCrux augmented soldiers.

Lena spent the next decade as a psi operative within the Navy, one of the most closely held secrets of the military. The psi corps grew rapidly as GeneCrux began to improve their screening and testing programs. As time passed, the Psi Corps became the most effective force the UF had ever deployed. Under the encouragement and with the support of executives within GeneCrux, Lena made the transition from military to commercial life. Her years of experience and specifically her ability to “read” others made a perfect fit within GeneCrux operations.

Lena quickly moved up the ranks within GeneCrux, and spent the next decade screening, and developing some of the most successful psi teams for the UF. Although Lena was no longer an active agent, she was the leader of the GeneCrux team that chose the psi team that planted the Virus that ended the Bionoid War.

Lena’s life took a turn when her mother was in a serious accident - the damage was too severe and she was well into her 70s. The doctors were able to keep her alive long enough for her and Lena to spend a few minutes saying their goodbyes. It was in her last minutes that Lena’s mother told her that her father had not died during the VR wars, but was alive but no longer in the military – last she had heard he was forced to retire when the Terran Confederacy (TC) was formed.

Lena’s world crashed down around her – in one day she lost her mother, but found her father. She became fixated on finding out who and where her father was. She used her contacts at GeneCrux and the TC to learn as much as she could. Eventually she found the information she sought and found her father on Archimedes 2, a remote mining colony near one of the Flux Gates.

Lena has informed GeneCrux that she is taking personal leave – and with the amount of time she has invested in GeneCrux, they tell her to take as much time as she needs. Lena had been so absorbed in her life at GeneCrux, that she finds it a relief to take time for herself, and travel to the outer planets. She begins to realize how much she misses her days in special forces, with missions who’s success left a feeling of satisfaction – a feeling she now realizes she has missed.