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Pim Jansson was only three years old when her mother was killed, gunned down by the Daughters of Gaia during a homesteaders' protest. But while losing Kat took a heavy toll on Pim's father Rex and her brother Neil, Pim grew up only knowing the ghost of her mother. This hazy recollection was further refracted through the violent rhetoric of her father's insurgency, and the result was a sweet-looking girl with a soul made of nitroglycerin.Rex had been a loving father during Neil's childhood, but as Pim grew up she was surrounded by soldiers, pirates, and partisans. Her father's noble crusade left little time for parenting, and as his own heart hardened his daughter's filled with eager wrath. By age 8 Pim was loading rifles for her father's troops, at 12 she could strip and repair a railgun, and by 13 she was sitting in on tactical briefings. On her 14th birthday Pim executed her first raid into enemy territory, destroying a group of Gaian biomass towers near Pavonis Mons. Thanks to her careful planning, none of the 22 workers survived.When he heard about what she had done, Neil was shocked and horrified. Already uncertain about his father's use of violence, Neil left shortly thereafter for Earth to do some image management for the Hephaestian cause (and perhaps some soul-searching of his own). He tried to take Pim with him, but she refused no mere pawn in her father's war, the girl had become an avid participant. Things only accelerated when Pim connected with Zeke Pea, a hard-bitten commando known for his grim ferocity. Pim and Zeke saw in each other a kindred spirit, and their operations have only become more daring, and more violent, ever since. Rumors of civilian executions have begun to circulate around them, hushed whispers of atrocities with no one left to report them.Recently those in Rex's inner circle have begun to express concerns about his daughter's trajectory, though Rex is too much of a righteous freedom fighter to recognize the genuine darkness in his daughter's heart. But while her father tries to win the fight and her brother tries to end it, Pim Jansson may just be the spark that sets the entire solar system ablaze.
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