Backstory

Born to a humble shipwright on a backwater aquatic planet in the forgotten edges of Sector 36, Heldra Vance grew up welding hull plates and dreaming of the stars. Seeking an escape from her provincial life, she enlisted in the Red Sun Dominion military at the age of sixteen. Her natural aptitude for void-warfare and leadership saw her stationed at the Top Secret Dock Station 'Aegis-4,' a facility dedicated to retrofitting ancient, recovered warships.

However, the glossy propaganda of the Dominion quickly peeled away to reveal a totalitarian rot. Heldra witnessed the early stages of the 'Harvest' program—the conscription of innocents for forced labor—and realized the Dominion's 'utopia' was built on slavery. In 4150, at only nineteen years old, she orchestrated a mutiny that would become legend. She audaciously commandeered the 'Sovereign's Spite,' a heavy cruiser laden with forbidden Tier-4 Spike Drive components intended for the Dominion's elite fleet.

This act of defiance birthed ' The Mortal Veil .' Over the last nine years, she has united disparte rebel cells and pirate gangs under her banner, establishing a headquarters in the Vini Nehana system. Her war is personal; she recently lost a strategic alliance when the Dominion used the Starkiller Relic to obliterate the Fat System, wiping out the clone population she had sworn to protect. Now, fueled by vengeance and desperation, she coordinates from the shadows, relying on operatives like Aron T'lael to secure the GH-23 AI Core before the Dominion can solidify their stranglehold on the sector.