Backstory

Junia Manze was a promising twenty-two-year-old junior archivist in Gelime 's 'Sanctuary of the Mind' when the Red Sun Dominion fleets darkened the skies. While many of her mentors chose martyrdom or imprisonment, Junia Manze chose survival, pragmatically offering her organizational skills to the conquerors. For the last twenty-five years, she has served as a Senior Appraisal Officer at the Bureau of Asset Reallocation (BAR).

To the Dominion, she is a loyal, emotionless functionary who efficiently values and liquidates 'seditious materials.' She has personally cataloged the seizure of thousands of artifacts, including the stripping of Vael Station. However, her compliance is a facade. Junia is a silent sleeper agent for the Null Hypothesis. She uses her position within the BAR to misclassify vital Gelimian history as 'junk' to prevent its destruction, or conversely, to route dangerous 'Maltech'—like the recovered genetic notes of Dr. Edward Nelson—into deep storage rather than the lucrative Corporate Exchange, keeping them out of the hands of corrupt Dominion officers. She walks a razor's edge.

Grand Inquisitor Thorne has recently audited her department, and she fears her subtle sabotages in the ledgers are about to be exposed.