Editing Marina Kseniya Sebastien (section)

=='''Background'''==
Marina doesn't talk much about her past and the details are sketchy.  She hails from the Rim, from the Russian-settled world of Novaya Rodina and though she has family there she'll readily admit it's been over a decade since she's seen them.  She left home at the age of seventeen, desperate to escape the stifling culture of her childhood, and never looked back.  In the years since, she's held any number of jobs as vehicular mechanic, comm tech and ship's engineer.  She was senior engineer on a bulk freighter but abruptly quit in 2517 to pursue intinerant jobs, working to pay for her passage from one port of call to the next.  
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She's cagey as to details about her hiring on with the crew.  She's usually too busy cataloguing and fixing everything wrong on the ship to indulge in social chitchat and heart-to-hearts.
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Over the years, however, the details have slowly surfaced:<br><br>

Rina started out an extremely talented young woman on the fast track for promotion in the enlisted ranks as an Alliance Naval engineer. The war intervened in her initial tour of duty, however, leaving her betrayed by her own side in a nasty bit of political scapegoating. The blow to her idealism and trust was staggering and she defected to the other side to survive. She accepted a deep cover operation against her native government and learned the covert skills necessary to carry the mission under an assumed identity while under Alliance scrutiny. The long-term commitment left a permanent mark on her psyche, leaving her paranoid and twitchy.<br><br>