However, that is only the official biography. Unofficially, she has a somewhat darker past. Nothing overly cliché, but she is an assassin and sharpshooter, in addition to being a thief and a hacker.

In brief, she was a thief before she was caught at age fifteen and should have been faced with the choice of execution or service. However, she was a minor, so she was placed within a ‘rehabilitation’ programme – which is to say, a military academy for delinquents. Given a second chance at life that most convicts never have, after three years she ‘graduated’ and was conscripted and placed within the regular military as a cadet. She would face five years of service and then be let loose with a warning – and a location chip inside her.

Instead, Uytio chose to continue with her military career. A semi-experienced hacker from her days as a technology-thief, she requested a transfer into the technology department and was approved. She served her five years, and surpassed the expectations set of her commanding officer. Impressed by her enthusiasm, she became his ‘star model’; a reformed juvenile criminal who proved the system can and did work.

When the time for her release came, she refused much to her commanding officer (who held the dual role of being her parole officer and overseer)’s pleasure. A further year passed and her promotion was at hand. Then disaster struck, as it always seems to. Rioting broke out upon the world due to a lack of food – the same reasons Uytio was forced into her life thieving. Unlike her childhood, the rioters began a rebellion and formed a militia, taking up arms against the military. One of their targets was the garrison she lived in.

The technology department Uytio was in was torched; the rioting crowd stormed it and burnt it, and most of the garrison to the ground. Typically, her commander should have been slain, but by some perverse twist of fate, he was not, but escaped with severe burns – and his life. Uytio was luckier, but she found herself lost and alone again. With the garrison seemingly dead and no one to turn to, she had to use her wits to survive for the next five months while order was re-established. Physically cut off and unable to turn herself in due to the constant rioting, she took to stealing technology again – this time, the rebels. Falling back on her skills proved to be a wise choice and two weeks into the riots, she sent anonymous relays back to the main government headquarters and incredibly enough, her commander recognised her ‘signature’ and began to rely on her. When the riots had been put down, she returned ‘home’ and was greeted with a warm welcome – and a promotion to a special operation unit. She was to be ‘rewarded’ for her valour by being trained by their very best – as a commando and spy.

For the next three years, she trained with them until disaster struck again. The rebels had regrouped and this time successfully stormed the government headquarters. Within the space of a day, the ruling order had fallen and her commander besides. With nothing left, she left the planet and infiltrated the Terran Federation. At least they had food.