Francine (Transit)

Francine was a fighter pilot during the Thousand Day War who underwent cybernetic and chemical enhancement as a 1st generation ubersoldaten. After the war, she became a leading figure in organised crime as the 'Godmother' of the VSoc.

History
Francine entered pre-flight training when she was fifteen, receiving genetically engineered eyes and being subjected to a drug regime that suppressed the physical developments of puberty as part of a program designed to create pilots with optimum G-force tolerance. Thin wafers of silicon and crystal were inserted into their brains, a cybernetic procedure designed to heighten their spacial awareness and interface with the systems of their aircraft as an extension of their own bodies.

During the war, her wingman Harry went by the call-sigh "Flash". She was shot down over the Gangis Chasma by concealed anti-air sonic weaponary that military intelligence had been unaware of prior to the battle. She was rescued by Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart's father and medevaced out of the combat zone.

Ice Maiden
The crash left her scarred with one half of her face rendered immobile, while damage sustained by her neural implants blinded her. She plowed her disability pension into establishing the Ice Maiden, a den of iniquity beneath the Ionian Sea she used as a source of capital funding for her interest in data hacking; within 3 weeks she had captured an estimated 35 percent of the Sol system's secrets. She retired from direct acquisition and became an information broker, gain influence and trading it for power.

Many of the soldiers similarly found themselves looking for somewhere to dig-in after they were cashiered out of the service; many of them gravitated towards Francine's lead. Over almost a decade, her empire expanded to include territory ranging from Earth to the moons of Jupiter, and was run from an anonymous office tower in Trieste with litle if any direct input from Francine herself. One of her companies became the Data Protection Agency, a contracted arm of the state. While searching for a data pirate she discovered evidence of the Imogen corporation's attempt to create a second generation of ubersoldaten.