Born in Stirling, Planet Leeds in the beautifully polluted system of Leeds. It was a chilling November night when Elizabeth Tate was born. Snow droped gently into the dark streets of the bretonian residential district and the yellow light of the streetlamps shined gloomily onto the hovercars parked in neat rows.
So it came that Elizabeth saw the bright light of the world in the Cryer hospital St. Sebastian downtown. As it was predicted by the countless visits to the hospital before, she was a healthy girl of average size and weight; nothing unusual and why should there be anyway.
The years of childhood passed quickly. Elizabeth appeared to be pretty resistant to the planets pollution like many of the Leeds population, who adapted to the environment caused by the BMM. No one would complain, because the BMM is still the biggest employer for most part of Leeds.
When she was six years old, her parents gave birth to another child, who was christened Clover. Both girls went along well with each other but only a year later, Elizabeth was send away into a boarding school in the City of New Manchester.
Up to the age of seventeen, she only managed to visit her family during the summer and Christmas times, but she kept close contact with her sister all the time, who went to a public school in Stirling. In school it turned out, that Jinx quickly managed to understand the principles of tradeship and politics, while she failed classes concerning self defense or combat training. While Elizabeth was in school, minor accidents happened every now and then. There was nothing serious about them, but the principles and guardians of the school noticed that she had been around most of those accidents although she was never involved or even convicted.
In the last year however, during a weapons training class, a fatal accident happened with one of the practice Starfliers. While practising a formation manouver, two ships out of the wing which Elizabeth was part of, too, suffered mysterious system failures and went down. One of her classmates died, the other one parachuted out in time.
While Elizabeth had always been looked upon suspiciously by the other children, the situation escalated now. Unfounded accusations were enunciated and soon, she had to face the school council. It was around that time, that she was given the nickname "Jinx", cause especially her classmates considered her bad luck. Although it turned out to be a technical failure caused by metal fatique in the starfliers systems, Elizabeth was given a quick graduation to get rid of her and she was sent back home a year too early.
Since her marks were not too bad, especially in tradeship and economics, it wasn t all too bad. And only a few months later, Elizbeth found a job at the Interspace trading cooperation bretonian Headquarter at New London. There she was given a trading license aswell as a ship she could call her own.
She was flying for Interspace in Bretonia aswell as in Kusari and Rheinland. The job opened up all the perspectives of Sirius as it was the first time she left Bretonia. Due to unlucky incidents and classmates passing rumour about her, she somehow kept her nick and was usually called Jinx by her collegues, but she got used to it.
In the meantime Clover grew up and finished school, too. Ever since her sixteenth year, she spent much time in the schools press writing especially about the abuse of labour aswell as the exploitation of the nature.
When Clover was nineteen years old and while her sister Elizabeth was away for Interspace, a plague raged around Stirling and other districts on Leeds. During that time, Clovers and Elizabeths parents were wasted away by that plague; and it turned out that it had been caused by radioactive waste that was not only dumped on Leeds, but it was also already in the Air and almost everywhere in the system.
At that time, Clover and Elizabeth met on Leeds the last time for the burial of their parents, - and both decided that it was time for a change. Elizabeth left Interspace and headed for the Omicron Systems which she had made some useful contacts in the Freeports during her trading times. Clover instead went undercover and forged contacts with other that shared her disgust with the bretonian way.
Years later, Jinx managed to earn enough money to afford a crippled down Zonerbattleship, which she got without any weapons and other equipment, but cause she was blessed with lucky business opportunities, mostly by trading Deuterium to the Order, she made more than a fortune, more than Is possible to spend in a lifetime. But the curse somehow remained. After settling down in Omicron Delta, which appeared to be a peaceful place, bad luck followed her again. Nomads appeared and attacked the once peaceful place.
( pictures and little corrections will be included at some time )