Ilina Tschetter

Originally a major in the UMCI, Tschetter served with distinction for the duration of her career. Her last posting was on the UMCS Extenuating Circumstances, which was dispatched to Sigma Draconis following Kira Navárez’s discovery of the Seed.

While in orbit around Adrasteia, the Extenuating Circumstances was attacked and destroyed by a Wranaui ship. A small number of crew, including Tschetter, succeeded in evacuating to Adrasteia’s surface. Most of the survivors were rescued by Kira Navárez in one of the Extenuating Circumstance’s own shuttles. However, Tschetter and Corporal Iska elected to stay behind in order to (a) watch for more hostile aliens and (b) to increase the chances that Kira and the others could reach the League and warn them of the attack (there being a limited amount of food and a limited number of cryo tubes on the shuttle).

Some weeks later, a second Wranaui ship—like the first, part of the Knot of Minds dedicated to protecting the Seed—picked up Tschetter and Iska. The Wranaui questioned the two humans for some time before enlisting their help in toppling the Wranaui leadership in the form of the great and mighty Ctein and forming an alliance between their two species in order to stop the spread of nightmares.

As a consequence of Tschetter’s help in securing just that outcome, the Premier appointed her as an official liaison between humans and Wranaui. Although Tschetter no longer serves the human government in an official capacity, she performs an important role for both humans and Wranaui in securing this new partnership. (Tschetter resigned her commission because her commanders had doubts as to whether they could trust her with secure information after her time in Wranaui captivity . . . as well as Tschetter’s own desire to help secure a more peaceful future.)