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| - Alexia 'call me Alex' Dante hails from Corellia, a planet in the Corellian system. Collectively, the planets of the system were known as the Five Brothers. As the largest planet and the closest to Corell, Corellia was often called the "Eldest Brother" or the "Eldest." Historians believe the Celestials assembled the system artificially, the worlds brought from other parts of the galaxy, for unknown reasons. Some believe that these Celestials populated Corellia with humans from Coruscant. While most stories about orphans are sad and tragic, this one is not. Alexia Dante is an orphan, and to the best of her knowledge, she is an only child with no relations to claim, or that were willing to claim her. As a child of no more than seven she was orphaned in a random hover-taxi incident that claimed the lives of her parents, the driver and the occupants of the other vehicle. In the absence of any relatives to claim the child Alexia, she was sent to a local orphanage and raised accordingly. This orphanage simply happened to be one abiding by the regulations and curriculum of the Sector Naval Academy of the Imperial Navy. Alexia was a quiet child, average in temperament and a loner by choice, and then simply out of habit she chose her own counsel and thoughts over that offered by her peers. As a youngling she wished to be a doctor. But like most younglings her career of preference changed from one year to another. First a doctor, then perhaps a solicitor, or maybe even a local hazardous fire fighter or something equally as fun. It was only through a rare exhibition for the Orphanage that she found something that captured her interest. As the orphanage was sponsored by the S.N.A., the sector fighter wing would provide a demonstration once every few years, giving the orphans a treat, but the true purpose was to inspire service from these children in the future. And it worked, at least, as far as Alexia was concerned. But women were not so easily welcomed in the S.N.A., let alone as fighter pilots in the Imperial Navy, and to be accepted she would need to prove herself above and beyond that which males are normally held too. To that end, she set aside any other goals or whims and turned her attention entirely towards the education and skills she would need to not only pass the admission tests, but score in the upper five percentile. At seventeen she took the initial exams and failed, by a mere fraction of a percent. Another year of hard work, a year of turning all her energy to this one task before she was permitted to take the exam again. And this time, to her overwhelming joy, she not only passed the exam but also scored in the percentile margin required to move on to the training she had set as her goal. Five years would pass. Five years of intensive study, training, expanding her education, barely having more than one standard day for R&R out of every ninety, but it was worth it. Two years of running nothing but patrols in the quiet atmosphere and local space of Corellia, observing the planet from afar, and she finally had her break. When the Broadsword requisitioned new pilots for the War Shrike squadron her application was passed up the 'food chain' and finally approved. At 23 she is young, with no combat experience other than simulator training, and while not exactly 'wet behind the ears' she has a lot to earn.
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