Tri-Jema is one of three Triumvirate members of the New Systems Commonwealth, serving beside Tri-Lorn and Tri-Camille. The internal discord and corruption led the Triumvirate to secretly change allegiances to “protect” the Commonwealth. Tri-Jema chose to side with the faction she regarded as the winners: The Collectors. Jema was killed on a quest searching for the Route of Ages. While trying to rendezvous with a Collector affiliated Commonwealth operative, Jema and her Triumvirate Heavy Cruiser flagship the Halcyon Promise were destroyed after entering a Slipstream vortex that only a small vessel could safely navigate. It was the mythic slipstream maze (Trusting the Gordian Maze). After a successful encounter with the Andromeda Ascendant, the Triumvirate heavy cruiser entered slipstream to