Sir Adelaide Nepenthes Conrad Balnibarbi, born in June of 2142, was the heir to a wealthy family with a great amount of power in the space colony of Neo-Britain. She was sheltered, tutored, and spoiled until the age of fourteen, in which she met a dashing young military gentlemen and smuggled herself away on a Neo-Roman trade ship. She earned her passage by beating the ship's captain by beating him at a rousing game of three-dimensional Chessilywinks, and then decided to travel with said ship for five years as their communications expert, displaying her ease and talent at convincing people that her way was the best way and anyone that thinks otherwise should be put into an asylum.