Felka was the product of an experiment carried out by Galiana on Mars during the early days of the Conjoined, by which nanobots were interfaced with her constantly beginning early in her embryonic development. She developed into somewhat of an autistic savant, incapable of distinguishing human faces or any normal social interaction, though she had an advanced intellectual capacity, even among the Conjoiners. She spent much of her youth single-handedly operating and keeping alive the Great Wall of Mars, a massive robotic terraforming entity designed by Sandra Voi and critically damaged in the Coalition-Conjoiner War. Felka was rescued by Clavain in the evacuation of the Conjoiners' nest on Mars, shortly before the Conjoiners become the first living humans to depart the Sol System, aboard a