Abegail Beckett was a born in the COG birthing creches in 15 A.E. in the city of Jacinto. Shortly after her birth, her mother, Ginette Wilhelm, was killed by the Locust during the Siege of Jacinto. She was found in the ruins of the creche in her dead mother's arms by Corporal Hubert Beckett, who took her with him and his family to Vectes, where he and his wife Rebecca began raising Abegail as their own child.