Ambitious and smart, her life began humbly but through the youth organisations she joined it was found she had enough aptitude to warrant specialist education; to become a radio technologist. By her late teens this denoted path for her involved work in a factory producing radio sets for the Military. During her compulsory term of service in the Military she was assigned to a Signals division that monitored free radio transmissions from Nationalist nations that could be picked up in the Alliance before she was then transferred to the Space Force as a ground controller for orbital missions. She was one of the staff on duty when the Alliance picked up communication from 'extra-terrestrials' and assisted in the rudimentary deciphering of what they were picking-up. After that incident, which wa