Rannveig Aasen was a co-anchor for Interplanetary Broadcasting Company's coverage of the events of the Sixty-sixth Winter Games on Mimas, a moon of Saturn. She was a striking blonde woman from Oslo, Norway. As such, she was a citizen of United Europe. Aasen shared anchoring duties with Bill Bennett. The two had developed a sexual dalliance on the trip to Mimas, more out of boredom than anything else, and so neither viewed it as a serious romance.