Elizabeth Showforth was a Manticoran citizen and an enlisted crewmember of the Royal Manticoran Navy. She served as an electronics technician aboard the Q-ship HMAMC Wayfarer. She was a lesbian and one of Randy Steilman's comrades and co-conspirators in his plot to defect to the People's Republic of Haven. She was arrested, and killed when the ship's brig was destroyed during the Battle of the Selker Rift. (HH6)