Two weeks after the Battle of Ossus


Her body had not been recovered from the wreckage of the Dauntless, of course. The service remembering Operative Jane Starborn was not in a large room in the Alliance Command building. There was little fanfare, or even much of a stir among the Rebellion because of her death. So many lives had been lost on the Dauntless...

Yet, she was not just an Intelligence spook. Jane was - had been the daughter of Celeste Starborn, who was to be the new Chief of State. That, if nothing else, granted her some notoriety, even if her work and missions were hidden behind a redacted wall of intrigue.

Friends, colleagues, friends of her family, and political "friends" of her mother packed the room.