I was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  I grew up…everywhere, on the fastest hyperspace-capable ships in Terran hands.  By the time I was twenty, I’d been to every major colony within 100 lightyears of Earth, attending high end business negotiations with everybody, Terran or alien.  I’d even been to the Hyades Cluster, talking to the Chinese companies that owned it.  I thought I’d seen everything.  During The War, I traveled much farther and saw much more.