Jack of Harts

You might think that Dawn DeMarco was all about the parties if you don’t look close. It’s certainly the image she projected for all to see. The more people saw her as that, the more dangerous she was to those with ill intent. We really did think alike in that way, and I loved having her on my team. Or as it sometimes felt, me being on her team. She truly was so much more than just the debutant of the ball though. She had a mind for intelligence that was scary, and her family had trained her to run the family businesses when she grew up. To managed all the money they made in all the different ventures that made the formal balls of her youth possible. She was absolutely amazing at understanding money and where it went. It made her real good at her job.

There are not many people who can fly into a major fleet base system like Sunnydale as it was back during The War and bring the party with them. Dawn DeMarco is one of them. She arrived in Sunnydale mere days before the big kick off the Chinese had elected to receive, and that started a whole new series of balls and parties. They spread throughout the system in a matter of hours, and everybody who was somebody wanted to be there to witness the sendoff. Which meant of course that Dawn was still working. Literal years of work on her part had uncovered a deep network of war profiteers, and the big wings were coming to Sunnydale. She wanted them. She wanted them, she got them, and the War effort was never the same after that. After Sunnydale. Disappointingly few of them served actual prison time, but they paid heavy penalties in both money and political clout to stay out, and that kept the fleets flying into the Hyades for years. It really was the perfect start to the invasion.