Jack of Harts

Kathleen Reynolds came home from her five-decade party celebrating the life the Peloran gave her and volunteered to serve in the United States Space Force. Many people think the USSF has more in common with the Space Guard than other “real” military services like the Navy or the Marines, but they miss how many deployments the Space Force actually goes on. They are actually one of the first defenses usually deployed to protect a new colony, since their fighters take far fewer resources to support than expensive starships. Katy found herself on a new tour of the outer worlds, and she racked up some impressive experience protecting people from the kind of things she saw on her previous tour. Most of it is still classified, to the point I can’t even write it in my own diary without breaking the law, but she did good out there. A lot of real good that helped real people and changed worlds for the better.

The Peloran saved Kathleen Reynolds’ life with their advanced medical treatments, and Katy was suitably happy with the change in her future fortunes. She graduated from school, whether it is high school or college tends to shift depending on which story she’s telling at the moment, and then cast herself out into the worlds. All of them. She spent the next five decades of a life she never expected to have traveling everywhere she could. Camelot. New New York. Disney Planet. You name it, she probably went there. She wanted to do and see everything there was to do and see, and she gave it a real go. She has said more than once that she would have been happy to keep partying like that for the rest of her very long life. But sometimes we change life, and sometimes life changes us. She is most certainly an example of that.