With raised awareness of her wrongful conviction, she took the moniker Vantage to rally support and pressure those in power to set her mother free. But Xenia begged Mara not to, fearful that Mara would also wind up in prison. Despite her mother's objections, Mara turned to the Apex Games to draw public attention to Xenia’s case. Once Mara had healed, she visited her mother in jail, promising to find a way to get her out. To save her daughter’s life, Xenia set off the prison ship’s SOS beacon, but was imprisoned once more in return. By the time Xenia got to her daughter, the injuries were too severe for her to treat. Mara's mother only found her after a baby bat Mara rescued circled the crevasse holding Mara’s signature whistle. Disturbed by the intrusion, the ship collapsed into a crevasse, trapping a wounded Mara. Her mother hadn’t grown up on Págos: she was brought there on the G.D.S. Against her mother’s wishes, Mara snuck in, only to learn that she had been lied to. When Mara was 18, she discovered the wreck of the G.D.S. The tight-lipped Xenia could only get her chatty daughter to stop asking questions by giving her a scavenged copy of Encyclopedia Outlandica, which Mara memorized front to back. Mara proved gifted with a sniper rifle from the moment she was big enough to look through the scope and reach the trigger at the same time. Xiomara “Mara” Contreras was born and raised alone on the wild ice planet Págos by her survivalist mother, Xenia. She sees a win in her future, and she’ll rise to the occasion. If the Games are going to get in her way, she’s going to turn them to her advantage, putting the prize money to use supporting her family. She found a place to call her own, just in time for the Apex Games to arrive and sweep it out from under her new family. She grew attached to her new community and, when the heat on Boreas died down, brought some of her old friends back into the fold. She joined the terraforming crews hired to repair and rejuvenate the celestial body, learned to work with ferrofluid and use it with a certain witchy flair. Ultimately, she ran away from home, finding solace in the one place her friend cared about most: their moon, Cleo. But when her closest friend went to extreme lengths to save their moon from corporate encroachment, Tressa was caught in the middle.
Instead, she was more at home with fellow misfits who spent their time on crystal readings, moon rituals and personal witchery - they made her turbulent teenage years (and simultaneous gender transition) easier and less lonely. Conformity and efficiency were necessities there, but that never suited Tressa. She grew up on Boreas, a faltering planet with a deteriorating moon. An elegant, standoffish woman, she likes crystals more than she likes most people. Tressa Crystal Smith isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. What better way to use those skills than in selfless service? And if it just so happens to be his favorite activity, killing all who stand against him. His son would be safe from the path that ruined him. When his son qualified to join the dangerous Apex Games, August went to the Syndicate with an offer: take me instead. His son, Nathaniel, was both enamored with his father’s victories and determined to surpass them. For nearly 40 years, August lived as a recluse and was largely forgotten, though not by everyone. Devastated by guilt, August retreated into himself, driving away his wife and son. But August’s crowd-pandering combat style meant he wasn’t paying attention to his team, leading to Kit Siang’s death. Sok Leng and her brother Kit Siang were an inseparable duo of destruction, and with August now in their squad, they seemed unstoppable. They would quickly marry and have a son, Nathaniel. It was here, in combat, that August would meet the love of his life, Sok Leng. His style was wild, reckless and utterly selfish, helping him become the very first Thunderdome celebrity. Here, he took the name Ballistic and became a sensation. August, the sole heir to the Brinkman fortune, joined the Thunderdome Games (the pre-Apex Apex Games) following the death of his parents.
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