Trenia Winters

Old Aphora
Trenia Winters came of age as history was rapidly approaching The Collapse. She joined the Aphoran military, was recognized as having potential, and recruited into the mobile corps. She piloted multiple classes of golem over three years, and developed a reputation as a daring, fast pilot.

Her history changed when she and F9 went back to intercept a phoenix against orders. F9 was already near heat-soak, and her shields couldn’t hold against the phoenix - but she brought it down, and more importantly got people including Kathika Trendent out of harm’s way. F9 was thrashed, Trenia was burned, she was drummed out of the corps and F9 consigned to the scrap heap.

And then the Program found her. They could repair F9, they said, if she’d work with them.

She did.

F9 was completely rebuilt, with power from the plane of Fire and prototype components from the next-generation golem development program. New fire was laid down in Trenia’s burn scars, as she was augmented to manipulate and survive the energy that would burn through F9-X. And then they kept going, kept pushing, as the Program spun out of control. Trenia and Kathika barely survived until whistleblowers shut the Program down.

Two years before the Collapse, F9-X and Trenia returned to line duty with the Twelfth Mobile Infantry. She and her wingmate, Rayna Pike, grew close as her scars healed, until the squadron was scrambled to the battle of the Gold-Leaf Hills.

F9-X’s generator fluctuated and failed on startup, burning out several components. She remained in the Nessian Valley, Trenia was recalled to Aelia as part of the last-ditch defense, and she was in combat in a borrowed industrial golem when the stasis field went up.

Surviving the Aftermath
Trenia Winters came out of stasis when the field faltered on the 28th of Autumn, 628 years later, to a world changed.

She gathered the other survivors that she could find, military and civilian, and they made their way away from Aelia, the stasis field, and the fragments of the undead army that had also been freed. A month into their survival, they were joined by Cassandra of Talem, as the primary threat became Rhodia, led by General Astore Weiss. After a running battle, the Aelian remnant dug in at the AITA Museum on the 78th of Autumn. The rest of Cerr's Thorns arrived four days later to lift the siege, end General Weiss, and return to Cerr aboard the AES Allisandras.