Wen

Wen
Wen is an immortal without a lineage. At the apparent age of 15, Wen is an abnormally youthful immortal and her backstory is even more abnormal. Wen is one of the very few unknown immortals in the galaxy.

Unlike other immortals, Wen has no land, no title, no wealth, no people or country. Over the thousands of years that she has lived her life, she has wandered from place to place, never staying in any one place for too long. Traumatized by the death of all those around her during the Plague, she has compulsively heeded her mother's dying message to trust no one. For fear of being discovered for who she really is, she never gets close to anyone and frequently picks up and leaves without as much as saying good-bye.

She has been wandering about the galaxy for her entire life, leading her to places as far away as the Kingdoms in Persius, the Empire of Muscava and the newly colonized planets in Sagittarius. She has held countless jobs and assumed innumerable identities. She has remarkable technical talents and has even built a robot companion called Eewee which travels in her bag wherever she goes.

Wen is a polyglot and quick to pick up new languages. Her travels have exposed her to thousands of different cultures and she has picked up dozens of different languages. She is quick to recognize the linguistic expectations of the people she encounters and frequently adopts a new name in the local tongue when she moves to a new setting. When do so, she almost always selects names with a synonymous meaning to her own.

When the Dreadnought Resilience comes to the rescue of the Sagittarian freighter Beatrice, Wen is discovered aboard the distressed freighter along with Jacob Thayer and five other members of its crew. The command staff of the Resilience assume she is one of the passengers and impress her into service on the ship along with the rest when they get orders to pursue the Luminance. But, with the manifest of the Beatrice lost in the attack, only Jacob knows the truth about Wen... that she was not aboard the Beatrice when it departed Thames.

Is she merely a stowaway, or is she a spy planted by the Commonwealth during the attack? Wen's linguistic skills and technical acumen belie her vagabond appearance, making Jacob suspicious of her motives and all the more determined to figure them out for himself. At the same time, there is no love lost between Jacob and the June Republic. So, until he gets to know more about what's going on, he plans to keep what he knows about Wen a secret. Little does Jacob know how far down her secrets really go.