Rebecca Krauthammer

“If the times are dark enough, then what good we find should be kept in storage.”

Rebecca Lodi Krauthammer grew up in Aberdeen, Idaho. A small Americana town in the process of opening up avenues of technology production and services as well as a developing art and music scene. Rebecca was born blind, and gravitated toward music for stimulus and comfort. She would later become a skilled musician in guitar and piano. By the time she was a teenager, her family managed to save up enough money and with the help of some charity grants, Rebecca had synthetic eyes installed to allow her to see.

With Aberdeen becoming more developed and metropolitan, some unfortunate regressions in the culture resulted in interracial antagonisms and division. A wave of anti-Asian sentiments began to sweep across the western world and Aberdeen was no exception. Rebecca took the side of standing with the Asian community against targeting, harassing, segregation, disenfranchisement, and bullying campaigns. 

During the development of her musical career, Rebecca bounced around from band to band, enjoying music, but never finding an actual break, resulting in working low-end jobs most of her life. She only made a small number of what she could consider good friends, but even those were strained by the constant traveling and moving around by all parties in a desperate chase to make money.

Through a total happenstance, she got a job at a friend of a friend’s spacecraft mechanic shop, then applying her gathered knowledge of spacecraft, moved to and got a job as a test pilot on the satellite nation of Nova Zion. Not much other than her parents tied her to Aberdeen Idaho, which was to her, a place of regrets and no opportunity. Nova Zion was known as a safe place and it could provide a new beginning for her life.

It would later be revealed that it was her musical talents that expedited her application process as Nova Zion was always looking for new prospective “Campaigners” (symphony fighter pilots).