"The Illusion of Saint Trond" - Reinhilde W. Siegel

[Reinhilde W. Siegel]

Reinhilde W. Siegel

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► Full name: Reinhilde W. Siegel
► Age: 34 y.o.
► Height: 170 cm / 5'6"
► Weight: 63 kg / 138.9 lbs
► D.O.B: 24.01.796 A.S.

► Biography:

Reinhilde was born in Calw, a rural equatorial town in the eastern hemisphere of the planet Stuttgart. Hardly considered a large settlement with a comfortable population of just over twenty thousand people - a small dot on the map, living on small manufactories, fruit exports and, of course, agriculture; it happened to be a quiet retreat for an hereditary military family of Siegel - centuries and generations of Rheinland soldiers who owned a small winery on the outskirts of town, a modest mansion with a plot of land and a separate wine cellar was where the girl grew up. Reinhilde was brought up with strict discipline and high expectations, she was tutored at home and from the age of sixteen she held a Daumann gun and practised on the family shooting range; at the same time her father, Paul, began to take charge of her physical education, an old acquaintance invited to teach her the basics and essentials of tactics and strategy, preparing her for the inevitable enlistment and following in the family footsteps. In her pre-academic training and after, throughout her formal military studies, she distinguished herself as hard-working, naturally gifted with sharp eyesight and a basic understanding of strategy and tactics, which was further capitalised upon by Gunther Rudel, retired Rheinwehr Naval Captain.

Reinhilde enlisted as early as 817, fresh from her military courses, and was formally assigned to the Karlsruhe Fleet, though in reality she was assigned to Jagdgeschwader 41 under that Fleet and assigned to the front line in Bering, where she regularly skirmished with Liberty forces until a full withdrawal order to Hamburg was issued, and the wing was assigned to the Hamburg Planetary Defence Grid until the advancing fleets withdrew to participate in another brewing war.

Karlsruhe was eventually moved to Stuttgart, as was the 41st. The only survivor of her squadron, she limped to Heisenberg in a sorry but manageable condition, where she lay low for a fortnight or so before discreetly moving on with the help of the federal military, while the Rhineland plunged into civil war and all hell broke loose around her. Bringing with her bad news of Karlsruhe's fate, unaware of whether the local forces are aware of it yet.

Reinhilde was soon provided with a new ship, the old one deemed unfit for continuous service and easier to replace than repair in the situation the federal forces are in, and rumour has it that one of Jena's UAVs was adapted for manual control specifically to accommodate her with a Valkyrie; notorious for her tactics of using nebulas, but heavily favouring Nordhausen Fragments and even the volatile Suhl Anomaly to conceal her presence and favour ambush tactics, she has earned the nickname "The Illusion of Saint Trond" - though the reason for choosing such an obviously Gallic name remains unclear to this day, with most of her fellow officers simply shrugging off questions or dismissing them outright.

Her current assignment is known to be with Jagdgeschwader 87 of the Westfalen Fleet as a Tactical Officer with the rank of Kapitänleutnant.

► Personality:

As a backlash of her lonely childhood, Reinhilde is introverted and sensitive. Because she has no friends of the same age, nor she ever experienced playing around or simply cutting loose, her lifestyle is very constrained. Because she received education as a soldier since early, she somewhere has this idea that this is how she is supposed to be. Still, she strongly wishes for friends of the same age, and that is especially true within her unit.

In the unit she is attached to, Reinhilde is quite popular among superiors and subordinates alike due to her mysterious atmosphere, hard-working qualities and the fact she always looks troubled, but she herself does not realize that.