[font=Palatino Linotype]Gunther Eichel, the husband of miss Helen Rosenbaum should had better listened to his wife when she said that Omega-7 is not the best place to rise a child. While he, Rheinlander by origin and she, a mixture of Bretonian and Libertonian blood, employed by Independent Miners Guild met, it was like in a fairytale - up to sun shining brighter and butterflies in one’s stomach. A year later Klara shared her mother’s stomach with those insects and after the nine months she was born on Freistadt in the year 796 A.S.
Alice A.Bailey, one of the New Age ideologists, that defined the psychological types via color system, referred to yellow as to the fourth ray of harmony through conflict. It’s hard to say a thing about harmony, but the whole list of negative characteristics of the color, that scientists defined for yellow, was represented in her disquieted personality - from acrimoniousness to absent-mindedness and tendency to criticizing.
In her seven, Klara wanted to be a lawyer. In eleven, the Neural Net channel talking head, in fifteen she had a short period when she wanted to marry someone and have three children. Once her intellect reached a certain level, she forgot her dreams of the happy family and became engaged in the everyday discussion of how to make the world better with her father. Though, while Gunther nodded as usual, agreeing with everything that young lady said, he never paid enough attention to revolutionary attitudes that appeared in her and came to surface from time to time - during the vacation on Baden Baden or the routine hard day’s night.
That wasn’t hard for Klara to find a job around. She was smart and her mother had her own place in the Guild’s ranks, so, the wide opportunity of occupations from clerk to miner were opened to her. After hopping from the department to the department she stayed in the most troublesome - the security department. Klara always said that she just liked it, but on practice the kind of secret political circle, that appeared to be there, with all the radical ideas, the way to peoples’ equality and new political order in the Houses around - she was all about it.
The change in her life came with the annexation of lower Omega-7 by Federal Republic of Rheinland on 23’th of April 819. Aside from turning things upside down and causing a major conflict for the resources of Walker Nebula, it caused the same conflict in Klara’s heart. Between her parents’ view on things and her nature, maybe even her egoism, she made her obvious choice. That day a whole a wing of Nyxes hadn’t returned from patrol, no information on pilots was recovered yet - and the next day Klara and few others were accepted into the ranks of Rot Front.
Klara may admit that after several weeks she hadn't noticed any cognitive dissonance or soul-searching to a certain degree. She accepted the change of environment as a given one, making her new room looking like the old one, drawing a small red star on the cockpit of her Nyx and feeling a bit awkward among all those people that spent up to all their life here in the ionizing background of Omega-11.
Klara told herelf that all she's doing, she's doing for the greater good; she really had no warm feeling to the Rheinland as it is, really considered Corsairs an evil invading the Colonies and generally fitted the ideological context of Red Hessian movement. She may not noticed that on the fourth day one of the pilots that arrived with her hadn't returned from the assault on the nearby Daumann operation, another one - from lower Omicrons. She may not noticed, or may noticed, but found awkward to fall into despair with all the people around that used to treat the things happened as something pretty normal.
In this place the total cynicism coexisted with the subtle faith in the better future under a certain banner and this logic attracted Klara for some reason. On the other hand, she still couldn't answer herself that simple question - why is she here and what is she doing.
While Klara still had some issues with the social self-identity, her gender and sexual self-identity were pretty straight - in the meaning of complete understanding that she is woman and enjoys the excessive attention. She spent half an hour on her make up every morning and limited herself to the healthy part of everyday ration to the detriment of calorie content.
Coalition pilot, that would prefer his name not mentioned in open sources, first almost interrogated her for greater good and then started to pay almost special interest to her. To say that she found it wrong is to be a total liar. Though, it's necessary to say that Klara's heart still had some vacancies to be filled, including the place of Klara's sweetheart, Klara's sexual pervertion and someone to live happily ever after.
Eventually, the people from the big screens are especially adorable for the disquieted souls. And today it took a while to prepare for the meeting with one of them. She had an utter need to cough while flying through those smog clouds in Leeds, almost got lost in the Barrier and, finally, after meeting half a dozen of people that followed her with the eyes in total silence, almost crashed into the Barrier Gate.
And she hoped that the Rot Front Oberkommando won't sacrifice her soul to the spirit of Communism that wandered around one of the continents of ancient Sol for that absence without leave.