*From as early as she can remember, Adeliza lived for the Golden Horns. Making a little Pyramid court in the hideout camp was one way the adults tried to give the children some normalcy during the war, and the little three year old endeared herself to the ‘big kids’ enough to be included in some of their less rowdy games. She would play with a ball in their tent for hours, trying to throw it at targets she made up on the furniture and ‘walls’.
*Mother, Marion Palermo, had met Kit Wynn at a fair on Aerilon and decided she preferred the slower pace of Aerilon compared to Caprica, where her rather large family were always busy and always in everyone’s business. They had a daughter, Adeliza, and they had just given birth to their son, Kieve, when War Day happened. During the War they stayed at a hideout camp in the woods with some other families, but Kit was often gone for long stretches fighting in the resistance.
*After the war, the family returned to the farmlands along the Loyalhanna River. Adeliza grew up going to school, working on the farm, and rafting on the river on rest days. In school she joined the Pyramid Team, and used more of a strategic, quick, style of play, rather than trying to meet the bigger players head on with their strength.
*With the restoration of more regular of Interstellar Travel, the Wynns visited Marion’s family on Caprica for holidays and get togethers. Adeliza gravitated towards one of her slightly older cousins, Renee, and the two of them managed to get into plenty of mischief together.
*On a trip to Caprica in her early teens, Adeliza ran into a group of people recreating space battles using rooms in a hotel as different stations aboard a Battlestar. Being a bit of a history nut herself, she joined in and was soon hooked.
*Determined to become professional Pyramid player, Adeliza earned a Pyramid scholarship to Caprica University. She took classes in Philosophy and History for a general major as she thought it would an easy way to keep her grades up. One of her professors that noted she had an ability to recall subjects covered in earlier chapters and utilize supporting material constructively suggested she consider a more ‘realistic’ job after Academy.
*With the combined urging of her professor, and her cousin Renee, who was already in the military herself, Adeliza enrolls in ROTC as her ‘back up plan’.
*Adeliza fails to be drafted, and takes a commission with the navy as an ensign. Although she doesn’t rise through the ranks at an excessive rate, after five years she has just newly been assigned to the Orion as a JTACCO. She can often be found on the Pyramid court in her off duty hours.