As part of the group that was tasked with research into and then, ultimately, defense of the site located on Libran, Adura was not one of the Lines that had been inserted into the Colonial population or tasked with anything outside of the rest of the working group. A bit of a dreamer, she was considered a bit flighty by her sisters, though she had a particular knack for helping see the meaning in clues that were often allegorical at best. She had heard rumors that other lines were defecting, rumors of why. But rumor isn't truth, it's just noise really, until it isn't just noise. When the site was surrounded by colonial forces and they heard the human over the loud speaker telling them that they'd been lied to, been used, and that the Colonials had learned the truth of their origins, of Ys'ral? That some of their brothers and sisters had been home? Among the voices raised in return, questions and challenges, her voice was the one lifted, compelled - inspired - yearning, to request asylum. She is executed on the spot by a One, not knowing that the rest of her sisters engage the Ones in a fire fight that leads to death and bloody ruin for most of her sisters present that day. It would be fifteen years before she is downloaded into a new body, and awakens on Piraeus. Once she sorts through the wealth of knowledge and data that she has access to and is able to be coherently debriefed, she speaks at length with a representative of the fleet before they agree to release her and let her go her own way.
She travels, at first. Moving from one colony world to the next, seeking out members of the lines that are living in different communities within the colonies, living in some cases alongside the humans. She travels, wanting to learn about this new world shes living in. Enjoy freedom. See how other lines are enjoying it and talking to them about their connections. About their lives. She begins to document what she finds, not just for her own research, not just because she finds it fascinating to see how the Line's are beginning to evolve, to adapt, to become. She wanders, somewhat of a vagabond in many ways, learning and researching and picking up many skills that she had found fascinating before. Always a creative soul, at heart, she learns to paint and to sing, to dance and to write often funny or simply awful limericks when the mood strikes her. She learns that meditation helps her center her own sense of self among all of the memories that she has access too, and all the memories that she is making.
She travels to and from Piraeus several times, though the first time she set foot upon Piraeus remains the most vivid in her own memories, she finds and interviews many of the Lines who have made Piraeus their home. The Line she's interviewing is this incredibly richly lived person who has had incredible experiences that would have been unfathomable before the end of the war. A family! Friends and colleagues and neighbors, a whole network of people - some who are barely more than strangers - to interact with. A rich and varied tapestry of interconnections. She shows Adura all of this through projection, lettering her feel and experience the memories that are triumph and failure, joys and sadness. Then that Line member dies. The memories are still there, however, and she is inspired. Not to try to go recreate these experiences, or to try to follow the same course. But to shape her own sense of self. To do more than just write the stories of others, to write about service and camaraderie, of being part of something bigger than just herself, bigger than just an idea.
She has a lot to learn, and there's so much that she has to bring her knowledge base up to part, but thankfully she actually ENJOYS research, enjoys learning, and not just for the sake of learning alone. She's a frighteningly adept student, and she is able to pass the GED required and the rest of the testing to enter the Academy, joining the hundreds of new recruits transitioned to the various branches of the military. She finds her love of flying to be a lock/key moment the first time she gets into a viper for real, not just the sim. Ultimately completing her training and joining the others of her class who are assigned to various posts, always training, always learning. Like many others, when the option is presented, as it is throughout the course of her training and career, she does opt for the gene therapy that will extend her life, allowing her the chance to remain healthy, and serve as long as the course of her career will allow.