<div class="floatright">(https://assets.hongkiat.com/uploads/sci-fi-artwork/shrapnel.jpg)</div>Amita Fallon was born on Meridian in the underhive slums. A childhood that was difficult at best, and horrific at worst, led her to join the PDF at the earliest opportunity, lying about her age to get in.<br/><br/>Meridian's PDF did not have a great reputation, but it provided her with a measure of security and a steady income by which she could claw her way out of the underhive, and her loyalty was secured by her gratitude for this escape from horror. As a result, some of the more questionable practices going on around her did not receive the scrutiny she should have given them.<br/><br/>After five years in the PDF, a power struggle between two of the PDF commanders ended in heresy charges, and Amita's unit was ordered to eliminate another unit which had been found guilty in absentia. In a brutal and bloody exchange, the offending unit was wiped out and later cleared of the charges posthumously. The political machinations which had led to the needless murder left a bad taste in Amita's mouth, and she resigned her commission.<br/><br/>With no particular love for Meridian, and a reputation for murdering her fellow soldiers, Amita felt her only choice was to become a mercenary, signing on with free traders and making her own fortune in the places where the Imperium's control was not as absolute as it was believed to be by those who still only looked up at the stars, rather than strode among them.