Lydia Gott

Lydia Gott is a solitary resident of the wartorn colony known for living out of her deceased husband's and her many cats. After surviving through multiple uprisings and the , she is one of many aimless but hardy individuals still calling Mamore home after wars reduced the colonial infrastructure to rubble.
Making the most of her remaining health, she wanders Mamore scavenging for resources to trade and caring for stray children and pets on occasion. Using her husband's teachings and experience from living in a warzone, she has managed to survive her planet's many hardships.
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==Biography==
Born on October 29, , in New Lexington on the outer colony of Mamore, Lydia Gott grew up well into the . Political discourse and violence were commonplace in her youth, appearing in her household and at the dinner table more often than not. Raised by pro-Earth parents and growing up in an ideologically-divided neighborhood, she soon got caught in the middle of the brewing Mamore-based secessionist movement.
In her teenage years, Lydia's authority-challenging tendencies developed into disputes with her parents. On more than one occasion she left home to stay at friends' homes, and with increased frequency at Insurrectionist community hangouts. In high school, she took up volunteer work with the newborn 'Freedom and Liberation Party' (FLP), a political activist organization that sought formal recognition in Mamore's local political sphere as an official voice for independence from the (UEG) and the (CAA).
When violence escalated on Mamore to new, more frequent levels, Lydia continued with her volunteer support for the FLP. While she hid her support from her parents with greater readiness, her support waned very little through the early 2500s. She attended college in pursuit of a degree in colonial history, much to the quiet discomfort of her parents who wished she chose something "more industrious." At her college, she was an FLP chapter secretary and organizer, often responsible for donations and record keeping.
Her fiance, Barna Chase, was of a similar activist mind and member of the Freedom and Liberation Party. Employed as a military policeman for the (CMA), he attended school in New Lexington like Lydia with an interest in industrial engineering. On top of the technical degree that could increase his chances of becoming a CMA commissioned officer, he took classes in colonial history that mingled Lydia with him. Even with his military background, the two developed a deeper relationship on top of their mutual interest in political activism. Lydia graduated from college in and took up employment with a funding and resource agency that financially-supported the FLP.
Barna's college degree did not pan out but he married Lydia and reapplied his industrial engineering education into the Colonial Military where he found more accomplishing work as an M808 Scorpion tank operator. On relative middle-income salaries, the married couple set up a respectable livelihood in New Lexington's surrounding suburbia. Lydia's loyalty to the FLP and the Insurrectionist movement did not waver through 2506 as the undeclared human civil war raged across many human colonies including large portions of Mamore.
More than once, her and Barna's political histories drew scrutiny by local government officials but a lack of illegal activities could not motivate an arresting action by careful CAA lawmen due to the tense political climate Mamore was under. The (UNSC) threatened to dissolve the Colonial Military, putting Barna's job in danger but overall was considered inconsequential. To the local government, known nonviolent FLP members were not regarded as hardliners as the political party was less antagonistic compared to some other secessionist groups on the planet.
Many of these assumptions changed, however, with the attack.
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