Hestia Quenn

**Hestia Quenn** was a female Human veteran from the planet Yilleycit. Once part of Starlight Platoon, Quenn once fought in the Faceless Wars as a soldier for the United Cassiopeian Republic. Hestia passed down her many experiences to her family, her children, and eventually her grandchildren.

## Biography

### Early Life and Adulthood

In 5893 ASA, Hestia Quenn was born on the planet Yilleycit, a tundra world in the Sokhong Sector. She grew up with a younger sister named Hovua Quenn. Ever since Hestia was a child, she had a fighter's spirit and a passion that could not easily die out. She carried this passion and fury all the way to her adulthood, when she joined the Cassiopeian Military and became a member of Starlight Platoon.

One day, Hestia was gifted a quilt entirely woven by her sister Hovua, using special cotton from Makhai. According to Hovua, the choice of fabric was intentional, as she wanted something to reflect her sister's fighting spirit, which Hestia found both amusing and endearing.

At some point in her life, Hestia met her to-be-husband, who was a man named Gendol Ternal. The two fell in love over a long period of time and eventually got married, having two children: a daughter named Carrola and a son named Asan.

### The Faceless Wars

By the time of the war against the Faceless, a cult-like anarchist organization hellbent on destroying civilization in the Cassiopeia Galaxy, Hestia still served the Cassiopeian Military as a member of Starlight Platoon. She shared this platoon with several other colleagues, including Vailla Klanos and Shess Zhyrandin, both of which she considered to be good people.

#### The Battle of Pastatha

Hestia fought in the Battle of Pastatha alongside the rest of her platoon. In an unfortunate series of events, members of the Faceless invaded Starlight Platoon's submarine vessel in the oceans of Pastatha. In the struggle, both Vailla Klanos and Shess Zhyrandin were killed by Faceless Grunts.

The rest of Starlight Platoon managed to take down the remaining Faceless, but one individual in particular clung onto his life. Hestia approached the man, whose mask broke during the fight, revealing a man with pink eyes and short locs. The man, in his dying breaths, told Hestia that he made a mistake. He handed her a single accessory: a pink crystal in the shape of a butterfly. He told Hestia to give the pendant to Kumi, and that papa and mama were sorry, before passing away from his wounds.

Hestia continued to have very conflicted feelings about keeping the pendant for a majority of her life. She herself never understood why she decided to keep the pendant for so long, as she knew she would never find the 'Kumi' the pink-eyed man was looking for without an address or even a full name. Regardless, she kept the crystal pendant in a box underneath her bed even during her elder years.

#### Victory

After the Republic's victory during the Faceless Wars, Hestia and the surviving members of Starlight Platoon were awarded medals of honor for their service. Hestia's medal had her name engraved into it, reading "Hestia Quenn of Starlight Platoon".

Hestia felt rather bittersweet about being rewarded for victory. She lost many of her own teammates, but at the same time, the war was still won and the galaxy was saved. Even during her elder years, she still struggled to wrap her head around the bittersweetness of it.

### Post-War Trauma

The troubles and memories of war never left Hestia, even after many years. Every winter she would go into a depressive episode. Sometimes, it the episodes weren't so severe. At other times, she could barely muster the strength to get out of bed.

One night, she wept on the floor beside her bed. All of her bad memories and experiences haunted her in the moment. It wasn't long before her husband Gendol came to comfort her, silently embracing her. After a good while, Gendol wrapped his blue scarf around his wife. He told her that the scarf would be a reminder that he would always be there for her, even when not physically present. This comforted Hestia enough to have her wear the scarf very often, after that night.

When Gendol eventually passed away, Hestia held onto the scarf, telling herself that with the scarf, he was with her forever.

### Elder Years

Hestia managed to live long past her 60s, to the point where her own two children had their own grandchildren. Dasha Quenn was one of Hestia's several grandchildren, and she loved Hestia very much.

One day after school, Dasha gifted her grandmother a makeshift paper crown she made in class. She told her grandmother of the story of an ancient Yilleycian queen who ruled over their homeworld hundreds of years ago, and how the queen in the teacher's storybook reminded her of Hestia. Hestia was very amused, yet very appreciative of her granddaughter's gift.

Hestia continued to live on Yilleycit for the remainder of her life, surrounded by her loved ones and friends.

## Personality and Traits

Hestia Quenn was a human woman with black hair, dark skin, and brown eyes. As she aged, her hair turned white and grey. Hestia often kept her hair long, but kept it tied during her service in the Cassiopeian Military.

Loved ones always noted Hestia's fighting spirit, which made her a perfect fit into her role in the Cassiopeian Military. She had a strong sense of loyalty, both to her family and her nation. She was also rather sentimental, having kept many different keepsakes from various points of her life, in order to remind her of the experiences tied to each of them and what those experiences meant to her.

## Skills and Abilities

As a former solder of the Cassiopeian Military, Hestia was professionally trained in combat and on strategy in regards to the battlefield. She even used these skills to teach her children self defense.