Jennie Escalante de Gunnarsson

While Max is the leader of the
Gunnarsson clan, it's Jennie who's really in charge. Strong-willed and
drop-dead gorgeous, she was born to Enrique and Carmen Bagatelle. A tragic air car accident left the couple dead, and Jennie was put into the social
welfare system where she was adopted by an older, barren couple - the
Escalantes. At the time of her parents' deaths, her older brother (by eighteen
years), Luigi, was in the naval academy and on a deep-space mission. By the
time he got news of their parents' demise Jennie was already lost in the red
tape of the adoption process.

Jennie was raised in Buenos
Aires, Nueva Argentina, knowing that the Escalantes were not her biological parents,
but believing that she resided in the city of her birth. An excellent athlete, her
parents forbade her from participating in athletics, or even dating until she
had left for the university. Upon graduating from the university, she entered
the naval academy, against her parents' wishes.

On a whim, Luigi performed an
illegal DNA search for Jennie, finding her right as she graduated from the naval
academy. Not revealing their relationship to her, due to the anti-nepotism
statutes in Azul System law, he put her under his command so he could keep an
eye on her.

A few years later, upon finding
the fugitive Max Gunnarsson on Earth, Jennie accompanied Max and Draagh to 43rd
century Earth, where they trained in their lycan skills. As a bonus, Jennie was
taught to harness basic magical skills while using magic-enabled objects. In
her case, a wand and a metal gauntlet. It was at this time that Jennie
befriended Lili, and the two became fast friends.

After Lili saved Max and Jennie
during the Battle of the Blood, and assisted in killing Ryder Johnson (Jennie's
ex-boyfriend), Jennie decided to adopt Lili. At the celebration feast for the
Battle of the Blood, Jennie announced she would be Lili's mother. The following
day Jennie proposed to Max, and the three became a family.

The following year Jennie was
murdered during the Vrol War, but Draagh self-sacrificed his corporeal form to resurrect
her. The end result was Jennie's transformation into a Primulus/Lycan hybrid,
just like Max. She also made the critical judgment call to have King Krynos,
mortally wounded, hit the dead man's switch on an anti-matter bomb located in
the Vrol Brood Carrier, effectively destroying the insect species and winning
the war. It was also at this very moment that she discovered that King Krynos was actually the resurrected soul of her deceased father, Enrique Bagatelle.

Jennie speaks fluent Castilian
Spanish and English, without an accent in either language. However, she has
been known to throw a Spanish accent while speaking English, just to sound sexy.

She is usually either out in
space on her ship, the ADF Reagan (where she is second in command to Max), or
out on a Primulus mission.

Jennie is unaware that Draagh,
also known as Chronos, had reset the universe five times so that she could save
humanity. She is also unaware that she is actually Athena,
Draagh's cousin, and that she instructed Draagh to wipe her soul memory and
allow her to be reborn as a human for the express purpose of saving the human
species.