Tarra Millea

Tarra Millea is a woman of Irish descent who moved to the Indianapolis, Indiana in the United States in her youth, where she and her brother, Matthew Millea, befriended Tyler and Samuel Weiss and Jacob Dawson. Her mother, Kate Millea, accepted a job as a Research Scientist at Eli Lilly and Company working on their diabetic medications, and the group spent a lot of time at the lake owned by the company. Tarra's father, Sean Millea was a stay-at-home father and taught swordplay to children on weeknights, much like you might find a dojo doing. He and Tarra bonded over this interest and she developed some skill in the art.

### Biography

#### Childhood

Tarra was born in Dublin, Ireland, on February 21, 2005 at 9:27 AM. She would spend most of her early development in Dublin with her parents and her mother's family in Dublin until about 2007, when her mother would accept a job in Indianapolis, Indiana and move to the United States, bringing her along. Shortly after their arrival in the United States, Matthew Millea would be born and Sean would take up a home job, allowing Kate to stay with the company and keep the family comfortable.

Sean's home job was a swordsmanship class, treated much like a dojo might treat karate. Tarra would often join in on the classes to spend more time with her father, leading her to become an adept sword-fighter for her age.

While the family was not Catholic, the parents did grow up in Catholic households, leading them to pick up a few traditions common in the culture, like a big Sunday meal which the mother would cook. Both Sean and Kate were adamantly against the suppression of Irish culture and language and tried their hardest to teach Tarra and Matthew to speak Irish. Tarra would pick up on the basics of the language well, but preferred English, while Matthew almost refused to speak it.

On June 4th, 2011, the invasion of Earth by Republic forces would occur and Tarra, as well as her friends, would be abducted and brought aboard the *RPS Tartarus* for indoctrination and training. Matthew, sadly, would be killed in the invasion.

#### Indoctrination

Before training could occur, the Shipmaster would have to break the minds of all the abductees. Tarra and the rest of Iota-2 underwent very specific, modified indoctrination therapies, as SM would have need of them in the future, traditional indoctrination would include a lot of Republic propaganda, making the abductees believe they were fighting for a valiant and upright cause and giving them conviction to do what the Republic needed them to do. However, the indoctrination of Iota-2 was missing this propaganda and instead had what could be described as reality-warped prophetic visions of the Shipmaster and their ultimate destiny.

#### Training

The training would commence two years later and consisted of various weapons drills with the various archetypes of weapons the R&D aboard the *Tartarus* would develop for humans. After a year of weapons drills, each human was allowed to discuss with their team on what to pick, keeping in mind their team's assignments. The Shipmaster, using his telepathic communication, would guide Iota-2 on their selection, giving the team a more well-rounded load out instead of the typical close-quarters load out expected of Iota teams.

#### Deployments

Under Republic command, Iota-2 was assigned to some minor battles and a major battle despite the team's Iota designation. This allowed the Shipmaster to control their deployments and give them the field experience he would need from the team without worrying too much about their potential injury or death. The site of one of these deployments, a planet known as Kepler-442b on Earth, was a massive 'scorched earth' operation on which Iota-2 was deployed to great effect. While this deployment was incredibly dangerous, the Shipmaster required Iota-2 to see what destruction they were capable of and become used to the

#### Defection

During the Exodus event in 2024, only a few short weeks before humans would be properly deployed throughout the systems rather than just aboard the *RPS Tartarus*, the Shipmaster would initiate a destructive event aboard the massive ship and use it to cover the escape of the team. Joined by Iota-1, who would be killed in action during the event, and a single survivor of Delta-517, who would commandeer a modified deep-space troop transport, the team defected from the Republic. The team would make their way across the galaxies in an attempt to end the war so that the Shipmaster may bring them home.