Jain Family

## Family Members

**Mother:** Inessa Jain**Father:** Kellan Jain

* **Son:** Bened
* **Son:** Caden
* **Son:** Patryk
* **Daughter:** Mirrie
* **Daughter:** Sara
* **Son:** Rodrish

## Biography

### Percival

Inessa was a hard working farmer's daughter, when she joined the Colony Ten program and was sent to Percival in Epsilon Sector as one of the 500 women. She met and married Kellan Jain, and they had their first two sons while in Colony Ten. In their first year of full colonization they applied to lead a group in settling another new planet and was accepted.

They received huge tracks of land on Percival for their efforts.

Both sons staid with friends for two and a half years before they could join their parents on the new planet.

### Miranda

Inessa & Kellan Jain
Age: 60 during *Frontier*, in 2788
Led the Colony Ten phase of "Miranda" colonization.
Inessa named the planet for her mother "Miranda", who died while they were on standby for Colony Ten. They couldn't break quarantine to attend the funeral so decided to name the planet after her. (*See: Miranda*)
During colony ten, Kellan figured out how to save the Moon Monkey's lives after they got into the apples, but he didn't do a very good job of sharing the information.
When their four boys each came-of-age and passed their farming certificates, they were given a huge farm, approximate the equal to 10 normal size farms that incoming settlers received when they qualify, from part of their parents land grant in "Jain's Ford county". Inessa & Kellan also holds an even larger estate and Big House in the same area. They built a new home on their land near Memorial and when they move they will give the Big house and estate to one of their sons, in addition to the farm that the son already holds.
Bened
b. 2749, Age: 39 during *Frontier*, in 2788
Considers Percival to be his true home and has missed it ever since he came to Miranda. He particularly misses the glorious flowers of Percival and despairs that Miranda has no true flowers since there are no insects to pollinate them. He staid on Miranda when he became an adult because of the pressure from his parents so when he married and had two sons he didn't want to move until the boys became adults and could make their own choice on going with him or staying. Now that his youngest son is an adult he started a campaign antagonizing his youngest brother and being rude to Amalie hoping his parents would give up on him finally and accept his desire to move back to Percival.
Caden
b. 2751 - 2756
Hardly remembers his years at Percival so has no problems thinking of Miranda as his home world.
Patryk
b. 2757 -2767
Inessa & Kellan's first child born during Miranda's Colony Ten years.
Mirrie
b. 2757 -2767
Born during Miranda's Colony Ten years.
has been living near Great Lake Settlement since she got married.
Sara
b. 2757 -2767
Born during Miranda's Colony Ten years.
has been living near Great Lake Settlement since she got married.
Rodrish
b. 2769, Age; 19 during *Frontier*, in 2788
The youngest son was born on Miranda, after it came out of Colony Ten.
In his last year at Memorial School he failed a couple of farming modules, so his father transferred him to Jain’s Ford School, where he met Amalie who helped tutor him so he would pass his farming certification. He hides his true nature well, he is greedy for huge estates. He is also calculating and manipulative and enjoys seeing others suffer.
### Trivia

* Kellan's twin passions are agriculture and architecture. He is also greedy for lots of grandchildren.
* Inessan loves star gazing and has her own telescope in a tower of her home.
* Rodrish is a natural actor or practiced liar.

## Locations

* Jain's Ford County
* Jain's Ford Settlement

## Summary

### Frontier

In *Frontier* the year is 2788 and Amalie Roche is the settlements old-maid, the last 17-year-old that is unmarried. Teacher Lomas asks her if she would be interested in going away to University to become a History teacher at the University Miranda when it is built. He sends her a lot of information and she is getting ready to look it over when Rodrish Jain calls her and asks her to visit his farm. She is thrilled at the idea of marrying Rodrish as she had been in love with him since the previous year, so all thoughts of going away to University leave her head. When she visits Rodrish's farm, there are some alarm bells that go off, but nothing too startling. The next day when the entire Jain family appears at their Community Day to welcome Amalie into the family, even more alarm bells go off. After she is invited to the Big House to visit with Inessa & Kellan, she is sure she doesn't want to marry Rodrish. But now she has to figure out how to break a betrothal to the son of the first family of Miranda.

When Jain Ford Settlement had a major ecological disaster involving Moon Monkeys, Amalie and Bened are called in to figure out how to help the monkeys. When they are finished, Bened explains to Amalie why he had been acting the way he has toward her and Rodrish. His campaign was a success and his parents gave him part of their land grant on Percival, so he and his wife were moving there after Year Day and becoming flower farmers. His oldest son loves growing things so will take over the Miranda farm and his youngest son is going off to University to become a doctor.

### Intermission

(Events that happened in between *Frontier* and *Balance of Power* relayed in *Balance of Power*).

When Amalie privately breaks her betrothal to Rodrish, he screams insults at her and tells her he will make her life a living nightmare. He tells everyone that he was the one that broke it off because he found out that Amalie was a thief. He claimed that she stole a very expensive lookup that in reality was the one he gave her as betrothal gift. The story spread rapidly around the settlement but Inessa Jain stopped it from spreading further. When Amalie tried to talk to Inessa, she wasn't believed and his parents supported Rodrish' story.
It made Amalie's situation nearly impossible before she left to attend Asgard's University pre-history foundation class on Earth as a part of Asgard 6.

### Earth Prime

In *Balance of Power* Amalie Roche returns to Miranda to say good-bye when Amalie finds out that she must resolve issues with Rodrish Jain for the good of Miranda, before moving on to her future on Fortuna.

Krath accompanies Amalie to Miranda, so Amalie tells him the whole story about Rodrish, and the misery he caused her after breaking their betrothal. After telling the whole story to Krath, she decides not to try and resolve the old thief accusations, until the Mayor calls her. When the Mayor, Teacher Lomas and Mojay meet with Amalie and Krath they fill them in on what's been happening on Miranda. Because of Amalie's involvement with the Alien artifact she has become famous in Epsilon as the only one involved in a pivotal moment in human history. After their last visit Epsilon Sector News did a feature on Miranda and the panda mice. Miranda is quickly becoming one of the best known worlds in Epsilon sector and with the population vote for the Sector Capital coming up in the next year, Miranda has a good chance of being selected.

For this visit both Epsilon Sector News and Gamma Sector News are on Miranda to film and interview Amalie and Krath. But a vindictive and spiteful woman that lives in Jain's Ford settlement snuck in and told each of the news teams a very exaggerated version of the theft accusations against Amalie. Epsilon sector news told the Mayor and also sent a trainee over to the Gamma Sector news area to listen in on what they plan on doing. Gamma sector news plans on making a huge deal out it and attempt to get Amalie thrown out of the Alien contact program, by ambushing them with the interview conduct with the spiteful woman about how much of a harden criminal Amalie is.

Amalie comes up with a plan to convince Rodrish to recant his story and apologize to her for the good of Miranda, but he wont go along with it and even laughs at her for suggesting that she has any importance. Amalie had recorded the conversation and sends it to Inessa and Kellan. Then they all wait for the Jains to get back to them.

When Inessa finally calls Amalie back, she tells her that they would follow her plan of meeting at Mojay's an hour earlier with only Epsilon News present and Rodrish would portal in and give her a public apology. She also said that she had just learned some new things from Kellan that makes Amalie's story much more credible about what really happened and that they would be dealing with Rodrish after the interview.

When Amalie and Krath arrive at Mojay's most of the near by settlements had also come early and the entire Jain family was present, including Bened from Percival.

Inessa and Kellan welcome Amalie and Krath, then Rodrish steps forward and very eloquently explained that he had lied about Amalie. In the end with Krath calls him a two legged Cassandra skunk, Rodrish steps toward him and betrays his anger and inflated ego.

## Footnotes

### Notes

*Further information: Miranda, Miranda Animals, and Miranda Plants*
*Further information: Alien Contact Program, Alien Probe, and Alien Artifact*

### References

1. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Earth Prime (The Earth Girl Aftermath Stories Book 1) (p. 390). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition.