| abstract | - Rose was born on Mindoir on April 11, 2154. Mindoir was a small but prominent human farm colony in the Attican Traverse, which pretty much put them on the frontier of Alliance and Council-controlled space. She was the first of two siblings - the second being a younger sister by the name of Jane - and was the daughter of results-driven father and disciplinarian mother. Then came the slavers. On a brisk morning in 2170, a group of Batarian slavers assaulted the colony, made short work of the rent-a-cops and poultry defense forces present, and proceeded to pillage and rape. Nearly the entire colony was either killed or captured within hours, and many of those who had not been killed wished they had been, as the Batarians utilized painful cranial implants to subdue their new slaves and torture the people who they decided were to useless to keep. Many people, including Rose's parents and little sister, were incinerated by chemicals far superior to Napalm, as they tried to flee from their home. Rose, who was out in the fields at the time, was forced to watch as her family ran out of their house while quite literally burning to ashes. She fled, but was taken prisoner a few days later, only to then be rescued by an Alliance patrol before any lasting damage could be done... mostly. She enlisted with the Alliance three years later, just shy of her nineteenth birthday. During those three years, she had a love-hate relationship with the military; it had failed to protect a holding in its space of authority, but while the Council denied responsibility for safeguarding human colonies on the frontier, the Alliance tried to own-up for its incompetency and eventually wiped out the slavers who had done the deed. The rest is history - when the geth emerged out of nowhere and attacked the human colony world of Eden Prime, Rose's were among the first boots on the ground to assist. The attack and Prothean beacon found there led the Commander into a series of galaxy-altering (and in some cases, galaxy-threatening) events, one of which being her own death and resurrection. Throughout most of it, she kept what many considered to be a "Renegade" ideology: a strongly pro-human approach where the ends justify the means, and black-and-white morality takes a backseat to ensuring the survival of herself, her crew, and the human race. It was the very ideology that led her to preserve the Collector Base and set off a Nuetron Bomb in lieu of the conventional explosive she had been given originally. The Neutron Pulse Bomb Rose set had a rather... interesting effect on the Mass Relay system however once the field hit the Omega 4 Relay. Quite a few of the Relays began acting strangely, and shortly after Rose successfully restarted and finished a project that would ultimately delay the Reapers from reaching Earth, the Normandy passed through a Mass Relay that did not take them somewhere else in Council space, or even their own galaxy for that matter...
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