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It is assumed that Cyber Six had a normal early childhood and that she was at least training from a relatively early age, due to the sword mastery she displayed from the first known point of her history. Some details are however known, namely, her augmentation history. At young age, an accident cause her to need an organ transplant, to replace a collapsed lung. This was her first augmentation, as a donor could not be found and she received an early model cybernetic lung. Complications a few years later forced another surgery to replace the lung with a new model.

Known history of Cyber Six begins at eighteen, where she joined the Sectorial Militia, a section of the army charged with policing a space sector (A sector is described as a major solar system and surrounding minor ones). Despite her lung, she easily reached the rank of Lieutenant and participated a few battles against pirates. At the time, the various factions that had formed after humanity's spread were at peace, if an uneasy one. But this did not last long. Soon, tensions broke the peace into an all out war between the two most powerful factions. Smaller ones, of which Cyber Six's was, were forced to ally with either into a conflict that spread to the whole territory of humanity.

The war was started, surprisingly, by the weakest of the two major factions, the Tarian Combine, when they attempted to seize the exploitation rights on a system controlled by the Earth Alliance Federation. While a minor event at first, it started a chain reaction. Worlds on the border between the two factions' territories began to see riots against the other faction's visitors and travelers, to the point that both sides sent armies to protect their peoples. It remained skirmishes, relatively isolated until a Tarian ambassador was killed during a meeting with the Federation's dignitaries. The Combine blamed the Federation for this murder, while the Federation was convinced they had set things up to cause outrage within the population. No matter who was right, the skirmishes turned to all out war.

Cyber Six's sector was relatively close to the Federation's territory, and they were quickly drafted into their side. At first, the Federation faced multiple defeats due to act of sabotage and lost much territory. Cyber Six participated in multiple battles, some among them being of note.

The First Battle of Rax Prime

Rax Prime was a disaster for the Federation. Cyber Six and her battalion were deployed alongside three others to the mining world. The Combine forces where light and it was thought to be a simple mission. The fighting started to the advantage of the Federation. Cyber Six personally led her battalion to the main Combine base and they easily took if, utterly wiping out the defenders. Over the course of three days, most of the Combine's Occupation force was defeated, with only a few escaping into the wild. With this victory secured, the Federation Fleet in orbit left a few ships and moved to another battle, retrieving two of the battalion on the ground before doing so. It was a grave mistake, however. Cyber Six wondered why the Combine would leave such a rich resource world with so few protections and went to her commanding officer. She was dismissed, but was ultimately right. Soon after the fleet had left, a massive Combine Fleet arrived to the planet, obliterating the token force in orbit and forming a blockade while sending ten battalions to the ground. The federation forces sent a distress signal and held the Combines at bay, but any federation ship that came to their rescue was quickly destroyed. The commander himself was quickly killed and Cyber Six was forced to take command, resorting to ambushes and guerrilla tactics. They inflicted a lot of casualties on their enemies, but ultimately, most where wiped out, leaving Cyber Six with only ten of the thousand that were present at first and herself losing an arm. Eventually, a federation ship managed to fly through the blockade and rescue the survivors before fleeing back to Federation Space. Cyber Six was commended for her valor and received a new arm, but the defeat was a bitter loss for all of the Federation.

Plot on Anoi

After the events of Rax Prime, the Federation reviewed their strategies. They now knew the Combine's Forces were more dangerous than previously expected and acted accordingly. Eventually, they managed to push the Combine back, regaining lost planets and moving the frontline back toward the frontier. Cyber Six was able to get some free time on the planet Anoi, a city planet. However, things quickly turned strange. Various high profile members of the Federation on the planet were killed during a meeting, apparently with a sword. Despite being on shore leave, Cyber Six was asked to examine the bodies due to her expertise in swordsmanship. She was able to identify that the murder was committed with a monomolecular blade, similar to the one she used. Unknown to her, this simple act made her a target. Later that night, as she was leaving for her hotel, she was attacked by a masked individual wielding one such blade. They fought into the street, her opponent clearly gaining the upper hand as Cyber Six was not prepared for such an attack and was without weapon. She held long enough for the police force to arrive, forcing the mysterious figure to flee. From this point, she was assigned an agent for protection and was allowed to carry weapons at all time. Returning to the scene of battle, Cyber Six and the police discovered traces that led them to a warehouse owned by one of the Anoi's council member. Investigating, they were ambushed by the very same masked figure, only this time, Cyber Six was ready and, although some police officers were killed, she dueled him and successfully unmasked him, revealing a cyborg with a helmet. He fled once more but one of the officers managed to shoot him with a tracking round. The cyborg was tracked to the very mansion of the councilman. Expecting another assassination, Cyber Six and the police rushed there, but were surprised by the councilor's personal guard that began to shoot at them. In a heated battle, the police managed to enter the mansion and Cyber Six personally confronted the councilor, who was revealed to be the cyborg itself. They dueled once again, the councilor using his full cybernetic body to nearly kill Cyber Six, but she managed to trick him and kill him with his own blade and win the battle. Upon further investigation into the councilor, it was discovered that he was a Combine agent placed there many years ago. With this done, Cyber Six enjoyed a week of calm time before returning to the war.

The Void Star Battle

Cyber Six participated a large scale space battle mid way through the war. While not directly involved in the ship-to-ship combat, she defended the ship she was on when it was boarded. This battle is significant to the war because it was the turning point, when the Federation managed to break the stalemate and begin its push toward the Combine's home world. The battle began when two fleets met in the void between two systems. The meeting was, surprisingly, entirely random. As the battle started, both side sent word for reinforcement. Fleets poured into the battle until nearly the full might of both factions were pulled into the battle, making this the single largest fleet battle of the war. Both sides inflicted heavy losses on the other, until the captain of the doomed ship Void Star rushed toward the center of the Combine's fleet to self-destruct, inflicting such loss and confusion on their forces that the Federation was able to use this momentum and utterly defeat the Combine's fleet. While many of their ships escaped, most were damaged and they had lost at least a third of their standing forces.

The Second Battle of Rax Prime

As the war entered its adolescence, Cyber Six found herself back on the world of Rax Prime. This time, the Federation was ready quickly broke through the blockade to land their forces on the ground. The battle raged in both space and ground, where ten battalions, each commanded by one of the survivor of the first battle, battled with the defending forces. For them, it was revenge for the extreme losses of the early days of the war. The Combines, however, were not about to give the planet easily and the battle lasted for four days, with reinforcement coming on both sides. Eventually, the battle was taken to the mines as the Combine forces retreated. For two days, the Federation tried to push further into the mines, but faced entrenched forces. Eventually, it was decided that a strike tea would be formed to infiltrate the mines and plant explosives. All ten survivors, including Cyber Six, were chosen for this mission. They were infiltrated during a diverting attack and hid behind the Combine lines until the fighting stopped. They then progressed down into the mines, encountering surprisingly little resistance behind the enemy lines. The explosives where set and the team reached the deepest reaches of the mines, only to discover a small scientific facility. Within, they found that the scientists had fled, but they found on the computers data recordings showing experiments on a strange creature. Keeping this data, they prepared to set the last explosives and leave when they were ambushed by Combine forces, one member of the team being killed. In the end, Cyber Six and five other members managed to exit the mines, three remaining behind to make sure the bombs detonated. The operation was however a success, the destruction of the mine ending Combine dominion over the planet. The data retrieved would vanish until much later.

The Invasion of Tarian

Cyber Six participated in many other battles during the war, but none was more important than the final battle on Tarian, the Combine's Homeworld. War was in complete favor of the Federation, but the Tarian Combine refused to surrender. As the Federation's full forces approached Tarian, they were set upon by every remaining ship the Combine had. It was, however, not enough to stop them and the Federation quickly established a beach head outside of Tarian's capital city. Cyber Six was among the ground forces, acting as commander of a fourth of the forces. The siege of the city began. The city had powerful defenses, including artillery and a massive outer wall that resisted bombardments. The wall held for nearly a week before a lucky shot destroyed a power generator on the other side, opening a gate. For that point, the fighting took place within the city itself. Tarian were fighting ferociously, with the vigor of a trapped beast and inflicted massive casualties on the Federation, but they just weren't enough. Sections by sections, the city fell, until only the central palace remained, defended by an elite force. It took two days of fighting before the place was breached and the Prime Minister of the Combine arrested, ending the war.