Jesse Fain



""I hate the waiting.""

- The Ivanhoe Gambit

Jesse Fain is a young corporal who, accustomed to the modern equality between the sexes, hates the army with a passion. When we meet her in Book 1 she has just clocked in to the 27th century from serving a hitch under Alexander Nevsky.

"'I can't tell you how good it felt,' she said, 'being in the thick of battle and splitting men's skulls! God, I never thought I could be so blood-thirsty, but after all that I'd been through...'"

Jesse's story is fairly run of the mill for a soldier of the United States Army Temporal Corps. She did poorly at her S.A.T.s, as most everybody who could not afford implant education did, and she was given the choice between working in the radioactive waste disposal and reclamation system - mining in the asteroid belt - or service in the army. She jokes that it had been 'a really tough decision.'

Drinks unblended scotch.

Jesse meets a sad fate; she is "lost in transit", somewhere in the dead zone on her way to clock out to her next hitch after meeting Lucas.

"'I hate the waiting.'"

Appearances

 * The Ivanhoe Gambit