Infinity - Mercenaries - Valerya Gromoz (Hacker)

It is hard to be an Atek in PanOceania. Especially if your parents are typical autonomous workers run down by the global economy. And even more so if you live in a remote village in the mountains of Albania, where the only place of interest is a satellite tracking base, full of military technicians. So, being fifteen years old, and with no possibility of a higher education, Valerya was told that her only profession would be a waitress, or prostitute, or both. Valerya started out as a waitress. This allowed her to get to know the technicians from the base, and hopefully find a boyfriend to help her get out of the black hole of her life. Technicians love to talk about their job, so Valerya asked questions and listened, learning and improving her knowledge until she could learn no more. At that point, she gathered her equipment, which was part given to her and part stolen, and with her savings and a fistful of petabytes worth of military software stolen from her boyfriends, she moved out to Tirana.