Aurora was born on a small space station out in the proverbial middle of nowhere. The station was home to the Movement of the Hidden Skies. The group’s prophet proclaimed that humanity was in a secret war with hidden invaders from another galaxy and that the only way to survive was to keep to themselves. The children were raised in special isolated environments and trained for the role they were supposed to hold once the secret war was over and humanity had to rebuild itself from the ashes. Aurora is highly intelligent and was chosen to be a scholar, a living encyclopedia.
Taking a genius and forcing them to pour over the collected knowledge of humanity is not a great way to keep your lies hidden. Once Aurora realized it was a sham she started working to bring it down. Being kept isolated didn’t give her a lot of ways to prove what she knew. The computers in her room were her real connection to the rest of the station, so she taught herself how to hack into them.
Aurora collected evidence of the leadership’s duplicity; tithes being spent on secret luxuries, news from the outside being changed or doctored and on and on. The ‘invaders’ that attacked on a regular basis turned out to be a mercenary group hired to make the whole scam more convincing. When that last one was made public it sparked a riot. Angry survivors dumped the old leadership out an airlock and declared the Movement dead.
That was three years ago. The group’s been slowly rebuilding themselves ever since. They’re still quite isolated which is what drove Aurora out into the wide world. She wants to acquire more knowledge for the group; what’s going on with the rest of humanity, what new discoveries have been made etc. Aurora doesn’t follow a set path but wherever she goes, whatever she does, she always reports it back to her home station.
