Therese Beaupre is a native Parisian in her early-mid 30s. The daughter of undistinguished working-class parents, Therese joined the European Commonwealth’s defense forces as soon as she finished her secondary schooling, where her strong hand-eye coordination, astonishing reaction time, and good spatial awareness (an early indication of her latency) lead her into the ECDF pilot corps. In 2110, after she completed her first tour, Orgotek hired her as a pilot in a program similar to the modern-day National Guard: in exchange for occasional service and on-call status, Orgotek agreed to pay her a generous salary and pay for college-level training in aeronautical engineering. She tested as a strong latent for clairsentience a couple years later - a fairly late bloomer, but a strong one. She had just returned from getting dunked in the ISRAn tank when word came down that the Upeo were showing signs of going rogue. She was part of the Orgotek assault squad that had geared up to assault the jumpers, and was on her way to Africa to begin the mission when everything went to hell.
The psi pulse from the Esperanza crash knocked her out (she owes her life to her fighter's piloting agent), but Therese’s return to consciousness was just the beginning of her problems. When she realized what had happened and why - that is, that she was playing soldier for Cassel instead of defending against the Aberrants - she lost it. She spent the next several years with a series of Ministry telepaths and Aesculapian Mentatis specialists, all the while swearing up and down that she could sense her dead family and the Upeo both, and they were constantly screaming at her through the subquantum flux...
It wasn't until the word got out about the jump ship project that Therese began to really show signs of improvement. The possibility of joining the jump ship pilots helped her feel like there was a way to make up for some of what had been lost, and she used that focus as a means to regain her mental bearings. She made good progress, and was discharged and given a clean bill of health just before the first jump ships were ready to launch. She immediately applied for a position... and was turned down. Despite the rexs' assurances, Orgotek's just not comfortable letting her take the stick of something that is worth so much to both the company and the planet. So she's been looking for ways to prove herself to the higher-ups, to show that she's recovered and stable enough to handle the stresses of jump ship piloting. She's also considering leaving Orgotek, if the Trinity would be more willing to give her a second chance - she knows how much effort Cassel & Co. went to on her behalf, both in terms of her treatment and getting her triggered in the first place, but she feels that she needs the jump ship program, to try to finish putting the last five years behind her.
