Raina Rioux

Picture of Sergeant Lilia Raina Rioux, member of the First Assault Squadron (SALRON One), the Questor-only special missions unit created by then-Lieutenant Colonel Roy Jameston in the 2050s to deal with the aftereffects of the Eugenics War and the Second American Civil War on Canada before and after First Contact with Vulcan in 2063. Said unit would remain together through the final phase of the Third World War, the so-called "Optimum War" that raged over Earth for a decade, ending in the battle for Space Station Perfection on 4 July 2079; in that fight, the leaders of the Optimum Movement for the Purification of Humanity under Colonel Phillip Green (a Khmer Rouge-like organization who wished to remove the "non-optimal" from Terran society) fled the planet after unleashing a final act of "purification" which unleashed the Post-Atomic Horror. In that war, thousands of supporters of the Optimum would flee the planet via sleeper ships that took them to planets like Phäeton and beyond. In that fight, Jameston and her force would disappear as well...though a comatose Jameston would be found by a Vulcan survey ship three years later, she then being moved to the Khal Fortress on Vulcan where she would rebuild her life as Roy Pannam. The remainder of her unit would be allowed to "escape" their fate via the Guardian of Forever, travelling forward through time to the Battle of Frontier Day in 2401, where they helped Jameston recover her memories, then they moved to free the large Starfleet contingent over Earth from Borg and Changeling attempts at seizing control to destroy Earth and gut the Federation from within. While the veterans of USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D would confront the Borg Queen directly over Jupiter's Great Red Spot, the majority of SALRON One - supported by hundreds of starships built by Port Weller Spacedocks that avoided the issue with the upgraded Borderlands virtual reality program thanks to their being directly touched by "Race Zero" (as the Collective derisively called Questors as a whole) - would sweep in to help ensure no hidden traps were set up by the possessed junior officers and servicemen, plus kill off rogue Changelings (who had been separated from the Great Link for an inordinantely long period of time) to ensure another Dominion War would be launched. Rioux was one of those who went to Earth as part of a troop headquarters team along with Warrant Officer Shayne MacIntyre, Corporal Belinda Nielsen and Corporal Céline MacKay. Between them, they would help the shipgirls of United Starships Norsyd, Rimouski, Moncton and Charlottetown clear out their own infiltrators (of which there were few) and put down those on three dozen other starships before the controlling signal from a possessed Jack Crusher was lost thanks to Adm Jean-Luc Picard. Once that was done, the clean-up began and all of Earth would end up celebrating the return of some of the many warriors who had fought in humanity's darkest hour having come through Time Itself to save humanity in another dark hour. With that, SALRON One was effectively demobilized as people moved to reconstruct their lives. Rioux is a native of Rimouski in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Québec on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River. She had served as a normal Militia infanteer, joining les Fusiliers du Saint-Laurent when she became of age and advancing through the ranks quickly in the earlier stages of World War Three; she would Cross into the Fold (become a Questor) around the time of First Contact before being switched to SALRON One. After Frontier Day, she would be welcome at Rimouski's country cabin for a time before she would get her own residence near the home armouries of her old unit, which welcomed her back with open arms.