Cassidy Espinoza

About

Cassidy Espinoza chews on her lipstick, eyes scanning the cockpit's controls like a predator. She's got a knack for predicting enemy moves, but her real talent is for making enemies out of allies with her sharp tongue.

Backstory

Three days before her fifteenth birthday, Cassidy Espinoza discovered she could taste lies—literally feel the metallic tang on her tongue when someone fed her bullshit about her parents' "accidental" lab explosion. Captain Elara found her dismantling corporate surveillance drones with nothing but salvaged tools and pure spite, recognizing a kindred spirit who'd been marked for deletion by the same shadow network that had murdered two of the galaxy's most brilliant mecha engineers. The prototype theft wasn't desperation—it was justice, executed with the surgical precision her parents had encoded into her DNA alongside their revolutionary neural-sync technology. Commander Orion's betrayal at Nova Prime confirmed what Cassidy's enhanced perception had been screaming: even allies leak poison when they smile, and the only honest conversation happens between pilot and machine at three thousand meters per second.

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