[i]Where should I start.[/i] Ramia smiled a bit sheepishly and gathered her thoughts for a moment. "Well... I've been a soldier for nearly half my life, a general at 26, created the Xian Federation at 28..." She paused for a moment and closed her eyes. "Now at 32 I have very few things remaining. That's the very much shortened version..." Everything she said after the Xian Federation part came out rather bitterly, like she was disappointed in herself.