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[i]Petty Officer Sara Valentine, AEUG Mobile Suit Pilot - RGM-79SP GM Sniper II 'Longshot'
29 y/o, 5'9", Short White Hair, Red Eyes[/i]

Sara Valentine had a fairly uneventful life growing up. Born on the colony of Baldur Bay in Side 6 in U.C. 0059, she developed a fascination with the military and its way of life around the time she became a teenager. An interest that her family disapproved of, which of course only made her want to look into the subject more. By the time she was 16 Sara had decided that she wanted to join the military, a real military, not the small self defense force that side 3 kept, or the forces of the Earth Federation who were taking less and less interest in keeping there military up to snuff as the years wore on. When she turned 18 in U.C. 0077, about a month after Side 6 became the short lived Riah Republic with backing from Zeon, Sara ran away from home to join what she considered the only military that was actually being adequately supported, that of the Principality of Zeon. She would later consider this, the worst decision she had made in her life.

She found she didn't have too much trouble being accepted, despite being a foreign national. Volunteers from the Riah Republic weren't too unheard off, mostly those who felt there nation should have severed all ties with the Earth Federation. After basic training she was moved around for few weeks, looking for her particular niche. It was when she was first put in the cockpit of a Zaku I that everything clicked, this was it, this was what she wanted to do. She took to operating a mobile suit like a fish to water, earning her wings quickly, and proving to be very capable pilot. Still despite her success, there were the small hints that she wasn't completely accepted by many of her fellow soldiers, that she shouldn't be hear because she wasn't a true born daughter of Zeon. Still she was happy, and felt a strong commitment to Zeon, that is until the One Year War.

The events that came to be known as the One Week Battle shook Sara to her very core, she had signed up to fight enemy soldiers sure. But starting a war with no warning, the gassing of colonies, the dropping of a colony on earth, it was to much for her. During her first sortie near the end of the One Week Battle, she went AWOL defecting to the Earth Federation.

To her surprise the Earth Federation treated her fairly well, after an interrogation, and a short period of verification, she quickly let into the ranks of there military. She spent the majority of the war, up until after Operation Odessa, with a small squad made up of some of the very few Zakus the Earth Federation had managed to capture. Evan afterwards as the Federation began to have an adequate supply of its own mobile suits, she was given a captured Zaku II, due to her familiarity with piloting Zakus. It was not until the tail end of the war that she was given an Earth Federation built mobile suit a GM Sniper II. Considered a higher end mobile suit then the standard GM, to her it was a symbol of the Earth Federation actually trusting her.

Sara stayed in the Earth Federation military after the end of the One Year War, but began to feel somewhat anxious. Slowly she began to realize that she actually missed seeing active combat, a fact that part of her took no small disgust in. Still with the war over, there was really nothing to make of it. That was until U.C. 0083 and the events of Operation Stardust. Jumping at the opportunity to see active combat once more, she quickly joined the newly formed Titans. She would later consider this, the other worst decision she had made in her life.

During her stay with the Titans, she was mostly given defensive and search and destroy missions against Zeon remnants. But as the months went by she began to notice what appeared to be a marked distrust in her fellow Titens, maybe it was the way she seemed to never be privy to the events of peacekeeping missions, or the fact that she was never offered a newer mobile suit despite her experience, but things seemed to be amiss.

The Colony 30 Incident was what finally did it, bringing back memories of the One Week Battle, she felt like she was in the same position as then, only this time there was no better side to defect to, at least not yet. So she kept her opinions to herself and soldiered on, grateful that she was never assigned a "peacekeeping" job, until U.C. 0086. When word of the newly formed AEUG reached her ears she took the first chance she had to defect, for the second time. Of course she was met with suspicion and hostility, but she was used to that by now, and she didn't need the AEUG to trust her in order to fight for them.

2 years later she now finds herself assigned to a squad in the last place she wants to be, her old home colony of Side 6.