One of Caldari's 'test tube' Deteis, Karen Galeo spent her early life in a strictly monitored and controlled institutional setting. Like the other children at the New Caldari Academy for Future Excellence, Karen was constantly inundated with Caldari propoganda, immersed in a heavy cirriculum, and told time and time again that the future of the Caldari state rested on the shoulders of her and the other test tube children.

At the age of twelve, students were split off from the Academy and fostered out to the homes of prestigious citizens. It was with the Galeos that Karen met her sisters, Natasha and Natalya, and it was that first taste of freedom that changed the direction of Karen's life.

She rebelled against the strict control and rigid expectations, although not overtly; instead of going into the service with the state or in the Navy, she decided to become a capsuleer and strike out on her own. With all of space open to her, Karen is out to make her own future now.