"Listen, you dream in shapes, and I clean up the edges so they don't kill us."

Early Life

Lena Jenkins was born into the rotating grind of Ganymede’s industrial sector — the daughter of a structural welder and a waste-heat systems tech. The Jenkins household ran on precision, late shifts, and the principle that “everything breaks eventually, so learn how to fix it without complaint.”

From an early age, Lena showed an uncanny talent for finding tolerances — not just mechanical ones, but human, social, and theoretical. She could tell when a system was on the edge of collapse just by its rhythm, its tone, or the microvariations in hum. She wasn’t a prodigy. She was a pattern interpreter.

At 17, she quietly dismantled and rebuilt a mining mech arm so it could rotate 22% faster without flagging a safety violation. No one noticed — until all four arms started mimicking the same optimization without being told.

Her response when asked how?

“I didn’t code it. I just showed it what I would’ve done.”

She earned a scholarship to the Kepler Initiative Lab, but only stayed long enough to reverse-engineer their main materials forge simulation tool, then walked out. It was too theoretical. Too slow.

Introduction to Axiom

Lena joined Axiom in 2801 after submitting an unsolicited hardware correction file for an underperforming scout frame. The correction wasn’t just valid — it reduced resonance stress across the entire left-side nacelle grid by 17%.

The file was signed simply:

"Jenkins. You missed something obvious."

Rather than punish the breach, James Contour flagged her personally for an immediate intake offer.

She was placed under Anyo Merral’s observation, where her hands-on practicality provided a perfect counterbalance to the Director’s more abstract approach. While Anyo theorized, Lena built. Eventually, the pair eventually started to grow a soft spot for each other, and treat each other like bonding sisters.