Marion Dale

Marion Dale was a renowned scientist, and the mother of Margaret Dale.

Backstory
Marion was born in 2180, during the First Galactic War.

As a young woman, she became recognised as an exceptional scientist. Sabina White describes her as a "pioneer in the development of aNCS technology. Her research helped us to finally begin to understand the biochemical nature of subjective experience."

Marion believed that much of what individual human beings experience is a projection of their own unconscious, and that each one of them lives in a unique world made up of their own psychological contents. She became fascinated by the idea that the subjective world of one rather powerful person could bleed through into the private worlds of others.

Later, she came up with the idea of a "hypothetical projection experiment" which would involve altering the brain of a human test subject to become more receptive to the projections of other people's minds.

Motherhood and Project Triarch
At the age of twenty-one, she gave birth to Margaret Dale, who was conceived through artificial insemination. The chosen donor, Jeffrey Cole, had died seven years earlier at The Battle of Heaven's Reach. Marion always told Maggie that her father had died in the war, but never went into the specifics of her origin.

In 2207, she founded Project Triarch along with Professor Brandt and Mick Stanton. She was also one of the founding members of the terrorist group called Fractus.

In 2210, Marion Dale was with her daughter at a research station on Planet Enki when Maggie contracted Hydran fever and nearly died. Marion nursed her back to health.

After Sabina White joined Project Triarch in 2211, she and Marion became involved in a sexual relationship. Sabina claimed that she ended the relationship when she learned more about Marion's questionable morality. Maggie did not meet Sabina during this period, implying that she and her mother must have been separated for a while.

In 2212, however, Maggie underwent surgery at her mother's behest - apparently to remove a brain tumour. In truth, Marion was finally putting her hypothetical projection experiment into action. The following year, she relocated to Latona Station and brought her daughter along with her.

In 2213 or 2214, she was visited by Captain Vance who informed her that conclaves had been established in both of the Sun Systems.

Disappearance
Marion was onboard Latona Station in 2214 when it was attacked by a number of spaceships. She told her daughter Maggie to go and find a place to hide. Maggie was rescued by Starship Quicksilver, captained by Gail Pilgrim. Although Gail believed that Marion had probably perished in the attack, she promised Maggie that she would try and look for her. She eventually became Maggie's legal guardian and enrolled her at the Pilgrim Space Academy.

In 2215, Maggie received a cryptic message from her mother informing her that she was alive and that Maggie was "exactly where she needed to be."

Pan Gu
It turned out that Marion Dale had been hiding out in an enclave on the Forest Moon of Pan Gu. At first, she ran a laboratory in Yamaichi City. Locals said they often heard screaming coming from the lab, and assumed that the research was of a medical nature.

Maggie arrived on Pan Gu in 2216, looking for her mother.

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Appears In

 * Space Pilgrim Academy: Year 1 (in a flashback)
 * Space Pilgrim Academy: Year 2 (in a video message)
 * Space Pilgrim Academy: Year 3 (in a flashback and a video message)
 * Space Pilgrim Academy: Reunion