The Incident at the James Midwinter Border

Description
The Incident at the James Midwinter Border was a major turning point in the Solar War. The incident triggered public interest in the activities beyond the border as well as generated controversy over the unknown whereabouts of Princess Alexandria Clifton, a member of the the Clifton family, a wealthy and politically powerful family.

The Incident
Alexandria Clifton of the Trivalica royal family used to go on regular hikes or jogs outside of the Royal Establishment and would sometimes insist that her secret service protection stay behind so that she could be alone and because the area was generally considered isolated and safe with no foot traffic. On one of Alexandria's jogs, she met a feral girl from the Great Woodlands who had somehow crossed the James Midwinter Border unnoticed. The feral girl was Jeza. Alexandria knew that ferals were not legally allowed to cross the border, but did not report Jeza as she did not want her to be killed. The two girls began to meet regularly, and one day there was a landslide which resulted in Jeza sustaining a leg injury. Alexandria returned to her home and called her friend Rex who she had known since childhood. Rex was a military officer who Alexandria believed could be trusted to help without revealing knowledge of the incident to anyone. Rex told Admiral Royjack Samson of the incident who came to help return Jeza across the border in secret. Royjack sent a message to Nurse Kelly Thorne who never received the text. Instead, Nurse Lana Jacqueline showed up to the location. Jacqueline had been in a recent encounter with The Man with Pink Hair who gave her GPS coordinates of where the incident was occurring. The reasons for Pink Hair's actions and why Kelly Thorne never received the information are still unknown. When Royjack and Rex showed up to the location that Alexandria had told them to meet, Alexandria was nowhere to be found. Jeza, however, was still stuck in a trench and needed assistance as she could not walk at the time. After treating Jeza's wounds, Jeza communicated with hand motions that she had witnessed some sort of airstrike on an unknown location beyond the James Midwinter Border. When it became clear what Jeza was trying to communicate, Lana Jacqueline demanded that Royjack send the news back to his office as well as to media outlets. Royjack flushed Lana Jacqueline into the water tunnels in an effort to keep the entire incident a secret.

The incident prompted an invenstigation by the Solar Senate where Admiral Royjack Samson would be dishonorably discharged and blamed for the disappearance of Alexandria.

Months later, Rex would also be dishonorably discharged.