The Crown took a lonely, frightened girl and made her a weapon; all we did was wrest that weapon from their hands.

And she wasn't the only one; I forgot Charlie "Epoch" Benton (and Natalya "Swarm Queen" Dornova, but I don't know much about her beyond the names). Aberrant: Teragen mentions that a lot of the movement's early members started as elites; I wonder, did a life of war make them proof against the four-color Utopian Way image of novahood the way it did Marshal Law?