Editing Charissa Clarke (section)

==Early Life==

Clarke was born on the 2nd August 1969, to Harriet Cartwright, a prisoner following an attempt to flee Kerlile with her husband, in [[Kerlile]]. Her mother died shortly after. She was raised in a Kerlian orphanage until the age of three, when she was transferred to a classified Kerlian programme known as the '[[Aurora Programme]]'. Speculation suggests this was a deep-cover training programme, however Kerlile has not admitted to its existence. 

At the age of fourteen, Clarke appeared at an orphanage in Annatown, [[Lauchenoiria]]. She claimed to be the daughter of a couple killed in a car crash who had been isolationists. She was given identification which granted her Lauchenoirian citizenship, despite her lack of proof of her identity at the time.

At the age of sixteen, Clarke left the children's home and moved in with a boyfriend. The relationship did not work out, and she spent most of the subsequent few years moving around and working different jobs. At the age of eighteen, she joined the military.