Penny Bitteridge

Penny Bitteridge was born to Constance and Micheal Bitteridge alongside her younger twin Evie in 1967 in London. Her mother was a legal scholar, being a prosecutor at the time while her father held an executive position at a large vehicle manufacturing plant. Her education, along with her sister’s was very good considering the financial situation her family had, but a contrast was made, as Evie looked more towards drama and theatre while Penny looked into civil service, especially after her mother became a politician and started to work as the Junior Minister of Justice after receiving an offer to work as such. However, life would change for the young girl as she, her sister and her mother, along with the family dogs, flew to Artemis as her mother got an offer to work as such after she lost her job as Junior Minister after the Labour Government became the leading party and the Conservatives became the opposition.

Life in Artemis was interesting, as the 18 year old girls were sent to the research and educational district of St Albert’s to learn further, they being sent to Artemis University. Evie would go on to become an fabled actress of fame similar to actresses like Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn and others. Meanwhile, Penny would gain a degree in political science and also law, being amongst the top of her class, and even rumoured to get a Doctorate of Law. This came around as President Bromswell was disposed and the two girls were evacuated to safety, they returning back to Artemis with their father for he could not go to Artemis in 1984 due to critical surgery at home, and his visa was expired for very long, and due to him continuing to say he was the spouse of the Minister of Justice led to him being ejected.

Her mother would move onto becoming Vice Chancellor of Artemis and thanks to her mother, she was able to be elected to an Aphrodite district ward to be the replacement of one of 50 MPs killed that day. Her political term was adjoined with her serving on a small committee with her mother to decide the fates of Bromswell’s loyal staff members who refused to acknowledge the Emperor Claude Stewart as their leader. She was the final vote for arresting and executing them, and was thus amongst responsible for the deaths of a hundred staffers.

She’d also marry to a Marcus Windmoor in her tenure in the Artemis Authority, when tragedy struck. Her mother, at age 76 in 2006 would die from a slow infection that was killing her after she was shot at St Cecilia’s Theatre during a Nazi uprising. Her father would pass 3 years later in 2009 after suffering a fatal heart attack. However, it was not all gloom and doom as she gave birth to a boy named Andy in 1995 at 28.

She did not know of what her mother did when she was Vice Chancellor, but it turned out she had in fact helped in development of Damocles, a project of missiles used on the world that threatened to attack Artemis and was engulfed in battle amongst itself. She watched as her mother’s legacy of assisting in disposing a tyrant led to millions dying, and then, the troops went to fight. The Emperor in an Authority meeting a number of months into the War of Extermination announced that there would be a Imperial Colonial Board, and Penny was sent to be an diplomatic attaché, her position as an Authority member ending there to be sent down onto Earth to assist in choosing capitals, viceroys and all other things.

Now, in 2026, at age 59, Penny is amongst the staff of the Colonial Board, and though she knows she is a puppet for the Board and by turn, the Stewarts, she did not necessarily care, for she was expanding her mother’s legacy alongside her son, sister and nephew, Eren.