Joan of Arc,
La Pucelle, has been my hero since... forever. I know just about everything that we are capable of knowing about this legendary young woman (There is not too much documentation on her that has survived the years, outside a few letters she had written and the recorded dialogue in her 'witch' trial at Rouen.), and I just got the itch to write someone with such charisma and prescience--whether you believe in that or not--and explore what a 'Joan' might have been like in a sci-fi setting.
Here's the fact: Joan's actual name was Jehanne, though it has been shortened to Jeanne in more modern times. (Her last name was also Darc, not d'Arc. So the whole 'Joan of Arc' name is entirely fallacious.
) And yes, the signature I am using is actually an edited image of the real Jehanne Darc's signature.
Ysanne is just a pretty name and was used for my favorite Star Wars villain outside the movies. Though it's also ironic in how this character would have been in opposition to Isard if they were both alive at the same time.
v'Rodike is a little bit of 'Russian'. The letter 'в' in Russian (pronounced 'v') is a preposition meaning 'in' or 'of'. Also, the location following this preposition is altered slightly, which would cause the 'a' in 'Rodica' to be turned into an 'e'. The 'c' was turned into a 'k' so no one pronounced it as "v'Ro-dice". It's complicated, I know! But that's how I made the name, and its Russian translation would mean "of Rodica".
And so we have Joan of Rodica, "The Maid of Space".
