Stephanie Harrington

Dame Stephanie Harrington was a Manticoran citizen and the first human to be adopted by a Sphinxian treecat.

Biography

She was born on the planet Meyerdahl as the daughter of Richard Harrington and and his wife Marjorie. She was extremely intelligent, her test scores placing her squarely in the top per mil of the entire human race. Her family originally lived in the city of Hollister on Meyerdahl, but migrated to the Star Kingdom of Manticore in 1478 PD with her parents.

At the age of eleven T-years, she was the one who figured out how to obtain images of whatever was stealing celery from various farm's and greenhouse's from all over Sphinx. Climbs Quickly, a treecat of the Bright Water Clan, became fascinated with her and her mind-glow. He came to her assistance when she broke her left arm and severely injured her right leg in a hang-gliding crash, even protecting her from a hexapuma. When he was grievously wounded, Stephanie defended him and mortally wounded the hexapuma with a vibro-knife. After the incident, her father came to her rescue, she took Climbs Quickly with them to be treated. Neither knew then that their experience would later become known as bonding. (HHA1.1: ABF)

Treecats referred to her as Death Fang's Bane, while she named Climbs Quickly Lionheart. She joined the Sphinx Forestry Service at the age of seventeen and eventually rose to the rank of Brigadier and was awarded the Order of Merit, but declined the Order of the Star Kingdom. Simmons wrote a biography of her named Trailblazer of Dreams and Tsukie Akimoto painted a well-known portrait of her and Lionheart.

She was the driving force behined the passage of the Ninth Admendment of the Manticoran Consituition.

According to General MacClintock she was the youngest person to ever discover an alien sentient species and the 'only' person to face an attacking hexapuma armed only with a vibro-belt knife and survive. (HHA2.2: WPD)

Service Record

Promotions

• Brigadier General

Decorations

• Order of Merit