As many of you know, I name my ships after women resistance fighters.  Today, I share the name of my Viper Mk III: Renia Kukielka.

Renia fought for democracy against ancient Earth’s Nazis during World War II.  She was a courier for the aptly named group Freedom.  She wrote a memoir that was published in 1945 giving her first-person account of the war.  Renia was able to escape a ghetto using fake documents, join the resistance, and carried cash to buy her fellow freedom fighters food, medicine, weapons, and bullets.  She warned in her memoir that Nazis thought “killing a person was easier than smoking a cigarette.”  Renia was fueled by rage and a deep sense of justice to put an end to fascist rule.  May we all be guided by her sense of duty and compassion for her fellow man.