Who is Sierra Nicholson?
Most everyone knows that Max’s time on Lava, hiding out from the SID, was a difficult and lonely time. Not everyone knows that Salmo is where Max met her lifelong best friend.
Sierra Nicholson was never someone you would think would be the best friend and confidant of the Mother of the Galaxy. She was born on Lava in Ag Tract Seventeen to Don and Delphine. She has a younger brother named Blain.
Don and Delphine moved to Lava from Earth lured by promises of free land and SID support. Turned out the soil on the land was lifeless as was all of Lava. The SID did provide soil ammendments and did help set up these family farms. However, as with most profit based orginizations their support waned when they discoverred how much support these farms would need. Farming on Lava turned out to be a hardscrabble life until the Food Riots in Lavan Year Tweny-Four.
Perhaps it was the hardships or maybe Don and Delphine were just not cut out to raise children or at least not Sierra. She ran away from home when she was sixteen and spent almost a year living on the sttreets in Colonial, Lava’s Capitol. She has never been very open about her time on the streets but one must suspect it was a rough time for her.
Things got so bad for her in the city she headed out to Salmo looking for work in the mines. Even today she is a little thing. No one would ever expect to see her weild a pick. But then, I think she’s done a lot of things no one thought she could.
When the mining thing didn’t work out for her she tried to hit up the Madam in town for a job as a prostitute. Dusty, who ran the Salmo Hotel and whom I’ll be writing about soon, introduced Sierra to Max as a possible barmaid. The rest is history.
You can read about how their friendship grew in the novelization “The Gavaskar Field” which recounts Max’s time on Lava.
Philip Normer
Kushan Year 87
Earth Year 2479
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