Codename: Inferno. A spark from the mind is enough to ignite the inferno that is the soul. Be ever wary, lest you be immolated.
Marie is only one of the people that reside within her mind. She is kind, gentle, but possessed of one of the sharpest intellects in the galaxy, capable of retaining vast stores of information from what she has learned. Gifted with perfect recall, Agent Marie is the perfect logistics agent of Dark Rain.
But there is another side...
Pheonix is what she calls herself, the other personality residing within Agent Marie. She is rated hyper-lethal when this personality is under control, being incredibly cold and indifferent to the destruction she causes. She is murderous and ruthless in this persona, prone to episodes of violence that pale even the reknowned Lucien Meciah. The only known Agent who can control Pheonix is Dylan Ryder.
Pyrokinetic
Marie Pheonix is an Alpha class agent, rated for pyrokinesis. Note, she is not restricted to manipulating fire, but is able to call into being a raging inferno to incinerate virtually anything in the local area. Able to manipulate all forms of fire and heat, she could do something as simply as light a candle, or something as advanced as roasting a person from the inside out. However the use of this branch of psychokinesis is monitored heavily by Dark Rain, and so Marie must document every case of use for more than very basic tasks.
Akimbo Rangers
Modified Rangers, sawed-off double-barrel shotguns with pistol grips, are the surprising weapon of choice for the slight Marie. However, she has proven herself extremely proficient with the use of her deadly sidearms, combining them with her powers to clear and entire room in a matter of four trigger pulls. To underestimate the choice of dear Agent Marie would be fatal to most.
The organization known as Dark Rain keeps it's origins secret beyond the level of Black. However, Dark Rain does not keep secret its specialty, and that is providing individual agents to clients at a fee. These agents have one thing in common: They are all powerful psychokinetics.
Marie Pheonix was captured after an episode where her alternative persona came to the front, resulting in half a city on fire. She was held for years while Agents tried, and failed to initiate a contact with the Marie inside. But after nearly three years of incarceration, Dylan Ryder paid her a visit.
Within a week, Marie was undergoing training, Dyan never too far from where she was. Responding well to the almost impossible challenges thrown at her, Marie proceeded to ace all of Dark Rain's tests and receive the designation of Alpha-level agent.
The Varden operate primarily within a galaxy they call Ayenee and in another smaller and relatively close galaxy known as Eden which are both many hundreds of thousands of light years from Terra. These two galaxies are in a state of collision. Their domain consists of three hundred solar systems near the galactic core of Eden with about sixty habitable worlds total, similar to Terra. Each major contributing government holds from one thousand to four thousand solar systems but the major population centers of each empire are within one to four hundred systems with two hundred to six hundred habitable worlds total for each empire. Most habitable celestial bodies within one of the empires have at least one settlement and solar systems that do not have a habitable world normally have a space station orbiting a celestial body. Every race but the humans that are represented within the council do have a home world and a number of core systems as do the Varden.
Ayenee and Eden both reside within the Corona Borealis Supercluster. Although it is one billion light years from Terra it is famous because it is a fairly obvious concentration of clusters of galaxies. Ayenee and Eden both reside within the cluster A2061 as identified by Terran astronomers with Ayenee actually identified as PGC 54787.
The Varden can be considered a class three civilization based on Kardashev's scale. The five empires that support the Varden would rate as class three civilizations due numerous Dyson swarm and ring projects. The most ambitious of these projects is the JDSP (Joint Dyson Sphere Project) being spearheaded by the Varden. Looking to the smaller states the Varden can be considered a Type omega-minus civilization.
On the technology being used to travel such a substantial distance in no significant time:
A cynosural field, also known colloquially as a "cyno" or "beacon", is a cosmic anomaly that acts as a pseudo-gravity well. With the correct calibration information, jump drives can lock onto the field and create what seems to an outside observer to be a portal to a destination. Jump drives actually bend space/time and the equipped unit to jump anywhere in the conceivable universe.
Remote generation of cynosural fields is not currently possible. Thus properly equipped units must rely upon other friendly units to generate a cynosural field at the target location. The only exception to that is the line of sight rule for on grid point to point locations referenced with line of sight to the target location and only when the unit is properly equipped to perform such a maneuver. When activated, cynosural fields act as beacons, allowing any unit in existence to locate and warp to the field as long as that unit is properly equipped and prepared to make the jump.