Epi grew up in a Lun Sauti colony on the Tycho moon base. Her parents, Roger and Pamela, both doctors that decided to offer medical care in space, before she was born. As times grew tough her parents started giving free medical care to people that couldn't afford it. As times grew tougher her parents began stealing medical supplies. When they were caught and had their named dragged through the mud, they started stealing to survive. When Epi was sixteen they both died of preventable illness. She tried to save them, she failed.