Abioye Ochoa was born in Hwange, Zimbabwe in the year 2072. His family was wealthy and had moved to Hwange to live a simpler life seven years before he was born. His father Itai and mother Efrat were both doctors to governmental staff until a new regime was put in place by the New American Empire as they sought to expand influence in the region. They were given a significant payout by the new government and asked to quietly retire before Abioye was born. They were happy to oblige.

When he was young, Abioye was popular because his family had a large house near the outskirts of the city and his mom would often host parties for his friends. Every spring, his family would take a week-long hiking trip along the road to Victoria Falls and sit on the banks to watch the shuttles take off. It was something that he had grown to love and he would often write, in school settings, about seeing the smoke trails headed into space and wondering how The Conflict was being fought.

Three weeks after his sixteenth birthday, a shuttle crashed soon after takeoff near the outskirts of Hwange and his parents were called in to help with the emergency efforts. He came along and watched his family work. He would later recall the deft with which his parents worked, the kindness and the skill intertwined. He was instantly certain that medicine in this form – helping those on the frontiers of what was possible – was where he wanted to devote his life.

Abioye went to The University of Zimbabwe, was accepted into their medical school, and graduated at the top of his class to a waiting job as a field medic for Femto Technology – the private space travel enterprise operating the base near Victoria Falls.

After three years of working, mostly in rehabilitation and emergency on the ground for disastrous situations, there was a discovery of New American interference in national politics. Following this, the worldwide conspiracy of The Conflict made national headlines and Femto Technologies closed their base and abandoned space travel amid brewing civil war in Zimbabwe and many countries around the world. 

The civil war boiled over and into Hwange in the summer of the year 2100. Because of financial boons brought by the organization, the residents of Hwange had taken the side of Femto Technology and the The Conflict. They argued that, even if details were not true, the danger was real and the town still needed and wanted protection. This was not the popular opinion of the nation at large. As the government was overthrown and rebuilt, forces from the Reunified Zimbabwe Republic stormed into the town as a part of a concerted effort to make an example of those on the side of the NAE. Abioye was at the base, helping with terminal patients as Femto Technologies finished their cleaning efforts. His parents were at home when the troops arrived. Itai and Efrat Ochoa were killed in the street as representatives of those made rich by New American lies and influence. 

Abioye came home with no job and no prospects to find his family home confiscated and his parents dead.

Many would call the following twenty-two days the worst genocide in the history of the cotinent as those seen as sympathetic to the New American Empire and space firms were systematically hunted and killed. Three million twenty-seven thousand and fourteen people were killed.

Through his connections in the technology sector, Abioye was able to escape the country on one of the last convoys headed into Zambia from the base. There he remained a refugee for two years until he was able to secure safe passage and work in the New American Empire. He traveled by boat on a journey that would take six months and twelve days.

When Abioye arrived he observed a similar tension to that he felt before the civil war in Zimbabwe but here the topics were different. Tension around immigration at the southern border mixed with the mistrust of the New American Empire because of The Conflict conspiracy. Abioye was laid off of his job as a doctor in New Jersey because he was an immigrant but he did not blame the employer. As he sat and watched the news from the East Coast, he learned that this sentiment was because of the open borders. He learned that it was the fault of all of the new influx of unskilled workers that made it harder for hard working people like himself to get the jobs that they deserved. He learned that the campaign to degrade trust in the NAE was simply a ploy from one side of this argument to take attention away from the real problems. He became angry.

Abioye lost his apartment and was homeless for three months before he was approached by a group called The Resistance, a group dedicated to stopping the rampant flow of immigrants into the country. He was the sixth recruit in an assassination effort to eliminate key figures. He was assigned Isabella Garcia – the prominent candidate for President – in exchange for a lifetime of monetary comfort and work.

On the night of the election, Abioye attended the massive watch party but left early to head out back before the concession speech began. He held an untraceable 9mm glock with six bullets developed for The Conflict. He waited thirty-seven minutes for her to emerge and was surprised with the lack of security. He walked with purpose and without hesitation shot her three times in the chest before turning and walking away. 

In the subsequent days, his name became widely known in The Resistance as a traitor and a failure. The assassination did not have the intended effect. Abioye was extracted from the group and told to run. He ran south and west to the Texas border and penniless and guilty, Abioye Ochoa hung himself from the remnants of a border wall. His final thoughts were those of regret and disappointment.

He took the name Kinth.