Space Born: Science Fiction

Space born, space made, and space served, she was, but space babies were expensive to keep in space. She'd been born in a lab, of genetics optimized for muscle and less bone loss, for quick reaction times and sharp eyes and no nausea and a high G-resistance that still tolerated no G just fine. She might have made a pretty good swimmer, if she'd been earth born, but instead she was tracked to pilot from the time she was old enough to walk and start playing with the shiny toys--the peripheral awareness devices, as the kindergarten called them. And she was a good pilot, and she loved her job, and she hated the enemy just every bit as much as she ought to, but no more than that, and she had a sterling record during the war. Her psych eval was clean after the peace treaty, too. Not for her one of the orbiting space stations of old space born who couldn't deal with the peace, who had to be kept way from the rest for the safety--


Inspiration: dsgood's comment referencing "space born," googled out to the 10th, came up with this image: http://www.inprnt.com/gallery/eilidh/spaceborn/.
Story Potential: High.
Notes: And so she manages to keep a job in space after the war until she ends up downsized to earth. And then--