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|When this is done, Jerkface, I will hold your tarnished and melted pin up as my trophy as your smoldering ship marks your pyre, and the final resting place of your crushed and broken corpse!

 

== Appearance and Personality ==

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== Attributes and Abilities ==

Spensa is an excellent pilot{{book ref|skyward|28}} and also has [[cytonics|cytonic]] abilities. So far, she has demonstrated the ability to intercept the Krell's faster-than-light communications with their drones and to react to those orders faster than would be humanly possible.{{book ref|sky1|50}} On one occasion, she was also able to activate M-Bot's cytonic hyperdrive.{{book ref|sky1|53}}

 

== History ==

 

 

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Spensa went to Flight School the next day, befriending a girl named Kimmalyn.{{book ref|skyward|5}} The training room had several flight simulators, and Spensa met the rest of her flight. She instantly disliked Jorgen, who is rich and priveleged. Cobb made Jorgen flight leader, which outraged Spensa.{{book ref|skyward|9}} The cadets spent hours practicing takeoff and landing in the simulators, and afterward an alarm went off. They were called to head towards the battle because Nightmare Flight was down in the caverns. They weren’t supposed to engage in combat, just hover near the city and look threatening. But when a Krell ship went towards the city they engaged. Kimmalyn managed to snipe the Krell fighter and destroy it, and Skyward Flight went back to the surface.{{book ref|skyward|11}}

 

Admiral [[Judy Ivans|Ironside]] despised Spensa and thought her to be a coward like her father, and forbade her from sleeping or eating at the Flight School. Spensa was forced to sleep in her cave with the broken ship, and to make the long commute between there and the Flight School. Because she was forbidden to eat at the Flight School, Spensa was forced to hunt for rats and mushrooms in the caves to feed herself. Still, she didn’t complain, knowing that Admiral Ironsides would take any chance to see her ejected. She tried to connect power to the ship, but her light line’s power matrix was too weak.{{book ref|skyward|12}} When she arrived at flight school the next day, she found that her friend Rig was quitting.{{book ref|skyward|13}} Spensa and the other cadets spent hours upon hours practicing maneuvers before letting them try destructors, as well as teaching them to use light-lances. Spensa also discovered that her helmet contains sensors to monitor her bioreadings. They engaged in a competition with their light-lances organized by Cobb, in which Spensa and Jorgen competed fiercely. They grew angry at each other after Jorgen revealed that Spensa’s father is Chaser, the infamous coward. At the end of the day, Spensa stole the power matrix from Jorgen’s hovercar.{{book ref|skyward|15}}

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|Sometimes I don’t feel like a teacher. I feel like a munitions man, reloading artillery. I stuff you into a chamber, fire you into the sky, then grab another shell…

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==Relationships==

Jorgen is Spensa's boyfriend.{{book ref|Cytonic|i|1}} They originally got off on a bad foot, due to Jorgen being admitted into flight school without completing the admission test and his ordering around of Skyward Flight prior to being made flightleader.{{book ref|Skyward|5}}{{book ref|Skyward|8}} As a result, she nicknames him "Jerkface", which later becomes his callsign, much to his chagrin. {{book ref|Skyward|9}} Jorgen also outs Spensa as being the daughter of Zeen Nightshade, The Coward of Alta, after Spensa bests him during flight practice.{{book ref|Skyward|15}} In retaliation, she steals his car's power matrix.{{book ref|Skyward|15}} The animosity in their relationship reaches a peak when they get into a fight which ends in Spensa physically attacking Jorgen.{{book ref|Skyward|23}} Spensa expects Jorgen to report her, but instead he tells her that he needs every pilot on the flight, even her.{{book ref|Skyward|24}} After Hurl's death, Jorgen helps Spensa give her a pilot's burial and they discuss how the both of them live in their parent's shadows. Jorgen also allows Spensa to steal parts from Hurl's ship and encourages her to build her own ship so that she can fly and be Defiant.{{book ref|Skyward|34}}{{book ref|Skyward|35}} Later on, they talk about the deaths of their flightmates and hug.{{book ref|Skyward|41}}. Spensa also confides in Jorgen about her and her father's "defect", and he calls her amazing and reassures her that he still wants her on his flight.{{book ref|Skyward|44}} Both of them, along with the rest of the Skyward Flight fly together in the Battle of Alta Second.{{book ref|Skyward|52}}

 

 

===The Corrupted Delver===