Olive Lilywhite - Rook Land

Olive Lilywhite: author and investigative reporter.

Olive Lilywhite

Olive Lilywhite is a Whittiern journalist for The Central Report. She was teamed with her mentor Tom Vareedy; the two did the original news reporting on the Shadow Group story—later proven false. Lilywhite’s career was in jeopardy following the events of the Shadow Group scandal; salvaging her job by writing simple weather reports and clickbait articles. She still secretly pursues the story of the Shadow Group and its connections to Rook’s death.

Lilywhite is the author of the Rook Land Saga that documents the story of…

Olive Lilywhite at her cubicle – The Central Report

Early Life

Olive Lilywhite was born in Lumo, Whittier, the daughter of Lefteris and Jasper Lilywhite, chief judge of the 8th Judicial Court. She enrolled in Aon College with a Space Officers Training Corps (SOTC) scholarship and studied history and Whittiern literature. During her service in the space corps, Lilywhite served aboard the WSCS (Whittier Space Command Ship) FireFox, and was one of two officers necessary to move or handle WonderBomb launch codes the FireFox carried.

While at Aon College, Lilywhite joined the Sata fraternity and was a member of the prestigious secret society Book & Bird. She received her masters degree and began a five year tour of duty in the Whittier Space Corps. Lilywhite lost the sight in her right eye due to a blast by a enemy missile, while crossing to a outer Virtuan controlled area from a Whittiern Government controlled area during the Redside war; thereafter she wore an eyepatch. At one time, she was close to Admiral Oland Bons, being communications officer on the WSCS FireFox under Bons’ command.

Journalist Career

After being discharged as a lieutenant, Lilywhite was admitted to the prestigious Raeto Law School but elected not to attend. Instead, she applied for a job as a junior reporter for The Central Report while taking graduate courses in Oskaere (legendary playwright) and international relations at Equidus University. Jay Bisby, The Report’s metropolitan editor, gave her a two-week trial but did not hire her because of her lack of journalistic experience. After a year as a bureau journalist for the United Press, a weekly newspaper in Redside, suburbs, Lilywhite was hired as a Report correspondent, assigned to work directly under veteran investigative journalist Tomas Varidy.

Lilywhite and Varidy were both assigned to report on the death of Wonderchild Labs scientist Zaros Schockly, and his alleged assassination. Their work (under editor Bisby with visuals by Jonny Bailey), was the first to report on a conspiracy that links several corporations and the Whittiern Government believed to be operating at the highest levels of power, secretly started the Redside War, concealed from the public a plan to sabotage Wonderchild Labs and assassinate David Rook in order to secretly gain control over the Universe.

The theory, with supposed evidence of the Shadow Group’s existence and exposed parties, was first reported in The Central Report by Tom Varidy and Olive Lilywhite. The scandal ignited investigations which later proved the story false, eventually leading The Central Report to terminate Varidy’s employment.