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Appearance
Regina was short for a Berzegettian, being only 5'8''. ''She also had what can be described as a "short" face, with a well-pronounced chin. Upon her Knighting, she revived the old Berzegettian tradition of nobles dying her hair, and died her own a deep, royal purple, it is from here where her callsign of 'Deep Violet comes.

Biography
Regina d' Hood (birth name Regiana Refraine di lu Gran-Hooede) was a Duo Knight of the Centauri Confederacy.

Regina commanded the first incarnation of the d' Hood Regiment, along with her second-in-command and future husband, Trio Knight Tyler H. Swade. Regina was born a commoner on the planet of Berzegette (also known as South Osseta), coming from a family of long-dethroned nobles (the original di lu Gran-Hooede Family). Regina enrolled in a military training academy, originally with the intent of becoming a ship engineer, but when the Academy was attacked by Berzegettian seperatists, she and a number of other non-Knight trainee students were forced to man frames. After having their professors taken hostage, Regina and several other students from various departments banded together and organized a resistance against the occupying terrorists. With the help of reinforcements from the Planetary Guard, the terrorists were driven off and Regina (as well as several of the other students) switched over to Knight training.

The student group was eventually placed together (allegedly deliberately) and formed into the d' Hood Regiment.

She did not officially retire from the military until age 44, as a Duo Knight. However, by that time she had already had six of her nine children (Jordan (Red Raze), Ivan (Rare Steel), Marien, Lorayne, Isabel (Deep Violet II), Henry, Jules, Ilwax (Thor's Hammer), and Marissa) with fellow Knight Tyler Haley Swade.

Legacy
Regina is seen as something of a folk hero amongst her fellow Berzegettians. The d' Hood Building (a passport issuing office) in the Ossetian capitol is named after her.

Several subsequent pilots, most notably her daughter, would take the Deep Violet callsign. Currently, one of Regina's descendants, Roberta du Hood, is the seventh to use the callsign.