Frances Curtis is the former leader of the Resistance, a group of rebels who sought to kill Father, the tyrannical ruler of "The City", one of the few places where the contamination didn't exist. Early in Fran's life, she was saved from a group of bandits by a man named Jack Batty, a former friend of Father and leader of the Resistance. Taking the name Batty, she became his daughter, and led the Resistance after he died. Friend to Rosary, a helicopter pilot, and the "Dark Raven", a mech pilot.