In episode 13, mayfly shows flashbacks of cimas' past as she reflects on what happened before the events in that episode. we learn that cima and her unit used g-3 nerve gas to poison a side 5 colony, following orders but being treated poorly by their own people afterwards for committing such an act. at war's end, cima's superior refused to let her return home to mahal, which had been transformed into a weapon, leaving her and her men without shelter.