Firstly, welcome back!! As a friend of Z's, both OOC and IC, I've heard a fair bit about Jen!!
Second, VERY interesting summary! A fair bit that that I hadn't known so it was a really interesting read!
Third, welcome back!! 
@FloatingFatMan
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Welcome back!
Indeed an interesting read!
Sadly this is OOC information that will not help Jen when she meets my Jess
Lucky this is OOC information that will not take away from an interesting first meeting 
@ShadowGhost & @Ghostie
The Grav Mistress, Mistress of Gravity
If you have nothing useful to say, you have two choices: Say something useless or stay quiet.
It's true... Jen's back!
A quick recap for those who aren't in the know...
About a year and a half ago (yowch, was it that long?) Jennifer Tamland stumbled on the Galaxy Girl crowd after a pretty nasty ordeal at the hands of a mutant hired-gun organisation called SAIL, which had kidnapped her and attempted a brainwashing after her powers first manifested at her 19th birthday. She was pretty roughed up and kinda scared, and it was at this point that she met Hannah Rolando for the first time. The two girls got on like a house on fire, despite the age difference. In time, Jen learned that the life of a vacuous valley girl just wasn't right for her, even though she'd always assumed it was how she'd always be. No, Hannah managed to bring out Jen's inner geek, and taught her to love cheeseburgers, video gaming and comic books. She never looked back. When Hannah's adoptive mother Zorielle invited Jen to move in with them, because she had nowhere else to go, she didn't say no.
It wasn't all that long before the girls realised that their feelings for each other were more than just platonic, and their friendship turned into a tentative relationship. It all seemed to be going perfectly until a series of events were set in motion that brought it all crashing down around them both.
(Okay, here's where the exact details get kinda sketchy in my head, especially the order of things, and short of trawling the old 9PM@GG thread, the only thing I can hope is that I get it mostly right and then get corrected a whole lot! :P)
The first blow came when Hannah started... changing. Her powers were growing unstable, and it was killing her. [The details here are gonna be very sketchy indeed, but I'm sure Z can help fill 'em in!] The end result of this was an explosion in a shack in Perez Park that seemingly killed Hannah, and plunged Jen into a spiralling bad phase. Thankfully, before she died, Hannah had managed to upload herself into a swarm of nano-robots, which infested an old computer she'd been working on and downloaded her consciousness. Sort of.
The nanites rebuilt the computer, bringing about the being that would later come to be known as Jess - at this point, a seemingly simple AI program that could learn, and indeed had a long way to go. It was only when the robot started saying things that only Hannah could have known that her friends realised she was inside there somewhere. After several long weeks, ZorTel Industries managed to bring her out, and there was a joyous, tearful reunion.
Time passed.
Although Jen thought she'd escaped from SAIL, it turned out she'd only managed half the job. They'd turned her into a sleeper agent, and a target finally presented itself - Zorielle Rolando, who clearly had enemies in the business world. At the flick of a telepathic switch, Jen went from happy-go-lucky teenager to cold-hearted killer.
Thankfully, Zorielle managed to escape - perhaps Jen was fighting for control of herself, and was trying as hard as she could to avoid hurting the woman who'd taken her into her home - and Jen fled the scene. Over the next few weeks there were reports of spontaneous fires all across the state, of political figures and people with powerful enemies roasting alive in their beds. One report that stood out in the midst of all this was the death of a middle-aged couple in their beds, neither of whom were important or particularly distinguished people - just a couple trying to get along since their youngest daughter went missing after her 19th birthday.
It was a dark time for Jennifer Tamland.
During this time, her elder sister Marie had come to Paragon City to try to find her, after hearing rumours and tip-offs that she could be found there. She met the "Rooftop Generation", the group of young mutants of which Jen and Hannah had been founding members, and was told what had happened. She was told to leave town before anything bad happened, and did so with a heavy heart.
When Jen returned to Galaxy City, she found a group of her old friends waiting for her. Although she'd treated them so badly throughout all of this, they still had faith that they could get her back to her old self, and after a serious battle that nearly cost her her life, the mental barriers were broken down and Jen came back.
She didn't come back perfect, though. She was a real mess, especially after she realised what had happened to her parents. Also, she was being held inside one of the ZorTel secure facilities, to ensure the safety of both herself and others around her. Through all this, her friends rallied around her, sitting by her cell and keeping her company. She found a close friend in The Pest, a green mutant vigilante whose real name was Jimmy.
When she got out, she realised that what she and Hannah had had was gone, no matter how much both of them wished it wasn't. In her grief, she turned to Jimmy, and although nothing ever happened between them, they became very close indeed.
She stayed in Paragon City for several weeks after that, not daring to go out looking for trouble, or indeed use her powers in any way. She disappeared from the group, even though they were as supportive as ever. As she grew more distant, she gradually became convinced that Paragon City was the cause of her troubles. Eventually, one evening, she left on a train heading west, and stopped about twenty miles out in a town called Bernville.
Leaving her crimefighting equipment locked tight in a box, she started up a 'normal' life for herself, cutting herself off from Paragon entirely and telling no one where she was. She started work in an office, just simple temp work, and was eventually offered a supervisory position. It looked like everything was settling down, and her worries were over.
And they were.
Except...
...it was so god-damned boring!
She was used to vanquishing crime, throwing herself into fights for the good of the city, rooting out evil and controlling fire with her mind. How could she stay in boring suburbia, where the only excitement she got was going out with her few work buddies on Fridays? She dug out her hero outfit, and started heading back into Paragon City on an irregular basis. She started off with petty street thugs, working herself back up to where she had been. It turned out that she had much, much better control of her powers, and as much as she hated to admit it, she knew that it was because of what she'd done for SAIL. And so she carried on for several months, making a trip into the big city when she felt she could.
Some time later, on one of these trips, she bumped back into Hannah Rolando. It was something of a shock, but it started in motion a chain of events that led to her moving back to Paragon City and finding a new job.
But... that part's still going on now. Only one way to find out what happens next!