Giulia was the daughter of Norberto de Medici, the Doge of Veneto. Venetian law required that an upper class family send at least one son to serve in the military. Giulia was an only child, so she joined the Venetian Sky Force and became a ship medic in La Serenissima. In that airship, it was not unheard of for crewmen to fake an injury just to see the nurse.