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[Hyzenthlay]

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Name:
Lorelei Sunwoo

Mission Role:
Technology and Cybersecurity Expert

Birthdate:
June 3, 2268

Birthplace:
Hallori, Kore

Nationality:
New Eridani Republic

Sex:
Female

Height:
5'4"


Background:
Lorelei was born in Hallori, a major city in the Kore (pronounced cor-ey) territory of the planet Silla. Her mother and father both worked for the Eridani military, which meant that Lorelei and her two older brothers, Dorian and Xander, moved around constantly as children. They lived in no less than 12 cities and 3 separate countries, though they never had to relocate to the other colonized planet in their solar system. This constant moving around as a young girl caused Lorelei to fear connecting with people, as she learned that once she became close with someone she almost always had to leave them. As a result, she formed an aloof, sarcastic, and confident exterior to mask her fear and loneliness. Additionally, she found comfort in the anonymity that cyberspace could provide for her.

While her brothers followed in their parents footsteps and joined the military when they grew older, Lorelei found herself highly averse to the structured and authoritative environment that it created. During her later school years she became more and more interested in cyberspace and the information within it. Underneath her snarky and confident exterior is a brilliant mind that excels at breaking codes, maneuvering around firewalls, and creating encryptions for information stored online.

For a while, Lorelei used her skills to her own benefit, taking jobs as they came to her with no real regard for their purposes or intentions. Admittedly, this led her to cross paths with more than a few shady individuals, and the law caught up to her before long. She was arrested when she was 22 for hacking into the federal investigative database of the Eridani Republic to retrieve information for an undisclosed buyer. Luckily for her, Lorelei had learned how to clean up after her messes and there wasn't enough evidence found to bring her to trial. However, once Kronstadt Teichman caught wind of her skills, she was offered a sum she couldn't refuse in exchange for partaking in an investigation of the theft of some of their technology.

While she can cooperate with others in some situations, Lorelei tends to be cocky and doesn't usually respond well to authority figures. She has what her mother used to call "a silver tongue" and has a knack for talking (and sometimes, when necessary, flirting) her way out of sticky situations. To some, she can be charismatic and charming; to others, she's downright irritating. Either way, her gift of the gab and quick thinking are vital to the high-stress games she plays when she wanders into cyberspaces where she shouldn't be.

Lorelei's parents and brothers are still alive and working within Epsilon Eridani, though she rarely speaks with them. Her less than desirable behavior has led to tensions within her family unit, and those tensions lead to conflicts that remain unresolved to this day. That being said, Lorelei still does love her family, but knows that her choice in career isn't what her parents had planned for her.

 

[RayPurchase]

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Owen James

Mission Role:
Pilot

Birthdate:
June 18th, 2252

Birthplace:
Cardiff, New Cymru

Nationality:
United Kingdom (Welsh)

Sex:
Male

Height:
5'11"


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Owen was born and raised on New Cymru, one of the principle worlds of British space, largely originally populated by colonists of Welsh origin. His mother and father both worked in the principle spaceport of New Cymru. His father was an engineer working down in the docks, he was on a government contract however and so received steady pay and relatively stable employment, working on the naval and government mandated ships that made port there. His mother meanwhile worked in the air traffic control tower, managing the near constant, and potentially deadly, dance of interstellar traffic arriving and leaving the city, invisible space lanes crisscrossing the skyline. As such Owen spent his childhood in and around the space port, hanging out with the other children whose parents worked at the spaceport.

Given the hard work and long hours of the men and women working the spaceport, he spent just as much time with his own parents as he did with his friends and their parents, the families coming together to support each other through their myriad of differing shift patterns. As such he grew up with a strong sense of camaraderie and inherent optimism, despite what some would call something of a hard upbringing. When he reached the age of 18 he knew that Tertiary Education was not the way forward for him, instead he would follow in his parent’s footsteps (to an extent). Whilst his parents may have worked the spaceport, he saw the spaceport as a doorway to a better life. As such he found himself before the Royal Navy recruitment office, papers in hand and a cocksure grin on his face.

Entering into the Navy he expected his talents to lie along similar lines to his father, and to end up as a naval engineer. However, the naval academy found that he had an altogether different inherent skill set, and that was as a pilot. Despite never having flown a ship before attending the academy, he took to it like a duck to water. Blessed with inherent skill, the ship was a near extension of his own body, with Owen able to near enough perfectly feel the weight and heft of a ship, adjusting power and navigation requirements, and having the deftness of touch to pull off even the most complex of manoeuvres. His first posting was as a pilot of a Corvette, the HMS Penrith, policing the trade routes, everything from protecting traders from pirates, to performing anti-smuggling operations. By the end of his 15 year stint he held the rank of Chief Petty Officer and the role of Helmsman aboard the HMS Somerset a Destroyer type vessel. Whilst he was tempted to extend his stay in the Navy, he had heard stories from comrades who had left of lucrative deals in the private sector. Companies who were more than happy to snap up ex-military types on well-paying contracts.

And so a mere 2 months out of the Navy (Of which he spent having a much needed break and making the most of his backpay to enjoy some of the luxuries the galaxy had to offer) he accepted a job offer from Kronstadt Teichman. Both of Owen’s parents are alive and well back on New Cymru, and he tries to them every so often with an update.

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[timbothy]

Name:
Sebastien Schmidt

Mission Role:
Security Chief

Birthdate:
April 1st, 2241

Birthplace:
Bismarck, German Free State

Nationality:
German (German Free State)

Sex:
Male

Height:
6'5"


Background:
Sebastien Schmidt was born into a long line of generals and military men, and he did not disappoint the expectations of his bloodline. Raised from birth to fight and command, Schmidt was shipped off to a military boarding school at the age of ten and graduated to a military college, finishing both with perfect marks and honors. From there, he was immediately recruited by the military of the German Free State, serving as an officer of the Army for three years. Sebastien was not happy in the army of the Free State, however. He wanted to get down and fight on the ground, but the Free State had no foes to fight, and even if it did Sebastien would command troops from afar. He longed for war, and he saw it not in his home, but in the tumultuous waters of the proxy wars fought between the great powers.

Schmidt managed to weasel his way out of the army using his family's connections and soon was on his way to the war-stricken worlds that had become ideological battlegrounds for the ruling nations of the galaxy. Gathering fellow adventurers and mercenaries, Schmidt made his services as a commander and a soldier available to the highest bidder, and soon enough Sebastien found himself under contract to the United States. He fought for them loyally when they paid, and when they didn't Sebastien turned his gun on his former employers to fight alongside the liberation fronts and Soviet-backed armies that Americans so despised. Sebastien became infamous as a mercenary in the proxy wars, and he sells his services to this day, though his clients are now usually corporate and his jobs a little more discrete.

Sebastien is a cold, violent man, and it shows. He may be able to put up a smile and be relatively charming, but anyone who speaks with him feels the slightest edge of disdain in his voice, sees the cold calculation in his eyes hiding behind his grin. Despite his decades of practice, Sebastien has never been able to master the charm and finesse required to make people truly trust or like him, and his chauvinism, violent attitude, and dislike for most people always shines through.

 

[RIPSaidCone]

Name:
Věra Hašková-Parker

Mission Role:
Corporate Overseer

Birthdate:
July 9, 2252

Birthplace:
Kikötő Márkó, Vesta

Nationality:
Vestan-American

Sex:
Female

Height:
5'9"


Background:

Born on the ninth of July 2252 in the small commerce town of Kikötő Márkó on the planet Înstărit in the Vesta system, Věra Hašková-Parker was the first child of what would be four to Eva Hašková, a local chef, and Ryan Parker, an American soldier stationed at a nearby military installation. She would spend the majority of her early childhood in her hometown, performing well in school and being busy at home, helping her mother with her new younger sister and with house chores, before moving to the planet Liberty in the United States shortly after her 12th birthday and the birth of her second sibling, Alexi, as her father had gotten a promotion and had been reassigned also. The culture shock hadn't been as strong to Věra as it may have been to others from her hometown, as her father and all of his friends being American had given the young girl an indication as to what to expect. Nevertheless she did have some difficulty adjusting to the new life and particularly the new shcool that she would attend for her teenage years, knowing little English at the time had not helped in that realm, though she by the time she had left high school she could practically speak it fluently, accent and all.

Following in her father's footsteps and pursuing a military career after school, Věra enlisted in the United States Navy where she would go onto become an intelligence officer at the Office of Naval Intelligence, her job being to provide information to the Navy on the affairs of foreign navies and monitoring any other interstellar threats. Overall she would be in the Navy for several years, serving primarily as a field officer with the Sixth Fleet and seeing deployments to numerous theaters of operation throughout the Orion Spur, including the notorious Siege of Fort Collins in the late 2270s, before getting out as a Lieutenant and transitioning into the private sector, where she would meet the first woman of a number of commitments which would ultimately not work out in the end while on the search for job openings at Kronstadt Teichman's Liberty branch. Relationships had always been something that had been a bit of a mystery to Vera, despite having loving parents and a relatively healthy family life and upbringing, the young woman had seemingly never quite gotten the jist of close relationships, and though she had a number of friends, her romantic encounters had never been quite as successful. Nevertheless, where relationships had not been Vera's strong suite, her work had, and she quickly rose in prominence and trust in the corporate ladder of Kronstadt Teichman.

Employed primarily as a 'Fixer' for the conglomerate, Vera saw her talents being utilised in a number of ways relatively quickly, ranging from standard business to the legally questionable, and though Vera's morals did have herself questioning these assignments from time to time, in the end the money simply paid too well to risk losing such a sought after position. Her transition from the military into the private sector had not been as jarring to her as it may have been to others, much like her transition from rural Vesta to urban America, as her position as a corporate fixer was quite similar to that of a naval intelligence officer. Although admittedly the one thing that caused her the most uncomfort was the comparative lack of travel, or at the very least the lack of interesting travel, as most of her business was conducted within American space or in one of America's neighbors elsewhere in the west or in the more affluent independent nations such as the Eridani Republic, Alpha Centauri or Tau Ceti. Gone were the days of 'adventuring' in the most volatile regions that the Orion Spur had to offer, and hello to the mundane new reality of boardroom meetings and backroom politics on Liberty and New Washington. Life had become predictable, until that is Vera recieved a call about her newest assignment, one that very much peaked her interest, and one that she was very, very eager to pick up on.

 

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Name:
Anya Kalai Singhla

Mission Role:
Private Detective / Intelligence Background

Birthdate:
September 15, 2253

Birthplace:
Kannama, Karuthavanlam Galeejam

Nationality:
Indian Federation (Chennaiite)

Sex:
Female

Height:
5'4



Background:
Born in the Chennaiite Division of planets under the Indian Federation, Anya's birth was in a small, rustic town with far too many syllables to pronounce. Her mother, Priya Dharshini Singhla, was a tired woman who's previous pregnancies had all ended in misfortune. Her father, a completely absent figure, was a solider operating under some army that Anya never cared to look into. With the loss of her mother in childbirth, and absence of her father, the town of Kannama raised her, the traditionalist values being the core part of her foundational early childhood. But a traditionalist approach could only go so far. It was decided very quickly with Anya's acting foster mother, that she experience the nature of the actual world--not in the small, rural bubble they lived in. As soon as Anya was of a few years, she was sent to the urban boarding school, where her instructional education would begin. As a result, due to the lack of family (and friends), Anya severely lacked close-knit friendships, often forgoing teamwork to get the job done herself.

Contrary to popular beliefs, the Madraida Unit Board School was excellent and Anya was able to quickly finish off her education once she came of age. It's rumored that the Chennaiite educational institutes groom and give preference to students who show aptitude in technological advancements, but Anya found it to be the opposite. Because of the nature of education, Madraida students are well aware of which aspects of professions they are suited towards. Anya's was analysis and investigations, a clear indication to her intuitive mindset. Of course, her boarding school days were not only education-focused. If asked, Anya will tell countless stories about how her intuitive aspects were put to use in mischievous manners, with stories about setting teachers up with one another, even pranks. The same lack of attention and appreciation of mischief carried over into her workplace mannerisms--often in the form of jokes at inappropriate situations. Once emerging from school, Anya was given an analyst's desk job at the age of eighteen, which didn't work out so well. The job was fine enough, the analytical department of her work was easy and boring--but the prospect of being restrained to a small office space was something that did not endear the job to Anya. With a few months and enough money raised to live in the city, she quickly left it.

Stuck in the city of Madraida with no intention of going back to her hometown, Anya scoured for jobs--and despite running on a small allowance, she was very selective about the professions she considered. She soon considered dabbling in the criminal justice field, not because she felt an inherent need to do good, but rather because the pay was comfortable and the man promised to teach her what she knew. She worked with the Madraida police department consistently, and what was supposed to be a pseudo-internship soon became a reliable job. Her skills soon surpassed her master's, and her expertise was called up in the higher levels of the Indian Federation. After finding the crucial piece of evidence that had evaded the Eloadi v The Indian Federation case, Anya's name was on the forefront of anyone who wanted an investigator. She had won the case in favor of the government, which garnered support, and she had single-handedly been able to take down a well-hated culprit. When asked about the case, Anya has the tendency to go silent, not wanting to discuss details.

Whether she chose to or not, the case would singlehandedly make her career--and it was not long before offers piled up in front of her. When Kronstadt Teichman came to hire her, she accepted. She had been looking to go the private sector route for a while: the pay grade was much higher and there were more interesting cases to occupy her mind. As she expected, the conglomerate did not fail her, and gave her a bare minimum description of what she was tasked with finding. She fully intends to know what they've asked her to find--one, because when has she ever listened to directions? And two, because she'd like to know what she's handing those military bastards before she can be accused of anything.