<span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: verdana;">Name: Dr Hoshi Kimura<br/>Profession/Training: Civil Engineer<br/>Sex: F<br/>Age: 25<br/>Nationality: Japanese<br/>Physical Description: 5'4, lightly built.</span><div class="floatright">  (http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/3/3c/Hoshi_Kimura.jpg) </div><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: verdana;"><br/>Personality Traits: Determined, ambitious, manipulative, aggressive, sensuous, humorous, bisexual.<br/><br/>Background: Only child of parents who are both in the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency JAXA, Hoshi did her first degree in maths and physics, then her PhD in civil engineering.  She is ambitious but so far lacks a sense of direction, and since graduating has more or less hung around JAXA working on infrastructure projects.  She is only in aerospace because of her parents, but is unaware of just how much her destiny has been prearranged.   Hoshi seems really too young and under-qualified for the Mars mission, somewhat out of place, and thinks she is only on the team because she's fucked the entire Mars committee in Tokyo to get the nomination.<br/><br/>What she does not know is that she was going to get on the mission anyway: she has been genetically engineered with some experimental modifications to suit life on Mars with its gravity of only 3.7 m/s2</span>instead of Earth's 9.81.  Triggers that would have weakened bones by excreting calcium and phosphate in low gravity have been switched off, together with triggers that would have reduced muscle mass.  Her cardiovascular system has been modified with stronger vessel walls in her upper body to prevent fluid shift.  To make sure Hoshi wanted to go, she was deeply hypnotised years before.<br/><br/>She has trained in Karate, Judo and Aikido since the age of six, and is not averse to using her skills to inflict injury if someone pisses her off: she has twice put gropers in hospital for example.<br/><br/>Skill Sets: Martial arts, civil engineering, materials.<br/><br/>Natural Talents: Very quick and deft; great focus and concentration; quick learner; problem-solver; she is someone who having never fired a certain weapon in her life can look at it, understand it, then aim and fire it with great accuracy.  Being physically weak but clever, she is adept at using tools, machines and equipment to deal with heavy tasks.<br/><br/>She sailed through all the training; but compared to the others she's a generalist and gets the jobs nobody else wants, unless and until she can persuade someone to change it.  To some extent she brings this on herself by abhorring failure and thus building a reputation as a go-to girl for tasks that are weird and tricky.