<div class="floatright">(http://oi47.tinypic.com/2yu12cm.jpg)</div><strong>Name: </strong>Karen Black<br/><br/><strong>Role:</strong>Captain<br/><br/><strong>Aliases: </strong>Ms. Black, known as Blackstar throughout the galaxy.<br/><br/><strong>Age: </strong>24<br/><br/><strong>Race/Place of birth</strong>: Earth Colony of Apollo II: a desert planet where water is lacking and gangs rule is commonplace.<br/><br/><strong>Description: </strong><br/><em>Body</em>: Karen has the general physical looks customary to descendants of  Earth.  Slightly taller than most women, Karen stands at 5'11 though most of her height is due to the rather long legs.  She is slender in build yet with moderately sized curves that give her decently sized breasts and hips.  Due to the fact that she grew up on Apollo II where the double suns always shone, she's developed healthy looking tan skin.  Preferring to look as clean as possible she keeps her body hair shaved and sports a short haircut.  This combination of height and short hair gives her the look of a tomboy.<br/><br/><em>Apparel</em>:  Living up to her namesake, Karen Black is rarely seen wearing any color aside from black.  Preferring utility over beauty she prefers to wear battle armor when on mission or simple comfortable clothes when not.  Despite the fact that she comes across as tomboy-ish, Karen compensates by adjusting her armor to have heeled boots and prefers comfortable clothes that objectify her chest when relaxing.<br/><br/><strong>Personality: </strong>Perhaps the best words to describe Karen are resourceful, adventurous, and simple-natured.  Growing up as an orphan on the dessert planet of Apollo II forged the tan beauty into the woman she is today.  Regardless of the fact that she is known throughout the galaxy as Blackstar, Karen tends to be rather humble about it.  In fact, she prefers to not flaunt her reputation..at least not too much.  She tries to let everyone in her crew have an equal amount of voice and tries to make them think of her as simply another crew member instead of the captain.  Simple in nature, Karen is easy to please and is trustful of others for the most part.  She is quite proud of her skills but grew up working as a simple mechanic.  Not nearly as skilled as the ship's engineer but competent none-the-less, when frustrated or angered Karen usually goes about fixing stuff in order to distract herself.  Because of her history around gangs, she tends to come across as slightly scoundrelous.  One of her favorite past-times is playing cards and she's willing to bet on just about anything.  Despite the fact that she is easy to get along, Karen rarely smiles - a habit that she picked up after living in gang lands for the first 18 years of her life.  Because of her troubled past she has problems showing her emotions around others and prefers to let actions speak for her instead.  Usually coming across as slightly tomboy like she rarely flirts with others and her usual sense of humor is sarcasm.  Despite this, she sometimes is self conscious about how others treat her with authority and like a male.<br/><br/><strong>How did they come to join the Aurora: </strong><br/><em>Background</em>: Growing up on the planet Apollo II as an orphan is one of the most challenging childhoods one could ask for, yet this is exactly what Karen faced for the first 18 years of her life.  Both parents were killed while she was only 4 at the hands if a rival gang that her father was in debt to.  Left to fend for herself over the next 14 years in the hot and corrupt city of Mar Yut she survived by picking up a number of skills including thievery, gun play, hand to hand combat experience, and spacecraft mechanical experience.  Taking part time jobs when she could and stealing from gangs when she had to she avoided becoming another casualty of the hot planet.  This struggle of course made her into the strong woman she is today.<br/><br/>One day hot bleak day while working part time as a mechanic at a small local starport Karen's life changed for the better.  She had been busy all morning unloading crates when a local gang decided to raid the place in order to take prisoners and supplies.  Karen was one such victim and was held along with a few other young people in order to be sold as a slave.  Somehow the skilled girl escaped the clutches of the gang, killed the leader, and took the gangleader's starship as she left.  Now with her very own starship, money that the gang had left on board, and her own ambitions Karen escaped Apollo II.<br/><br/>It's been 6 years since she left Apollo II and Karen, now know as Blackstar, has adopted a life of scavenging and bounty hunting.  Her crew has been assembled slowly over time and they are at the top of their 'game' right now.<br/><br/><em>How She Met Her Crew:</em>Ms. Black's current crew has been assembled over a number of years.<em>(OCC note: If anyone wants changes here let me know!  I've taken what is in your profile and taken a little liberty with it to expand upon everyone's relation to the crew at large.)</em><br/>--<strong>Sybella Thiliorn</strong>: (Joined <6 months ago)  The crew met this alien only a few months ago after scavenging a ghost ship on the outer rim of the galaxy.  At first distrustful about the blue haired girl, Karen has come to accept her presence about the Aurora.  Obviously skilled in helping all living things Sybella was a natural fit for becoming the ship's medic.  Up to this point the Aurora had gone without a dedicated medical staff but since the joining of Sybella into the group everyone has been better off.  Thanks to the fact that she can somehow communicate with plants and Karen has very little skill with wildlife,  Karen has also allotted Sybella to take up the responsibility of caring for the in-ship Hydroponics garden.<br/><br/>-- Cax'aril'lia De'la'liquin: (Joined <6 months ago)  Discovered by the crew when they were scavenging a science vessel, Cee Dee joined ... well more like recruited herself...into the crew of the Aurora learning she was a capable fighter and just as useful in plant life care.  Karen tends to be slightly distrustful of the green skinned alien and hasn't given her a definite responsibility yet.  For the moment she tends to help out Sybella in the medical facilities and hydroponics garden.<br/><br/>-- Ra'zel Storm: (Joined <6 months ago)  Raze was quite an obvious choice to join the crew.  Skilled in weapons technology and possessing an attitude that reminded her of home, Karen recruited this snark gunslinger from the planet of Omega One.  Due to his experience as a weapons smith he was an obvious choice to take the position of the ship's weapon specialist after the previous one was killed months before.<br/><br/>-- Zachary Ellis: (<em>OOC note: If you'd like to tie your story in somehow feel free to let me know.  Perhaps he was one of the mechanics that was captured along with Karen just before she acquired the Aurora?  Regardless just feel free to tie him in however you'd like</em>)<br/><br/>-- Carson Decartes:  Karen had been in need of a skilled pilot for a while before she met Carson.  After watching his skills first hand she knew just the man for the job.  Days after she saw his stunts, Karen joined him in a classical game of cards.   She herself was no pushover and has been quite the skilled player for a number of years.  After a few hours of the game that seemed as if it'd never end the man bet his own future on his hand before losing.  Regardless of his intent to lose or not, Karen was glad to have the pilot as a member of her crew.  Similar to Raze, the man's headstrong and gambling history remind her of home.<br/><br/>-- Baelferious Septym:  One of the few members of the crew that joined at the start of Karen's career as a bounty hunter and scavenger.  He joined back in the day when she was desperate for a crew and her name meant nothing.  Respectful of the man's loyalty and simple nature she has kept the man around ever since.  Even though he has not been assigned a specific task, the fact that he is one of the crew's oldest members means he is able to help in a variety of miscellaneous tasks.<br/><br/>-- The AI:  Her oldest companion by far, Karen met the AI when she took the ship from the clutches of the gang.  (WIP)<br/><br/><strong>Important Notes: </strong><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Karen is bi-sexual with no lean.  She is not one to openly flirt and has little romantic experience.  Additionally, she does not fit into the 'neat' categories of submissive or dominant.</li><li>Usually wields a rifle or shotgun on missions and is proud of her battle armor that she has upgraded throughout her space career.</li></ul>