<div class="floatright">(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa116/LSWSjr/tikva-5-3-square_zpsd61bc5f1.png)</div><strong>Player ID:</strong>LSWSjr<br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: French Script MT;"><strong><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 20pt;">Character Basics</span></strong></span><br/><strong>Name:</strong>Eleina Harken<br/><strong>Gender:</strong>Female<br/><strong>Race:</strong>Kissai subspecies, Eleina possesses five digits on each hand and foot.<br/><strong>Crew Position:</strong>Combat Engineer (EOD)<br/><strong>Rank:</strong>Specialist<br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: French Script MT;"><strong><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 20pt;">Character Appearance</span></strong></span><br/><strong>Height:</strong>6'4"<br/><strong>Weight:</strong>163 lbs<br/><strong>Hair Color:</strong>Black<br/><strong>Eye Color:</strong>Chartreuse<br/><strong>Build:</strong>Thin build, tall and trim, whilst still at a healthy weight<br/><strong>Distinguishing marks:</strong>Pointed bone growths instead of eyebrows<br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong>Eleina is as calm and composed as her position requires, a quiet observer who only intervenes when she feel necessary.  She is loyal and compassionate towards those close to her, however she initially maintains a distance with people until she's has had the opportunity to learn more about them.  Her military upbringing has given her a preference towards structure, the respect of command and an adherence to her training, however she understands that she sometimes needs to be flexible to complete the mission.  Romantically, she has had many relationships, however most have fallen apart due her or her partner rotating to a different deployment, as she has little time for long distance relationships and the lack of physical contact they bring.  Whilst she is Force sensitive, she holds little interest in the Jedi or the mysticism surrounding its use and considers what ability she has as just another tool to utilise.<br/><br/><strong>History:</strong>An orphan recovered from a wrecked transport discovered on Soronia, Eleina was adopted by one of her rescuers Rantz Harken.  For a number of years Eleina's heritage was unknown and the young girl often suffered from specist remarks, although through more intensive testing she is found to shared traits with the Kissai of Zoist.  Following this, Rantz helped her learn more about the Kissai and their traditional weapon, the lanvarok.  A friend of Rantz, Marlene Jacob, sensed that Rantz's adopted daughter also possessed an aptitude with the Force and taught the girl what she could, whilst also providing some meager resources for further study.<br/><br/>When she came of age, Eleina was sent to the CorSec Academy, and despite a period of initial rebellion soon grow into their teachings.  Over the course of her study, Eleina's instructed assessed that she had a talent for the construction, disarming and detection of explosive devices, and her studies soon incorporated further development in this field.  Over the years since graduation, Eleina has been repeatedly deployed as Specialist to handle cases where explosive ordnance disposal was required, and has thus far enjoyed a success rate surpassing most of her peers.<br/><br/>With her recent deployment on the Defendarius, Eleina now spends much of her time removing all the low-yield explosives that smugglers like to put throughout their ships to stop pirates and inspectors alike from taking the smuggler's ill gotten goods.<br/><br/><strong>Other Info:</strong>Mechanics-wise, Eleina would be a Kissai Soldier 1/Noble 5 build; she would be Force Sensitive, but would not have any Force Training feats; her trained skill selections would be Knowledge [Tactics], Mechanics, Perception, Use Computer, and Use the Force; and as far as content requiring GM Approval goes: I'd like the Nobel talent Exceptional Skill [GoI p.21] in Mechanics, Perception and possibly Use the Force; and I'd eventually like Eleina to progress into the Military Engineer PrC [CW p.44] and the Saboteur PrC [FU p.54].