<div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">Petra Sabio</span></div><br/><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span class="bbc_u">Personal Information</span></strong><br/><strong>Name:</strong> Petra Sabio (still Petra Mudrac on her British and Dubrovnik passports)<br/><strong>Age:</strong> 50 (usually appears ~25-30, can seem anything from mid-teens to 100); <strong>Gender:</strong> Female.<br/><strong>Allegiance:</strong> Norça (strong Aeon Trinity affiliation)<br/><strong>Job/Title/Role:</strong> Norça liaison; diplomatic and hostile environment analyst<br/><strong>Rank:</strong> Officer<br/><br/><strong><span class="bbc_u">Physical Information</span></strong><br/><strong>Height/Weight:</strong>  5’9” / 145lb (1.75m / 66kg)<br/><strong>Hair/Eye Color:</strong> Black / Hazel (or Any/Any, including overtly unnatural tones and effects)<br/><br/><div align="center">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/7/7a/AlineMineiro01.jpg) (https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/f/fc/AlineMineiro04.jpg) (https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/5/5b/BioArmour01.jpg) (https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/a/ae/AlineMineiro06.jpg) (https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/2/2c/AlineMineiro02.jpg)</div></div><br/><hr/><br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">Personality &amp; Background</span></div><br/><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Personality:</strong> A born and bred nerd, who - after almost twenty years immersed in academia - quite unexpectedly became a superheroine.  Even after a decade and half, Petra still frequently finds her ‘new’ life to be more than a little strange.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Click for more</div><div class="spoiler_body">By inclination thoughtful, often rather verbose, and far more likely to curl up with a book than to seek out a party, she has nonetheless received a full 15 years of Norça training - and consequently has a profound understanding of her own combative (and other) capabilities.  She much prefers to use her sensory talents and her learning to avoid violence, but knows from experience that she exists in a different realm to even most Norça (let alone other psions) when it comes to what might constitute an actual threat to her life.<br/><br/>Consequently, her strong altruistic streak has seen her develop a habit of putting herself in danger’s path, if doing so might protect others from harm.  In combination with her intense dislike of bullies, this has ruffled more than a few feathers - including among her Order’s less-scrupulous members - and sometimes backfires when dealing with people who respond to her as a mouthy youth rather than a veteran psion.<br/><br/>But as long as she can, Petra will continue to <em>try</em> to do the right thing… and to encourage others to join her in such efforts.<br/></div></div><br/><br/><strong>Background:</strong> Born in the city-state of Dubrovnik, on the Adriatic coast of the Shatter, Petra’s parents were an English aid-worker and a local academic working for his home government.  Raised in a multi-lingual household in a (comparatively) secure island of stability on the edge of chaos, Petra acquired a lasting fascination with how societies functioned (and how they didn’t) and how they interacted with each other.  Though an altruist at heart, she had little faith in how politics and human affairs would unfold without active guidance.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Click for more</div><div class="spoiler_body">Her interests and beliefs led her to pursue increasingly advanced studies in first the Czech Republic and then Brazil, establishing a minor reputation in her field as a budding scholar - with her work increasingly focusing upon identity and community formation.  The emergence of the Psions was naturally of professional interest to her: for Petra it raised fascinating questions regarding perceptions of humanity and transhumanity, and how the Orders might integrate (or separate) themselves.  But it was on what she had intended to be a mundane field trip (visiting community projects in one of Brazil’s more infamous slums) that her life abruptly took a new course.<br/><br/>To this day, Petra cannot recall exactly what happened - nor precisely how she wound up in the care of the Norça.  There are a few things she is sure of: first, that her former self was (to put it politely) a bookworm already past her unathletic prime, and looked very different to the appearance she has had for the past 15 years.  Secondly, she blundered into some sort of Norça <em>operation</em>, and was exposed to some rather unusual powers - though whether she encountered Aberrant abilities, experimental biokinesis, unusual vitakinesis, telepathic memory-editing, or some mix of them, she cannot say.<br/><br/>Whatever the case, she emerged from the ‘favella incident’ with PTSD, gaps in her memory, a completely new appearance, and identification as a latent psion.  Inducted into the Norça, she was swiftly confirmed as having an exceptional knack for Psychomorphing and a seemingly total block upon access to Transmogrification.  Throughout her time with the Order, she has been subject to a stream of ‘bright ideas’ for how to unlock this side of her gift, or to study why it is blocked… but she has tried hard to be much more than a test subject.<br/><br/>Petra found twin primary roles: as a rare recruit with significant experience in international academia, and a particular interest in fostering good relations, she was an obvious candidate for diplomatic service.  Her exceptional ability with formatting and assimilating biotech became linked to this: shape-shifting clothing with built-in protection, biocomps, defensive weapons, and even heavy-duty armour could all be ‘stashed’ undetectably within her noetic field to be called forth when required.  She received increasingly intensive training in languages and cryptography, as well as in the sorts of close-quarters combat to which her gifts particularly lent themselves, while her talents often saw her recruited to assist in trials of new biotech systems.  However, a tour of duty on Averiguas - sent there to use her diplomatic skills to soothe tensions - brought her face to face with some of the darker secrets of both Brazil and the Norça.<br/><br/>Over the course of her fifteen years of service Petra has enjoyed frequent close collaboration with branches of the Aeon Trinity, has been privileged to collaborate with the Qin on the Brasilia Arcology project and has become thoroughly sick of her intermittent spells as a lab-rat.  She sees the Odyssey’s mission as an opportunity to put light years of distance between herself and her personal tormentors / researchers, and even more so as a way to embrace and very visibly support the Norca’s higher ideals rather than its darker impulses.  As far as the organisers of Iliad were concerned, Petra’s exceptional survival skills and her capacity to carry ‘stealthed’ bioware wherever she went had obvious uses - while her favourable prior contact with some Qin, and her status as a (very minor) telepath, might also help to keep key allies happy, and perhaps even assist any alien diplomacy the Odyssey might have to undertake.<br/></div></div></div><br/><hr/><br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">Traits</span></div><br/><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Likes:</strong> Many forms of nerdery (especially of academic kinds).  Boardgames (more so than most computer or augmented reality games).  Dancing (though her sense of rhythm is not the best).  Exploring and expanding her psionic capabilities.  Free running.  Martial arts sparring.  Relaxing with a sketchbook and a beautiful view of nature.  The <em>Pai de Norça</em>, Giuseppe del Fuego.<br/><br/><strong>Dislikes:</strong> The crude and the rude.  Violence without thought.  Regrowing limbs or organs.  Hearing people’s bright ideas for how to make her a <em>real</em> (shapeshifting) Norça.  Suffering through yet another round of lab tests.  Having to clean up what’s left after she has shown another set of idiots what it’s like to fight a VARG.  Discovering another one of the Norça’s more troubling secrets.<br/><br/><strong>Skills:</strong> Academic Nerdery (A), Dancing (a very enthusiastic B-), Diplomacy &amp; Mediation (B+), Field Medicine (B+), Free Running (A+), Painting &amp; Drawing (B), Unarmed Combat (B+), VARG-assisted mayhem (A+), Wilderness Survival (B)<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Long List</div><div class="spoiler_body">Athletics, Swimming and Assorted Sports: B+<br/>– Free Running: A+<br/>– Dancing: B- (but lots of enthusiasm!)<br/>Attunement and Perception (psionic and mundane): A<br/>Biology &amp; Ecology: B<br/>Biotech Engineering: B-<br/>– Biotech Maintenance: A-<br/>Board &amp; Strategy Games: A-<br/>Diplomacy and Mediation: B+<br/>International Relations Theory: A<br/>Linguistics and Cryptography: A<br/>Medicine: B-<br/>– Paramedic: B+<br/>Noetic Theory: B+<br/>Obdurate, Stubborn, and Tough: A<br/>Painting &amp; Drawing: B<br/>Pilot (most types of civilian craft): B<br/>Ranged Combat: B<br/>Unarmed &amp; Melee Combat: B+<br/>– Savate, Force Psi-Gauntlet, VARG-assisted Mayhem: A+<br/>Wilderness Survival &amp; Tracking: B<br/><br/>Languages: Native: Croatian, English, Portuguese (Brazilian).  Fluent: Czech, French, Spanish (and Bosniak &amp; Serbian, as close relatives of Croatian).  Conversational: Qin.  Minimal: German, Latin, Russian.<br/></div></div><br/><br/><strong>Psionic Abilities:</strong> <br/><br/>Biokinesis: Adaptation (A), Psychomorphing (S+), Transmogrification (F-)<br/>Clairsentience: Orientation (D)<br/>Telepathy: Mindshield (D)<br/>Vitakinesis: Iatrosis (D)<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Psionic Details</div><div class="spoiler_body">Biokinesis:<br/>Basic: Biosense; no useful access to Form Mastery<br/>Adaptation: A: Resist, Acclimatise, Metabolic Control, Adapt, (Survive?)<br/>Psychomorphing: S+: Adjust, Enhance, Compartmentalise, Overcome, Perfection<br/>Transmogrification: F-: Hitherto-total block on developing the mode.<br/><br/>Clairsentience:<br/>Basic: The Sight, Extended Attunement<br/>Psycholocation: D: Orientation<br/><br/>Telepathy:<br/>Basic: Mindscan, Mindspeak<br/>Psychbeding: D: Mindshield<br/><br/>Vitakinesis:<br/>Basic: Kirlian Eye, Knit<br/>Iatrosis: D: Relief<br/></div></div><br/><br/><strong>Assimilated Biotech</strong> (merged with personal noetic field via advanced Psychomorphing):<br/><br/>– Bio-organic Vacuum Assault and Reconaissance Gear.  Assimilated Tolerance Load: 1<br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">bioVARG details</div><div class="spoiler_body">– Powered armour: substantially boosts applied strength.<br/>– Vision enhancement: 50x magnification, night sight, infrared and ultraviolet spectra.<br/>– Life-support (deep space grade) 100 hours.  Replenished by cleaning and 5 hours rest in a safe environment.<br/>– Radio: encrypted; can pick up sub-vocal murmurs by user; 20km range in ‘quiet’ zones, 5km through cluttered air.  Can be linked to minicomp to transmit other forms of data.<br/>– Gripper pads on hands, feet, shins, and forearms.  Each can support 60kg (at 1G) on almost any surface, dry or wet.  Can move at crawling speed along any wall or ceiling strong enough to bear weight.<br/>– Active Camouflage: Preset options for tones and patterns.<br/>– Bioservos for assisted propulsion, greatly enhancing speed.<br/>– Gas maneuvering jets: allow mobility in micro-gravity.<br/></div></div><br/>– Force Psi Gauntlet:  Assimilated Tolerance Load: 0<br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Details for freaky bio-organic mass that sometimes envelops right arm</div><div class="spoiler_body">May make close combat attacks at range, though based upon Psi rather than physical strength.  Does not allow fine manipulation, just projection of force; can be used to remotely block attacks.<br/></div></div><br/>– Orogotek Tortoise Biocomp (with security upgrade):  Assimilated Tolerance Load: 0<br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Biocomp details</div><div class="spoiler_body">Waterproof; extra-durable case; 100km-range locator beacon.  Twice as fast as hardtech minicomp.  Orgotek Hare agent installed.<br/></div></div><br/>– Shifting Armour: Assimilated Tolerance Load: 0<br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Details on shapeshifting clothing</div><div class="spoiler_body">Forms limited only by imagination (and can seem wholly mundane).  Full active camouflage (responding automatically to surroundings) can be activated.  Can protect against temperature extremes.<br/></div></div><br/><br/>Two ‘spaces’ left open for assimilating bioware as might be required for a particular mission.<br/><br/><strong>Other Biotech</strong> (Not Assimilated):<br/><br/>Focal Crystals: Tolerance Load: 0.<br/>– Each holds hours of messages, detectable only via Clairsentience.  Appear as small violet disks.<br/><br/>Several additional items can be formatted, so long as they are left unassimilated.<br/></div><br/><hr/><br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">Extras</span></div><br/><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Kinks &amp; Sexuality:</strong> Petra initially went a bit wild while ‘discovering’ her new body 15 years ago; a similar lapse into decadence occurred after she developed the ability to control and enhance her pheromone output.  Now, she tends to be consciously careful about indulgence, not least because of the risk of addiction presented by her ability to enhance her own responses - and to manipulate other people’s responses to her.<br/><br/>Nowadays, though she can still be distracted by a pretty face (or other parts), she tries to think more in terms of either responsible relaxation… or, if she’s feeling daring, actual romance.  Though finding someone seriously interested in a telepath who sometimes turns into a VARG <em>does</em> seem like a long shot.<br/><br/>In terms of orientation, her attention is most often caught by women - but long exposure to the Norça and to Brazil’s growing transhumanist culture has left her rather open-minded when it comes to features like tails and fur or scales…<br/></div>