Ming Trish<br/>Passenger / Reader<br/><br/>*TRAITS*<br/>*Assets<br/>Allure (Minor) -  Ming's got a really great figure and soft features, maybe not supermodel quality, but attractive nonetheless<br/>Reader (Major) - She can sense things about people and situations, and often can turn this knowdledge to good use...<br/>Mean Left Hook (Minor) - The Academy trained her to kill with anything, including her bare hands/teeth/feet/anything else<br/>Fightin' Type (Major) - Academy training reflexes are hard to overcome... especially if you continue using them to fight for your life.<br/><br/>*Complications<br/>Twitchy (Minor) - Peole really are out to get her, and anyone can turn on her, turn her in for money, so she expects everyone to.<br/>Hooked (Major) - Without her Coretenol, Ming has bad withdrawals and worse psychological problems, becoming psychotic and deadly<br/>Mute (Major) - The things she has been forced to do have left Ming unable to speak, the trauma simply overrode the ability in her.<br/>Deadly Enemy (Minor) - The Alliance would love to get one of their better Academy graduates back into steady work for them<br/>Memorable (Minor) - It's just hard to forget the beautiful mute girl who looks at everybody as if they might attack her<br/><br/>*ATTRIBUTES*  (0/54+2 attribute points)<br/>Agility  d10<br/>Strength  d8<br/>Vitality  d8<br/>Alertness  d10<br/>Intelligence  d8<br/>Willpower  d10<br/><br/>Initiative d10+d10<br/>Life Points 16<br/><br/>*SKILLS*  (0/74 skill points)<br/>Athletics  d6<br/>Covert  d6<br/>Infiltration  d10<br/>Stealth  d8<br/>Craft  d4<br/>Discipline  d6<br/>Interrogation  d8<br/>Intimidation  d8<br/>Guns  d6<br/>Pistols  d8<br/>Rifles  d8<br/>Melee Combat Weapon  d6<br/>Knives  d8<br/>Perception  d6<br/>Sight  d8<br/>Ranged Weapons  d6<br/>Knife  d8<br/>Unarmed Combat  d6<br/>Savate  d8<br/><br/>832 platinum left<br/><br/>Ballistic Mesh armor  (1W, converts to stun)<br/>2 combat knives  (d4 W)<br/>Pistol  (d6 W, 3/rnd, 10 mag, range 100)<br/>Sniper Rifle  (d8 W, 3/rnd, 20 mag, range 1000)<br/>Box of 100 pistol bullets<br/>Box of 50 rifle bullets<br/>Databook with 5 data discs, some books and information stored on<br/>(notably a primer on sign language, among other things)<br/>3 month's supply of Coretenol<br/>A small wardrobe, mostly old cargo pants and plain tee shirts<br/>A mediumish suitcase, holding the clothes and dis-assembled sniper rifle<br/><br/>1)  What did your character do during the War?  Which side was he or she on, if any?  Was it voluntary, or were they drafted?  Did you lose anyone you cared about?<br/><br/>The war is something Ming vaguely remembers hearing about, her friend's parents talking about this victory or that over the rebellious outer planets.  No one she knew was directly involved.  She was however captured in the early aftermath, as the Alliance sought to bolster its own power.<br/><br/>2)  What are you hobbies?  How do you pass the time away?<br/><br/>Ming likes to read, and will collect anything she can get to read on her datapad.  She also enjoys the occasional board game against a challenging opponent, her favorites being chess and go<br/><br/>3)  What kind of first impression do you think you make?<br/><br/>At first glance Ming seems attractive and fit, but cold and distant.  She seems suspicious of people, a fact that tends to make people suspicious of her in return.  Once one gets to know her and earns her trust, however, they find she is a warm and caring persontroubled by bad memories and a scarred soul.<br/><br/>4)  Where were you born?  How did you wind up on Persephone?<br/><br/>Ming was born on Ariel, an inner core planet under strict control of the Alliance, with a utopian society where everyone is happy as long as no one thinks for themselves.  Unfortunately, she was different in a way that the Alliance couldn't pass up, see story below for details.<br/><br/>5)  Describe your quarters?  Are there pictures or other mementos on the walls, desk, whatever?  If so, what?  Also, where do you hide any valuables or illegal pieces of equipment from prying eyes.<br/><br/>Ming Trish lives in a very utilitarian space, with very few personal items of value.  Most anything she owns can be carried on her person,  and she feels that's the safest place for any of them.  She does have a footlocker in one corner, containing her practice pads, a spare knife and a spare gear harness.  Over time, she may begin to allow bits of her personalityt to appear in her room, maybe even some personal items, but so far there is no evidence of any such.<br/><br/><br/>*Back story*<br/>Ming Trish was very young when her parents discovered she was a reader.  They taught her always to hide her ability, and for a while, she managed to live a fairly normal life in a pristine city on a central planet, under complete Alliance control.  Then at a certain  age, her teachers administered a test for all the students, involving guessing cards under the watchful eye of a monitoring machine.  She tried to hide her ability as she had been taught, but the monitor caught subtle hints in her body language that gave away her deception.  She was summarily escorted to The Academy, where her talent was chemically and surgically enhanced, along with certain hypnotic commands implanted to control her.  The things she experienced, and things she saw in the minds of the people who performed these procedures on her, scarred her mind.  She became psychotic, though the scientists didn't seem to mind since it was controllable with medications.  They trained her to fight, to become the perfect assassin for the state, and even sent her on some successful missions, memories of which still haunt her.<br/><br/>But the alliance had made a grave error, Ming's parents had never given up on finding their daughter.  Borrowing from family and friends, they hired a specialist mercenary to find and free their daughter.  The man, who refused to identify himself in any way, did as he was paid, and at the same time Ming was slowly reprogramming herself to disobey the hypnotic commands she knew had been implanted, he was slowly working his way into a job as security in The Academy.  Ming had little hope of escape on her own, and did not expect help, but she did want to be ready for any chance to escape.  Her constant vigilance offered her that chance when the man removed her restraints, after having killed several guards and scientists that had been monitoring her.<br/><br/>He was very surprised to find her latched around his neck, a hair's pressure from breaking it, but after establishing his purpose by dropping his weapon, she decided one enemy was safer than many, collected a bottle of Coretethol, the medication The Academy had discovered would control her psychotic tendencies, and followed the man.<br/><br/>He facilitated their escape via a judicious ventilation shaft that had been rigged to disable security in it.  Alliance security lost track of the ship shortly after it passed the seventh planetary orbit.  All throughout this she never made a sound.<br/><br/>Over the course of the next three months, Ming grew to trust the man who had freed her from The Academy.  Her experiences had left her unable to speak, though she was very expressive with her body language and expressions.  He taught her sign language, helped her to recover from her ordeal, and kept her out of the eyes of the Cortex, raiding medical facilities occasionally to supplement her supply of Coretethol.  He never gave a real name, insisting that she should call him John Chan if she really needed to call him something.  But she read into his past, unintentionally over the course of the time spent in close quarters, enough to know that he was an ex-assassin working for the Alliance, who had been forced to see the truth of what he was defending and found that truth unpalatable.  He did manage to keep that truth from her, but then, everybody's entitled to some secrets, right?<br/><br/>Three months later, she returned to her home to find her family had been killed.  Apparently it had been a simple message to her, that she would never have a safe home again, and she took it to heart.  After a brief but unpleasant struggle with some sentries that had been left against the posibility of her return, Ming and John escaped to the outermost planets, unpleasantly near Reaver space, where the alliance held very little control.  There John told her she had to go it alone, as she was capable of taking care of herself, and the Alliance now knew who she was flying with. He knew they would eventually find him, though he never said so, and he didn't want them to find her when they found him.  She knew, but couldn't refuse his bid for time for her. She took passenger charter on a disreputable-looking ship in hopes that they would be less likely to report her.<br/><br/>*Appearance*<br/>Ming is 5'5" tall, weighing perhaps 120 lbs., were one inclined to guess.  She has black hair cut in a short bob, and soft features, she is caucasian with no distinguishing marks.  Ming has blue eyes and an athletic physique, although she is not lacking in curves.  On the whole, she would blend nicely into a group of average catalog models.