<strong>Kara Yuen</strong><br/>Mechanic<br/><br/><strong>Traits</strong><br/><em>Assets</em><br/>Mechanical Empathy (minor)<br/>Cortex Spectre (major)<br/><em>Complications</em><br/>Memorable (minor)<br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 8pt;">her small anacronisms make her stand out.  Sometimes they're pronounced sometimes not so much.  Also the fact she doesn't know Chinese</span><br/>Deadly Enemy (minor)<br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 8pt;">United Reclamation liked having her in their R&amp;D devision and would very much like to have her back.</span><br/>Scrawny (minor)<br/>Loyal (Minor)<br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 8pt;">She still feels loyal to her fellow colonists and hopes one day to save them.  Most of them were the best of the best for their time so they would have likely ended up in a situation similar to her own, being pressed into service.</span><br/><br/><strong>Attributes</strong><br/>Agility: D12<br/>Strength: d6<br/>Vitality: D8<br/>Alertness: D8<br/>Intelligence: D12 + D2<br/>Willpower: D8<br/>Life: 16<br/>Initiative: D12+D8<br/><br/><strong>Skills</strong><br/><em>Mechanical Engineering: D6</em><br/>Repairs: D12+D2<br/>Maintenance: D12+D4<br/><em>Technical Engineering: D6</em><br/>Repairs: D12+D2<br/>Make/Alter Device: D12<br/><em>Unarmed Combat: D6</em><br/>Tai Chi: D12<br/><em>Athletics: D6</em><br/><em>Covert: D6</em><br/>Open Locks: D10<br/>Disable Device: D10<br/>Sabotage: D10<br/><br/><strong><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?</strong><br/>Mostly she slept in suspended animation as her colony ship  made it's way through the solar system.  She did have a nice dream at one point about robots and saving the world (earth).<br/><br/><strong>2)  What are you hobbies?  How do you pass the time away?</strong><br/>Since she was a child she always had a knack for gadgets.  She loves to tinker.  That and practice Tai chi.<br/><strong><br/>3)  What kind of first impression do you think you make?</strong><br/>At first glance she appears to be a skinny girl.  She has only very basic understanding of the 'verse and the past few hundred years.  While technically she is several hundred years old she's only just turned thirty both physically and mentally.<br/><br/><strong>4)  Where were you born?  How did you wind up on Persephone?</strong><br/>She was born on Earth!  Anchorage, Alaska to be exact.  When she graduated from school, with her technological aptitude she was a shoe-in at MIT where she began a course of robotics engineering.  After two years she heard about a colony expedition.  She applied and was accepted considering she was at her prime and was passing her classes with flying colours.<br/>On the ship personal cargo was limited.  She took family pictures and some texts specially made on plastic pages for longevity.  The destination a sun called HD 28185.  While it hasn't technically got an earth-like planet it does have a planet with an earth-like moon.  The planet itself was a water-based jovian planet.<br/>Due to the distance of the planet the colony ship was part cryogenic and part generational.  The plan was to have several crews that would take turns in suspended animation that would also bear children.  However there was a problem.<br/>It is uncertain how it happend but the first crew was lost, leaving the ship with only it's computer guidance and no way to repair any problems.  When it was next found it was several hundred years later.  Most of the people, colonists and crew alike, did not make the trip.  It had been sucked into a desintigrating orbit around an uninhabitable planet with no value.  It was only found by chance by a Unified Reclamation contract, salvage ship.<br/>The ship saved who they could and salvaged what they could and brought it to UR.  While she was being brought up to date.  While being brought to speed she began playing around with things she found.  Taking apart and putting back together anything she found.  After finding some of the things she had tinkered with and finding some of them working better than before she was dumped into the UR research devision and basicly blackmailed into working for them.<br/>After working for them for several years she devised a plan to escape.  Once she got out her small size allowed her to stow away on various ships until she was caught.<br/>Deciding she was far enough away from UR and the allience she decided to let the ships know that she was there and join as a crew.<br/><br/><strong>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.</strong><br/>At first her room looks like chaos.  Every surface, including her cot, is covered in gadgets, tools and doodads.  However on closer inspection the floor is completely bare leaving room on the floor to do things.  She has a few pictures in her room.  Pictures of her family and her closest friend all<br/><br/><strong>Other stuff</strong><br/>While she's been in present day Kara's realised that things tend to have a chinese flavour.  To atleast appear to fit in she's taken on the family name Yuen.  It was the first chinese name that came to her mind.  In reality she's only ever learned english and a few words here and there of other languages.  People from UR and on her colony ship are the only people who would know her real name of Henderson.<br/>Dispite being thirty her petite physique makes her look younger.  It also lets her hide in tight places which is how she stowed away.  Her clothes are mostly too large and all she owns are the few pictures, an MP3 player and some CDs with some of her texts (probably the last of such things outside a museum).  The hardcopy texts were ones relevent to setting up and maintaining the colony and were lost when they ship burned up.<br/>She has plain brown hair, which she keeps back out of her face with a pair of polerizing goggles she normally keeps on her forhead but can wear to protect her eyes while welding or from bright sun or anything else.  Her boots are big and clompy and she doesn't bother lacing them since they're several sizes too large anyway.  Her shirt is green and she keeps the sleeves rolled up around her elbows.  Her pants she keeps tied with a bit of cord for a belt since they're too big and keeps the hems rolled up as well.<br/>She's rather sensitive about her stature and isn't too sure about her age.  She hopes to find and liberate her co-colonists but doesn't know how exactly to go about doing it and is still a little paranoid about admiting who she is to anyone.  To get on the ship she gave only the smallest amount of information she had to.<br/><br/><strong>Equipment</strong><br/>Lockpicks (mechanical and electronic)<br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 8pt;">Lockpicks were made and use to escape UR facility and access the ships she stowed away on.</span><br/>MP3 player<br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 8pt;">Has 1023 songs and has been adapted to use more modern power cells.  Warenty expired several hundred years ago.</span><br/>Personal photos of her family and friends<br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 8pt;">Still in good condition.  They were kept in a sealed container which she wasn't able to keep.</span><br/>Compact Disks<br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 8pt;">Kept in the same container as the photos.  They contain advanced mechanical and electronic engineering texts and some personal videos.  Not compatible with modern data disks</span><br/>Basic Toolkit<br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 8pt;">Stolen from UR facility when she escaped</span><br/>Polerizing goggles<br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 8pt;">She is never, ever without her goggles.  They tint depending on the light level, the brighter the light the darker the tint.  They're mostly for welding but they work well in bright sunlight as well.  She some times wears them around her neck or on her forehead.</span><br/>Random trinkets she hoped were worth money<br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 8pt;">Things she picked up and stoll.  Small things that she could fit in her pockets.</span>