Name: Jalith Naryen<br/><br/>PHYSICAL APPEARANCE:<br/><strong>Age:</strong>28<br/><strong>Eye Color:</strong>Greyish-Green<br/><strong>Weight:</strong>130 Pounds<br/><strong>Height:</strong>5'7"<br/><strong>Type of body/build:</strong>Slim and Wiry<br/><strong>Skin tone:</strong>Lightly Tanned<br/><strong>Distinguishing Marks:</strong>Has a bullet scar roughly three inches above the navel<br/><strong>Shape of face/Predominant feature:</strong>Oval face, with lips that seem just a little too wide<br/><strong>Jewelry:</strong>One eyebrow stud in left eyebrow, navel barbel piercing, nipple Barbels, Clitoral Hood barbel<br/><strong>Other accessories:</strong>Almost always seen with a toolbelt<br/><strong>Grooming: </strong>Constantly works at being as clean as possible, when not tinkering.<br/><strong>Describe Hairstyle:</strong>mid-back, dyed platinum silver, straight.<br/><strong>Natural Hair Color:</strong>Strawberry blonde<br/><br/>THE PAST:<br/><strong>Type of childhood:</strong>Single parent-family, but caring and generally happy.<br/><strong>Most important childhood event that still affects him/her:</strong>Rebuilding an AFW-4 Chassis with her Father.<br/><strong>Did she like school? Why or why not?</strong>Didn't mind School, but didn't really apply herself.<br/><strong>First sexual experience?:</strong>None.<br/><strong>First love?:</strong>She's only read about it, but has hopes.<br/><strong>Major accidents or traumas?</strong>Seeing her home burn down.<br/><strong>Religion?</strong>Zen<br/><strong>Degree of Religious Practice:</strong>Only when repairing something.<br/><br/>FAVORITES:<br/><br/><strong>Color:</strong>Green<br/><strong>Music:</strong>Industrial-Techno.<br/><strong>Food:</strong>Home-made 'Comfort food' (Mac 'n Cheese, Burgers, etc)<br/><strong>Literature:</strong>Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Repair, History of Warfare, Trashy romance novels.<br/><br/>EVERYDAY BEHAVIOR / HABITS:<br/><strong>Personal Habits:</strong>Smokes rarely, Likes Playing card games for small stakes.<br/><strong>Morning Routine:</strong>Gets up, brushes teeth, washes hands, gets dressed, Might have breakfast.<br/><strong>Talents:</strong>Battlefield repairs and Improvised weapons<br/><strong>Unskilled at:</strong>Personal Firearms, Sparring.<br/><br/>RELATIONSHIPS WITH OTHERS:<br/><strong>How does character relate to others?:</strong>Treats everyone with the same respect that they treat her. Really doesn't care about gender.<br/><br/>How in general is s/he perceived by...<br/><strong>Strangers?</strong>Quiet, somewhat aloof.<br/><strong>Friends?:</strong>Wry sense of humour, but still quiet.<br/><strong>Other family members? </strong>A bit of a black sheep for being a 'gearhead', but they're proud of her for serving.<br/><strong>The opposite sex?:</strong>Most of them look at her as 'one of the guys', or as a 'grease rat'<br/><strong>Children in general?</strong>Like a big child at heart, only with bits of metal stuck in her face.<br/><strong>Authority?:</strong>She can work miracles with a wrench, but had been disciplined for muttering about wanting to use one on certain officers.<br/><br/>MENTAL ATTITUDE/PERSONAL BELIEFS:<br/><strong>Optimist or pessimist:</strong>Cautiously Optimistic<br/><strong>Introvert or extrovert:</strong>Introverted in Public, Extroverted in the Maintenance bay.<br/><strong>Personal philosophy:</strong>'If it isn't broken, you're not trying.'<br/><strong>If granted one wish, what would it be? Why?</strong>To not need to fight, because all conflict does is hurt those involved in it.<br/><strong>Psychological issues ?</strong>Scared Silly of Spiders.<br/><strong>Does she believe in fate or destiny? Is she superstitious?</strong>Semi-believes in fate, but is rather superstitious when working.<br/><strong>Character's greatest strength:</strong>Inability to be 'kept down' By surrounding events.<br/><strong>Character's greatest flaw:</strong>Prefers to retrofit obsolete gear, rather than upgrading to new stuff.<br/><strong>Character's chief vulnerability/soft spot:</strong>Gets 'Too' attached to her equipment<br/><strong>Is this vulnerability obvious to others?</strong>Not particularly, unless they see her freak out.<br/><strong>Quirks</strong>: Tends to chew on her nails when nervous, Uses Industrial-Metal Music as 'Jamming' by open-broadcasting it on enemy frequencies.<br/><strong>How does she react to a crisis?:</strong>Panic for a few moments, then see what needs doing.<br/><strong>How character reacts to change</strong>: Takes each change with aplomb, but resists actually changing as much as possible.<br/><strong>Whom does she secretly admire, and why?:</strong>She's not telling.<br/><strong>Who was her biggest influence, and why?:</strong>Her father, for encouraging her to learn what she wanted to learn<br/><strong>Who's the most important person in her life right now, and why?:</strong>She's not telling.<br/><br/>SELF-PERCEPTION:<br/><strong>One word self description:</strong>Perky.<br/><strong>What's her favorite physical feature?:</strong>Her hands<br/><strong>What about least favorite?:</strong>Her mouth<br/><strong>Are these realistic perceptions? If not, why not?:</strong>yeah; she always uses her hands to tinker, so she tries to take care of them, and takes pride in what her hands do, while she thinks her mouth is too big.<br/><strong>How does she think others perceive her?:</strong>A 'Wrench wench'<br/><br/><strong>History:</strong>Jalith is the only child of a retired Commander in the Tank Reserves who spent most of his life raising Jal after her mother died shortly after her fourth birthday. An avid learner, and encouraged to follow her own path, she decided that she loved working with her hands, and began to custom-design and build utility mechs from scrapped hulks. When she was fourteen, she was drafted by the military, who almost instantly tossed her into the Mechanics' Divisions, though she soon was transferred to the unit after an instance where she used a bisected 'mech to beat back an enemy raid upon one of the main repair hubs for the Armoured Walkers.<br/><br/>In her free time, she prefers a good book to company, though she occasionally indulges in her vices, smoking 'recreational substances' and gambling part of her monthly pay on occasion. Though she's not a great card shark, she's broken even more often then not, and won more often than lost. Now, she just lives one day at a time, smiling on occasion, and waiting for the day the fighting will end.<br/><br/><strong>Mech name:</strong>EisenSturm (Iron Storm)<br/><br/><strong>Model/class:</strong>AEW-Q-112 'Gepard'<br/><br/><strong>Loadout:</strong><br/>Head: Chin-Mounted 30mm Gatling Point-defense<br/>Back: 280mm 'Long Tom' Howitzer and 57mm Rotary Light AT cannon<br/><br/><br/>Note: Quadruped Unit; Does not have Hands.<br/><br/><br/><strong>Special Equipment:</strong>Mil-Spec GPS; Light ECM; Chassis Hardening; Reinforced Joints; All-terrain Modifications; Integrated neural Feedback helmet slaved to a balancing Gyroscope within the torso.<br/><br/><strong>Description:</strong>The Eisensturm is an oddity in the realm of Modern 'Mechs. The Chassis Alone has seen More years than most of the Mechs in service, as the Armoured Engineering Walker-Quad 112, Or 'Gepard' Was originally a mobile platform for Engineering units; With Four legs, a Low, squat profile, and a wide torso, the concept of retrofitting it into a Mobile Fire-Support 'Mech made perfect sense, but the concept was shelved for decades in favour of speed and mobility.<br/><br/>Looking like the Offspring of a De-clawed scorpion of Giant proportions and a heavy artillery Cannon, the Eisensturm is all ugly angles, extremely thick armour, and enough firepower to flatten a city block in mere minutes; It's not as fast as most 'Mechs, and it's hardly as glamourous, but the ugly Shark-grin painted on the Cockpit's 'muzzle' clearly states the 'Mech's purpose. To destroy everything it's pointed at.<br/><br/><strong>History:</strong>Jalith's 'Mech, was once a Civilian 'Gepard', that, as an experiment, she practically gutted and rebuilt from the ground up over several years, until her Commanders heard about her pet project, and one enterprising commander turned it into a proof of concept; that One could take a Basic Civilian Chassis designed for heavy labour, and, with the application of a few big guns and a lot of armour, could turn it into a highly mobile artillery platform that could lay down the pain at range, and at close.<br/><br/>The original, sanctioned modifications were the addition of nearly fifteen TONS of Layered Composite armour, covering the massive 'mech with a Minimum of twelve inches of reinforced plate, as well as the installation of the Immense 'Long Tom' Cannon that is the 'mech's primary weapon. Only after several engagements were the secondary and tertiary cannons added, the light AT cannon mounted over the Right foreleg of the 'mech was added to prevent harassing attacks from light units that Could spoil the Pilot's aim, and, with custom-made 'hotloader' Ammunition, the cannon was upgraded to a rotary type to avoid melting barrels.<br/><br/>Shortly afterwards, a Chin-mounted Gatling was added, as the low profile confused missile systems, but infantry were considered a threat to the comparatively delicate gearing within the ankles, so a gunship's 'Light' Gatling was appropriated and its autofire was slaved to a motion tracker. After a few... incidents, the gatling now works to pin down or shred any infantry or light vehicle its detectors 'see'.<br/><br/>As for how it moves, officially, it's classified, but in truth, the only new aspect of the machine is the concept of utilizing neural feedback to balance the machine instead of allowing advanced control. For a large, sturdy platform such as the 'Gepard', notable for being land-bound and already virtually impossible to knock over, an advanced neural interface would only be an extravagance, and practically the opposite of what the design Philosophy for the unit is.