<strong>Quinta Jana</strong><br/><br/><br/>http://plothook.net/RPG/profiler/view.php?id=8873 (http://plothook.net/RPG/profiler/view.php?id=8873)  still a work in progress<br/><br/><br/>The child of a soldier and the sister of soldiers she always new that she would become one when she reached adulthood.  Unfortunately she was born into a very conservative society.  Despite her undisputed physical talents and mental aptitude, her city-state's army held no place for her.  Ranger was suggested to her, those scouts and irregular fighters held a much less hide-bound attitude than the Regular Army.  The city watch was more than willing to take her, they were downright eager.<br/><br/>But no.  It wasn't what she had grown up with.  The solidarity of unit identity, the order, the ritual of Army custom and regulation called to her.  Her homeland's army would not let her serve?  She would find one that would.  She considered mercenary companies, but the poor camp discipline most showed grated on her.  Most, but not all.  She came of age to leave home with her parent's blessing at the end of one of the numerous small wars city-States like hers engaged in.  One of the mercenary companies released from service was different.  It was a miniature army in it's own right.  A force of crossbowmen, swordsmen and Pikemen, they even had a scout cavalry platoon.  The had a numberof women already in the ranks, they had no objection to one more.  So she became a sword-and-buckler fighter.  When blocks of pikemen crashed together, she was one of the agile killers who darted through her own ranks to  burrow into the enemy formation, break it up and let the true slaughter begin.<br/><br/>She learned a great deal in those years about the way an army marched, lived and fought, received strength training, how to use what she had to best advantage.  As a result she looks strong for a woman, but in fact is even stronger.<br/><br/>All good things come to an end.  The commander made his pile, retired to a vast estate.  His lieutenants tried to keep the outfit going, but it wasn't the same.  The unit broke up, paid off the troops who departed largely on good terms with each other.  Which brings Quinta Jana to the frontier.  She was starting to make a name for herself, she thinks the new colony will finish the job  It may finish her, but she is willing to accept the risk.<br/><br/>Meticulous, attentive to detail, somewhat distant, there are many who would say she has the proverbial stick up her ass - which she would not deny.  Many who have served with her would say that her habits have saved lives by avoiding stupid mistakes.<br/><br/>The child of a soldier and the sister of soldiers, nature and nurture combined to steer her on this life path and she wouldn't have it any other way.