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Name: Nori Jay
"You can ask the families of all those who died if I am wasting my talent."
Gender: F
Age: 25
Role: Captain
Appearance:
Standing at a rather imposing 6'1", Nori is a tall lithe character that carriers herself with a certain determination in her step. Those who view her at a glance can tell that she is sure of her purpose through the heavy, but precise steps and stern look on her face. While she may come off as weak, given her thin frame and baggy clothes, she is anything but. Her numerous years of military service have helped her cultivate a functionally strong body. She has red hair that is currently kept in a pony tail. While she was active duty, she kept it shaved down however the scene change to her new role and her new ship has given her a bit more freedom with it. She typically wears darker colors that help contrast with her naturally pale skin. Nori has eyes that shine with an intense amber color that are constantly scouting her surroundings.
Even though she has more freedom with this new assignment, Nori still is spotted wearing only what can be practical. Her jacket is function more than fashion, her pants are typically a pair of tights or black military pants, and she is always in a pair of combat boots. Off ship she carries little besides her weapons.
She wears standard military combat armor on ground missions and a captains suit in the skies.
Personality:
{Determined}{Burnt out}{Depressed}
Nori used to view herself as a product of her upbringing. She was cold, calculating, and completely detached from the situation around the galaxy at large. She paid attention, but otherwise, she did not care about the plight of those outside her circle. Nori was unwilling to listen and to learn and she did not have a desire to help those in true need. From a young age she had the military life drilled into her. Whereas other kids were able to play, she had to learn. She spent countless hours in simulations, learning from past commanders mistakes and learning how to fight. Eventually, she was enrolled into military academies and prep schools and spent the better part of her childhood and teenage years in this rigid structure.
Ever since taking command of the Traveler, she tends to breathe a little easier knowing she is free from the expectations that were thrust upon her shoulders. She is allowing herself to be more open with those around her and she is allowing herself to feel the emotions she was taught to bury deep inside. While she is far from the person she wants to be, she is closer to it then ever before. Her crew will find her awkward at times, stern at others, but they will see that she is true to her word and authentic as can be.
History:
{Young Graduate}{Ship Captain}{Command Failure}{Loss of life}
The young Nori never had a childhood. In the beginning of her memory, there is only books, simulations, and nary a ray of sun. Born to a pair of decorated fleet captains, whose marriage and goal for childreen was to further increase their standing, Nori's fate was decided for her early on. She does not remember having any friends, any pleasant memories, though she does remember she had no time to play. Nori indeed grew up in the shadow of her parents expectation, and she was also deeply entrenched in the life. With any sense of what life was malformed, Nori would be the perfect student and the perfect soldier. Soon, she grew up enough to take on bigger and more involved simulations and even deployed with her family on numerous occasions. Explosions replaced her movies, gunfire replaced her music, and the stars replaced her art.
Nori was hungry for this life. She wanted to become a captain like her parents. She wanted to become famous for her bravery and for her skill. She wanted to be feared and respected. She began to take on more and more challenges, more so than any other kid before her. Her dedication paid off as she was selected to begin training at the academy as the youngest student ever drafted.
Only here did Nori learn the truth of her existence. Her fellow students introduced her to more. She experienced the beauty of the world in the parks around the academy, she learned how everything can change when the right song was played, and she learned how important having friends and experiences with them was. While this was never something that distracted her from her studies, it was something that helped open her eyes to how different she was from her new friends. They all had stories about visiting far off worlds and exploring marvelous places and all Nori had was fleet battles in space. Eventually, she would graduate from the academy at the young age of 19, almost four years ahead of the rest, and begin her military career. She was assigned to the USS Interloper, a cruiser assigned to the Core World Patrol fleet. Here she served as a second in command, and assisted the ship as it hunted pirates, smugglers, and vermin of the sort
As much as Nori thought herself trained and ready, she couldn't grasp just how much she did not know. There was a human component that could not be taught in a simulation. Where her commander was able to lead effectively and professionally, Nori struggled. She could not emphasize with the plights of her crew, she did not understand the complex nature of their lives and only saw things through the lens of her rigid life. The longer she spent under the wing of this captain, the more his style of leadership rub off on her. To some this assignment was on purpose, to expose Nori to the one thing she lacked while also helping the captain where he struggled. The two made the Interloper a feared anti-pirate ship over the next four years and this led to a massive bounty being placed against its hull. It was this bounty that would eventually claim the ship, and most of her crew. On a routine mission they were ambushed by a small fleet, 3 cruisers and numerous smaller crafts emerged from an asteroid belt and began their attack. Nori was in command as the ships captain was off duty. While she commanded the ship well, disabling 2 of the cruisers and destroying numerous other ships, it was still too much and they were forced to abandon ship. The captain forced Nori to the escape pod, disabled the safeties' on the ships engine, and overloaded the core. The resulting explosion took out the disabled pirate cruisers and damaged the third. In total, 314 sailors lost their lives in the attack. While she did everything right, and fought better than she had any right to, that kind of death toll follows one through the rest of their career.
While she was cleared of any negligence, and was commended for her command, the toll of those who died weighed on her mind. As did her guilt that she survived and the captain did not. It was her command that let the ship die, it was her decisions that caused her crew to die, and it should have been her that stayed behind to finish the fight. She was offered her own command not long later. The fleet was impressed enough with her skills, with her training, and with the results she could deliver. She would have had her choice of fleet ships from cruisers on upward. Instead, in a move that caught the admiralty and her parent's by surprise, she chose the Traveler and its new mission.
Speculation is she is looking for redemption.
Equipment:
Any item they carry and any cybernetics they have implanted.
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