Character Name: Athena Alternate Identities:
various Player Name: NPC
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| Cost |
Disadvantage |
| 0 |
Normal Characteristic Maxima |
| 10 |
Distinctive Features: Virgo physique
(Concealable; Noticed and Recognizable; Detectable By Commonly-Used
Senses) |
| 15 |
Enraged: when fighting slavers
(Uncommon), go 11-, recover 11- |
| 10 |
Hunted: the OFFICE 8- (Mo Pow, NCI,
Watching) |
| 15 |
Hunted: Free Trade League 8- (Mo Pow,
Harshly Punish) |
| 15 |
Psychological Limitation:
Self-conscious about appearance (Very Common, Moderate) |
| 15 |
Psychological Limitation: Hates
slavers (Uncommon, Total) |
| 10 |
Reputation: Alien sex toy, 8-
(Extreme) |
| 10 |
Social Limitation: prejudice vs.
alternates (Frequently, Minor) |
| 100 |
Total Disadvantages Cost |
| Hair Color: |
Black |
| Eye Color: |
Brown |
| Height: |
1.74 m |
| Weight: |
70.00 kg |
| Description: |
| Athena has an apparently
far-eastern Terran phenotype, engineered to her former master's standards
of perfection. She's rather self-conscious about her effect on people, so
she usually tries to downplay her beauty rather than accentuate it, with
only limited success. (She can't change what she is.) Due to the Virgo
type's unusual longevity, Athena appears to be in her early twenties,
although her actual age is nearly twice that. She wears a body pressure
vac suit underneath her "business attire" which usually resembles combat
fatigues. Athena is nearly always heavily armed, and is very good at
concealing weapons. She also keeps multiple augmented reality interfaces
ready to use. She carries various other gear when she's working--bug
sweepers, a first-aid kit, and of course, hand-cuffs. |
Athena Security (she changed her
name when she started the company) is the owner of the company of the same
name. She began life as a slave, produced for hire by a Jovian, made to
order for a free trader who kept her aboard his ship for the first several
years of her life. (She's not sure how long.) The Jovian who made Athena
assured her "master" that his slave would be sub-sentient, and by Jovian
standards, she was. But by Jovian standards, all humans are sub-sentient,
and in time she realized the Jovian had mader her smarter than her master.
And she found her existence as his slave, to say the least, unsatisfying.
She never got to leave the ship, or talk to the rest of the crew, or the
passengers, none of whom, she noticed, had slaves of their own, or masters
to keep them locked up. Eventually, she made up her mind to improve her
situation. Her master, she knew, would not approve.
Athena had
learned a lot from the ship's augmented reality network. Originally, she
was given access to entertainment, but she soon found many other
features--even a virtual tutor. Her master had no idea how much she knew
about the ship, and its systems, by the time she was ready to leave.
Mysteriously, a wealthy passenger "bumped" a pair of travellers out of
their cabin, overbooking the ship. A pair of vouchers were automatically
genrated for them, valid on any Free Trade League ship. Then, just as
mysteriously, the same wealthy passenger cancelled his trip. The original
travellers stayed put, and the vouchers went unclaimed. Until, of course,
a well-disguised Athena, bags packed, let herself out of the Captain's
very securely locked cabin, helped herself to the vouchers, and stealthily
made her way off the ship. She couldn't use the vouchers on a League
vessel--they had someone else's names on them--but she bartered them for
passage on an independent freighter whose captain said he could use some
League vouchers. No questions asked.
Athena found herself at
Mandalla Free Station, where her talents as an escape artist and security
"specialist" were more useful than her background as an alien sex toy. She
went to work for Station Security, the local constabulatory, and as a
peace officer, trained in a variety of skills. She spent her spare time
completing her education, and learning about the galaxy. She found out
there were many other Virgos born into the same non-life as hers, and that
it was a minor miracle she had escaped alive. If she ever left Mandalla
Station, the Free Trade League would probably be looking for
her.
But she had to. Athena's outrage became an intolerable hatred
she couldn't ignore any longer, so eventually, she quit Station Security,
and started her own company. Athena Security offers a variety of
services--consulting, surveillance, personal protection, hostage
negotiations, and recovery. The company's real purpose, however, is to
cover the cost of Athena's crusade to liberate enslaved Virgos.
Fortunately for all concerned, Athena doesn't take many of these "special"
cases, because when she does, all hell breaks loose. Most recently, she
angered the Free Trade League once again, by helping a band of corsairs
board a League ship! The corsairs got the cargo, and she got the Captain's
"cabin boy", a Virgo slave he'd been keeping on board for at least three
years. The Corsairs are also blackmailing the League to keep quiet about
their Captain's taste in slaves. Needless to say, the League wants Athena
very, very dead. |
| Freedom means more than anything
to Athena, not just for herself, but for everyone. Above all else, she
makes it her business, to secure the freedom of other Virgos less
fortunate than herself. To free a Virgo child from a slaver, she'll even
fall in with a bunch of cut-throat pirates, if that's what it takes! When
she's not plotting to maim and kill slavers, Athena is very business-like,
serious and sober. In public she maintains a professional demeanor at all
times. She's unflappable and composed--nothing ever seems to get to her.
In private, only her husband knows what she's like. (Yes, a married Virgo.
Don't freak.) |
| If I have to, I'll kill every
slaver son of a bitch in the galaxy. The Jovian who created the Virgos?
No, don't tempt me. It's hard enough to meet your maker, let alone destroy
it.... |
| Athena is trained in a wide
variety of armed and unarmed combat techniques. Small arms, lasers,
knives, spin- and zero-g combat; she can use any weapon, on any
battlefield. She also knows how to use her Virgo presence to influence
people, although she doesn't like doing it. She's very good with most
interaction skills, but unlike many Virgos, prefers not to use the
seduction skill. She's also good with bugging and security systems, which
are very important skills in her line of work. On most jobs, Athena does
things strictly by the book, as a consumate professional. When she's on
one of her "special cases", she does whatever it takes to get the job
done--never mind what the book says. |
| The PC's could meet Athena in
several ways. She might want to hire them for a job, whether it's routine
or one of her "special cases." They'll get paid either way. Or they might
need to hire Athena Security to help them with a job, if they get into
some kind of trouble. Or, worst case scenario, they might end up at odds
with Athena for some reason, either during one of her jobs, or in the
process of going after the bounty the Free Trade League is offering for
her--dead or alive! |