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[Shayuri]

Name: Melara Richter
Class: Fast 3
Occupation: Transporter (navigate, pilot, spacer)
Gender: Female
Height: 5'5" Weight: 123
Hair: Brown Eyes: Brown
Age: 20

Description: A bit on the petite side at 5' 5", Mel is frequently mistaken for being younger than she is...something which annoys her greatly. This is exaggerated by her cute button nose, pixieish smile, and cheeks with just a bit of roundness still clinging to them. The adorable ruff of short brown hair on her head only adds to the problem. The fact is that although Mel likes to imagine herself as tough and serious...her appearance is too darn cute to really make that impression.

Background

Melara has lived on Unity all her life, and a quiet resentment about it has quietly been gathering. The idea that humanity has to essentially "rent" living space in the outer system of another species' world grinds at her sense of racial pride. Since she was a teenager, she's worked for the towships that cross from Unity to the mines and back, hauling equipment and supplies out, and raw unprocessed ore back. The spartan, space-saving design of the towships makes them unpopular with a lot of pilots, but her small frame fit quite easily. She therefore logged hours more often, and grew to enjoy the relative peace and solitude of coasting through the black. There was a certain headiness to it as well, and she often fantasized about just picking a star and jetting towards it...knowing she'd never make it there alive, but still finding it liberating to think about.

It was these thoughts though that led her to enroll in starship piloting sim courses, spending a good deal of her salary to do so. She knew better than to hope anyone would actually hire a human pilot...but the sims were a perfect escape for her when others might flee to other vices. Between her experience from the towships and her natural skills, she graduated the course with high marks...and attracted the attention of another human starship pilot who just happened to be in the market for a ship crew...

After becoming the pilot of the Gold Greed and completing a mission, Mel's gotten a little more respect from the other rock pushers at Unity (Reputation increase). This has translated into more work on the side and better pay (wealth increase). Though she doesn't talk about what happened on that mission in detail, she's made up some popular tall tales about it, and that's really all anyone's looking for.

Stats N Stuff

]XP: 3000/6000 xp
Allegiances: Unity, Humanity
Reputation: +1
Speed: 30 Run: 120
AP: 6/6

Hit Dice: 3d8+6 (22/22)
Massive Damage Threshold: 14
Initiative: +3
Defense: 17 (+4 defense, +3 Dex)
BAB: +2 Melee: +1 Ranged: +5
Unarmed +0 (1d3-1; 20, x2)

Abilities: Str 8, Dex 16, Con 14, Int 12, Wis 12, Cha 12

Saves: Fort +3, Ref +5, Will +2

Skills: 35
Computer Use (Int) +3 (2 ccranks + 1 Int + 2 in space)
Knowledge (current events) (Int) +6 (5 ranks +1 Int)
Navigate (Int) +7 (6 ranks + 1 Int +2 in space)
Pilot (Dex) +13 (6 ranks +3 Dex +3 Feat +1 occupation +2 in space)
Profession: Belter (Wis) +2 (1 rank + 1 Wis)
Read & Write 2 ranks
Repair (Int) +5 (4 rank +1 Int)
Sleight of Hand (Dex) +8 (5 ranks + 3 Dex)
Speak Language 2 ranks

Languages: English, Spanish, Dah, Korg

Talents:
Evasion
Uncanny Dodge 1

Feats:
1b Simple Weapon Proficiency
1b Spacer
1 Starship Operation (ultralight)
1 Skill Focus: Pilot
2b Personal Firearms Proficiency
3 Starship Gunnery

Current Wealth: +5
(Level 3 wealth roll (DC 3): 8 http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2126724/ )

Possessions
Laser Pistol
Stun Baton
2 powerpacks
Scout armor
Universal Communicator