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<blockquote data-quote="gribble" data-source="post: 6826986" data-attributes="member: 12430"><p>Definitely keen - here's my submission:</p><p></p><p><strong>Name:</strong> Elsa Tharik</p><p><strong>Species:</strong> Human Female</p><p><strong>Career:</strong> Commander (Commodore) / Colonist (Politico) - I hope AoR careers are OK?</p><p></p><p>Elsa is a well dressed middle aged human female. Perhaps incongruously, the left side of her head is shaved and the hair on the right side of her head is parted to mostly cover the shaved side. She certainly doesn't seem like the "punk" type, as she speaks with a tight aristocratic accent. When talking to people, she often stares with a cool detachment as if she is looking right through them rather than at them. Behind her back, people call her names like "ice queen", though she doesn't seem to care and takes those names as more of a compliment than insult. She is certainly calm and in control under pressure - perhaps inhumanly so - something that has led to her assuming command of the <em>Secondhand Sarlacc</em> seemingly with Rumko Wun's blessing.</p><p></p><p>Though she is extremely tight-lipped about her past, it's clear that she has experience with commanding ships - ships a lot larger than the <em>Secondhand Sarlacc</em> - and people. No one has yet questioned her orders as she is clearly the best qualified among the crew... but it may only be a matter of time before her ice cold micromanaging style starts to grate on the more freewheeling crew members.</p><p></p><p>[sblock="History for GM"]</p><p>Elsa is based on a character I ran previously in a face-to-face SWRPG campaign. Her real name is Elsa <strong>Tarkin</strong>. Yes, of <em>that</em> Tarkin family, albeit a distant relative of the infamous Grand Moff. She had a promising career in the Imperial Navy - following in the footsteps of her great uncle. She graduated from the Academy with flying colours, although after a minor indiscretion with an instructor - technically after graduation, so while there were no actual rules broken it caused enough of a scandal to ensure her great uncle's intervention - her first posting was to a backwater Outer Rim garrison planet. </p><p></p><p>There she again excelled, working her way up to command of a small Star Destroyer hunting down cells of terrorists. It was when visiting a space station owned and run by an influential ex-Imperial military hero that things took a turn for the worse. Thinking to seduce the hero's son, to order to gain his favor and advance her career, she didn't realise that the son was infested by a strange mind controlling parasite, and became infected herself. The bug lay dormant for some time, until it forced her to sabotage a critical Imperial base without her knowledge. Elsa was rightly implicated, though in her mind she was innocent.</p><p></p><p>However, with the ISB closing in she was forced to flee to a remote world. There she enlisted the aid of someone who owed her a favor, the parts dealer Rumko Wun, who sheltered her and arranged surgery to remove the parasite. Although the surgery was successful, she is left with an ugly scar on the left side of her head that stubbornly refuses to regrow hair, and vague and fragmentary memories of the events. All she really recalls is that she is in hiding from the Empire, and wanted as a Traitor. Rumko, never one to look a gift horse in the mouth, enlisted Elsa as the commander of his salvage freighter and crew in exchange for his silence on the matter.[/sblock]</p><p></p><p><strong>Note:</strong> I've made a few assumptions above about the disposition of the ship and other crew members... this is just my initial thoughts in a vacuum, and don't want to step on Forged Fury's (or anyone else's) toes if it doesn't mesh with what people have planned. I'm more than happy to tweak if necessary! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gribble, post: 6826986, member: 12430"] Definitely keen - here's my submission: [B]Name:[/B] Elsa Tharik [B]Species:[/B] Human Female [B]Career:[/B] Commander (Commodore) / Colonist (Politico) - I hope AoR careers are OK? Elsa is a well dressed middle aged human female. Perhaps incongruously, the left side of her head is shaved and the hair on the right side of her head is parted to mostly cover the shaved side. She certainly doesn't seem like the "punk" type, as she speaks with a tight aristocratic accent. When talking to people, she often stares with a cool detachment as if she is looking right through them rather than at them. Behind her back, people call her names like "ice queen", though she doesn't seem to care and takes those names as more of a compliment than insult. She is certainly calm and in control under pressure - perhaps inhumanly so - something that has led to her assuming command of the [I]Secondhand Sarlacc[/I] seemingly with Rumko Wun's blessing. Though she is extremely tight-lipped about her past, it's clear that she has experience with commanding ships - ships a lot larger than the [I]Secondhand Sarlacc[/I] - and people. No one has yet questioned her orders as she is clearly the best qualified among the crew... but it may only be a matter of time before her ice cold micromanaging style starts to grate on the more freewheeling crew members. [sblock="History for GM"] Elsa is based on a character I ran previously in a face-to-face SWRPG campaign. Her real name is Elsa [B]Tarkin[/B]. Yes, of [I]that[/I] Tarkin family, albeit a distant relative of the infamous Grand Moff. She had a promising career in the Imperial Navy - following in the footsteps of her great uncle. She graduated from the Academy with flying colours, although after a minor indiscretion with an instructor - technically after graduation, so while there were no actual rules broken it caused enough of a scandal to ensure her great uncle's intervention - her first posting was to a backwater Outer Rim garrison planet. There she again excelled, working her way up to command of a small Star Destroyer hunting down cells of terrorists. It was when visiting a space station owned and run by an influential ex-Imperial military hero that things took a turn for the worse. Thinking to seduce the hero's son, to order to gain his favor and advance her career, she didn't realise that the son was infested by a strange mind controlling parasite, and became infected herself. The bug lay dormant for some time, until it forced her to sabotage a critical Imperial base without her knowledge. Elsa was rightly implicated, though in her mind she was innocent. However, with the ISB closing in she was forced to flee to a remote world. There she enlisted the aid of someone who owed her a favor, the parts dealer Rumko Wun, who sheltered her and arranged surgery to remove the parasite. Although the surgery was successful, she is left with an ugly scar on the left side of her head that stubbornly refuses to regrow hair, and vague and fragmentary memories of the events. All she really recalls is that she is in hiding from the Empire, and wanted as a Traitor. Rumko, never one to look a gift horse in the mouth, enlisted Elsa as the commander of his salvage freighter and crew in exchange for his silence on the matter.[/sblock] [B]Note:[/B] I've made a few assumptions above about the disposition of the ship and other crew members... this is just my initial thoughts in a vacuum, and don't want to step on Forged Fury's (or anyone else's) toes if it doesn't mesh with what people have planned. I'm more than happy to tweak if necessary! :) [/QUOTE]
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