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Old 12-17-2014, 11:43 PM

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I8a Serthumon, the Captain


~[Known as: I8a Serthumon

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~[Name meaning: No distinctive meaning, per say, but the use of "8" and letter amount shows that she is descendant of royalty and/or her parents have incredibly high hopes of her
[~[Nicknames: Issa (pronunciation of her name), "That Sath", Captain

~[Age: 23 human years

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~[Birthday: 29th December, by old human calendar
~[Horoscope sign: Capricorn, by human horoscope. Eu8en weave, by old sath horoscope

~[First impression: Pixie like woman with no-nonsense attitude, but certain delicacy to her. Confident and knowledgeable, perhaps a bit stuck-up

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~[Mental state: Stable
~[Alignment: Treading between True Neutral and Neutral Good

~[Main abilities: Prodigious memory, enhanced speed and reflexes. Able to enter trance-like state under most circumstances, therefor locking out pain or discomfort. Does not need as much food, water or rest as most other races

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~[Secondary abilities: Bright and inquisitive mind, slight telepathic and telekinetic abilities she has been training
~[Ability drawbacks: Often (read: usually) she does not understand emotional aspect of things and actions - she is trying to remedy this, but not very successfully. She has very low immunity, causing her to use filter masks and other such items often

~[Notable skills: Incredible knowledge of star maps, ships and all things related to space travelling as well many other topics. Exceptional observation ability, skill to piece things together quickly and look at things from most unexpected angles. Very good at hand-to-hand combat, uses both guns and blades proficiently if needed

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~[Goals: Learning more about the Universe, beings that live in it and emotions; travelling. Helping others, especially her crew
~[Sexuality, Relationship status: Unclear; asexual? Single


Appearance: [Outfit 1][Outfit 2][Outfit 3][Outfit 4 at ship console]
~[Hair: Coppery red tone with darker streaks, cut nearly shoulder length
~[Eyes: Slightly slanted, with large iris of strangely bright turquoise color. Long, dark eyelashes
~[Complexion: Soft brown, but not tan
~[Height: 5'4"
~[Weight: ~115 lbs
~[Posture: Excellent, she carries herself with grace
~[Scars: None visible
~[Jewelry: None that she wears on daily basis

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Although there is something ethereal about her, Issa looks surprisingly human for someone who is not. Still, she has peculiar, plump lipped mouth shape and her nose is much shorter than that of Earthlings, with rather small nostrils. The girl's eyes are slightly slanted with iris much bigger than that of humans and the color is unnatural - distinctive turquoise.

Despite that, all colors about her feel to be somehow toned down. Her skin is soft creamy brown, but not tanned, while her hair is rusty red with darker streaks. Issa likes to cut her hair short, not past her shoulders, letting it fall around her face. It is soft to touch and yields to however she wishes to form it, but as much as she likes beautiful things, her hairstyle is simple most of the time - and it does fit her.

Her face is somewhat diamond shaped, with rather sharp chin. There aren't many expressions on it, the most known ones being distant curiosity, slight awe and absolute calmness. Issa seems like coated over, with all inward turmoil hidden away, if it's even there.

In body form, the girl is short and petite, but extremely flexible and gifted with amazing reaction speed. There is also muscle under her skin, making her stronger than she seems. So, Issa makes quite the opponent, both good at evading close and ranged attacks. Her limbs are long and lean. She looks frail, really and younger than her years. With her natural grace that shows in all movements, there is something pixie like to her.

As for outfits, she is unfamiliar to concepts of desire and passion, so the clothes can be rather revealing, if the material or form is beautiful enough to catch her attention. In the past, it simply did not occur to her that they could summon certain reactions other than "that's beautiful fabric" from others. Now, she is more aware of this, but has not changed her wardrobe, not letting other races dictate her looks. She prefers calmer colors, but intricate details are quite the must. Although she does not like to waste much time on makeup and such things, for incredibly special occasions, she'll draw intricate patterns around her face as custom to her race. They may change, reflecting nature of this event.

Personality
~[Positive traits: All her mental qualities are on high level; she's very intelligent, well-read, thoughtful, wise and so on. In a sense, modest, usually thinking anyone else in her situation would know and accomplish the same. Honest, on the border of being brutally so. Incredibly loyal. Nearly insatiably curious and inquisitive. Perfectionist. Authoritative, without meaning to. Very focused, driven, although it's displayed subtly. Kind and caring, even gentle, in her own ways.

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~[Likes: Learning new things (knowledge as a whole), travelling and exploring. Her crew, although people in general aren't that bad. Beautiful things and creatures, in any shape, form and size. Order and peace. Seeing those around her happy (therefor disrespecting her team's a big no)
~[Hobbies: Navigation, ships, star maps and all things related. Taking pictures and records of beautiful things. Her search for knowledge seems to be hobby and nearly obsession in its own manner

~[Negative traits: Delves into things too deep often, over-thinking things and sometimes annoying people with her relentless questions. This applies particularly strongly to all things emotion related. She does not understand them and does not take them in consideration most of the time. Therefor, her honesty can be hurtful, unless she logically decides that being truthful can backfire. Definitely a perfectionist. Although she doesn't aspire to be, she immediately comes across as rather authoritative, bossy even. Her no-nonsense attitude can make her seem stiff and annoying. Something about her calmness unnerves most people. Naive in some aspects, assuming people won't do bad if they don't have a logical reason to, but after being proven wrong about this on many accounts, is more careful.

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~[Mannerism: She has no unneeded gestures, every more is efficient, and she lacks expression, but her face is not blank, it is just simply very calm.
~[Dislikes: Being unable to understand something, when someone is smarter than her (she doesn't mind equally smart). Hysterical or arrogant people, goofing around too much, careless attitude of any sort. When beautiful things are destroyed. Having peace and order disturbed. When people disrespect her team.

~[Quirks: Takes pictures and otherwise records all things beautiful, but does not take the things themselves in most cases. Meditates a lot

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~[Talents: None that she herself consider a talent
~[Philosophy: Knowledge is power, but if the information is thoroughly understood it becomes something so much more


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Issa is not a typical Sath, but all of their common traits are present in her, even if weakened. She does not really understand emotions or have them in our typical sense. Mostly, she is calm and content, on exceptions feeling certain pleasure about things or situations, but she has yet to cry in her life. Only few times this girl has laughed from true, filling happiness.

However, the more thing she comes in contact with and goes further away from the teaching and preaching elder Saths, the more emotional world opens to her and although normally Issa does not feel fear, this scares her a tiny bit, but curiosity takes over. Still, she observes and tries to understand feelings of others rather than experiences them. When she is working or studying, she gets absorbed in it, the distanced curiosity becomes open interest and it's quite the change. She isn't passionate about anything, but comes close to that when the theme is stars or travelling.

She is very knowledgeable about everything she is interested in and even more, due to her phenomenal memory, where every tiny thing she learns is stored neatly. However, Issa is not stuck up about this, never treats others as fools on purpose, only sometimes her naive question "oh, you/other races don't know this?" can insult the conversation partner. Generally, it goes with the snobbish image of Saths, although she is far from being arrogant - rather the opposite. She has this calm confidence about her, sprouting from knowledge that her memory and logic is top-notch; after all the conclusions she's sure about have never been wrong yet.

The girl is perfectionist, much like anyone else from her race and an absolute aesthete. Having more personal taste than most of her kind, she likes having beautiful things around her and also wearing them. She pays a lot of attention to detail, maybe more than it's always tolerable for people around her. Issa likes to get to the bottom of the thing, understand reasons, like why the painter used those colors or writer used exactly these words (and in general, why do they express such strange things and share them with others?).

So, she is quite the scientist type in short. As all Saths, she does not like violence and will offer help when needed, if she understands why it is required. However, emotional support is hard to get from her, as someone crying will make her uncomfortable and Issa will not know what to do or why that person is so miserable (other than the chemical reactions that happen).

Still, Issa is pleasant to be around as she makes an okay listener. She is not always very talkative and when she speaks it's often quite scientific, but that aura of serenity and even gentleness attract people. Or something in her searching eyes make them uneasy until they get to know her better and then, most prefer to earn her soft friendship. Others want to get under the girl's skin and make her tick, but however it is, she is hard to ignore.
Over the years that she has been travelling and making her progress, she has earned her own ship and her feelings for its crew/team come closer to love than she realizes. It is motherly kind of love, though, with worries for her mostly oblivious 'kids' and in her loyal love, she'd risk her life for any of them.

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Sath are not born or raised to be war machines. They aren't even supposed to ever get involved in anything violent. But despite that, they are far from easy prey. Each sath values physical and mental perfection, therefor they frequently train in special martial art in which each routine is a kind of mind-cleansing ritual. It is also acknowledged as means to defend oneself and honored as art of grace and power. All of this also applies to Issa, she has mastered this martial style like all other females - there is absolute gender equality among her race. She is naturally more agile, fast and flexible than a human, too, although the difference that is rather noticeable in fight is due to training.

Most of sath have natural telepathic and telekinetic gifts. Issa does, too, and although hers are not inherently very powerful, she has been training them a lot. Currently, she can communicate with people in nearby area and touch surface of thoughts, but only of someone that gives her permission. She can topple larger things over or push them and levitate smaller objects, but any of this requires great deal of concentration and drains her energy.

As sath, she's also trained in painting, singing and flower arranging. She can embroider, but not really sew and while she knows how to prepare some national foods and can probably present any food in beautiful manner, cooking beyond that is unfamiliar territory to her and one she hasn't been interested in exploring. However, she has mastered such odd jobs as painting spaceships and walls. Anything to accomplish beauty, apparently.

Beside that, she's excellent pilot. And of course, Issa is competent in her field of work.

Although she does not like to use weapons, she has two - a laser gun and her very own 'silver stick' as Roscoe refers to it with tiniest of smirks. This item indeed looks like smooth silvery stick, but when she activates it, one end opens to emit a short laser blade, while the other is used as taser of sorts. It is not exactly deadly, even turned on highest level, but serves its purpose well.

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Although the origins of Saths are veiled and rise some questions, due to their likeness to humans, this race is well known across the worlds as very wealthy, snobbishly knowledgeable scientists that live in miniature Utopia. There are no wars, no crime, just devotion to cultivation of art and science. Many impressive inventions come from their home planet, called Sairess.

It is not that Saths are actually stuck-up, but do they consider them selves descendants of higher being and therefor, strive for utter perfection, for both them selves and world around them. As other races are flawed, Saths find them hard to understand and keep their distance, other than trading goods and sharing their science achievements.

There have been great disasters and bloodshed in the history of this race, but it is now nearly forgotten, the people of Sairess having learned to stray away from wild emotions. With time, feelings have completely faded away from them, calmness filling their beings. To an outsider, it is visible how their arts have grown stale, as now there are certain perfection limits that everyone must stick to and no new creation is really appreciated or even comes to true Sath's mind. Songs are about perfection, calmness, balance nature, beauty, but not such things as love, sadness, pain...

As people are so focused on improvement (both physical and mental) of them selves and serenity, less and less families are formed over the time and even if they are, children are born rarely. If Saths did not live such a long life - up to 200 Earth years normally, the race would already be dying out. They mature quickly, maybe about 6 years slower than normal humans, but when they reach age what would be 22-25 in human years, they stop aging physically until about 150 years later, they just as slowly get older.

Their planet is in absolute harmony, without any pollution. They lack defense against contagious diseases, as they simply don't reach them naturally, and their nose does not filter air so well than that of humans. Luckily, Saths have developed various medicine to save them from the disastrous effects world beyond Sairess can have on them.

In their culture, words and names have a very big meaning. Each letter also have its own meaning and matter, letter 'S' being the most important sign of all, as two, when shifted around can form 8, which is sign of eternity and absolute balance. If it is used in name, parents are usually of royal descendants and have high hopes of their child. Names are usually balanced, with equal amount of letters on each side of the 'main' letter.

Relationships with her team


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She doesn't use word 'friend', but if she did, he would surely be at the top of her list. She finds him a good company, glad that they both enjoy silence equally, and greatly values their lengthy discussions about books, galaxy and whatever else comes to their minds. She also... worries for him sometimes, although the term is foreign and alien in her mind. She trusts him with her life, with her whole team life's and knows he wouldn't betray or let her down. In her opinion, he is as close as human can ever be to being sath, with his inner peace and balance, and that is highest compliment she can possible give


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Issa finds her engineer fascinating in a sense and does not mind spending time in the slightest. Colctivus woman provides her with insight very much different than hers or Roscoe's. She enjoys their conversations, especially when they are about cultures of their homes or anything ship related. She respect the other alien's extensive knowledge of all these tech-related things and can't honestly imagine the ship without Tasi on it, a strong hint at depth of their strange friendship


Androw Daveth GaleronX

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Ship information

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Its name is "Vordecore", affectionately (or not so much) called 'Pincer of Doom' or just 'Pincer', due to its peculiar form. One of the things that Issa has never felt the need to elaborately explain is how she came to own this ship. She says it was "passed down to her", but by whom and how remains unclear. Perhaps she thinks it's obvious and doesn't need to be said. Rumors wary from that she killed old captain and its crew to that it was given to her by her lover or even that she won it in a gamble or bet. But since no Law Enforcement has raised any issues about her ownership of Arrow, it must have been somewhat legal.

In any case, its past owners must have been interesting people, as this is clearly bounty hunter ship. Lower deck contains fully equipped holding cell with extra security measures and, if needed, prisoner can be contained in a laser cage in the corner. Next to it, there's small but efficiently planned armory. The ship is small and easy to maneuver, has speed in and outside jumpspace and a lot of guns. Although this spacecraft is designed to pack a punch and evade (or run off), it also has a decent shield which can be turned into temporary stealth generator.



Last edited by sadrain; 12-18-2014 at 12:02 AM..