Cassia ‘Cas’ Green - age 18
Home world:Verdant ####: B9685612 AG WA
Background Skills: Mechanic 0, Drive 0
Basic Training Skills (Scouts): Pilot 0 (space craft) 0, Survival 0, Mechanic +1, Astrogation 0, Vaccine Suit 0, Gun Combat 0
Physical Characteristics:
(STR: 6) 0
(DEX: 8) 0
(END: 9) +1
Mental Characteristics:
(INT: 9) +1
(EDU: 3) -1
(SOC: 5) -1
Cassia Green was born into a community of algae farmers on the agricultural water world Verdant #### :B9685612 AG WA. Most of the planets inhabitants were organized into small familial units tasked with tending one of the many shallow growing pools spread across the planet’s equatorial region. These vast green pools were many hectares across but never more than a meter in depth and were filled with a thick soup of plant matter which was periodically harvest and processed into a nutritional powder used as the base material for all matter of foodstuff used by the Imperial military and other spacers across the universe.
The inhabitants of Verdant practiced collective child rearing and from a very young age Cassia could be found in company of one of her mothers or fathers working the growing pools. Cassia, more commonly referred to as Cas, had a quiet upbringing and was taught the how to become an algae farmer. She was fairly average in stature but was tough and could spend hours working out in the hot humid environs surrounding the algae pools. She had a knack for mechanics and learned how to drive and repair the various skimmers and algae harvesters needed on the farm. During the endless hours of operating the aeration crawlers that slowly crossed the pools, Cassia’s mind wandered and she imagined a more adventurous life for herself somewhere, anywhere, other than on Verdant ####.
So, when she turned 18 she decide to get off planet when the spring harvest was finished. After loading the last container of nutrient powder on the Imperium transport freighter she convinced the captain to allow her to stay on board. The trip through space was by far the most exciting thing that had ever happened to her. When she arrived a the ships destination she sought out the Military Academy to become a Marine.
Term 1) Cas failed her entrance examine to the military academy. Her life as an algae farmer on a backwater agricultural world did not adequately prepare her for the vigors of officer training. Despite flunking the test, her interview with the admissions officer went well. Evidently, they saw some potential in the young farmer and sent her information over to a friend in the Scout program. Somewhat surprisingly she was drafted to be a scout.
Basic Training was tough. Cas was far behind many of the other people drafted with her. Those long hours spent tending the algae pools of Verdant #### gave her grit, stamina, and drive. She worked longer hours and studied later into the night than almost anyone else she knew. All that hard work paid of and was given a mission to survey a remote corner of system thought to be empty of anything interesting. On this mission disaster struck and Cas was ambushed by a hostile enemy ships. Once again, she relied on her endurance as she pushed her body and ship to it’s limits to out run and evade pursuit. During her escape she put her ship through a variety of high G maneuvers and navigated through the center of a nebula to confuse the pursuers sensors. To stay alive she had to make any number of fixes to the ship’s electronics, mechanical systems, sensory array, and succeed problem solving any number of non-ship issues. When she eventually returned to port many weeks late, severely dehydrated, but otherwise no worse for wear (thank goodness for that container of powdered algae she always carries) she felt as though she could take on the universe single handed.
Term 2) Cas’s Rank 1 Scout uniform had was still at the tailors when she received a new assignment. Evidently, another scout exploring the fringes of charted space had discovered a variety of anomalies which indicated the presence of an unknown Alien species. In light of Cas’s last run in with Aliens, the service thought her experience would prove useful. Once again, the Scout Service’s faith in Cas’s abilities paid off. She spent years exploring this area of Uncharted Space and eventually managed to discover and establish a strong and lasting relationship with the new species.
The Scout Service rewarded her with another Rank. She was only twenty-six and a rising star in the service but already the toll of working on the outskirts of charted space with only her ship for companionship was taking a toll on her. She didn’t want to trade long hours of driving a harvester through an empty algae pool for long hours of piloting a ship in the emptiness of space. Both were boring and one was decidedly more dangerous than the other.
So, Cas mustered out and went searching for a crew to join. A crew that she hoped would have more interesting mission in mind.
OOC:
I took some liberties coming up with a home world that fit the character idea.
BTW considering how great @Jomsviking rolled and the fact their character was an agent perhaps they could be the captain/person who recruited the rest of crew especially if we all do less Terms/are younger?
Cas was drafted into the Scout Services, too! Maybe, Cas and @Knighthawke character were in the same draft class. Perhaps they could bond over coming from water worlds? Let’s see if Cas can survive her first term as a surveyor.
Okay, character creation is complete. Cas is young in comparison to two of the crew (she only did 2 Terms instead of 7!!). I think I messed up one survival roll (Term 2) and added a +2 INT bonus instead of +1 END but the roll pass w/o modifiers so it worked out. I left one benefit roll to do b/c I didn’t know if she should have cash. I sort of imagine her being broke and that is one of the reasons she’s joining up with this crew.
I can maybe see her and Knighthawke’s character having some connection through the Scouts (maybe they heard of her through some SCout network or something.)
Last edited December 19, 2022 7:52 pm
