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Here's a WIP of my ISB character, which I'm slowly chipping away at. I still have to add the bit about her being promoted to Cipher agent. (and also find out which designation she'll be).
The CS format isn't anything fancy, but I might update it once it's all finished.
In the meantime, feedback is appreciated if you have a chance to read, as I want to ensure that the character's backstory aligns with the Timeline lore here :)
The CS format isn't anything fancy, but I might update it once it's all finished.
In the meantime, feedback is appreciated if you have a chance to read, as I want to ensure that the character's backstory aligns with the Timeline lore here :)
NAME: Niobe V’nyza
ALIAS: Cipher
FACTION: Empire | Imperial Security Bureau
RANK: Cipher Agent
SPECIES: Chiss
AGE: 26
GENDER: Female
HEIGHT: 6ft 1in
WEIGHT: 169lbs
FORCE SENSITIVE: No
Cover Occupation: Slicer / Tech / Holoforger
Actual Occupation: Imperial Operative - specializes in network security and counterintelligence.
APPEARANCE: WIP
ATTRIBUTES:
Strengths:
▷ WIP
Flaws:
▷ Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: She likes things the way she likes things, and there is very little you can do to dissuade her otherwise.
▷ Nightmares: New or recurring, usually dealing with her time in training, or perhaps something near-traumatic that happened while undercover. Either way, it makes it tough to get a decent night’s rest, which in-turn causes fatigue unless taken care of.
▷ Painkiller addiction: After a serious training accident, her dependency became greater.
PERSONALITY:
Niobe is quiet, polite, courteous, and well spoken in her mannerisms, yet fairly reserved when not being spoken to directly. Overall, she exudes confidence in her work life, but never attempts to flaunt or boast, leaving the accolades for others to revel in. However, do not mistake her friendly disposition with weakness, as she will quickly remind you otherwise. Generally she has a good relationship (both business and casual) within Imperial Intelligence and amongst her contacts in the Undercity.
However, she does have trust issues at times, especially with those she feels are not quite up front with her, and along the corrupt landscape, that could be a very long list.
BIOGRAPHY: (still a WIP)
If you were to ask Niobe about her career path as a child, she would have responded with a simple, "Control", as that had been the mentality of her people for as far back as the Chiss have been in existence. And of course, with the Ascendency, it allowed them full control of just about anything imaginable within their own governing jurisdictions. But what had been the most difficult for the young girl growing up, was the lack of freedom that came with said control. She felt the call to go beyond the distance of what her mother and father could see, and perhaps be so much more.
Niobe was raised on multiple ships within the Chiss Expansionary Defense Fleet, in which both parents served in a scientific and technological capacity. They left the Unknown Regions years prior to facilitate security and agricultural protocols on various planets that were aligned with the interests of the Ascendency, as well as opening new trade routes. Her people spared no expense when it came to traveling in style, and with that, the child also had the best education offered, which coupled history-rich Chiss culture and the highest of standards in which their race of people were accustomed.
Fast-forward many years, and both parents were on a dropship that was shot down over a hostile region of a planet during a research trip. Whether the attack was intentional is still unknown, however, her parents' remains were never found as the damage was quite intense.
At about this time, Niobe, well into late adolescence and given the freedom to move on, decided to join the Imperial Navy, if for no other reason than to escape her people for as long as possible. While her skillset was quite extraordinary and diverse, it was her non-human status, sadly, that was a cause for hesitation within the folds of the Empire. However, her test scores ranked higher than most humans in her class and indicated a career within the Intelligence branch of the Navy, specifically the network security and counterintelligence divisions. Of course, she still had to go through basic training and survive long enough for weeks or months on end before they would even consider moving on to the next phases.
Time passed, and while the young Chiss adapted exceptionally well to the mental and psychological exercises and challenges, the physical aspects of her training gave her quite a hard time, but regardless, she pushed through well enough. Being one of the very few alien races -and the only Chiss- in her class, peer pressure and adversity sprung up as it typically would in an otherwise xenophobic environment. The Empire had its positives and negatives, but the people within were somehow led to believe that humanity was the superior race, which, as you could imagine, sowed discourse within the ranks. If being a woman in a male-dominated field wasn’t tough enough, being a blue-skinned woman with red glowing eyes certainly didn’t help the situation.
But regardless, past the name-calling, the whispers just out of earshot, and constant public humiliation, Niobe graduated at the top of her class with honors in the security and intelligence fields, and was the last to laugh at many of her classmates' misfortunes.
Small victories were still victories after all.
She endured through basic training, combat fundamentals, excelled in tactics/slicing/deciphering, and over time advanced to Imperial Intelligence within internal security, screening data for vulnerabilities, and addressing any security breaches. Eventually working her way up to a position where she directly relayed any recovered and researched information to Cipher agents in the field.
(ADDING MORE….)
SKILLS:
▷ Low Light Vision: Chiss can see twice as far as a normal human in poor lighting conditions
▷ Above average dexterity.
▷ Sharp hearing
▷ Athletic
▷ Photographic memory
▷ Systems programming, slicing, and repair knowledge.
▷ Hologram forging
Imperial Academy Combat Training:
▷ Small firearms handling and cleaning
▷ Close-quarter melee training (small blades)
▷ Unarmed combat
GEAR:
Weapons:
▷A180 Blaster Pistol which she has since customized, and stores in her apartments lockbox.
▷ Six inch multitool, which has a significantly sized vibroblade attachment. She keeps this tucked on the inside pocket of her jacket.[/i]
Equipment:
▷ Wrist datapad - pulls up holos for system diagnostics and/or slicing.
▷ Data Spikes (Slicer Gear)
▷ Data Breaker (Slicer Gear)
▷ Small Techie Toolkit (rear tool pouch)
ROLE-PLAYS:
N/A
RELATIONSHIPS:
N/A
SHIP:
N/A
DROIDS:
DRK-1 Dark Eye Recon Droid
ALIAS: Cipher
FACTION: Empire | Imperial Security Bureau
RANK: Cipher Agent
SPECIES: Chiss
AGE: 26
GENDER: Female
HEIGHT: 6ft 1in
WEIGHT: 169lbs
FORCE SENSITIVE: No
Cover Occupation: Slicer / Tech / Holoforger
Actual Occupation: Imperial Operative - specializes in network security and counterintelligence.
APPEARANCE: WIP
ATTRIBUTES:
Strengths:
▷ WIP
Flaws:
▷ Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: She likes things the way she likes things, and there is very little you can do to dissuade her otherwise.
▷ Nightmares: New or recurring, usually dealing with her time in training, or perhaps something near-traumatic that happened while undercover. Either way, it makes it tough to get a decent night’s rest, which in-turn causes fatigue unless taken care of.
▷ Painkiller addiction: After a serious training accident, her dependency became greater.
PERSONALITY:
Niobe is quiet, polite, courteous, and well spoken in her mannerisms, yet fairly reserved when not being spoken to directly. Overall, she exudes confidence in her work life, but never attempts to flaunt or boast, leaving the accolades for others to revel in. However, do not mistake her friendly disposition with weakness, as she will quickly remind you otherwise. Generally she has a good relationship (both business and casual) within Imperial Intelligence and amongst her contacts in the Undercity.
However, she does have trust issues at times, especially with those she feels are not quite up front with her, and along the corrupt landscape, that could be a very long list.
BIOGRAPHY: (still a WIP)
If you were to ask Niobe about her career path as a child, she would have responded with a simple, "Control", as that had been the mentality of her people for as far back as the Chiss have been in existence. And of course, with the Ascendency, it allowed them full control of just about anything imaginable within their own governing jurisdictions. But what had been the most difficult for the young girl growing up, was the lack of freedom that came with said control. She felt the call to go beyond the distance of what her mother and father could see, and perhaps be so much more.
Niobe was raised on multiple ships within the Chiss Expansionary Defense Fleet, in which both parents served in a scientific and technological capacity. They left the Unknown Regions years prior to facilitate security and agricultural protocols on various planets that were aligned with the interests of the Ascendency, as well as opening new trade routes. Her people spared no expense when it came to traveling in style, and with that, the child also had the best education offered, which coupled history-rich Chiss culture and the highest of standards in which their race of people were accustomed.
Fast-forward many years, and both parents were on a dropship that was shot down over a hostile region of a planet during a research trip. Whether the attack was intentional is still unknown, however, her parents' remains were never found as the damage was quite intense.
At about this time, Niobe, well into late adolescence and given the freedom to move on, decided to join the Imperial Navy, if for no other reason than to escape her people for as long as possible. While her skillset was quite extraordinary and diverse, it was her non-human status, sadly, that was a cause for hesitation within the folds of the Empire. However, her test scores ranked higher than most humans in her class and indicated a career within the Intelligence branch of the Navy, specifically the network security and counterintelligence divisions. Of course, she still had to go through basic training and survive long enough for weeks or months on end before they would even consider moving on to the next phases.
Time passed, and while the young Chiss adapted exceptionally well to the mental and psychological exercises and challenges, the physical aspects of her training gave her quite a hard time, but regardless, she pushed through well enough. Being one of the very few alien races -and the only Chiss- in her class, peer pressure and adversity sprung up as it typically would in an otherwise xenophobic environment. The Empire had its positives and negatives, but the people within were somehow led to believe that humanity was the superior race, which, as you could imagine, sowed discourse within the ranks. If being a woman in a male-dominated field wasn’t tough enough, being a blue-skinned woman with red glowing eyes certainly didn’t help the situation.
But regardless, past the name-calling, the whispers just out of earshot, and constant public humiliation, Niobe graduated at the top of her class with honors in the security and intelligence fields, and was the last to laugh at many of her classmates' misfortunes.
Small victories were still victories after all.
She endured through basic training, combat fundamentals, excelled in tactics/slicing/deciphering, and over time advanced to Imperial Intelligence within internal security, screening data for vulnerabilities, and addressing any security breaches. Eventually working her way up to a position where she directly relayed any recovered and researched information to Cipher agents in the field.
(ADDING MORE….)
SKILLS:
▷ Low Light Vision: Chiss can see twice as far as a normal human in poor lighting conditions
▷ Above average dexterity.
▷ Sharp hearing
▷ Athletic
▷ Photographic memory
▷ Systems programming, slicing, and repair knowledge.
▷ Hologram forging
Imperial Academy Combat Training:
▷ Small firearms handling and cleaning
▷ Close-quarter melee training (small blades)
▷ Unarmed combat
GEAR:
Weapons:
▷A180 Blaster Pistol which she has since customized, and stores in her apartments lockbox.
▷ Six inch multitool, which has a significantly sized vibroblade attachment. She keeps this tucked on the inside pocket of her jacket.[/i]
Equipment:
▷ Wrist datapad - pulls up holos for system diagnostics and/or slicing.
▷ Data Spikes (Slicer Gear)
▷ Data Breaker (Slicer Gear)
▷ Small Techie Toolkit (rear tool pouch)
ROLE-PLAYS:
N/A
RELATIONSHIPS:
N/A
SHIP:
N/A
DROIDS:
DRK-1 Dark Eye Recon Droid
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