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Jara Green
freelance fighter pilot
1/12/2009 12:52:51 PM

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Jara

Character Name: Jara Green

Age: 28

Gender: Female

Species: Human

Description: standing at just about 5' tall, and scrawny from all the time spent in space, she keeps her straight brown hair at waist length even though it makes sealing the pressure suit more difficult. Many swear that she's actually grafted into her form fitting pressure suit, however, when she actually goes planetside she tends to wear fairly tight clothing, typically pants and a T shirt, though she has been known to dress up on rare occasions.

She is skinny, her bones and muscles somewhat underdeveloped considering the fact that the vast majority of her life has been in space. This gives her a graceful, fragile sort of appearance, and she relies on her blaster pistol in combat, since it has little recoil. Inside her fighter she is a fireball and a half, aggressive, vindictive and challenging. Outside of it she is usually quiet and tends to hide behind her hair which she almost never pulls back so that it can block her face. Timid is never a word for her, even if she is shy outside her fighter, behind her hair if one looks, she is always staring pretty hard, and if you push her far enough she'll bite back. In low, or zero gravity she is agile and at home, but planetside, or under equivalent gravity she has an odd lilt to her walk.

History: She is among the fourth generation of a low gravity asteroid mining community which makes a small profit off of its rare mineral mining, most of the mundane resources have been used to further build and expand the town, which is centered on the small colony ship that the original generation arrived in, the surface portion at least, 2/3rds of the colony is underground now. They pulled the particular asteroid they selected to just outside the belt to avoid any devastating collisions, but you don't need as many blast doors against accidental leaks and damage underground.

Growing up she was slightly tomboyish, and showed more of an aptitude for mechanics, which wasn't too uncommon giving the circumstances. She trained a little under the electricians before finally deciding to work in the repair shop fixing the miners, fighters, shuttles and transports that kept the town running, or just happened to be passing through.

At 19 she opted into the militia, which wasn't quite mandatory, but highly recommended for all young citizens. A part time job protect the community and the asteroid miners from pirates. They were small enough that if they showed enough bite, the pirates usually decided the profit wouldn't be worth the loss. She was a talented fighter pilot and got assigned to a wing quickly. After many years of standoffs and a few skirmishes, a few particularly vicious, they awarded her with her own fighter, and allowed her to customize it however she liked, though the mechanics cracked a few jokes about shrinking the cockpit for her size. At 27 she partially retired, traveling the universe on extended vacations and then coming back for a few months at a time.

In combat she goes by the callsign Orchid, after a poisonous flowering plant that accidentally been grown in the community park/hydroponics lab, they had wanted to dig it out but young Jara had defended it bodily, and they just couldn't say no to the tearful little girl.

Item(s):
A specialized pressure suit, with an extended air supply, and a built in hydration/nutrition system, (another reason she's so skinny, she tends to live off of subsistence things like that, and doesn't eat rich),
Lern 42 (because compact, and accurate, is important in space),
and an FS HideAway wharncliffe for a last ditch effort

Ship/Vehicle Name: Belladonna

Model: S24 Thoron
Manufacturer: Draken Shores
Type: Fighter
Field: Space
Hyperdrive: Zeren-Thal Short Range Drive
Life Support: Limited
Artificial Gravity: No
Weight Class: Light
Armaments: 2x light/medium ion racks / 1x autocannon rack

Price: 21,000 tape

Originally designed by Draken Shores as a defense fighter for their multitude of asteroid mining facilities, its purpose is to be a rapid response and low maintenance fighter that can stay in space unaided for much longer periods of time than the average fighter, making it a deadly implement in a standoff.

The Thoron's complement of weapons is designed to discourage frequent "pit stops", lacking any missile capability, therefore decreasing weight and increasing the amount of time before a pilot feels the need to rearm the craft. It depends mainly on its low-consumption ion racks, meaning it can stay in the fight at nearly full power for as long as the pilot has air. Despite this dedication to uptime, the autocannon rack is designed for a Draken Shores-designed single-barrel autocannon firing about 1,200 rounds per minute, with a drum holding about 1,440 rounds, "just in case". The Thoron has an unusually large powerplant for such a craft, designed to handle the extra stress of the hyperdrive in conjunction with the ion racks.

The fighter is equipped with an air tank and a limited oxygen filtration system so that the pilot can remain active longer without draining his oxygen supply, however, for particularly long flights, it is recommended that the pilot wear a specialized suit equipped with a nutrient-enhanced hydration system to combat hunger and dehydration.

The Thoron's extensive RCS facilitates maneuvers that can only be done in space, making it an excellent dogfighter and very difficult to track without a similarly equipped, or otherwise very maneuverable light fighter. The down side to all of this is that the Thoron is only space-capable, so the design throws the concepts of lift and aerodynamics to the wind.

Originally designed for use against pirates, this design ironically became popular with the same crowd. It is also known to be used by many small militarized groups, for whom getting ammunition and missiles is a difficult chore.

This fighter has a customized cockpit to fit her small size, the computer takes audio commands set to her voice profile, slightly upgraded sensor systems, and some tools as well as some spare nutrient water, and air for her pressure suit in what little cargo space is offered

explosions are louder in space, because there's no air to get in the way
Stasis
Hey Claudius...
You killed my father.
Big mistake.

Dominion Master
1/12/2009 1:59:39 PM

Level: 25
Experience: 65000

Total Posts: 691
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