NAME: Karulea Talas
AGE: 30
MEASURES: 175cm/76kg (weigt/heigt)
RACE: Human
CLASS: Soldier/Operative Multi-Class
APPEARANCE:
BACKGROUND: Born to a influential, welthy family on one of the Pact Worlds, a family which provided many fine soldiers, functionarys, agents and politicians thru the generations, Karulea vas the only sister among three brothers, and the oldest of her siblings. Vhile her brothers wer groomed from childhood to one day join the military, and up-hold the family tradition as Stewards, Karulea's natural charm and personality maked her idealy suited to pursue a career of either politics, or diplomacy. How-ever, under her charm and looks, Karulea vas a adventurus, rebelious spirit, who refused to become some desk-bound, stuffy politician or diplomat. She wanted a more hands-on role for her-self in life. So, not very happy about it, her parents allowed her to join her three brothers in a military academy. Once there how-ever, even tho she aquited her-self wel, especialy in the areas of reconaisance and marksmanship, Karulea vas too much of a rebel and a independent-thinking person, to be a good by-the-book, folow-orders-without-question, soldier. She driven her drill-instruktors and other non-comissioned superiors mad vith her incessant questioning of orders, sarcasm, and propenzity for improvization, instead of folowing a established pattern, in completing a training objective. In less then a year, she vas already infamous among her peers, and a source of konstant embarassment for her brothers.
At the end of there patience with her, and once it came in-to the light that Karulea and one of her instruktors become involved in a intimate relationship, they wer about to drum her out of the academy, to the disgrace of her family, if not for a member of the Internal affairs agency, who taken a interest in the young trainee vith a quick, improvizational mind, and a talent for un-conventional thinking. He recognized potential in Karulea, to serve the government as a covert operative, instead of a soldier, and under his autority, he transfered her out of the military academy, and in-to the internal affairs training course. Alredy decently-trained in recon, sharpshooting, and small-unit tactics, during her time in the military academy, areas in which she demonstrated the most talent in, Karulea wuld have a more varied array of skills to offer, then most of the other operatives who lacked military training, and did not function wel as part of a co-ordinated fighting force. Now, her limited military training wuld be complimented vith a set of skills vhich wuld take advantage of her natural charm and looks, to make her a more eficient infiltrator, information-gatherer, and assassin. It turned out to be a fairly sukcessful merging of abilitys, if not perfect. Conditioned to take a straigt-forward aproach, during her time in military training, Karulea simply vasnt a good actress, and no amount of espionage-training culd change that. Her ability to infiltrate any hostile group, vas limited to mundane stealth aproach, as she vasnt very good at misleading people, and "hiding in plain sight". On the other hand, she vas much beter prepared to make a fight of it, if needed, vhen the time to break cover and act wuld come.
For her first couple of assignments, she exceled at fulfiling her objectives, one of them the assassination of a pirate Lord, the second one the aquisition of the command codes of a pirate ship. Unfortunatly for her, this versatility didnt serve her too wel, on her 3rd assignment for the agency, five years after her training vas complete, vhen she was sent to infiltrate one of the pirate groups in the Diaspora region, as a long-term sleeper agent. This vas precisely the kind of mission vhere acting ability wuld be the key to sukcess, which she simply didnt have. She did her best to present a pirate persona to them, a dis-illusioned, hurt, bitter young woman vith a grudge agenst authority, but her sophisticated way of speech, her ocasional slip-ups in terminology, vhere she used military lingo to descrybe certain situations, instead of pirate slang, and the general way she carryd her-self, a bit too focused and efficient to be who she claimed to be, eventualy maked the other pirates on the ship overly suspicious. So the captain had her folowed, for a few days, until she vas caught comunicating vith her handlers back at the agency.
The pirates captured her, despite her puting up a fight vhich claimed the lives of three pirates, tortured her for information, mis-treated her, after vhich Karulea spent a few months as a slave on the ship, as the "captain's woman" - basicly a sex-slave, for not just the captain, but also anyone else he choose to "reward" her to. But in time, her skills in a fight, especialy long-range shooting, become evident, ironicaly in a shoot-out vith some Stewards on a space station the pirate ship raided, vhere she killed half a dozen of them with a stolen laser rifle, earning her respect from the pirates. She had a chance there and then, to escape the pirates, since they wer foolish enogh to think they broken her, and bringed her along for the raid. But she didnt do it. She vasnt broken, on the contrery, the torture, mis-treatment, and sexual exploitation at the pirates' hands only hardened her, building a shield of ruthlesness over her charm and personality, and teaching her a few more things she didnt learn in either military or IA training, like how to be a decent scrapper, in HtH combat. It stil didnt match her profisiency vith a laser sniper, but she culd hold her own if need be. And the fact vas - Karulea has come to like the pirate life. No rules, no submitting reports, no self-righteus people teling her what to do. Vith the pirates, the rules wer simple - the most ornery one wins the argument, and if she lost, she always had her body to offer, to "pay" the price. No mercy to her peers, backstab them vhen she culd, seduce them vhen she culdnt, and respect to the captain. This tactic got her up in the ranks on the pirate ship over the folowing two years, until the ship docked at the mining station.
Now for the first time in her life, Karulea vas truly, free. Pirate laws being vhat they are, any crew-member leaving the ship culd do vhat they wanted. And as much as she come to like her life on the ship, raiding, pillaging and plundering, Karulea decided that the time has come for her to strike out on her own. Part-soldier, part-operative, and all-determined, she wuld make her fortune and future, in the world of independent mercs for hire, one way, or another. Vith no conscience left, burned out of her by the pirates, she wuld have no scruples, no qualms, about akcepting any job that comes her way, if the money is good enogh.
STRENGTHS: Charming, on the seductive side, backed up by her statuesque, alluring frame, vhen she feels like it, and vhen she keeps her vanity and arrogance under control. Versatile, good at thinking outsyde the box, and improvizing a solution to a problem, as long as problems are of a tactical, or inter-personal, nature, fiting vithin her area of expertise. And if her areas of expertise arent compromised by her character flaws (see under). More educated and thoghtful, more urbane and sofisticated in conduct and manerism, then the usual pirate brute, as a result of her up-bringing. Very deadly at long range, vith a good sharpshooting weapon.
WEAKNESSES: Stubborn. Very, very, VERY stubborn. She always thinks she knows best, and very rarely takes advice from anyone. Her looks and feeling of entitlement, combined vith her strong-wiled nature, make her vain and arrogant, even spoiled. The pirate mis-treatment did reduce that a litle, but not much. One of the reasons vhy the pirates never broke her, but also the reason her charm can backfire on her vhen she least wants it to, as her self-entitled atitude rears its head. Vhats worse, her sense of superiority can influence even her decisions in a battle, making her over-confident, and prone to making mistakes that culd cost her alot. Also, she is not suited to surviving on her own in a hostile enviroment, haveing very little actual skills beyond her seductive charms, and her steady trigger-finger. Her child-hood education, vhile significant, vas mostly theoretical in nature, she has very litle actual survival skills. If she wuld ever find her-self marooned on a un-inhabited planet, or in similar survival situation, she wuld not survive for long, if not rescued.
