Their technological resources destroyed, a colonizing expedition has been stranded on PLANETNAME for over two hundred years. Their continued survival was largely due to the organization of healers known as the Seekers, a spiritual group partially composed of ONI—a telepathic being native to the planet who bonds with another being for life. Seekers travel from town to town, settling disputes by truth-reading the minds and emotions of plaintiffs and defendants. One such ONI broke the Seeker rule of falling in love with their bond to a human woman and was excommunicated. They bore children together and raised their family in their broken ship with the colonizers.
As a young girl, Circe considered both her parents her heroes. Circe's personality is more like her father's. She is very empathetic and brave and will do absolutely anything for her family, including sacrificing her life. Her interests are like her mother's. She likes to learn and loves the opportunity to display her logical, scientific, and medical abilities, but hardly ever brags. Circe is also athletic and loves to swim, run and exercise.
Although Circe grew up around a variety of talented colonizers, she became a doctor and the colonists' field medic, though not everyone in the colony respected this skill. Her own mother, an ecologist, disapproved, but ultimately allowed her daughter to forge her own path. A prodigy, Circe is capable of diagnosing the condition of a patient without directly observing the patient, a Seeker skill she unconsciously adopted from her ONI father.
At 16 years old, Circe was given the option of opting out of the ONI Trials due to being a "half-breed", as the ONI would say, just like her older siblings did. They even recommended it. They would never be accepted, they reasoned. But the Trials were a rite of passage for coming-of-age ONI, a test that challenged the mind, body, and soul, to give them a purpose, and a permanent place in their society. Her courageous and daring personality would not allow her to quit, and her naive hopefulness made her think she could be accepted if she passed. Having been taught by her father, she hoped her private tutilage would be enough.
Despite her strong personality, Circe developed PTSD after surviving her near-death experience during the ONI Trials. Miraculously, she passed and was given the honorary title of Seeker, like her father before her. Not all were quick to accept her into their society, however.
Circe loved being a Seeker. Helping locals and learning their language. Until she was kidnapped on an assignment to a nearby town by a radical group of mercenaries for a local baron, who wanted to use her to send a message and set an example. Circe was dropped off at one of the system's sister planets, in completely unknown territory.
The following years were a blur of survival.
Two decades later, Circe had become one of Nexus' very own well-paid roughneck, part of a sub-class of highly skilled, but blue-collar contractors. She also smuggles on the side, specializing in luxury goods and ancient artifacts. A roguish exterior hides a heart of gold, and if not for the fact that everyone she loves thinks she is dead, she would have returned home and set up herself and her family for life. A regular at the Leaky Servo, and member of the Wayfarer's Guild, she received word of a new contract and went on her way.
way.