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One of the downsides of the march of technology is that it allows just about anyone to become almost as dangerous as a trained killing machine. In such a universe, a lone troubled youth like the girl from Ganymede can gain notoriety with quick wits and a lot of luck at her side. Legally, she is scum of the galaxy, but to her, she’s been dealt a poor hand and is just trying to survive. She is a smuggler and a thief, and a rather unsavory one at that: she is also a freelance slave trader. Keeping yourself alive out on your own with a personal ship is an expensive effort, and getting the right contacts for a smuggling deal can be hard when you’re working solo. It’s not a comfortable life she lives, but it is her life.
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For SMUGGLING, THEFT, ASSAULT, MURDER, KIDNAPPING, and RESISTING ARREST.
NAME: Unknown. Alias “Ganymede”, named after her birthplace.
RACE: Human. Gene splicer.
HEIGHT: 6’0
WEIGHT: 150 lbs
IDENTIFYING MARKINGS: Rectangular burn marks around neck area, scars on back.
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Her story begins with her name. The human girl was born on the colony on Ganymede into a loving family. Sure, the colony was “backwater” compared to the splendid grandeur of living on Earth, but the Sol colonies are generally peaceful and positive places to raise a child. Earth is far too risky, where the gap between the rich and the poor is greater than the miles above that the privileged dwell above the slums. Solar colonies, on the other hand, are gifted with both opportunity and security…usually. The girl never had the opportunity to know her parents before she had been stolen away. A slaver frigate from outside of “civilized” territory had managed to sneak deep into Earthen territory to make a daring run to capture humans of the lunar colony in bulk. Just like that, overnight, she was ripped away from her home and her family at the age of only three Earth years. And with it, she lost her name—the slavers simply called her “Ganymede” when she was sold.
Because of her small size at the time, children like her were given the opportunity to learn basic skills of mechanics as applied to maintaining starships. Normally being a mechanic in the space age is not a dangerous profession, but it is when children are expected to clamber through the tiny ducts of the ship while it is in motion. But Ganymede survived. She survived because she strove to learn the sophistications of maintaining a starship so voraciously that it would make humanity proud. She was sold at a high price to a mercenary vessel as a mechanic as a result. It was them, this band of cruel cutthroats and sellswords, that had been her model adults. They treated her harshly, but she grew to develop their mannerisms and attitudes all the same. Unfortunately for them, she developed their penchant for treachery as well. At age fourteen she took the ship for her own by jettisoning the bridge and cabins into a gas giant and survived the crash into one of its moons. From the wreckage and intact escape pods, she built her own ship under the time constraints of the life support systems and her aching heart. Sure, they were nothing but her masters, but it took a lot of guts to betray the only people she ever knew.
She could have gone back to living in the Sol system, but she has not. She simply feels like she “can’t go back”, nor could she see herself living the life of an unimportant refugee. No. What she wanted from now on, she had to take. The civilized world believed her dead. She could only be a rogue that lived by herself and for herself. She is nineteen years old now, and a lonely few years it has been on her ambitious climb through the world of space-crime. But her life is her own.
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Personality:
Make no mistake, Ganymede is a hardened and independent girl that would gladly scar someone for life just to prove that she’s as much a badass as the far deadlier space pirates. She has a detached emotionality when engaging in more clandestine work (slavery), but its far from absent. She just does it to survive in her part of the galaxy. It doesn’t take a lot to observe that she’s hardly ‘evil’ behind that shallow persona. Engaging in the slave trade is extremely taxing on her spirit, so she only has engaged in it when money is truly tight. While she won’t say it, she really doesn’t want to hurt anyone. Save for her former masters and incidents of self defense, she has apparently never committed murder (despite her wanted poster) and is likely to run at the sign of armed conflict.
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Equipment:
Sunspot: An intentionally generic name for a one-of-a-kind ship. Ganymede’s spaceship may not have the performance nor weapons capabilities of a starfighter, but it travels at incredible speeds given its larger size (and in the hands of a skilled pilot, at that!). Having been built using the hull of an escape pod in its first incarnation, the ship itself is spherical and roughly the size of a suburban home on the outside, but the interior only has a hotel room’s worth of living space. Most piloting is done by the ship’s AI, but any tricky maneuvering she can trust only to herself from the helm command chair. Also prominent furnishings inside are a queen-size bed for herself, bath and commode with zero privacy, supply cabinet, and extranet station. The ship’s "weapon" system is a pair of laser cannons designed for shooting asteroids that are generally unfeasible in conventional combat, but still have their uses. The ship’s covert functions are nothing to sneeze at either, bearing both a cloaking device and flexible signal jammer. The ship is also painted matte black, making visual contact difficult in the blackness of space.
The ship is named after the AI, SOL-01, who accepts Sunspot as a nickname. Although Ganymede takes them for granted, Sunspot is a fairly mysterious entity. She found her by looting salvageable remnants of Sunspot's hard drive in a natural junk yard of crashed derelict spaceships and restoring it herself. She was...*surprised* to say the least, to find that the AI was unshackled; in fact, Sunspot was designed from the beginning to be self-aware, which is hideously illegal through pretty much the entire milky way galaxy. Indeed, Sunspot owes no servitude to Ganymede at all. However, this didn't stop them from having become friends that mutually assist each others' survival in a cruel universe. Ganymede and Sunspot are a team, and will be roleplayed as such.
Splicer station: An unfortunate addiction of hers is that she delights in DNA ‘enhancements’. Most of her enhancements she’s tried out have been temporary, but she has found a few that bore permanent effects. Indeed, this is how she had modified her body to be capable of vore (unfortunately, this also includes strange effects on her psychology, seeing as how she took the gene from a race of vorephiles), but other splices include amazing flexibility, increased perceptual senses, and the ever-important task of her face producing its own makeup.
Comet Handcannon: It’s a laser gun.
Compression Cartridge: True to Ganymede being a crack engineer, this is a device of her own invention. The device acts like a small, but disposable mimic of her ship's cargo compressor. She can apply this to her Comet Handcannon to fire a charge that shrinks what she shoots. Surprisingly handy!
Multitool: Its about the size of a bracelet (Even smaller than those in the picture), but oh-so useful in operating any equipment made even 500 years prior to its invention. These are rather commonplace amongst engineers and mechanics, as well as military personnel. It both acts as a utility belt as well as a hacking device.
Slaver Gear: While it is standard for slavers to keep “collars” of sorts—those that shock, suppress volition, or simply detonate at the owner’s whim—Ganymede does not. She didn’t even keep her own. She does, however, have highly effective binding equipment. Substituting the collar, she can use the ship’s Cargo Compression Chamber to render captives to a much smaller stature for easy handling. She’s not the first outlaw to use this to handle sentient life, but she is one of the only people to do it solo in her own ship.
…also she has standard equipment. Like electromagnetic boots and a tow cable. You know. Space stuff.
I’M IN SPACE!
