Linda Pravdin

Linda Pravdin was a Human female in the Republic Navy, and later the Imperial Security Bureau.
== Biography ==
Born at a young age to a Mandalorian huntress, and a Xenoarchaeologist, Linda would be taught how to fight, hunt, and survive. She would attend school and obtain consistently high grades, while also accompanying her parents on various hunting expeditions. While her parents were strict and unwavering, they would not stop Linda from living her life and making her own choices (Unless the choice was exceptionally stupid), nor would they coddle her like a helpless child. By giving her the tools to succeed, and allowing her the freedom to make mistakes early on, Linda became a capable warrior and a colossal nerd.
=== First Blood ===
At age 10 Linda killed her first creature. While it was a controlled environment, it instilled a respect for the power of weapons, and an appreciation for marksmanship.
=== Dragon Slayer ===
At age 16, Linda's parents gave her a traditional Tusken cycler rifle, and took her on a hunting trip to Tatooine. The prey was predetermined by the time of her birth, leading to the destined path of hunting a Krayt Dragon. This would prove to be a daunting task, that took every ounce of skill, knowledge, and luck she had. In the end Linda walked away with 8 broken ribs, 16 small cuts, 3 deep abdominal lacerations, and several Krayt Dragon pearls, but lost the ability to bear children due to her injuries. The skull of the beast remains mounted in the house vault, while one pearl was sold to fund Linda's future endeavors, the remainder stay hidden away in an undisclosed location.
=== That one time she killed a guy and hid the body ===
Linda's mother once killed the intended prey of a rich high-born aristocratic asshole, causing him to get quite upset and hire a pair of bounty hunters to kill Mama Pravdin. To accomplish this they attempted to kidnap Linda, who promptly split the duo up, murdered one, and hid the body from his partner. Using the confusion while the remaining bounty hunter tried to find his friend, Linda slipped away.
=== Future Plans ===
Upon completing her schooling, having studied broad sciences and loving weaponry, Linda decided to pursue a career in research and development. She would be ultimately delay this course of action as the Clone Wars broke out shortly after her 20th birthday.
=== Naval Academy ===
Linda would go on to attend a prestigious naval academy to prepare her for a military career. Specializing in weaponry, she would go on to graduate with honors and distinction, landing her aboard the trainwreck known as the RV-Phalanx.
=== The Incident ===
One night aboard the RV-Phalanx things started going awry, and Linda's fellow naval cadet Hugo Typhe was dealing with things going wrong aboard the ship, and Linda came on duty briefly, to lend a hand. She got the fires put out, and whilst attempting to interrogate a suspicious droid repairman via threats, Typhe confirmed the repairman's legitimacy, meaning he could go free. In the aftermath both Typhe and Pravdin were berated by the ISB Lieutenant, who stated that (in his opinion) their naval careers were over. Despite wanting to explain the situation, bite back, and lash out at the ISB officer, she kept her cool. By maintaining composure, and carrying on with her duties, she proved that the ISB Lieutenant was wrong, and her career was just getting started.
=== Science Specialist ===
With Captain Toshe being replaced by Captain Styke, a series of reforms were implemented and Linda Pravdin put her knowledge to use by becoming a science specialist.
=== Conscription into Security ===
Whilst considering specializing her skills beyond being a science specialist, she was informed by Isabella Everbright that she was being conscripted into the Security team. This was a further expansion upon her duties as a science specialist, and allowed her to go groundside during missions. A fitting job for Linda, but it's not like she had a choice. 
=== Encounter With Grievous ===
While on a raid on a CIS facility, hostile ships arrived in system and engaged the Republic ships present. Of the CIS fleet that arrived, the Invisible Hand and Colicoid Swarm, meaning that General Grievous had arrived and may enter the facility. Troops present took up defensive positions and prepared for a droid storm, Linda taking an E-5s rifle and a marksman position on a balcony. Instead of having a legion of droids breach the door, General Grievous personally assaulted the team. Captain Mav was incapacitated almost instantly, while General Grievous tore through the first layer of defenses. General Ramt'ii engaged Grievous while the troopers fell back to their secondary defensive positions. Linda, up on the balcony, leapt down and tried to recover Captain Mav, but took a wrong turn down a hallway, cutting her off from friendly forces. Upon turning around to try and regroup with friendly forces, she instead saw General Grievous barreling towards her. A shrill cry and several shots with her rifle marked her abandoning Captain Mav, and fleeing towards an armory with the hopes of shaking the Cyborg from hell. General Ramt'ii was quick to reengage Grievous, and in the midst of the fighting, Linda slipped past, and recovered Captain Mav, who got revived by a medic. After Grievous pushed the dead-end defensive position, taking out some troopers, the surviving friendlies slipped around and returned to the entrance of the fighting. General Ramt'ii stayed back to delay Grievous, much to the dismay of many of the Republic forces. Despite the orders of Captain Mav to abandon General Ramt'ii, the LAAT/i pilot stuck around a bit longer, which allowed the friendly general to get picked up after slipping past the unfriendly general. Remarkably all friendly forces made it out alive.
=== Clone Wars (Because I never updated this and forgot a lot) ===
The Clone wars were a highly destructive ordeal that honed Linda's skillset. With the declaration of a new order, she transferred to other ships and filled several roles before being asked to aid the Imperial Security Bureau with the upcoming battles on Mandalore. 
=== Mandalore ===
A long campaign that led the 501st to stay in Castle Pravdin for a brief period. Linda would frequently meet with other clans, hunt, and provide intelligence to the empire. Amidst the confusion a slave auction was held in the House's beskar mine, leading to a brief altercation, and throwing the ringleader out to be hunted by the 501st for sport. Among the slaves freed was a wookie, who now works as guardian of the mines, but owes Linda a life-debt. Unfortunately explosives got tossed into the mine later on. All tunnels were evacuated, leaving no casualties when the bombs went off. All in all, the castle saw some life as opposed to being a summer-home type place, the mine got a face lift of sorts, a life debt was acquired, many many many people died; total win for Linda.
=== From ISB to I.I. ===
As the reconquest of the rim carried on, Linda was transferred to Imperial Intelligence as it better suits her skillset. 
=== The Loss of the Phaedra ===
While ruthlessly slaughtering paperwork, a battle got out of hand and the ISD was critically damaged. Before things got too hairy, Linda did what she always did in a dicey situation; donned the armor and trusted it. When the Phaedra limped back to Kuat and split in half, Linda got ejected into space, where she slammed into several large chunks of debris. Drifting and kicking off of objects to navigate to suitable safety, she managed to get picked up by an ARC-170 piloted by VD-1010 "Hermit", who had been resting in his fighter off-duty as per usual, and scrambled to assist upon exiting hyperspace.
=== The Trash Pile ===
The survivors of the Phaedra were transferred to a shitty Arquitens. It sucked ass, the Stormtrooper Corps and Fleet members began infighting to the extremes. Linda attempted to diffuse several happenings, and prevent damage/vandalism of Imperial property, but they kept bickering and flinging shit (literally in one instance).
== Personality ==
Linda Pravdin is normally calm and collected behind a rifle, entering a state of Zen while picking off targets, however she can get quite worked up when she is insulted, belittled, or challenged. To her, honor is important, and she dislikes backing down from a challenge. She will stubbornly try to fight on, regardless of how much the situation deteriorates. As time has gone on, she has learned to calm down and know when to call a fight, but she will still lash out harshly at times. It's a miracle she hasn't shot anyone important yet.
== Relationships ==
=== TX-1176 "Songbird" ===
He's the guy.
=== Hugo Typhe ===
A good friend who makes questionable decisions and can be quite cowardly. He will get his wits about him, show strength in a tactful manner, or die. Linda tries to keep him in line but his rash decision making, and short fuse make him a challenge to help. His ass has been thrown under the bus, and away from it several times by Linda, who hopes he will learn from the mistakes but not get his ass killed.
=== Arcandal Hex ===
The blubbering child who breaks down in the face of stress. Weak, undisciplined, and foolish. Linda has been nudging Hex towards becoming stronger in will and might. After the loss of the ISD-Phaedra & Hex's humiliation, Linda has redoubled her efforts to turn the screwup into a proper verd. A worthy challenge that may end in failure, a sad prospect for the child Linda could never have.
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