Judy Castana

"I'm kinda like you, in a way ya know. I ran away from my past for a long time. I guess that's where the similarities end though. I ran away from home because I didn't want to work in the family biz. My pops wanted me to be the poster girl for Castana Sistema and I didn't want to be, plain and simple. He started spouting some bullshit about needing to pull my weight or whatever, it's some corporate Chandeleran tagline. Well, I just up and split; found the first cargo freighter off planet and it went from there. Took a year but I landed here on Vixa. I prefer Brainwave Modulation. You have no idea how much people pay for premium chips, it's why I do what I do. I can cut you the most diamond VRBM chip you could ever imagine. So...what's your poison?" - Judy speaking with Angie after she and the Party Crashers stopped a Party Animal assault on her studio
Judy Josefina Castana is a Virtual Reality and Brainwave Modulation Technician originally from Crescendo, the capital of the Chandelier Hyper-Industrial Corps in the Artesian Federation. She didn't become a VRBM Tech until she came to Vixa. She is a petite woman. Her hair is shaved close to her scalp on the left side of her head in sort of an undercut fashion. She uses a custom iridescent dye in her hair that makes it look a combination of dark red, dark blue, dark green and her natural black depending on the lighting conditions. She stands at about 1.7m and weights just shy of 52kg. She has a number of tattoos on her body and has both ears pierced. She is fluent in Galactic Standard, Chandeleran and surprisingly, Corsari.
== Judy, the VRBM Tech ==
Judy left Crescendo after her father basically shackled her to Castana Sistema, which was the family business. Rebellious in nature, she left the first chance she got and never looked back. She drifted for a bit after landing on Vixa for the first year or so before landing in Party City where she joined up with the Phoenix, which is an almost all female gang composed of drifters, disenfranchised, rejected and other women society seemed to turn it's back on. The only exception to this are sex workers, where the Phoenix will take all comers. 
Judy basically keeps to herself, simply creating VRBM chips for customers at custom order which is a very lucrative proposition. Her unwillingness to take part in activities that involve striking back at their oppressors has sort of tarnished her reputation with Phoenix but she's by and large on good terms with them. Judy is incredibly intelligent and very good with technology but is not much of a people person. She's pretty closed off at first meeting but tends to become much gentler when she finally gets to know someone, which isn't often.
One can often find Judy staring at a computer curating and splicing VRBM chips for customers. She is known to give out jobs under the table to procure more equipment, actors or sometimes investigate something she needs looked into. This puts an additional buffer between her and the Phoenixes from any retaliation. Despite this, Judy isn't immune to the trouble of Party City. On more than one occasion she has been visited by agents from the Party God and usually it ends up with her setup being smashed most likely due to not paying the crushing taxes he imposes on his people. Judy even had a visit from the Party God himself once but that was so he could personally break her arm for missing multiple tax payments. Fixing the arm wasn't an issue due to the medical tech available on Vixa but the message had been sent, which is when Judy first reached out to the Party Crashers. Judy works closely with Casina trying to figure out how to reverse the effects of the Party Animals. While typically non-violent by nature, Judy personally wants to off the Party God for what he did to her but has resigned herself to the fact it'll probably never happen.
Judy takes a romantic interest in Angie but unfortunately gets turned down due to Angela being married to Kasara. Undeterred, the two remain as friends as Angela was the closest person she ever had to her outside of perhaps her brother Carlos. Judy has a rather large family with her being on the younger side. She has a father, mother, 4 brothers and 3 sisters. Her brother Carlos Castana attempts to regularly keep in touch with her but there being a 75 light year span between Vixa and Crescendo make that almost impossible especially since no one in her family knows where she is. Judy does eventually hear from Carlos when someone barged into her workshop during a business deal. Originally fuming at the fact she was interrupted she cut the meeting short once she heard the message was from Carlos, whom she hadn't heard from for almost a year. The message was simple and nowhere near the almost short novel lengths Carlos usually wrote. It said "Family in trouble, come home immediately". Judy knew she had to get home however she realized that if the worst happened she wouldn't have a fallback plan so she reached out to the only person she could trust; Angie. Being a mercenary, she knows that Angie has connections, a means and resources to help her get back to Crescendo and also figure out what's going on with her family should everything go sideways. Judy made the call, met with Angie at their favorite cafe and she made her case. Angie, who always wanted to see the Artesian Federation mostly for the adventure of it, agreed.
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Category:Story Arc Characters