Natalie Ivanova

Natalie Ivanova is the first soldier you get to know in your squad. She's from Mars and even New Moscow, too - and has the same rank as you in the beginning (Private 1st class). She's one of the major sidekicks in Entropie and becomes a true, loyal friend. During your squad's progression she becomes a highly skilled and specialized fine soldier, choosing her spezialiation according to prior experiences, and dialogues with you! Maybe she becomes a tough army engineer soldier, your group's medic or even your superior officer? Who knows, who knows...

#### Bio

* Natalie grew up in New Moscow's neighborhood of "Petrograd", a satilite/suburb city of New Moscow
* Her parents were a general practitioner (mother) and a judge (father)
* Both wanted her to follow them in their footsteps, striving an academic carreer
* She has two older brothers (one being assistent medical director, the other lawyer), who, unlike her, followed in their parent's foodsteps
* Natalie has a mixed/flawed relationship with her father, but maintains a relatively decent one to her mother
* Being as early as young girl she developed a grand affinity towards science, languages, architecture and history - her grandparents being her greatest promoters by often giving her science and space literature to read
* Natalie loved staying at her grandparents over the weekends in the suburbs of New Beograd on the Twin Souls Colony when she was a young girl. Many good memories she holds in high esteem until today: Going for a walk in the earth-like forests, building camps, watching Star Trek with her grandpa and brothers. Her parents often "parked" her there, because they never really had time for her. The Twin Souls Colony was one of the few terraformed colonies, that truely became earth-like. She lost her grandparents to a major attack by a Skaarj/Krall fleet. An event that much changed Natalie, being forced to either stay at Mars or Luna.
* The other grandparents (father's side), living at Luna (Luna City), weren't as kind as the ones living at New Beograd, they only supported the father's stand of attending a highly profitable academic carreer and were often mean and double-barreled to her
* After flawlessly graduating from grammar school she decided to seek her fortune as elite-soldier within the ranks of the Martian Marine Corps, but has no specialisation yet, too
* Her mother still hopes for an academic career even after joining the Marines, but mostly tolerates her daughter's way - after a couple of discourses. There's a small chance of her becoming the group's scientist or army doctor
* Her father however refuses to talk to her after going away from Mars as a soldier, even after major sophisticated discourses initiated by her explaining that she wants to help people by building some kind of "new earth" on Na Pali
* Natalie should've been promoted to Corporal already 1 year ago, after her Sergeant and she fought through a not-so-abandoned Skaarj Outpost - she gets pretty upset when this is mentioned, because it would've been a huge step forward becoming an officer fast. Since this event she doesn't really trust Col. Miller anymore, who more and more seems to hold her back, for unknown reasons.

#### Personality

With her parents' academic background she always had a decent education and grew up a very smart young lady. Even in the most difficult situation Natalie surely comes up with a brainy idea. The conflict with her parents often led to problems in the past, rebelling in school and stuff. Despite school conflicts in the past, something of which she doesn't like to talk about by herself, she passed grammar school with ease. After graduation her parents openly forced her to go to the best university on Mars at New Amsterdam. She should've become a physcian, lawyer or even better a judge, like her father. Natalie, always having her own head, didn't want to attend a predestined career, but rather explore the galaxy and finally be free. Being always very good in science, math, arts, history and biology she would've loved to become an Exo-Archeologist or even better, seeking fortune as an explorer or maybe military pilot. Especially her father denounced most of these aims in life as "unprofitable dreams of a girl with her heads in the clouds".

Despite being very smart she sometimes tends to give in to her conceiled sanger too much, leading to violent and emotional outbursts. She deeply hates the Skaarj and Krall for killing her grandparents (mother's family), who used to live at New Beograd, Twin Souls Colony. When it comes to media, movies, series, public sports events (like the Tournament or Soccer) and other distractions the majority of people like so much, she couldn't care less. There's only a handful of media she really enjoys, especially old Sci-Fi series like Battlestar Galactica (BSG) or Star Trek. The character of Kara "Starbuck" Thrace (BSG) often was her paragon, especially when her mother and her father weren't there, when she actually needed them. She's almost addicted to ancient cultures, history and the background of the Nali. When the player asks her, why she didn't become an Exo-Archeologist or Pilot (yet) she often becomes a little angry, expressing how much obstacles her parents threw her in her way.

In contrary to many other young soldiers arriving at Na Pali she had little to no problem adapting to this strange planet. Natalie was stationed 1/2 year before you on Na Pali. She quickly learned most of the standard Nali dialects and even learned to communicate with them via telepathy, and has already some Nali friends. Often being left alone with herself and with little to no friends in your youth, she developed a strange, unique humor. Her main motivation is to build some kind of "new earth" on Na Pali for the good of all, together with the Nali, explore their history, and seek revenge for what the Skaarj and Krall did to her beloved grandparents.

#### Relationsips

* She forms a deep friendship with the player. Both the player and the AI driving Natalie interact on a deep and profound way with each other
* Natalie's direct superiors, commanding the Sub-Units of the military base at Vandora's Harbor are:
	+ Gunnery Sergeant August "Gunny" Sanchez (Commander Infantry Group / CIG)
		- /w Lance Corporal Ronny Jaso
	+ Major Malagorzata Kowalczyk (Commander Aerospace Group / CAG)
	+ Lt. Col. Arthur Hammer (Commander Naval Group / CNG)
	+ Staff Sergeant Peter "Staffy" O'Connel (Commander Artillery/Mobile Group / CMG)
	+ Major Dr. rer. nat. Helena Winslow (Commander Science Group / CSG)
	+ Major Dr. eng. George Anatoli Roja (Commander Engineering/Weapons Research Group / CEG)
	+ Commander Dr. med. Dana Wong (Commander Medical Group / CMEG - 2nd in command)
* After initial criticism and scepticism towards (then) Private Hector Willson, mainly because of his affinity to blow things up, she forms a decent friendship with him, too - often making fun of him when he does something not so smart, but deep down she knows, that he has his heart at the right place
* She particularly distrusts Col. Miller (Leading officer / military governeur), as early as in the beginning of the game, but mostly carries out his orders
* Natalie's officers of trust /befriended officers are Lt. Col. Samantha Higgs (First Officer - her main promoter), "Gunny" Sanchez (CIG), "Staffy" O'Connel (CMG) and Major Kajanova (CAG)
* She has mixed/negative feelings about Lt. Col. Hammer, who reminds her of her father
* Natalie hates her most-direct superior Lance Corporal Steiger, simply because he's an asshole making too many false decisions and being mean to new soldiers
* Ivanova especially considers Lt. Col. Higgs, "Gunny" Sanchez and Major Kowalczyk as paragons
* She knows "Gunny" Sanchez from her basic military training, who was harsh at her first, but became one of her closest friends after they were fighting through a Krall/Skaarj outpost on south Na Pali, being the only survivors of their squad 1 year ago - Sanchez proposed her for direct promotion to Corporal because of her bravery and skill, but Col. Miller refused and promoted Corporal Jaso instead, a move no one understood back then
* Natalie is quite a bit indifferent and cold torwards Private Anne Miller (the daughter of Col. Miller) and Major Winslow (at first)
* She has established multiple contacts to the local Nali and knows a couple of Nali-dialects and is very interested in the Nali's history, background and architecture - thus it's no surprise she openly welcomes the exchange program in joining forces with new soldiers of the newly formed Na Pali Republic Military (NPRM)
* Natalie easily befriends the new Nali soldiers Ne'bahn and Kelly, which are assigned to her squad, a fact many of the other young soldiers find a bit disturbing

#### Possible Specialisations

Like all the other major and minor sidekicks, Natalie will developed into a specialised, highly skilled and valuable member of your squad, seeking her profession based on her (initial) preferences while progressing through the individual missions. She will, according to her experiences and dialogues with the player, specialise and/or combine one to three of the following character builds planned for her:

* Military scientiest/Tech soldier
* Special Forces
* Heavy Sniper
* Army Doctor/Medic
* Sapper
* Aerospace Pilot

#### Physical Appearance

With a body height of 1,92 m she grew up to be pretty tall, even for a martian. A fact that is often bothering her, even though she wouldn't admit that openly.