Samantha Traynor

### Description

Samantha has dark brown skin, black hair, and hazel eyes and speaks with a British accent. Intelligent, eager to be helpful, and slightly socially awkward, she also finds EDI's voice incredibly attractive- a fact which EDI finds amusing. She is also fastidious about her dental health. Samantha enjoys strategy games such as chess and Kepesh-Yakshi.

### Early Life

Samantha's parents moved to the colonies, but were from London originally. Samantha scored incredibly well on her aptitude scores, causing the Systems Alliance to offer her a full scholarship to Oxford in exchange for service after graduation, Samantha jumped on the opportunity. Her family was not wealthy enough to send her to such a prestigious school, and the young woman felt such an education would offer her much more in terms of her studies.

Samantha was on Horizon, visiting her parents when the Collectors attacked. This would mark the first time Commander Shepard saved her life.

After Commander Shepard turned herself into the Alliance in connection with the destruction of the Alpha Relay, the *Normandy* SR-2 was confiscated. Admiral David Anderson intended to bring the ship up to Alliance specification, and enlisted the support of a large number of people, including Traynor.

### Mass Effect 3

Traynor was presumably on board the *Normandy* when EDI and Joker broke the ship out of drydock and rescued Commander Shepard, Kaidan Alenko, and James Vega in the wake of the Reapers' invasion of Earth. After Shepard's meeting with the Citadel Council, Traynor introduced herself to the Commander and awkwardly gave the Commander a tour of what had been done to the *Normandy*. The young woman found herself acting as both the Comms Specialist on board the *Normandy's* skeleton crew and as an impromptu yeoman, much as Kelly Chambers had in the *Normandy's* fight against the Collectors the previous year.

Shortly after EDI took control of the robotic body of Dr. Eva Coré, Samantha approached Shepard with some trepidation. At the Commander's encouragement, she explained that the prestigious Grissom Academy had sent a distress signal requesting assistance in evacuating the remainder of the students and faculty. A turian transport ship had responded, but Traynor was suspicious of it due to it's similarity to the fake signal used to bring Shepard to a supposedly derelict Collector ship- which had turned out to be a trap. Shepard reinforced Traynor's instincts, telling her that she had done a good job. Sure enough, it had been a Cerberus signal to cover for the attempted abduction of a number of the students.

As the War Summit approached, Traynor began to show just how talented she was, integrating data feeds from the Alliance War effort, as well as the Crucible project- a fact for which EDI complements Samantha.

Adjusting to living on a warship as opposed to a lab was quite an adjustment, though in Samatha's own words if she can get the tech she needs she can be quite happy "living out of a shoebox".

It was Traynor who proved instrumental in rescuing the *Normandy* from Shepard's clone after the ship was boarded and the Comm Specialist found herself ejected by the fake Shepard. They used her Cision Pro Mark 4 toothbrush's tiny mass effect fields to break open a manual lock. It was also Traynor who tracked Kai Leng to Sanctuary.