Pria Lavesque

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Pria Lavesque is a minor antagonist, being the main one of the eponymous episode. An artefact dealer from the early 30th century with a talent for lying, she eventually became romantically involved with Martin and used the charisma she similarly had on the rest of the crew to take control of the U.S.S Valkyrie, but was stopped thanks to the efforts of North.

## History

Pria was born in America on Earth at an unspecified year in the 2880s. She was born in New York, but afterwards spent her childhood growing up in Trenton, New Jersey.

In her adulthood, she became a dealer in ancient artefacts for private collectors; at some point she and her colleagues in this line of work made the discovery of a wormhole in deep space which they could manipulate, so as to use it as a doorway to travel back in time to an earlier century, rescue various kinds of vessels such as air and spacecraft which would have otherwise been destroyed, and take them back to their own current year, 2915, to sell to the highest bidder. They'd decided on allowing the crews of the ships they took to live out their lives freely in the 30th century, with Pria even revealing later on in the episode that one of the vessels she'd taken - and therefore one of the people from said vessels who had also vanished to 2915 - was Amelia Earhart's plane.

Travelling back through the wormhole to 2276, with the intention of taking the *Valkyrie* back to her own year for auction, Pria crashed a solo-crew Mining-class ship, the U.S.S *Hadur*, onto the surface of a comet falling towards a rogue star as a way of getting the *Valkyrie'*s attention. She posed as an Altair Mining Consortium Captain, a lie which she continued to uphold after being rescued by Martin and Arthur and brought aboard for transport to the nearest Union base, and got along well in conversation with some of the other senior officers during the cocktail party Jenna held that night, especially with Martin, who had been beginning to feel an attraction to her. The two quickly hit it off over their shared New Jersey backgrounds, ultimately culminating in him later showing her a simulation of the planet Visteria in which they shared a kiss.

However, Pria and Martin's romance wasn't meant to be. In between the party and the kiss in the Visteria simulation, she'd used concealed 30th century technology she'd been carrying on her person to teleport a rectangular object into the navigation relays in engineering, designed to take over helm control from Arthur once activated and direct the ship towards the wormhole. When he, Jenna, Andrea and Markus went to confront her about this, Martin was hurt at Pria's betrayal of his and the rest of the crew's trust, afterwards thinking himself a fool for allowing himself to become attached to her. She was held in her quarters by a security team while North and the others made attempts at disarming Pria's navigational box without damaging the ship - attempts which proved unsuccessful and which resulted in North being admitted to sickbay after receiving a severe electrical shock.

Upon the ship's arrival at the wormhole, Pria teleported onto the bridge as they arrived on the other side, into 2915. Via a comm link on the *Valkyrie*'s viewscreen, she negotiated the payment terms with a strange reptile-like alien on an unknown ship which had just arrived, but her plan was foiled when North sent up a message from sickbay saying she'd finally managed to disable the navigation override; Martin and Arthur suddenly recovered helm control while Jenna engaged in and won a fistfight against Pria, and the *Valkyrie* successfully returned back to 2276 with the alien vessel not pursuing them. Pria was subsequently taken to the brig. She was later brought up to Martin's quarters by Andrea, where the former, still resentful towards Pria for her betrayal, told her that her 30th century technology was going to be kept in storage by the Union and that the *Valkyrie* was about to destroy the wormhole, meaning she'd get sent back to her own time as a result. After Pria tried convincing him that their lives together didn't have to end this way, this attempt was unsuccessful, and Martin gave Jenna and the others his consent to open fire on the wormhole. Immediately after its destruction with two of the ship's missiles, Pria disappeared back to 2915.

## Appearance

Pria is an attractive-looking woman with long blonde hair, slightly darker in shade than that of Eve, and hazel eyes. Her hair is somewhat curly at the tips and most of it is draped over her right shoulder and the right side of her head.

## Personality and Interests

> "I'm a businesswoman Lieutenant, not a soldier." Said Pria. "I don't like to rush anything. What I do like is the simple joys of comfort and company, and you guys have provided both." - To Andrea
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She has a charming charisma which