Zila Madran

by Kira Night

**Zila Madran** was the Brain of Squad 312 and a member of the Aurora Legion.

## Biography

### Early Life

In her early life, Zila lived aboard a science ship named Janeway with her mother, father, and two other scientists. They were orbiting a planet named Gallanosa III. She was a very active child and knew the entire ship by memory due to hide and seek games she used to play with the adults. She was at college level at a very young age and her parents planned to send her to a boarding school when she became older. A group of men who saw her skills in poker games and gambling (due to her expertise in seeing patterns) raided the ship and killed all the adults aboard in search of her.

Zila had extreme trust issues and 'did not feel'. She felt betrayal from one of the scientists she met as a child who was ready to sell her out at six years old so she would not be killed. At her appearance after the raid, some government officials remarked 'how is she alive?'. Zila hid behind a box until the men left and then slept in her bed to wait for people to save her.

### *Aurora Rising*

Zila was one of the last to be picked during the Draft, becoming a member of Squad 312 under the leadership of Tyler Jones. She got to meet her new squad members Finian, Scarlett, and Cat as well as her new leader. Together they were talking about their first meeting on the next day. Shortly after, Tyler tried to break up a fight between five Tanks, only to get drawn into another fight with Kaliis Gilwraeth, who turned out to be the squad's tank.

Their first mission turned out to be a supply run to Sagan Station. The group was greeted with suspicion due to the hostility between the Syldrathi and Kal, as a member of the Warbreed cabal. Still, the refugees agreed to the help of the squad, under the condition of Kal keeping to the port area to unload medical crates while the rest of his squad offered to help in the station. Shortly after, the Station was attacked by The Unbroken, the followers of the Starslayer. Zila was working on the communication system close to Finian when a ship from the Terran Defense Force interfered. Tyler then tried to convince Aurora to go with the TDF while she pleaded to them about not saying anything about her. She revealed that de Stoy told her to flee, but the squad was undecided whether to believe her or not. It was revealed that the TDF is accompanied by five members of the GIA, who told Auri they are there to escort her home. None of the squad interfered, so they took her onto their ship. Still, the squad was ushered onto the ship as well. Only when Cat arrived, they learned that the whole Station was decimated.

In the holding cell, Tyler started a fight with Kal after everything become too much for him. This was quickly broken up by Scar, before Zila told them via their uniglasses about her assumption that the GIA will kill them as well. The squad then decided to break out, with Tyler and Kal taking care of Aurora, while the rest of them tried to take back their Longbow. They met with the squad and escape into the Fold.

When Scar took the first shift to keep watch over their ship, she encounterd Auri, who broke out of her sleeping chamber and allegedly sleepwalked through the ship. Scarlett soon discovered that Auri was in a different state as she useds Telekinesis to keep Scar in check while changing the course of the ship. Ultimately Zila arrived, stunned Aurora, and thus rescued Scar. Afterward, the squad discussed what to do with the unconscious Aurora. They realized that Auri changed the course to Sempiternity when Auri herself woke up again. They decided to return to the Academy when Auri again used her power to stop the spaceship until Tyler agreed to follow her course.

The squad arrived at the World Ship and immediately split up to gather clothes, information and find a place to lie low. Scar took Zila to shop for new outfits for the squad so that they could go undetected. When the two of them arrived at a bar to meet up with Auri, Ty, and Kal, they discoverd not only a group of Unbroken, but arrived just in time to see a shipwide broadcast of a picture of Auri, showing her to be a fugitive. Together they fled to the den of Dariel, a distant cousin of Fin. There, the squad settled down and tried to come up with a plan for the following days before finally going to sleep. While asleep, Auri's powers overcame her again, letting her paint a strange figure over and over again on every surface in the room they shared. With the help of Dariel, they identified it as an artifact of the Eshvaren Empire that was a part of an exhibition of the Bianchi Museum. Auri then admitted that she heard about the Eshvaren in her visions, causing the squad to discuss whether they should keep going or not.

Both Tyler and Scar left for the museum later, trying to gather information about the statue, only to find that the statue was now a private exhibit in Casseldon Bianchi's collection. They also learned about a Masquerade to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the World Ship. Later on, Scar convinced Cat to go on a date with Declan and Lachlan, two security guards, while the rest of the squads waited in a cheap hotel until they were unconscious after Scar sedated them. Kal and Ty stole their uniforms to get into the Security area of the ship, helping Fin to hack into the video system.

Back at Dariel's den, the squad collectively took a look at Bianchi's office, trying to come up with a plan on how to break into it and steal the statue in the process without getting caught. Auri then mentioned that she had a vision about a masquerade ball. They remembered the Masquerade about to take place and made a plan on how to go through with their heist.

Scar provided her brother, Auri, Cat, and herself with outfits for the Masquerade, which they visited together, while Zila and Kal broke into the security system. When Fin didn't reply over comms anymore, Zila and Kal returned to the den, only to find that the GIA stormed it and was already awaiting them. It turned out that Cat supposedly sold Auri to the GIA, but instead told the squad all about it touse the GIA operatives as means to fulfill their plan. Together with Scar, Zila masqueraded as GIA after Kal struck the operatives down. They supposedly arrested Ty, Cat, and Auri in Bianchi's office but then fled to the Longbow, with which the squad left Sempiternity.

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### *Aurora's End*

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Zila stayed in the year 2177 with Nari Kim and is the one in charge of setting everything in motion to give her Squad members all the tools so they can win the war against the Ra'haam. Zila and Nari spent their lives together as a couple and built the Aurora Academy. However, Zila's involvement was kept secret as not to create a paradox effect. She lived a full and happy life until she died of old age. Although every day of her life she thought about Cat and how there was no variable she could've altered to save her and the fact that the final outcome of the battle would always be a mystery to her as well as the fate of her fellow Squad members which she explained in a series of video projections she left for her friends.

She is hailed in the future as the unsung hero of the whole Ra'haam war and Third Founder of Aurora Academy and her fellow Squad members erect a statue made in pure gold in her honor at the promenade of the Academy next to the statue of Nari Kim and the Betraskan Founder.

## Personality

Zila was both reserved and highly intelligent. She often stood beside the group, preferring to watch and observe instead of interfering. Sometimes it seemed like she was incapable of understanding what was done and what should not be, as she often simply experimented instead of talking about it. Even though she often had the effect of not caring, Zila could be deeply emotional, as seen when Tyler told her that her problem is that she knows how everything works except other people, almost causing her to cry.

## Physical Description

Zila was short, with dark brown skin and tight black curls. She had dark eyes with an empty stare. She was often seen wearing gold hoop earrings fitting the occasion.

## Gallery

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## Trivia

* In the last two years of studying at Aurora Academy, Zila had thirty-two official reprimands.
* Zila was revealed to be a lesbian with a preference for shorter women.