Beta

Jane Kirk was a neohuman and one of the founding members of S.T.A.R Force, she fell in love with and eventually became engaged to Benjamin Anderson II who became the leader of the organisation. She is heir to a massive family fortune from the Kirk Banking Society (KBS) and Starline Insurance Limited (SIL) Groups, using most of her wealth to support the running of S.T.A.R. Force as well as supporting and donating to local charities and organisations such as Empyrean, also donating to the Whitefall Institute which she became an honorary patron of.

#### **History**

Born in Winnipeg, Canada in 1982, Jane's father Austin Kirk was an American bank founder of the Kirk Banking Society while her mother was descending up the ladder of her career in the SIL Group, both amassing a fortune as Jane grew.

She later trained as a medic for the Canadian Army but during this time her neohuman powers activated, causing her to suffer a trauma when she felt her teammates die around her during a conflict in Iran. She quit within a year and began working with victims of PTSD.

#### **Appearance**

Jane is a 5ft 2, Caucasian woman of medium build, she has brown eyes and very short brown hair, while she dosn't often wear a lot of makeup, does wear lip gloss and eyeliner. She wears a verity of trendy and neat clothes casually. She is known for her small gauge-type earrings and wears glasses as she is near-sighted.

### **Powers and Abilities**

#### **Powers**

Jane was a neohuman who's powers manifested rather late for a neo, at the age of 21.

**Empathy:**Beta was an extremely powerful empath, so much so that it is said that she could feel, single out and process individuals from near-orbital distances.

* **Empathic Reading:** Jane could sense the emotions and true feelings of anyone nearby, this gave her the ability to determine people's true intention or aid in figuring out secrets and help her understand other people and even animals with ease.
* **Empathic Healing:** She could 'cleanse' negative emotions, ease fear or sadness and even temporally remedy depression and various forms of mental illness.
* **Empathic Manipulation:** She can, if need be alter the emotions of others and even control others by directing that emotion at another individual or target, she has been known to induce fear to such an extent that it paralyses targets, or even induce utter ecstasy and bliss to the point where sleep is achieved.
* **Empathic** **Psychometry:** She learned to sense psionic signatures related to emotions on objects, something she learned she could do by training with Alpha who shares a similar telepathic ability.
* **Combat-Reactive Empathic Conditioning:** By sensing the emotion and intention of others, she found she could cause her body to react to those intentions instinctively, blocking, dodging or attacking when she senses the opportunity, allowing her to predict movements, patterns and see past psychological taunting.

**Abilities**

* **Army Medic Training:** Jane is a very skilled medic and possesses a wealth of medical knowledge that she has since developed further.
* **Combat Training:** She is skilled in the use of automatic weapons, pistols and hand-to-hand combat.
* **Biology and Genetics knowledge:** Jane learned a great deal about biological processes in and out of the Canadian Army which led her to study the science of genetics more in-depth.
* **Gifted Writer:** She has recently began writing about the biological development of neohumans and published books and research papers to respected universities.

#### **Limitations and Weaknesses**

Jane had very limited physical combat skills at first, while she has trained under Alpha, and spent a short time as a military medic, is nowhere near his level of fitness and training, and currently prefers to use her powers. Although she did later develop the ability to react empathically to attacks and despite having little combat training did improve dramatically.

Jane is short-sighted and requires corrective glasses or contact lenses.