Kelavaria Laetus

**Kelavaria Laetus** is a soldier and a member of the Council Recovery Corps.

## Biography

Kelavaria was born to Tritam and Equiva on their home planet of Digeris in the year 2166. Kelavaria was raised in a strongly traditional turian manner, learning that duty and order to the community are paramount above all else and that hierarchy exists for a reason and must be followed. While being raised as a child, her father Tritam instructed Kelavaria on the use of firearms and basic combat training using his experience as a member of the turian military and planetary security. Meanwhile, Equiva, who had been an adept engineer and technician in the Turian engineering corps taught Kela the fundamentals of machine and technology manipulation. Of the lessons she was taught, Kelavaria connected far more with the martial skills.

Kela joined school in 2171 when she was 5 years old and she used this time to make friends and grow as a confident person. Alongside the teachings of her parents, kelavaria spent her younger years socialising and interacting with other children living nearby, something which was encouraged by her parents in order to encourage a strong connection to her community in her. As she went through school, Kela was adept at many of her subjects, as she worked hard to gain the approval of her teachers. She particularly enjoyed classes teaching her about the wider galactic community. To her, the idea of the Milky Way community was just as important as the Turian Hierarchy or even Digeris.

By the time she was 8 years old, she was a familiar and friendly face in the school to the other children, known for being approachable and friendly. In her down-time after school, Kela was taught by her mother some of the most creative aspects of turian culture, including how to play traditional turian instruments and even how to paint, while at nights she told her stories of Digeris and taught her about the planet’s history and culture.

However, Kelavaria’s was not always received in the friendly manner which she hoped for, and this was bluntly clear in 2177 when she was 11 years old. A new child named Laertus had recently joined the school after moving from Palaven, and Kelavaria attempted to befriend him and welcome him to the school. However, Leartus reacted negatively to her, demanding that she leave him alone and that he wanted nothing to do with her no matter what she tried to do. Kela learnt very clearly that her demeanour would not always be reciprocated.

When she was 15 in the year 2182, Kela joined Turian boot camp. She thrived in the highly regimented and disciplined lifestyle boot camp gave her. After her year of military service, during which she built upon the combat training taught by her father, she chose to join the police force of Digeris just like her father had. From her very first day as a recruit, she followed each instruction from superiors to the letter and diligently followed every order, hoping to excel in all aspects. Most of the senior officers were impressed with her rate of learning and sense of duty, and her willingness to follow orders.

Over the next few years, Kelavaria continued training and learning as she progressed through the police force, with one of her first major tests being the first public patrol of the Apparitus spaceport alongside a higher-ranking officer in the year 2184. The majority of the patrol was calm, talking to travellers and workers or dealing with minor infringements of port rules, until the end of the shift. While running a routine scan of a merchant ship, discrepancies in the shipping manifest revealed that the crew was shipping in contraband red sand, and that a nearby warehouse was being used to store the illegal goods. Working with her superior, the two of them managed to lock down the ship while she called in the location of the remaining contraband to other officers stationed on the docks. However, smugglers which Kelavaria and her superior had not found had contacted their allies in the warehouse who promptly fled. While the majority of the red sand was seized, the forewarning given to the smugglers in the dock gave them enough time to flee from the scene. While Kelavaria was praised for following her superior’s directions properly, she felt that if she had been quicker it may have been possible to prevent the other smugglers from fleeing. While it was likely that other officers would be able to track the fugitives down, it was time that could have been saved if she had performed better.

Not long after this incident Kelavaria was permanently assigned to the docks, and during this time she spoke to travelers from all over the galaxy meeting people from many of the different races and talking with them, hearing their stories of the galaxy. During this time she continued to practise her skills, especially in painting, and in her down-time she was regularly working on large landscape style projects depicting Digeris.

In 2185, Kela heard the devastating news of the Coffee Shop Massacre. Angered that violence of such a scale could be committed in Citadel Space, she came to the realisation that even those living under the protection of the Council species were not safe from hostile action. Not wanting to sit and wait for her home to be attacked, Kela chose to transfer to a navy branch of the turian military, believing that taking action against the Council’s and Hierarchy’s enemies would be the only sure way to protect her home and family. Upon transferring, Kelavaria was assigned to the 10th regiment of the 12th legion and kept in the Apien Crest, meant to guard the turian worlds, and only be deployed outside of Council Space if there was a serious and dire situation. During this time, she underwent training to understand how the military operates compared to the police force, especially about how to fight on the front lines and to operate as part of a military unit.

However, Kelavaria was not happy with the role she had been assigned in the 12th legion. In 2186 she was deployed along with the rest of the fleet to the outer reaches of Council space to guard the border of space into the Attican Traverse. But as time passed, there was no sign of the posting leading to anything happening, and Kelavaria began to become bored and frustrated. In an attempt to pass the time, Kela befriended a fellow turian called Flavia, a woman from another city on Digeris. The two formed a close friendship, bonding over their shared culture as well as other interests, and the two spent much of their time engaged in friendly competition at the shooting range. This helped to keep their skills up to par, but also helped their bond grow even closer.

After the end of the Terminus War, Kelavaria had assumed that she and the rest of the 12th legion would be returning to the Apien Crest, but as the Reaper War spread across the galaxy in full force in 2187, she was instead finally given a chance to prove her worth to the Hierarchy as she joined the fight against Reaper forces during the invasion of Invictus. Fighting in the streets of Shastinasio alongside the 12th legion, Kelavaria repelled wave after wave of husks and cannibals. The devastation wrecked by the Reapers was horrifying to see, and the 12th Legion suffered many casualties, but Kelavaria was proud to fight alongside her people in defense of Council space.

With the victory over the Reapers, Kelavaria was glad for the chance to recover and rest as the 12th Legion returned to the Apien Crest. But this brief respite was shattered in 2189 when the Council entered the war against the Batarian Hegemony’s forces. Deployed on ground warfare on multiple conflicts against the batarians, Kelavaria was part of a war against an enemy completely unlike the Reapers. While she had known that the Reapers were horrors which needed to be destroyed, this war was against people, just like her, not malevolent creatures wanting to exterminate all life. The tipping point for her was the death of Flavia, shot down by a stray bullet during an attack on a Batarian Hegemony outpost. No longer wanting to take part in mass-scale conflicts, Kelavaria applied for a transfer to join the newly created Council Recovery Corp, hoping that instead she could help the people of the galaxy instead of instigating mass conflict. While she knew that violence was a necessity in some situations, Kelavaria hopes that by joining the CRC she will not be forced into conflict as often, and that she can bring some good to the galaxy instead.

## Personality

Kelavaria is a kind and warm individual who likes meeting with new people and long, regular conversations. She feels it is important to create strong bonds with the members of whatever community she is in, whether it be her family or just colleagues and work-mates. Whatever social situation she ends up in, Kelavaria always tries to find new people to add to her community, and is especially affectionate to those she thinks are being excluded. However, some people find her talkative nature to be overbearing or invasive, as she has a tendency to ask a lot about a person’s history to try and find ways to connect with them.

While deployed on missions or on patrols, focus is paramount to Kelavaria and any distractions function only to severely reduce the likelihood of a successful outcome. She also firmly believes in the authority of assigned superior’s, and that by working as a coherent unit without deviating from orders, a group can achieve nearly anything. To her, dissent amongst ranks and mutiny are the gravest crimes an individual could commit. Having previously let criminals escape due to a lack of focus or from not following orders, it is key to Kelavaria to stop this from ever happening again. Since leaving the front lines, she has tried to avoid conflict wherever possible, even if it’s just a verbal altercation unless it is absolutely necessary.

To Kelavaria, peace and stability are paramount. Having been raised to value the bonds of community highly, she feels that, as people of the Milky Way, there should be a connection between all peoples of the galaxy. As a citizen of Council Space, she supports the actions that the Council chooses but sometimes feels that they can be unfair and harsh on the other races of the galaxy and this belief that led her to support the Council’s decision to aid batarian rebellion, hoping that it will give them a chance to connect with the galaxy. Kelavaria cannot stand anyone who uses unnecessary violence, especially against innocents, and firmly believes that those hurting people for the wrong reasons deserve punishment.

### Skills and Hobbies

* *Marksmanship -* Even outside of her time in the military, Kelavaria enjoys spending time at the range and has even taken part in some shooting competitions. She finds that a friendly competition is a great way to improve relations with others, but also to ensure that her skills stay finely honed.
* *Painting -* To pass the time, Kelavaria casually paints landscapes. Normally she paints grand depictions of her homeworld of Digeris so that she can connect to home even when she is far away, but while traveling the galaxy on deployment she has also taken to taking photos and then painting particularly awe-inspiring locations.

## Physical Description

In many ways, Kelavaria looks like a standard turian. She is slightly above average weight and height but has a few small scars on her face from injuries sustained on the front lines. One key feature of Kelavaria is her bright white facial tattoos denoting her heritage from Digeris, and she is incredibly proud of her heritage, thus making sure her tattoos are fully visible. Alongside this, she is rarely seen without a necklace around her neck. While there is no significant symbol on the necklace, it is a small piece of artwork given to her by her mother, Equiva, when she left to join the military. In many ways, it acts as her good-luck charm and her connection to the spirits, and so she frequently clasps the necklace to her heart in times of stress.

On a day-to-day basis, Kela tries to present herself in a warm and welcoming manner, hoping to not shut anyone out with her body language. She often speaks loudly in an always friendly tone, but when she is excited she doesn’t always pause for breath between questions. For clothing, she tries to keep her look as casual as possible, preferring comfort over style, and so has a vast selection of baggy shirts to choose from. This drastically changes during a combat situation, where instead she remains constantly alert and patiently waits for the higher-ranking officers to issue commands, and the fast-paced chatty voice is replaced by a succinct and direct one, ensuring there is no loss of clarity on the field. Her combat gear is the standard issue for all turian troops, but she ensures that the colours and symbols of the 12th legion and 10th regiment are clearly displayed and that the armour is always cleaned and maintained after every deployment.

### Armament

* Phaeston assault rifle
* M-3 Predator
* Frag grenade

### Abilities

* Overload
* Concussive Shot
* Fortification