Farscape: Characters: Key Characters: Chiana

**Name**: Chiana
**Type**: Rogue
**Species**: Nebari
**Height**: 1.7 m
**Age**: 23
**Gender**: Female

**Dexterity**: 4D+2

* Blaster: 7D
* Brawling Parry: 6D+1
* Dodge: 9D
* Melee Combat: 7D
* Melee Parry: 6D+1
* Pick Pocket: 7D+1
* Thrown Weapon: 6D+1

**Knowledge**: 3D

* Intimidation: 3D+2
* Survival: 3D+2
* Value: 3D+2

**Mechanical**: 3D+2

* Capital Ship Gunnery: 6D
* Communications: 4D+1
* Ground Vehicle Operation: 4D
* Repulsorlift Operation: 4D
* Sensors: 4D+1
* Starship Gunnery: 6D

**Perception**: 1D+2

* Con: 2D+1
* Hide: 4D+2
* Investigation: 3D+2
* Persuasion: 2D
* Search: 2D+2
* Sneak: 3D+2

**Strength**: 2D

* Acrobatics: 3D+1
* Brawling: 5D+2
* Climbing / Jumping: 3D+2
* Stamina: 3D
* Swmining: 3D

**Technical**: 1D+1

* Armor Repair: 1D+2
* Blaster Repair: 1D+2
* Computer Programming / Repair: 2D
* Ground Vehicle Repair: 1D+2
* Repulsorlift reapr: 1D+2
* Security: 3D+1

**Move**: 10
**Force Sensitive**: No
**Force Points**: 2
**Dark Side Points**: 0
**Character Points**: 24

**Special Abilities**:

* Low Light Vision
* Scientific Knowledge: A Nebari receives a +2 pip bonus to all Knowledge and Technical Skill rolls.
* Lightning Reflexes: Nebari receive a +1 pip bonus to Dodge skill rolls.

**Equipment**: Palm Pulse Blaster, Commlink

**Description**: At some time in their older childhood or younger teens, Chiana and her three-years-older brother Nerri fled their home on Nebari Prime, seeking a different life. (Their relationship with and treatment by their family is unknown except that she 'never saw joy in her sires' and she once indicated that she understood difficult fathers). Obtaining exit visas to their surprise, they were also given a 'routine physical examination' during which they were unknowingly infected with the Nebari Contagion.

Living on their own in the often violent, cruel and lawless 'Uncharted Territories', Chiana learned a great many varied skills of survival (probably the hard way). She learned to fashion her own clothes from 'procured' odds and ends and even how to pilot a Peacekeeper Prowler. She also resorted to scamming, thievery and prostitution.

Nerri's activities and his involvement in Chiana's activities are unknown. Chiana has suggested he disapproved of some things she did. He may have worked as a miner at some time; he also jested it was amazing he was working at anything. Chiana remarked that she had to teach her older brother to cinch his shoes; she may well have been responsible for providing for them both, at least at some point.

In living with Nerri without all other family, friends, home, society, culture or security of any kind in addition to the easily overwhelming traumas involved in her new survival, Chiana was 'bent' but refused to 'break'. The fun loving soul acquired a sometimes painfully desperate sense of humor, a focus on the 'thrills' and a likewise sometimes painfully desperate self-confidence in order to push ahead for new adventure and excitement with so little means, experience, support or guidance. While obviously made even edgier by this and a drive to improve her skills, appeal, etc. as she saw them, Chiana retained a rather sensitive, good heart, despite the corruptive nature of her life, and the quite serious risks to sanity and survival it sometimes held.

She fought and killed when necessary, her personal defenses drawing a division between necessary (which she has done with a seeming hardened thoughtlessness of surviving long in a violent cruel world); what could be helped; and what she is emotionally involved in. Yet although her heart can and has often made this agonizingly difficult and complex at times, she always chose to fully taste life and tries living by her heart and spirit in spite of all.

Over a few years, Chiana and Nerri grew fiercely attached, to the extent they implanted "life discs" linking to each other (a device implanted in the upper abdominal cavity that gives one a constant awareness of the others' existence, only for the closest of loved ones). Nerri was eventually informed of the contagion he and his sister were carrying by a high profile Nebari leader and provided an antibody; Nerri and Chiana underwent the painful cure. However, as Nerri could identify the person, he was left to either flee for his life or join the Nebari Resistance. Nerri chose to join the resistance, but in fear of Chiana's life, left her to believe he had to run and they separate, with a promise they would be together again.

**Source**:

* Farscape Wiki: Chiana
* Farscape Role Playing Game Sourcebook (pages 312-313)
* thedemonapostle