Alyssa Sanidine Orchard

**Alyssa Sanidine Orchard** was a female Human colonist and jeweler from the planet Phena who helped establish a United Cassiopeian Republic colonial presence on the planet Gaeron. Orchard took part in establishing the Lonhe colony after becoming stranded on Gaeron alongside three other colonists, whom she worked closely with: Selmara Beltran, Dalila Vaascosa, and September Bridges.

She was married to Gaeronian named Darby Carnerisy, nicknamed "Boy".

## Biography

### Early Life and Career

In 5574 ASA, Alyssa Sanidine Orchard as born on the planet Phena, famous for its four suns. Assigned male at birth, Alyssa went through gender reassignment in her adolescence with the support of her family and friends. She had a few relatives that were woodworkers, and so Alyssa would often observe them working on various crafts, which gave her some level of expertise on woodworking and construction. Once she reached young adulthood, Alyssa went into the field of jewelry. Orchard's wealthy family aided Alyssa in her education and career path.

In her adulthood, Alyssa lived a rather comfy life on Phena and made a living off of making jewelry and various other crafts.

### Stranded on Gaeron

In the year 5600 ASA when she was 26 in age, Alyssa enlisted herself to be a settler as one of the first people from the UCR to establish a colonial presence on the planet Kavriisha. Out on this Central Expanse planet, Alyssa hoped to get away from the noise of the Outer Core worlds yet still live in comfort—a conundrum and oxymoron she would eventually find herself realizing.

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## Personality and Traits

Alyssa was a Human woman with blonde hair, light-toned skin, and peach-colored eyes.

In tune with her creative side, Alyssa always enjoyed partaking in artistic pursuits like painting, tailoring, and jewelry-making. Being raised in the Outer Core region of the galaxy made Alyssa accustomed to a certain degree of comfort and luxury. With her wealthy family providing her with many resources throughout her life, some considered Alyssa to be somewhat snooty or egoistic. Out of her fellow colonists, Alyssa was more likely to succumb to mental stress.

Despite her love for the grand and luxurious, Alyssa possessed great wanderlust and wished to see what the wider galaxy had in store—albeit mostly behind the safety of a thick screen of glass. During her time building up the Gaeron colony, Alyssa slowly grew out of her distaste for truly interacting with nature and even grew to enjoy the rather messy process that was constructing new buildings and pieces of furniture for the colony.

## Skills and Abilities

As a jeweler, Alyssa was extremely skilled in the creation and handling of jewelry. As a colonist, Alyssa grew to possess a great deal of skill when it came to the construction of buildings and furniture, building off woodworking skills observed from her childhood. She also possessed acute medical capabilities, enough to patch people up should they have bore minor injuries.

## Trivia

* Alyssa is based off a randomly generated colonist character from the sandbox video game *RimWorld*.
* Alyssa's middle name comes from the mineral sanidine, making reference to her career as a jeweler.
	+ Sanidine could sometimes be found in a pale peach-like color, which is represented in her eye color.