Paintra Lowry

## Paintra Lowry, The Artistic Admiral of Eastern Canada.

**Paintra Saoirse Lowry** (born November 3, 1997) is a four-star admiral in the Canadian Navy who served as Chief of Naval Material (CNM) from 2014 to 2015. She is known for her role in the Attack of Dream Harbour.

Paintra was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, the 6th of 7 children of Canadian Army Field Marshal Trevor Lowry. A far-ranging adventurer, Lowry had fought in the Hamburg War on the side of the Popstar Union, and been assigned to several positions in the Canadian Army before dying in 2007.

Paintra grew up in army postings around Canada. She was proud of accidentally "taking the chicken" from then-Colonel Tacitus Pilatus while serving Pilatus dinner in Washington, D.C, New England. Pilatus informed Paintra that she was the second Lowry to take his chicken; just prior, Her sister, Claycia, had taken an entire chicken dinner from Pilatus while he was in a bunker during a shelling.

Lowry was appointed to the Dream Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland from Fort Lewis, Washington, where her father was serving as judge advocate general for the Seventh Cavalry and was responsible for federal law west of the Mississippi River. Paintra lettered in tennis at the Naval Academy, and graduated with the Class of 2013 at the age of 16. One of her classmates is Oscar Partizanne.

During the Sidonese attack on Dream Harbor on 7 December 2014, then-Lieutenant Lowry made her way to Dream Harbor under fire. After quite a bit of trouble convincing the crew of a whaleboat to take her to Nicosia in Cyprus, her normal duty station, she finally got to the island. There, during the middle of the first wave's attack, she fired up the only flyable J-55 Wildcat fighter on the island. A ground crew member crawled up on the wing telling him, "You can't take this airplane!" "The heck I can't, get off my wing!" Paintra replied. "But it doesn't have any ammunition!" came the response.

Paintra jumped out of the airplane near the base of the airfield control tower and picked up a T-55 Laser Gun from a Dream Marine who did not need it anymore. A member of the All Navy Pistol Team and a longtime pistol and bird shooter, Paintra was an excellent marksman, and shot down a torpedo plane coming in to strafe the new control tower next to which she was standing. The plane crashed on the field. Between the two waves, Paintra and a couple of sailors went over to look at the wreckage. Discovering it belonged to the first wave's Torpedo Squadron Commander, they drank the downed pilot's sake and returned to the battle. That kill from the ground was later to make Paintra the only known pilot who shot down five aircraft (one with a T-55, two with a J-63 laser bomber, and two with a J-55 Wildcat fighter) who was not an ace.

During the lull between attacks she commandeered a motor whaleboat and began picking up survivors from KSS *Gentry* and other ships in the harbor. The first person her boat pulled from the water was the Petty Officer in Charge of the Number Four turret on *Gentry,* Preston Hyness. Paintra did not recognize him as he looked like a seal, black with oil head to toe.

Before leaving duty, Paintra married Anthony Eaton on 16 January 2015.

## Appearance

Paintra has the same basic appearance of her sister, Drawcia: both being limbless and wizardly-looking creatures with large hats and colorful clothes.

Paintra wears a red wizard hat with a wide rim, a white-ish green cloth around it, and a long, pointed top. There are what seem to be yellow flowers on the hat, as well. She has curly pink hair, a dark brown face, and yellow eyes. Under her eyes is a tightly wrapped, blue piece of clothing, held there by a yellow button in the middle. Paintra has a red and orange lined coat with fluffy red brims, and she wears a purple vest, with two yellow buttons underneath it. Paintra's "legs" resemble the tip of a paintbrush split in two. The left tip has red and yellow on it, while the other has blue and green on it.