Dr. Saesa of Anac

Kiel Research Institute

## Original Application Information

### Background

Saesa is the daughter of a high ranking colonial administrator and a professor - both from established Kiellar families. She wasn’t at the very top of Command society, but she was close enough that she got to enjoy all the benefits of living within a sprawling interstellar empire that dominated its region of space. Her family owned a retinue of slaves, and Saesa was adored by her parents. With no expense spared on private tutors and her education, she was brought up with an appreciation for the sciences and a natural curiosity that bordered on an obsession. Easily skipping past the abilities of other children her age, Saesa’s parents proudly threw all the knowledge and opportunities they could at their child - a privilege which she took and ran with within Kiellar society.

By 17, Saesa had already graduated with her first degree and managed to catch the eye of the Kiellar Research Institute - the military, and by extension the Empire’s, premier scientific body. With the offer of a position with her own academic freedom, along with a personalised course of study to further her education, Saesa was given the opportunity of a lifetime to pursue her passion. Not one to turn down a challenge, and her parents’ blessing, she moved to the Capital and soon began making a name for herself within the highly competitive program. But even at the Institute, Saesa found her classes too easy and slow for her liking - or at least she did until she landed a place in an advanced course on Hyperspace Physics. It was a whirlwind of complex maths and proofs that sought to bridge the divide between entire dimensions, and it left Saesa stunned. For the first time, the young prodigy had stumbled on something that was beyond her - and she was hooked.

Pouring herself into the field, she dedicated her nights to grappling with the existing research. After publishing her first paper on Skrim Drive optimization left the established community speechless, her future was set. The rest - as they say - is history, and today Dr. Saesa is one of the leading experts on Hyperspace (if you ask her, she’d say that she was the best - but such a claim is hard to prove). Working for Command and the Research Institute would occasionally bring up a moral quandary or two, especially after collaborations with the military’s psyker corps, but Saesa reasoned that it was justified in the name of scientific progress and the security of the Empire. The galaxy was a dangerous place, after all, and Command had to make difficult decisions in order to keep the Kiellar safe.

Saesa’s life was going well, until one fateful day she was visited by a Psyker Handler named Iobhal. He came with an instruction that she couldn’t ignore, with a mission that annoyingly pulled her away from her work. Even worse, the time sensitivity of the matter meant that they had to travel aboard a prison ship! But when she awoke to find that a mutiny had taken place, and that Iobhal was dead, Saesa found her entire life collapsing around her.

## Strengths and Weaknesses

### Skills:

* **Intelligence** - Saessa has always been praised for her smarts. Hailed as a prodigy in her youth, she is one of Command’s leading scientific minds for good reason. Although her primary field of expertise is hyperspace research, her accomplishments range from cybernetics to genetics and she doesn’t believe in limiting one’s mind to a particular discipline. Only amateurs deny the importance of a holistic approach in modern academia, anyway.

### Weaknesses:

* **Civilian** - Born into the upper echelons of Kiellar society, Saessa was raised in relative comfort and security. She’s never known true hardship and has never needed to fight for her survival. As a research scientist, she doesn’t know how to fight and hasn’t fired a weapon in her life outside of a range. If she was threatened with physical violence, Saessa would hardly even be able to put up a fight against a trained foe.

* **Arrogant** - As a Kiellar citizen, Saessa grew up being taught that she was superior to both xenos and Kiellar slaves, simply by dint of her birth. Her intelligence only exacerbated the problem, as she was constantly reminded by grades and accolades of her superiority to her peers. That’s not to say that she’s heartless or needlessly cruel, but her sense of self-importance can rub some people the wrong way.