Rayne

Rayne is a founding member of Ragnarok Mercenary Company, and a former Institute research student who left the underground organization to try and help the Commonwealth. Although her intentions were pure, she was immediately thrust into a heated fight between Brotherhood of Steel knights and her pursuing Institute agents, which resulted in her capture by the Brotherhood. Kairune rescued her from the situation, and they then met with gifted engineer Deathwave, who came up with the idea to form a mercenary company to provide themselves an independent life in the wasteland. Marked as an enemy to the Brotherhood, Rayne is often times found behind the scenes of battle, piloting and maintaining the Valkyrie, RMC's primary vehicle of transportation. She is also often times seen making minor tweaks to the group's individual power armor.

## Background

### In the Institute

Rayne was known as Vanessa Fuller within the Institute. Orphaned when her parents were killed in the Commonwealth by Gunner members, Rayne spent the majority of her time deep in the Institute's networks, learning as much as she could about the various departments. Her shining call came in the form of an anonymous message she received from an individual with the username "Artemis", who worked with her to design a new and powerful version of the Courser operating system. The initial belief was to develop a program that could speed up thought processes by a thousand, which would enable to courser to learn and memorize details and solve problems at a considerable higher rate of speed then the current models. Seeing this as her chance to do something big, Rayne worked tirelessly to accomplish the OS. When it was completed, it was injected into a single Courser unit, after which Artemis logged off and disappeared, deleting all traces of the code from the servers. Rayne was originally confused, but used the incident as her motivation to leave the institute and see the Commonwealth first hand. She gained access to the Institute's RF teleportation system, and used a stolen Courser Chip to flee, ending up just outside of Sanctuary.

### Life in the Commonwealth

Mere minutes after her arrival, she was happened upon by Deathwave, who interrogated her regarding her teleportation ability. Identifying her as an Institute agent, Deathwave immediately moved to shrug her off, knowing that there was trouble following her. She pleaded with him to help, as she didn't want to face whatever punishment existed for deserters. Shortly after, synths and coursers arrived and engaged the two. The firefight attracted the attention of a passing Brotherhood of Steel patrol, who stopped and rendered aid. When Rayne's Institute background was discovered, she was detained and brought back to the Boston Airport, standing trial before Elder Maxson. The Elder brutally interrogated the girl, demanding she prove she was human. Not knowing how, she failed, and Maxson ordered that she be executed as the abomination she was. Kairune refused to take part in the execution, stating that she was a valuable asset due to her prospective knowledge of the Institute. This resulted in Kairune and Maxson fighting, which ended with Kairune and Rayne fleeing the Prydwyn, now hunted by the Brotherhood.

### Ragnarok Mercenary Company

Although her initial exposure to the Commonwealth proved harrowing, Rayne still expressed a desire to help. She and Kairune went back to Sanctuary, seeing that it had been converted into a small town run by the Minutemen. They began to track the strange man, Deathwave, going on a search that took them to the Weatherby Savings and Loan Bank, where Deathwave was engaged in assisting Captain Ironsides in getthing the USS Constitution ready for a flight. The Constitution was under attack by local raiders, and with Kairune's combat prowess and Rayne's improvised field technology, the fight was won. Deathwave immediately offered a spot to the two in a company he was planning on starting in order to make some caps. With nothing else, Kairune and Rayne accepted, becoming the two first official recruits of the RMC. The launching of the Consitution resulted in Crow being captured, reset, and made a part of the ranks, followed shortly by Chaos.