Josephine Northmoon

Josephine Northmoon is the crime boss of the infamous Northmoon Syndicate, and is one of the supporting antagonists of *STARSPIRE: 2084*.

Josephine Northmoon, also known with the alias "Big Joss", was a revered crime boss and kingpin to the Northmoon Syndicate, an organization founded by her in 2063 that was dedicated to taking and fulfilling contracts from individuals, with a wide variety being either assassinations, typical run of the mill drug trades, espionage cases, or even, rarely, full out raids and robberies of lone outposts throughout the Sol System. Due to her long history of fulfilling contracts and commiting to deals with an A+, she has gained the full out respect and fear from many high level individuals in the criminal underworld, including some higher ups from major corporations such as the OXSIS Corporation and WesTEK, which clearly understands whyher operations could be so open and "loud" from time to time. Joseph also has a top heavy hitter crew behind her back, with individuals such as Mango, Two-Guns, Kiia Yamamoshi, Trinity Sawyer, Hawkhead, and Jackie Cho as her core members. Compared to other gangs, such as the Mazkin Gang, Josephine Northmoon has a large number of individuals working for her and her operations. Many people around the colonies know her for her rather professional, calm, collected, and diplomatic procedure to business within the world of organized crime. However, those who underestimate her personality are sorrowly mistakened by her ability to also strike fear into the minds of individuals, brutally killing anyone who tries to disrupt the empire and reputation she had carefully built over the decades, all while seemingly never raising her voice in the process.

### Background Information

Josephine was born to Audrey Northmoon and an unknown father in 2031, throughout her early life, she lived a relatively normal life as a child helping her mother out in her sowing business, often tending to supplies and maintaining the products in the front of the store. Even though she and her mother were placed under the poverty line, her mother taught young Josephine to be happy at the simpler things in life and to never panic at things that are meaningless in the grand scale of things. Audrey was such an inspiration to Josephine that she continues to have her personality be modeled after hers to this day. Her father on the other hand, was still a mystery to her as she always questioned what her dad was like, but her mother always heavily scolded her for questioning about the nature of her father's whereabouts. Several years later, after her mom died from Spinal Decay Syndrome, Josephine took over her mother's sowing business when she was just 21, further enhancing her business and leadership skills. When the Red Wars began in 2049, Josephine was forced to evacuate the her hometown of Springwood, Texas to towards the rural areas of the UP Canadian Province, leaving her mother's old business behind forever. It was unknown what happened to her during this time but in 2055, she moved out of the United Provinces of America to Neo Tokyo, Japan, to start a new life following the aftermath of the Red Wars. It was there that she started working for OXSIS Corporation for a couple years as a high level associate, only to leave the corporation two years where she gained enough money to move off Earth towards Olympus Hold on Mars, where she met Eddie Mazkin, an infamous outlaw and conman during a excursion between them and the local ruling Dragon Fangs at a bar when Eddie was caught scamming one of the dragon's bosses. The two managed to form a bond and for three years lived a life of crime and freedom away from the previous lives they lived before. However, by 2061, Eddie and Josephine split away to form their own gangs, reasons being that the two had different perspectives and beliefs for how they wanted to run things. Over time, due to this reason, the two became more distant and untrusting of each other, with them eventually promising to never see each other again as to not try and create a potential between them and their own groups.

With Eddie founding his own gang in 2062, Josephine eventually founded her own organized crime network known as the Northmoon Syndicate in 2063, with her admitting the original members like Two-Guns, Mango, Jackie Cho, and Hawkhead. Eventually Trinity Sawyer joined her gang in 2068 followed by Kiia Yamamoshi joining in 2073, 10 years after the Syndicate's initial founding. By 2079, Josephine had a meeting with renowned outlaw Voki S'Turr, discussing about any leads about Kinto Masori's location and dealings with WesTEK in the Sol System in exchange for classified OXSIS intel on Project Firefly, a recent ongoing project that was years in the making that involved exploration of the Kyraa'n home star system, but was put on hold due to recent confrontations between corporate security and Kyraa'n federally-backed militia fleets. After some more discussion and persuasion done by Voki on the legitimacy of this project and the rewards gained keeping an eye on this situation, Josephine eventually agreed to this deal with the outlaw and offered new insights on Kinto Masori's current whereabouts and dealings with WesTEK. After the meeting, Joseph briefly touched on the subject with Kiia Yamamoshi, in which she seemed very interested in the prospect of obtaining classified vault-style OXSIS info that could benefit her in the long run, to which she kept hidden in the back of her mind.

By 2084, her unmatched patience awarded her with new information pertaining to the project surfaced when a OXSIS Courier fleet was spotted heading into the Magna'r/Acolyes System to look for advanced artifacts. Upon arriving to the location, Joseph and her crew, one of them being Kiia Yamamoshi, discovered the ruins of the courier ship around the orbit of Saturn, realizing someone else got to it first, they picked up faint graviton trails that lead to the Kyraa'n home system. Upon arriving and making past detection from Kyraa'n patrol units flying through space, they made it to where the perpetrators were located, a massive complex that lay still between the two binary stars. When Joseph and her crew made it to the entrance of the complex known as the Unkyrasis, she eventually found a large chamber which had her old friend/enemy Eddie Mazkin, who she hadn't seen for 22 years, along with seeing Kiia and Ryther Xyanati', Eddie Mazkin's Second-in-Command to the Mazkin Gang, wearing the ancient space suits known as the Kaetor Suits, that had manifested itself over the two opposing members. Soon after a brief and intense exchange between her and her long time former partner-in-crime, Josephine and her surviving crew members evacuated the complex after an ambush with interdimensional demonic-like entities that are later learned to be from the Order of the Otmaa' Khaa', an ancient Kyraa'n cult that worshipped Untimaa, the God of Lies, Manipulation, and Destruction. With the heist resulting in a complete disaster, with OXSIS Corporation now hot on their tails, with the entierty of the Kyraa'n Union now getting word of their illegal travel deep into Kyraa'n space, and with an ancient evil now rising out to destroy all life in the universe, along with the deaths of Trinity Sawyer, and Two-Guns, Josephine exiled Kiia from the Northmoon Syndicate, with her issuing a hunt-and-capture mission for Ryther and Kiia, in exchange for her organization's guaranteed safety from OXSIS and potential Kyraa'n Union officials. Later that year, Josephine engaged in a fierce battle with Ryther and Kiia following their capture at on the planet Vortor. After an intense battle between her in a giant mech suit and Ryther and Kiia, Josephine Northmoon was killed as a result of the excursion, marking the end of her reign as one of the most feared criminals in the Sol System, with the Northmoon Syndicate collapsing the same year.