Hannah Brown

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## **Appearance**

**Height:** 5' 3''

**Hair Color:** Dark Walnut-Brown

**Eye Color:** Dark brown

## **Strengths and Weaknesses**

**Skills:** Hannah is extremely organised and is an excellent planner and logistician. She can cook, maintain weapons and knows the best place to put a farming plot or surface dwelling, where ragon patrols wouldn't have spotted them.

**Weaknesses:** While she can handle a gun, if Hannah doesn't have a firearm she isn't the greatest fighter on the planet, which is not aided by her small stature.

## **Personality**

*"Shall we try to keep everything calm?  I love watching you boys fight, but the lighting really is poor here.  Do you think you can keep it until we're back in what passes for civilisation these days?"*

Hannah has the potential to be a little standoffish and snarky, though this is not because she is an inherently unpleasant person; once she is warms up to people she can be quite charming. Post-apocalyptic living has led to Hannah being mistrustful towards most strangers until she gets to know them.

Cautious by nature and calm under fire, Hannah tends to favour non-confrontational tactics and will usually be the first trying to diffuse a situation. If she does decide she needs to resort to violence, she will switch in a heartbeat, which has caught adversaries out in the past.

Hannah Brown has been shown to be willing to make considerable sacrifices for her friends including, in the confrontation in Denver, her own life.

## **Background**

**What she did before the War:** Health and Safety Officer for the New York Subway

**What she does now:** Self-appointed Captain of the *Icarus*

**Backstory:** Hannah Brown was always a clever woman, though her complete lack of any skill at self-promotion led to a rather dull career in Health and Safety prior to the invasion. When the ragon invaders hit New York, Hannah was at work and was quickly cut off from her parents and brother (missing, presumed dead). When other people towards their homes, Hannah ran into the subway, slinking into the access tunnels where she was out of reach of the invading forces. She survived for the first few weeks off the stored food and drink left behind by the other subway workers. By week three there were others who had made their way down into the tunnels and the nexus of a new society was beginning to form. Hannah, and her knowledge of the labyrinthine tunnels under the city proved invaluable to the other survivors, helping to guide the small community on foraging activities which presented minimal exposure to the ragon occupiers.When the main ragon force withdrew, Hannah also proved invaluable in deciding which buildings above-ground (humans don't do too well without sunlight) were better suited for habitation. The ideal buildings were not too exposed while also presenting good views of all potential approach routes and also had quick, discrete access to the tunnel system.

However, Hannah's main project over the first five years after the invasion were amassing as much canned food, medication, ammunition and, most of all, gasoline as she can. She was happy to give supplies to other survivors when they need it, though usually on the proviso that they help her to acquire more in return. Many people found the project a little surprising since she didn't operate a vehicle or a generator, preferred fresh food and avoided all combat with ragon forces, all the while stockpiling enough supplies to last her for generations. Those who knew her better though, understood that Hannah was stockpiling for a potential future attempt to retake the planet. It never came, but her stockpiles proved invaluable during the later expedition to Denver.

Her stockpile led to her being nicknamed 'Gopher' (from those who saw her as a tunnelling hoarder).

After being part of the group that rescued Tariq al Zubi from the ragon ambush, Hannah agreed to accompany him on his mission to Denver to send a time machine through the wormhole and supplied the expedition with food and equipment from her stores.

During the journey, Hannah formed a relationship with Ivan Ivanovich Ivanovsky, whom Hannah was surprised to learn had been harbouring feelings for her for some time.

Also on the course of their travels, Hannah was bitten by a 'blood locust' (an extraterrestrial insectoid), to which she exhibited a severe allergic reaction. It was only later, when the party had reached Denver, that it was revealed, by Davin Blackmore, during a ragon assault, that the blood locusts were engineered bio-mechanoids which had been searching for dhasath-human hybrids amongst the survivors on earth (Hannah was the great-granddaughter of Dana Chrichton who conceived a child from a dhasath father while in the Andromeda universe). Hannah's unusual reaction was the result of the blood locust having discovered a hybrid.

Realising that the ragon assault on the base would only be stopped when they had taken her, and realising everyone, including Ivan, would likely die in a futile effort to keep her alive, Hannah sacrificed herself for the rest of the party, allowing the ragons to take her. Hannah Brown died shortly thereafter, during a ragon genetic experiment intended to turn her into a 'full' dhasath (utilising genetic material from previously captured hybrids).

Much to her surprise, however, Hannah awoke again on a ship called the 'Icarus'.