Julia LaCroix

Dr.Plague wearing her SSP-99MkII

"I'm not a monster : At least I'm not gonna let you watch the new SW trilogy before I torture you for fun."

*-Julia in her Salvation moment, right before torturing a prisoner.*

## Personnality

### Background

Julia is a genetist. in 2010, she started her studies to become a PHD in genetics, will fuelled by the studying of the Zone. Her thesis is even based on the Flesh's ressemblance toward pigs, and the implications following it. She met Zach Evans, a war journalist on the rise, to which they shortly started dating and then later on got engaged.

Around early 2018, she was approached by the "CNRS" to represent it in the Zone with a partnership between France and Ukraine. An occasion she jumped right through.

3 months after her arrival, she disappeared up North, for around 6 months, before reappearing a few weeks prior today, explaining that the barrier had be closed on her and she was stuck in Skadovsk with a few stalkers, without further details. This in fact, was the cover up story she came up after coming back from being indoctrinated by the Monolith into becoming Salvation.

She then infiltrated back the Ecologist, pulling out a double agent work as she was also managing the Monolith forces as their Inquisitor. This allowed her to make precision strikes and raid on the other factions using gathered intel. The assaults caused a massive temporary aggreement of all none-Monolith sided factions to start a war with Monolith, which after few battles, ended up as a victory in the now famous "2018 Generator Raid" also known as the "Genny raid" (see majors events).

Julia's defeat blew her cover up, made her a prisoners of the allied factions, until her medical death a few days later. Aneurysm rupture was the cause. The body was then buried by a fellow ecologist near Yantar. All of this was then revealed to be somewhat of a plan of LaCroix, as she somehow managed to survive her medical conditions and changed identity to "Dr.Plague", a self-judgemental hommage to her activities in the Monolith. This however, wouldn't be without consequences, as she is now unable to speak, has severe memory loss, and her split personnality disorder remanifested under it's self picked name, Adam.

### Faction Relations

As her identity under Julia LaCroix, Dr.LaCroix or Salvation, it's safe to say ANY factions knowing her still alive would be her enemy, minus maybe ecologists.

However, as Dr.Plague, she's known as any egghead, therefore their relationships apply to her.

## Set of Skills

### Strength

#### First reported Psy-Stalker

Pioneers among freaks. Julia was one of the first reported Psy-Stalker : People with surprising abilities in bending the noosphere to their will like mutants. Altough she has peaked as Salvation, Dr.Plague got a solid grasp on most of her old powers by now, in her own new way. Telekinesis, Psy restoring capabilites or more esoteric abilities like viewing the net of nodes that is the noosphere.

#### Gun Nut and Dead Eye

LaCroix is an especially good shot, able to pull off decent, down right expert firing action at short and mid range. Her long range game isn't as good, but she could hit something eventually. To this adds another layer, as she's an absolute gun freak, and will tinker everything and anything about guns she got on hands.

#### Let 'er rip

Truly a Psycho moment. LaCroix can tap into her frustration and refuse to acknowlegde a wound or two, provided it's not critical.

### Weaknesses

#### CQC Mess

Not a twig but you've seen better. Julia is simply not a great CQC combattant. Her melee being only viable in fights when she use her telekinesis. And so does her general frame, she's just not built large.

#### Broken Body

A restless mess. The habits of LaCroix to just withstand hits and physical limits has left in her relative poor state. Sure she can ignore hits, but it doesn't make her invincible by any means, and it shows as her overall resistance gearless is simply low.

### Gear

#### SSP-99MkII

An advanced version of the classic heavy work Scientific suit, designed for heavy anomalous field study. Made to be almost never opened, this suit allows to monitor's the wearer vitals and inject chemicals or other ressources directly into the wearer's bloodstream through a grinder and needle inserted in the left arm of the suit.

#### ZP-AR1

The first Zone Produced-Assault Rifle (ence, ZP-AR1). Designed by Plague and Cardan over a few drunk nights, this rifle shines through it's hybrid design between the AR15 platform and the AK one, while allowing general modularity over attachements. (Rifle actually optainable by talking to Cardan, it will be the most barebone version : No cross, 10 round mag, Basic Iron sight. Requires self modification or through Cardan for added parts.) Fires 7.62x39.

#### "Salvation"

Wearing it both as a gun and an anchor on her back, Plague designed this weapon with Cardan in the same condition as the ZP platform. This one however is a personnal command, and it's nickname is known only to Plague for obvious reasons. This gun is an human-usable size of a minigun. Firing 7.62x51, Plague can move around firing it, provided she supports her arms with telekinesis.