Andor T'Abulae

Art by Azir

**Andor T'Abulae** is a cartographer, professor and member of the Council Recovery Corps. She is well-known for her breakthroughs on deep space hazard avoidance and for her discovery and detailed scan of hundreds of future colony sites.

## Biography

### Early Life

Born on the vibrant garden world of Nevos to two asari parents, Kaila and Tivoa T’Abulae, Andor grew up surrounded by deals, trades and corporate espionage. Her parents were deeply involved with the vibrant economy and political dealings, controlling stocks and trade in backroom dealings and running the planets largest tourist agency publicly.

Andor was an excellent student as a child, finding comfort in the freedom of the asari education system, diving into subjects far beyond her age with fervour, pushed on by her desire to place herself on the same level as her parents. She even found few friends in her lessons, taking joy in the chances she got to meet them in the few in-person lessons and trips. In her free time, she spent hours typing to and calling them whenever she had the chance, occasionally getting the chance to meet up with them between study sessions and self-imposed practice exams.

Andor took to the biotic exams and tests quickly, her desire to explore extending to her powers as well. She would take several tests beyond her age and experience for biotics at her parent’s behest, becoming extremely proficient in using and utilising them.

Eventually after receiving top marks on all her tests, she convinced her parents to allow her to travel with them across the planet to business meetings in the many arcologies that flew up the imposing cliffs of the planet.

In these meetings, Andor was exposed to the many manipulations and trade deals her parents would put into play, who taught her of the short-lived nature of other species, and how best to exploit their tells and lifespans for massive profit. Despite the large amount of tourism on Nevos, Andor remained distanced from the vast array of species that relaxed on the beaches and admired the moons, held at a distance by her parents, who despite their wealth, always kept Andor as close as possible, either one parent or another bringing her along to sit outside offices or pose as a secretary.

As Andor matured, she naturally grew more curious about other species, fuelled by the asari education system and its encouragement and education of interspecies relations, taking any opportunity to attempt to meet one. However, her parents refused to allow her to, telling her to focus on her studies and learn from their perspectives, which only served to prompt more and more curiosity, now mixing with a desire to escape her parent’s expectations. This culminated in an (at the time) rare act of rebellion, as Andor snuck away from her mother during a business meeting, and set out to meet one of the aliens she had now heard so much about.

Escaping out of the arcology via one of the many transit lines that criss-crossed the planet, Andor fled out towards one of the resorts she recognised from reading a profit report while working for her parents, all in the hopes of meeting an alien species. Eventually, her parents realised her absence and began searching for her, alerting authorities and putting a hold on her accounts. Quickly understanding her parents had noticed her absence, Andor began to panic, and in a moment of instinct, chose not wanting to return before at least seeing an alien, over returning with nothing. She then made the reckless decision to walk to the resort that was only a couple of station stops away. Swiftly, she became predictably lost, and two hours later was found by local police, collapsed and crying on a bench.

After this incident, Andor fell away from interest in aliens, after the stress of getting into (serious) trouble for the first time with both her parents and a real interaction with the police, she wrote her desire away as frivolous childish urges, returning to education and statistics to escape from her shame. She grew more distant from her parents, as they stopped inviting her alongside them to work, though at this point Andor didn’t care much to go with them. She also distanced herself from friends from school equally, and while they still met up, they grew more and more distant from her as time went on.

During this slump, Andor was messaged by one of her more distant friends, Shia, who invited her to go shopping at a megacomplex in a neighbouring arcology. While she arrived late and dishevelled, Andor found Shia dressed up and excited to see her, something Andor was confused by given her previous grumpy interactions with her friends.

Shia continued to invite Andor to more and more outings, just the two of them, her excitable nature and desire to move forward dragging Andor out of her slump, and Andor would light up whenever Shia invited her out, though she try her best to hide her excitement when the two actually met, scared that if her mood was to seem to improve Shia would not want to hang out as much.

After 2 months of going on dates with Shia, spending time growing closer and closer, Andor finally asked her what it was that the two were, Shia responding that Andor was obviously her girlfriend. In response, Andor smiled and hugged her, saying that she had hoped so.

The two quickly became inseparable, messaging and chatting to each other at any chance they got, meeting up in the gaps between classes and revision for Andor, and gardening and running an online shop for Shia. Andor’s parents noticed Shia’s presence in Andor’s life, and while originally happy, grew disapproving of the relationship as Andor showed less desire to take part in the family businesses, preferring to spend time with Shia, or even simply reading or relaxing.

As time went by, Andor and Shia grew closer and closer, and one evening after a particularly long study session, mind-melded for the first time, an event Andor found uniquely terrifying and yet somehow vaguely comforting. The experience left her feeling extremely vulnerable, while Shia grew ecstatic from the experience, revelling in reliving moments with Andor from a new point of view, even as Andor struggled with her emotions next to her.

Time continued on, and Andor found herself with less and less time on her hands, and she began studying for her final exams within asari education. Her parents put further pressure on her to impress in her results, given the importance of the final exams. Andor also began to recoil from Shia, who became secretly enamoured with the idea of melding once more with Andor, pushing to spend more and more time with the reluctant Andor.

The week after the final exams were extremely stressful for Andor, as her results were processed by databases and VI’s, only compounded as despite her requests for space to Shia, she would continue to message her to gain her attention. Her parents were also off-planet during this period, which despite the little support they gave nonetheless spurred on Andor’s now spiralling state. During this time Andor cemented her tendency to sleep through entire days, and even when awake barely left her bed.

At the end of the week, Andor’s results were sent to her private terminal, finally letting Andor relax, the stress of the past week internalised. She attained high marks in all her exams, even attaining perfect scores in a few, a feat rarely managed in a galaxy-wide education system. Andor’s elation brought her back into close contact with Shia, who was more than happy to celebrate with her. For a time, it felt as if Andor’s problems had resolved itself now she was able to move on to her university education.

### University

After deliberating with her parents and Shia, Andor settled on following in her parent’s footsteps, taking a degree in business studies in university, a prestigious university located on the Citadel. The distance from her parents and Shia was something Andor felt ashamed to be looking forward to, but after moving into her flat on Kithoi ward, homesickness overcame her, and she found comfort in the chances few she had to make contact with her parents, and the many chances to make contact with Shia.

As her first major holiday loomed one year in, Andor leaped at the chance to return home to Nevos, booking her tickets aboard a commercial vessel as soon as she could. Arriving into the port, a strange pit sank in her stomach at the thought of meeting her parents again. After meeting with Shia at the airport, Andor stayed with her parents for the holiday, meeting with Shia when she found time amidst once again joining her parents along for meetings. After coming home from a particularly tense day at work, where Andor had been helping her parents manage the office, a particularly severe argument broke out about the unsavoury business practices Andor felt her parents had employed, and Andor left to go stay with Shia in protest.

After a night with Shia, Andor returned home to apologise to her parents, and after a couple of days, the typical routine continued. As the holidays ended, Shia and Andor spent more time together, making Andor feel more and more tense as the days went by.

Once she arrived back in her flat on the Citadel, she could finally feel herself relax, happy to be away and by herself once more, despite the many texts she sent to Shia about how she missed her already. After a week, Andor came to the realization that as much as she pretended, she didn’t miss Shia or anything at all about Nevos, and following another week of self-doubt and criticism, she broke off the relationship with Shia.

After this, university remained mostly uneventful as Andor dove herself into her work, making very few friends in her classes as she pursued her degree, only going out to the occasional formal party for the sake of socialising as she felt she had to. She found herself using the many business strategies she had learned from and argued with her parents about, despite her criticisms. After 2 more years and the occasional short-lived return to Nevos, she eventually graduated with a Masters in Business Studies. Her parents wasted no time in offering her a job, which she reluctantly accepted.

### Post-University

After returning to Nevos, Andor was quickly promoted up the ranks at their parents’ company, much to the chagrin of the other employees, who viewed her rapid promotions as a result of her being nothing more than the president’s daughter. Andor felt similar, despite her competence as a businesswoman she could only see her achievements as nothing more than the result of her parent’s nepotism. This eventually exploded after Andor had an employee under her underperform in a project, which despite her forgiving them, her parents personally arranged for the employee to be fired.

This was the last straw for Andor, who stormed into her mother’s office and argued with them about the subject for 30 minutes before slamming a resignation letter on the desk and walking out.

After leaving the building and returning to her flat, Andor’s anger left her terrified of the consequences of blowing up at her parents, as now she was completely on her own and needed to seek out a job entirely by herself. She spent the next two months searching for a job and rejecting reconciliation with her parents, who contacted her every few weeks, growing more concerned and apologetic each time, though Andor was having none of it.

After two months of job searching Andor ended up out of luck, as Nevos being a business hub led the best of the best to apply for any available job, and despite her high test scores she sorely lacked experience outside of her parents company. As a result, without her parents’ help Andor was rejected from every job she applied to. Downcast and struggling to make rent without the significant pay of her job, Andor passed by a recruitment office for the asari military, which led to her to consider the idea of joining the military in a management position, in hopes of the possibility to move to Thessia or at the very least move off Nevos.

### Military Service

Andor was near instantly recruited and was assigned to serve in the Sixth Fleet over Cyone for the duration of her training. After excelling in biotic tests, and acknowledging her lack of a desire to kill anyone, Andor was assigned to serve as a biotic shield for ground troops

Joining the Second Fleet, Andor found herself challenged day after day, the intense competition between each fighter squadron forcing her to push herself beyond her normal limits. Despite her reserved nature, she found herself being more and more outgoing, cheering when she attained victory or sulking and partying with her squadron after a defeat. She slowly made many friends in the Second Fleet, even having a few casual relationships, something Andor thought was beyond her ability given how attached she had been to Shia.

Piracy suppression details and large shows of force were the typical assignments of the Second Fleet, and in 1623 Andor and the squad she commanded were sent alongside 11 other squads to perform in-atmosphere fire support against a pirate base on a planet only recently charted, with a frigate in orbit to deploy them. The group faced anti-air suppression fields far beyond what was expected, and more than three quarters of the ships that were sent were shot down, including Andor.

While on the ground, Andor would link up with the ground forces, choosing to take part in a ground assault rather than rest and return to the frigate. While a difficult decision, Andor justified it as necessary due to the lack of trained biotics on the ground. Providing barriers and extracting wounded from the field, Andor fought for two days on the ground against the vast networks of turrets and sentries. Eventually, support was received from hundreds of Second Fleet fighters and soldiers, who arrived and relieved the troops on the ground. This event, which was referred by the Second Fleet to as the ‘Siege on the Hylan 4th’, in reference to the moon being the fourth of a large gas giant, would lead to Andor’s immediate promotion, leading to her being granted permission to pilot on of the largest cruisers in the Second Fleet, the Guilean.

Andor would take temporary leave from the military in 1678, during which time she would receive a message from a private corporation which identified itself as ‘Dezan Colonies’. They offered Andor a job as a pilot, taking command of a large colony ship to be landed on a newly charted world. While Andor refused the offer, it was the first she considered the idea of charting worlds herself.

During this time, Andor would take a vacation to Nevos, reconnecting with her parents and sharing a drink with Shia and any of her old friends from school that still remained on the planet. Andor’s parents, specifically Kaila, Andor’s father, revealed that they were scared of Andor’s job in the military putting her in harm’s way, and that after finding out her role in the Siege on the Hylan 4th, they had been worried sick over her and had been filing request after request to make contact with her. Andor apologised profusely to her parents over causing them distress, and the three, even her mother, who was always averse to physical contact, hugged each other as tight as possible.

Andor returned to the military after, but not before promising not to endanger herself to her parents and promising further to keep in contact. Andor returned to her fleet content with herself and after two more years of service, put her request in to be transferred into the less active Sixth Fleet, with the hopes to be able to pilot a Dreadnought in the peacetime.

Her wish was granted and after ten years of service onboard a cruiser, Andor was promoted and made chief pilot of the Opening Hand, a newly commissioned sister ship of the flagship for the Sixth Fleet. She would quickly become fast friends with the commander of the vessel, Velka H’sua, who had previously trained Andor during her time as a cadet. Velka and Andor would commonly sit in the ships bar together and discuss all manner of subjects, from critiquing asari military structure, to what kind of plant would grow the best from a skull. Velka also held a passion for cooking, something that rubbed off on Andor as time went by, and two would spend time comparing dishes inspired by different drinks or experiences they shared.

The two would fly together on numerous show-of-force missions and protect several high-profile diplomatic convoys en-route to Thessia. Andor would confide in Velka her lack of close contact with any alien race, which led Velka to encourage Andor to get closer to other species, as even if they are short lived, the experiences they have still hold tremendous value. Velka would also inspire Andor to start down the path of cartography, after a night in the bar would lead to Velka mocking her for not being able to chart her own paths, and that pilots had to rely on the ships V.I.

As she reached the end of her final term in the military, Andor would receive a message from her father, Kaila, who wanted to meet with Andor on Cyone. Surprised that she had travelled away from Nevos and the business she shared, Andor met with her immediately in the hotel she was staying at. Her father and Andor talked openly about the past, before Kaila revealed to her that she was planning on leaving the company and Andor’s mother, Tivoa. She claimed that Tivoa’s business strategies had grown beyond simply criminal, and while the company had more and more profits each year, Kaila felt he could no longer simply keep her head down and run the tourism agency.

Andor’s father felt that her daughter would understand, given her previous outbursts, and while she did, Andor couldn’t stop herself from still seeing good in her mother. After bidding goodbye, Andor would remain in close contact with both her parents, sometimes asking questions for the other, as they both clearly cared for each other despite their separation.

### Post Military

Andor left the military in 1786, having attained the rank of Deputy Commander. She received a large bonus, which alongside her savings made for a tidy sum, allowing Andor the freedom to choose whatever potential career path she desired. Andor chose to return to university on the Citadel, taking several degree courses one after the other in Cartography, Xenobiology and Sociology. Finding comfort in returning to the education system on her own terms, choosing to take subjects that she wanted, rather than anything her parents set out for her.

Andor’s Xenobiology course brought her into close contact with several of her classmates, as the nature of the course meant discussion within the class between different races. One such classmate, a turian by the name of Nazul, was extremely interested in asari biology, and after a chance pairing with Andor in a group assignment, turned to her whenever he had a question about asari biology. To Andor, it felt as if he could simply look up the majority of the questions he asked her, though as the only other member of the class that was not attending university for the first time, she felt a kindred spirit in Nazul.

Andor’s decision to write her thesis on the potential biology of undiscovered species led to her ask Nazul questions in turn, covering all manner of topics from common animals on Palaven to what kind of food tasted the best to him. Slowly Andor felt herself relax around Nazul, and despite being almost four times his age, came to view him as an equal in all matters, taking to heart the advice of Velka.

After the two spent longer and longer together, the time eventually came when Andor confronted Nazul about whether he had feelings for her, to which he immediately confessed apologetically. While Andor herself was not sure of how she felt herself, seeing the turian stumble over his confession cemented her feelings towards him, and the two would begin dating not short after.

Some years later, Andor and Nazul met in the flat they now shared, and Nazul would ask Andor about what she would do after he passed. Up to this moment, Andor had been ignoring the prospect of his death, keeping it out of her mind. She confessed that she had no idea, and decided to head to bed early that night. The question would remain in Andor’s head for the next week, as she wrestled with the idea of dating someone that would die long before she even reached the later stage of her life, before she eventually put the idea out of her mind.

Andor chose to continue on to attain a Masters in Cartography, a subject she fell in love with during her time doing it as a course, despite her original reason for taking it being simply to prove Velka wrong. Charting her own paths in space and mapping out unknown systems quickly became her passion, and after graduating with her masters in 1795, just after she finally entered her Matron stage, she would jump into work with the asari government, her previous work in the military giving her an edge in the hiring process.

Over time, Andor would gain more renown amongst the cartography and space charting community, returning to the Citadel to spend time with Nazul as much as possible in between her many missions to chart new systems and stars. She would take time off every couple of missions, living with Nazul on Kithoi Ward and telling him all about her grand discoveries, while he explained to her the many breakthroughs he saw his team making in the lab he worked in.

As the years went by, Andor found herself returning to see Nazul grow older and older, as much as the two of them ignored it, Nazul for Andor’s sake, and Andor out of the fear of the day that she loses him forever.

One day, after a yearlong mission to the Hades Gamma cluster, scouting a new world for the asari government, she returned to the Citadel to find Nazul in a hospital bed. While she had been out of reach of comms, he had been diagnosed with a disease that his immune system had grown too weak to fight and had been bed-bound for the last week. The two sat together for hours and talked as if nothing was wrong, though the pit in Andor’s stomach only grew deeper and deeper each moment she sat with him. Eventually, he held Andor’s hand and asked her what she was going to do when he was gone. The thin façade Andor held snapped, and she held him tightly, confessing that she didn’t know.

Andor chose not to go on any further missions for the next five years, instead staying on the Citadel to take care of Nazul. The two lived together in their flat, until Nazul became too sick, and was transferred to a hospital. Andor would visit every day, until eventually it became clear that he had only days to live. For these days, Andor would fall asleep by his bed, sleeping through the nights and talking with him throughout the days.

On December the 6th 1876, Nazul would pass away in his bed in the middle of the night. The night after, Andor would find herself wracked with grief upon returning to her apartment, and would spend the next week in bed, barely leaving her room but to fetch takeaways and reheat leftovers. The months that followed left Andor feeling terrible, and while her parents were there to support her, there was no denying that they, too, were growing old as well, and each conversation with them only reminded Andor of the inevitability of being alone.

Four months after Nazul’s passing, Andor would throw herself back into her work, accepting longer and longer missions to chart and scan planets and systems thousands of lightyears away from any mass relays. Slowly, the crew Andor commissioned for her trips grew smaller and smaller, less and less people willing to set aside years of their life to scanning missions.

### Cartographer

This would culminate in a completely solo ten-year mission out to the eastern fringes of the Terminus Systems, sent by the asari government. The data would be mostly meaningless for now, but Andor knew that some Matriarch somewhere had a plan for whatever data she was gathering. The trip would be far longer than any she had embarked on before, though that was something she had hoped for, so she could distance herself from meeting others physically.

For the sake of the mission, Andor would commission a modified turian scouting frigate from the asari government, in part as payment for the job. The ship was altered to include an extreme distance comms array, a cryostasis module with backups, alongside a state-of-the-art stealth array at the behest of the asari government. The removal of most of the weapons systems freed up a vast amount of space inside the ship, giving Andor space for her own garden space and dedicated kitchen, which while the government deemed non-essential, Andor fronted the cost from her savings.

Andor spent years out in the space between stars, coming in and out of cryo to tend to her garden, flex her biotics and keep her body in shape, interrupted by the occasional deep scan of a planetoid or comet, or the occasional deployment of a comm drone to relay data. She kept in contact with her parents through this comm relay, attaching messages onto the data-dumps being sent back through drones to the asari government.

Eight years into her mission in 1895, Andor received an urgent communique, off schedule from her usual yearly missives. The message, sent by the matriarch that had overseen her mission, requesting a reassignment and an immediate retasking to the Tikkun System. The codes attached confused Andor, as they indicated a potential planetary evacuation, codes she had never seen used outside of training exercises in the Sixth Fleet. Andor brought her ship to bear, heading towards the nearest relay that would bring her closer to Rannoch.

After months of travelling Andor grew closer to the Dholen relay, and her monitor was pinged by a distress call from a lone group of three quarian vessels, pock-marked with bullet holes and laser scars. Andor responded instantly, desperate for information on why she had been reassigned from her mission, hoping that the quarians onboard would be able to explain. She would start ferrying supplies from her ship, using her brief medical training in the military and following instructions from a doctor onboard to assist the wounded.

As Andor asked amongst the people she rescued, she came to the realisation that while she had been travelling, a war had broken out amongst the quarians and their machine-servants, the geth, and in only a short year it had led to the evacuation of their homeworld, Rannoch.

On the third day of working to evacuate a smaller, heavily damaged vessel, Andor watched a rupture in a fuel bank lead to the ship exploding, having not cleared for any last onboard survivors. This event scarred Andor, and the thought of there even being one quarian onboard the ship, as the explosion went off would be something she struggled with for decades to come. After the quarian ships were at least partially stabilising, the group informed Andor they had to find the rest of their fleet and departed from the area. Similarly, Andor received orders to return to Thessia for a mission debrief and full payment, a chance to escape Andor gladly took, as overcome with stress and pressure as she was.

After her uneventful arrival and debriefing on Thessia, alongside a stringent signing of legal contracts and NDA’s preventing her from speaking about anything she witnessed while on her mission, including her time onboard the quarian ships. Andor felt a desire to protest against hiding what she saw but knew her complaints would fall on deaf ears regardless of what she did.

Andor took a year away from her work after returning to the Citadel, taking time to readjust to having people around her again by visiting the parks and bars that dotted the streets of Kithoi Ward. She still felt herself gravitate towards being in her own apartment however, preferring to keep contact with others to a minimum. One night after a particularly long session in the gym, she would return home to a video message from her mother, who through tears revealed to Andor that her father had died of a sudden heart attack. Andor felt shock settle over her as she watched her mother cry in front of her for the first time in her life. Andor froze in her seat, and soon began crying herself.

She returned to Nevos for the funeral, staying with her mother for the duration. Andor had never seen her mother look so weak in her entire life, even with the fact that her parents had been separated for decades she had clearly never let go of loving Kaila. Andor chose to stay on Nevos for longer than she planned, in the hopes that her presence would help her mother feel better.

Eventually returning to the Citadel, Andor coped the best way she knew, through throwing herself at her work at full force. This time however, she decided not to accept any contract work, instead charting worlds by herself on her own ship. Her father had been an incredibly wealthy woman, and alongside the savings and investment accounts she had left for decades, she was able to fund any expedition she could dream of. Her apartment was the biggest drain on her finances, being in a particularly nice area of Kithoi, though renting it out while she was away provided plenty enough to cover the costs.

Andor would disappear into space for years at a time, reappearing only to meet with their mother or log their data inside massive stores hidden on Nevos. In this time, she located hundreds of planets, even some with potential for colonisation. She would keep her biotics trained by pushing smaller asteroids at each other or adjusting larger asteroids courses for entertainment. Occasionally, she would pick up smaller contracts for scientists, with a weakness for those in fields close to Xenobiology, given her past with the subject, though she rarely flew with any non-asari.

One such scientist who she took a liking to was Dr Analee Y’vara, a gifted botanist who shared Andor’s love of discovery of new alien life. The two would work together to chart numerous worlds, and Analee would show her ways of harvesting data about planets from plants Andor hadn’t even considered all without having to disrupt the localised environment when on sensitive planets.

It helped that she paid extremely well too.

Andor would continue working for decades, charting systems as she travelled into deep space alongside cooking and expanding her knowledge of her biotics and the world around her, reading numerous studies and works that she would download terabytes of to bring on her journeys, alongside hundreds of games and movies to watch when she wasn’t piloting the ship. She would take inspiration from the studies she read, and would begin publishing her own studies.

Eventually, Andor would return to Nevos in 1990 to meet with her mother for the last time. She had been growing sick for some time and had converted her room into a miniature hospital to keep her alive. Andor struggled deeply with seeing her mother like this, as for her entire life she had seemed to be the strongest person Andor knew. They both knew that she was dying, and on her deathbed Tivoa confessed the full nature of her criminal dealings to Andor. She had been working with and even owned numerous criminal organisations, entirely to manipulate stock markets, feigning attacks on colonies and instilling fear in people across council space solely to create a profit. After Andor’s father left her, she felt a deep shame for sinking so low purely for profit and promised Andor that she had turned her dealings around, using her connections and empire to improve lives, occasionally even at the cost of profits.

While Andor could scarcely grapple with her mother being everything she claimed to be, she knew that to argue with her now would only leave her without her daughter at the end, something she was not willing to do. She lied to her mother, saying she understood and forgave her for everything, though told the truth after, admitting she would miss her more than anything else in the galaxy. Tivoa passed away shortly after.

Her funeral was on Nevos, with dozens of people of various species dressed in formal wear from across the galaxy. Lavishly tattooed krogan, turians in pitch black armour, asari in dresses that had to be carried by two separate servants, all gathered at her funeral. Each paid respect, introducing themselves to Andor as leaders of clans and organisations that had worked for or with her mother. The majority gave Andor contact information, promising that they would help her as if she were her mother if she ever needed help, something Andor graciously accepted, out of fear that refusing would insult them in some way.

After returning home, Andor would quickly return to her work, scared by the prospect of garnering criminal attention, especially with her career requiring extreme discretion. She feared that if her mother’s connections with criminals were to be known by any of the governments she worked for, she would be blacklisted.

After signing the necessary papers, Andor would receive a controlling stake in her mother’s investment company, which she near-instantly sold to the highest bidder, wanting no part in her family’s business. This netted her a ludicrous amount of money, already something Andor wasn’t struggling with, though now she was capable of making even more money through savings and smart investments.

Once more, Andor would return to her ship, having sorted her money into accounts and investments sure to make her the largest returns possible given her planned mission time. She set out again in her ship for the first time in a hundred years towards the Perseus Veil, and while she refused to come anywhere close to breaching the veil, she gathered valuable data she was never able to retrieve last time, utilising the latest technology to gather valuable sensor data from all sides of the veil. She would occasionally meet the odd quarian vessel out in the cold dark, counting her blessings that the asari government had insisted on stealth tech onboard her ship.

After scanning each and every world she could around the veil, Andor would vanish again, this time heading to the border between council and batarian space, as tensions had flared she believed that any scan data found there would be extremely valuable, in the rare case of all-out war. Andor would continue to appear in and out of known space for the next 20 years, gathering data from all corners of the galaxy before selling it to the highest bidder whenever she thought the value of such data had peaked.

In 2090, Andor would return to the Citadel without intentions of leaving for the first time. Placing her ship in storage, she finally came to the decision to relax and settle down for a while instead of returning to space at the nearest convenience. This decision settled with Andor after she realised just how long she had spent either in service or working, something she attributed at the time to her finally approaching her matriarch stage.

Two years after arriving back on the Citadel, Andor would apply for a job as a professor in the largest university on Kithoi ward, having spent the previous year writing and publishing her definitive book on cartography and mapping in uncharted space. She received an almost instant response, with the prestige that came with her level of experience leading to instant acceptance for the position. Andor would have her first day as a professor not a month later.

### Professor

Working as a professor was a significant jump for Andor, as while she wasn’t socially inept, the amount of time she had spent away from civilisation, as well as other people, led to her being uncomfortable and nervous in her first few years as a formal professor. She often caught herself leaving her apartment forgetting her identification or in her standard massive hoodie, having forgotten to get changed.

As time went by Andor developed her own teaching style, preferring to engage with her students in a more casual manner than most of the other professors, content in the knowledge that cartography served as a more minor subject in the grand scheme of education, and so the majority of students in her class already had a vested interest in learning more about maps. Unfortunately for Andor, the majority of those who knew about cartography also knew about her and her journeys, and she often had to dissuade them from following in her footsteps and going on solo missions.

As time went on and each wave of students came and went, Andor began to feel proud of her position, able to pass on what she had learnt to others. In 2125, the councils attempt to contact the yahg would occur, and she found herself feeling disappointed that she wouldn’t be able to teach a new species about cartography, something she never thought she would feel not 50 years ago.

Andor continued to sell her data as she worked as a professor, while money was no object for her any longer, the opportunity to assist the galaxy at large and put her centuries of work to use was something she could hardly pass up.

In 2157, the discovery of, and a near turian war with, the humans occurred. Andor had taught several turian students at that time who were on hierarchy sponsored courses as part of their service, and was especially nervous for Kujad, a student she had taught two years before who had left to work as a strategist onboard the 31st Flotilla, which had taken part in one of the many battles of the Relay 314 incident.

Concerned, after the formal peace was declared, Andor reached out to her, asking after her health and wellbeing. She would receive a response a week later, letting her know that she was alright, though slightly confused as to why their cartography professor from two years ago was one of the few that chose to check up on her. Their messages continued back and forth, and slowly the two grew closer to each other, sending messages near daily to each other. Andor slowly grew aware that Kujad was in some way attracted to her, and while she wasn’t averse to the idea, felt as if she didn’t know what her response would be, and so put off responding at all to her affections.

Two months later, Kujad announced that she would be visiting her on the Citadel, as she had been granted leave post-314. After meeting, Kujad announced her attraction to Andor, and confessed that she did hold feelings for her. Andor, suddenly confronted with the possibility of a relationship after so long, couldn’t help but be reminded of Nazul. The realisation that she wasn’t ready for any kind of serious relationship washed over her, and she stuttered out a rejection to Kujad’s advances.

Kujad was shocked for a moment, before stumbling over an apology. Andor insisted that it was okay, and explained that she was just unable to have a relationship right now, and apologised profusely to her for anything she did to make her think otherwise. After laughing it off, the two would continue to have a relatively normal (if a little awkward) outing together, before Kujad returned to her ship and back to the fleet. The two would continue to message for the next month on and off, though they slowly fell out of contact, as Andor began to self-sabotage to protect herself from growing attached, and eventually they would stop messaging altogether.

As humans began to trickle into the university, Andor teaching her first human student in 2161, Andor found herself holding a small amount of dislike towards the species. She acted coldly to those she had in her lessons, partially on behalf of Kujad, despite their lack of contact. In 2165, as humanity was granted an embassy on the Citadel Andor found her dislike grow into resentment, the appetite and greed humans appeared to display, seeming to demand more and more space by the week, bringing Andor to resent humans.

As more humans appeared in her lessons over the years to come, Andor’s curiosity overcame her distrust, and she slowly managed to interact more casually with her human students. As the next decade went by, she slowly began to separate the actions of the human government and the individual humans, softening her stance against the species.

Andor would hear the news of the Skyllian Blitz through one of her students, sending her an email requesting absence after the loss of her family on Elysium. As she poured through reports, Andor could only see the reports through the eyes of her student, and felt a deep pang of pity for them.

Seeing a chance to help, despite her distaste for the humans expansion, Andor sold various chart data to the humans, despite the knowledge that it would allow them to expand further, in the hopes that it would lead to a quick vengeance for the attack, and for her student. She would be vindicated shortly after, as the attack on Torfan decimates the criminal holdout there.

The Coffee Shop Massacre, while distant from where Andor lived and worked, left her feeling uncomfortable and uneasy. That such a horrific event could occur on the Citadel, supposed to symbol the cooperation of the galaxy, unnerved her to her core. Andor would take a few weeks off after learning of it, and after learning of the formation of G.U.A.R.D.I.A.N., felt even more fearful of the future, the council’s Spectres already seeming to have too much authority in her eyes, and now an entire organisation to enforce its will on the galaxy was something Andor saw as nothing but a disaster waiting to happen.

After the curing of the genophage, Andor considered that perhaps she had misjudged the group, though not long after, as the Terminus Confederacy was created and war declared, did she roll back her position, once more distrustful of the idea. Her attitude would persist until the Reaper War broke out.

Suddenly, the entire galaxy was on the move, and as the reapers swept through the galaxy, Andor would feel truly helpless for the first time in her life. Each morning she would look out her apartment window to see hundreds upon thousands of ships encircling the Citadel, wondering if one day she would wake up to see them gone, and the Citadel along with it. One day, of course, she did wake up to see them gone, each and every ship launched to ambush reaper forces at the Omega Four Relay. Andor waited in her apartment, eyes glued to the newsfeed for any shred of information on the battle, scared for each and every military-minded student she had ever taught.

After victory was declared, and the galaxy rejoicing the defeat of the reapers, Andor lay back, disappointed by her own helplessness, annoyed at her lack of resolve to serve again, and put her piloting skill to use. While she had criticised the council and its G.U.A.R.D.I.A.N., Andor couldn’t help but feel ashamed for doing nothing.

As news rolled through announcing the shredded Terminus Systems, an area Andor had grown close to over the years, with it’s the infrastructure crumbling away, Andor would request to re-join the asari military. Promoted several ranks almost immediately due to a massive power vacuum, Andor would quickly realise that the now shattered military could do nothing to fix the ongoing crises across the galaxy. Despite this, Andor would do the best she could, organising convoys and relief for the worst hit areas of asari space.

Two years later, the announcement of the CRC provided Andor the opportunity she was looking for. She transferred from the remnants of the Sixth Fleet through to the CRC, in the hopes that she would be able to finally act on the problems she saw destroying the galaxy.

## Personality

Andor, at a surface level, can appear quite work-focused, maintaining a constant distance from discussion of their private life whenever she can. When she does engage in idle talk and conversation with others, she rarely allows the conversation to focus on her for very long, preferring to discuss how the other members of the conversation are doing. This is not to say that she avoids conversation, to the contrary she enjoys to casually converse about work related topics, and to give advice to others regarding problems. However, she rarely contacts those few friends she makes at work when not actively needing something for a job.

Andor did not have close relationships with any non-asari until late in their Maiden phase, which changed after she entered a relationship with a non-asari. This forced her to confront the dissonance between the asari perspectives on life and the perspective on long term planning, which she found incredibly difficult to reconcile. Like many asari, Andor is adept at creating plans that will not pay off for decades, sometimes centuries, to come. However, unlike most asari, she finds it incredibly difficult to reconcile with the death of shorter-lived people around her, to the point where she prefers to ignore the possibility of their death entirely, only to end up wracked with grief when the time comes.

This is one, among many, motivators for Andor’s refusal to allow herself to proceed to the Matriarch stage, as the inbuilt respect and reverence that Matriarchs are afforded, she feels, would be unwelcome for such a flawed Asari as herself.

This dissonance that Andor deals with has left them suffering from an increasing hole of loneliness as she isolates herself from others, which is now covered with a patchwork of body pillows, weighted blankets and late-night conversations with VI’s. Andor herself doesn’t really see this as a problem that can be fixed anymore, rather as an accepted reality that she cannot change.

Borne of her extended lifespan, Andor holds a significantly more analytical view on the nature of the universe, distinct from the mainstream asari belief of Siari. The best comparison to be found is that of Mathematical Sociology, insofar as the calculations that allow for the prediction of social behaviours.

However, Andor believes in expanded application of these calculations, to the point that she holds that ‘each situation that appears before you, can, and should, be held in your mind as a calculation. Each person or thing that makes up this situation can be expressed through mathematics, which depending on your desired outcome, can be influenced through your own actions’.

These calculations influence how Andor tries to interact with the majority of those she knows, though in practice it can serve more as a focusing ritual she uses when in a situation that causes her stress or discomfort, helping to centre her and bring her back to herself if caught off guard. This usually presents itself as a mantra which asserts Andor as an outsider in the ‘calculation’, who can interact with the situation as she wants.

Andor’s desire to understand people and the calculations of the situations she is in often find themselves at odds with her desire to maintain distance from others, and she often catches herself getting closer to people, usually when prompted to share a detail about her own life. After she realises, she was close to opening up, Andor usually proceeds to recede into herself to avoid further conversation, which to outsiders can appear as her turning cold and defensive.

Andor holds no disdain for anybody younger than her and is a firm believer in the age of a person holding no sway over how mature they can be. When around someone less mature than her, she will tend towards a more caring position, akin to a grandmother giving out candy, simply out of a desire to show affection in any way she can without growing too close.

### Exceptional Skills

* *Cartographer -* Through time spent mapping systems, stars and planets has led to her expertise in the act of creating, whether by eye or through scanner, maps of incredible detail. She equally holds in their possession numerous maps of systems previously uncharted, and is a foremost expert in the act of navigating precarious deep-space obstacles.
* *Quick study -* Andor is well versed in the body language of those she interacts with and can quickly read situations and emotions through nonverbal cues (though she is not omniscient). The closer to a person she grows, the better she is at interpreting their state of being.
* *Chef -* Andor has picked up a love of perfecting dishes according to formula, and will often spend days at a terminal computing the optimal method to prepare a dish, then taking even longer to physically make it.

## Physical Description

At 5’ 4’’, Andor stands at the average for asari, especially those born to two asari parents, reflected equally in her well below average weight of 141lbs. Andor does put in a not-insignificant amount of effort to keep physically fit, however, in-between weeks spent moving only from desk to chair and Andor’s unique habit of sleeping for days at a time, this can prove difficult for her to accomplish.

It should be noted that as a result of many years of pushing themselves both physically and mentally during the decades spent with the Asari Military and while mapping the stars, Andor is capable of drawing more out of their limited physique than a typical asari of her body type, however, she is significantly exhausted at the end of this process.

Andor’s skin is a slightly darker tone than that of their fellow asari, leaning towards a muted teal, which she states is a result of their old age, and refusal to enter the matriarch phase of her life.  However, the biology of these statements is questionable, and it may simply be a natural change. Their skin tone grows lighter towards her crests, which have small, faded white ‘freckles’ just barely visible dotted around them.

As for facial markings, seven lines are distinctly visible on Andor’s forehead, the bottom two of which hold a similar place to human eyebrows. These lines continue upwards, narrowing inwards towards a single line that stands vertical. The singular vertical line was not part of Andor’s birth markings, and was tattooed onto them as a personal touch. She assigned a particular reason to the new line; however she is reluctant to share it.

Dark freckles dot Andor’s face, bridging their nose beneath her eyes. Andor mirrors this with the darkened area around her eyes, applied with liberal use of makeup to obscure her eyes, which being a dark and solemn grey, seem almost lost.

Whenever in public, Andor will dress in at least semi-formal attire. This is not out of any desire to impress, but instead out of a worry that, if recognised by a student or contractor, she is not caught dressed casually. When in the comfort of her own apartment or ship however, she much prefers clothing as large and as comfortable as possible, even going so far as to, on one occasion, purchase a jumper intended for krogan, before realising that she may have bitten off more than she can chew. When onboard ships, this leads to her wearing formal attire when moving around and visible to fellow crew (usually out of a desire not to appear as a freeloader), changing into baggy clothing the instant she isare able to return to her cabin.

### Armament

* M-97 Viper Sniper Rifle
* M-3 Predator Heavy Pistol

### Abilities

* Tactical Cloak
* Stasis
* Blink