Miranda Tomine

**Miranda Tomine** was a female Human aerospace engineer who once worked on ships for the United Cassiopeian Republic. After being forcibly kept in suspended animation by LANDER, she was awakened and welcomed along with three others—Samson Govea, Shay Nerhesson, and Hitomi Odom—by the citizens of a small settlement called Crash Coast, situated on the planet Cephor III.

## Biography

### Early Life

Miranda Tomine was born on the moon of Epsilopeia, the founding moon of the Cassiopeian Republic which orbited the shining galactic capital of Cassiopeia Prime. As a child, Miranda grew up in the rural parts of Epsilopeia as a child of farmers, and so she grew up learning how to tend to plants and crops. Miranda's home environment was abusive, which left a long-lasting impression on her. Even by the time she moved away from home as a young adult, Miranda was almost always unable to handle violence at any capacity.

Even though she spent most of her early life around plants, Tomine was always fascinated by the ships she saw coming in and out of her homeworld's atmosphere. She grew to love spacefaring vessels and came to devote her time into learning more about them.

### Career as an Aerospace Engineer

Fortunate enough to have been given a good education, Tomine eventually enrolled into the relatively-new Elvia Turing Institute of Technology after winning a grant from the government. She graduated with flying colors and began a successful career in aerospace engineering. Tomine worked in an official capacity with the United Cassiopeian Republic, under a company that specialized in building and designing ships for the UCR. Tomine made quite the name for herself as a valuable aerospace engineer. She would spend much of her adult life traveling to different worlds throughout the Cassiopeia Galaxy for her career.

### Frozen in Time

Unfortunately, Tomine's success caught the unwanted attention of a secretive research organization known as LANDER. For purposes unknown to her, Tomine was one day kidnapped by LANDER and kept at an undisclosed facility. She was kept in stasis through LANDER's advanced technology, and went into suspended animation for many years. Tomine, along with three other unwilling participants of some mysterious plan, was kept hidden away on a relatively unknown planet at the northeastern edge of the galaxy: Cephor III.

## Personality and Traits

Miranda Tomine was a Human woman with medium-toned skin and honey blonde hair. She had heterochromia, which gave her different-colored eyes, with a brown left eye and a green right eye. She kept her hair in a bobcut. She had rather thick skin and stronger bones than most, which made her capable of handling pain more easily than others.

Above all, Miranda was a curious and experimental woman who liked to try everything she could at least once, and strove for the pursuit of knowledge. Despite her troubled upbringing, she was generally upbeat and trusting of others. She attributes these traits to the positive, loving connections she made during her years at the Elvia Turing Institute of Technology. She was a rather unsentimental person, preferring not to think too often on feelings of nostalgia and on anything that could evoke old memories. Many knew Miranda as an incredibly intelligent and perceptive individual who anyone could easily depend on in a group setting.

Tomine was a night owl and much preferred working actively under the night sky. Her friends would tease her about sleeping in on multiple occassions. Tomine was generally liked to live a simpler lifestyle, finding excessive luxuries and extravagance to be uncomfortable.

## Skills and Abilities

Miranda's best skills were as an engineer and intellectual thinker. She was the best with advanced machinery and technology in all of Crash Coast. As a settler on Cephor III, Miranda acquired a handful of helpful skills like construction and mining. Thanks to prior experience, Miranda strengthened her skills in gardening and agriculture.

## Trivia

* Miranda is based off of a randomly generated colonist character from the sandbox video game *RimWorld*.
	+ Miranda's original procedurally-generated name was "Tomine Mask," which is a backer-submitted name.