Zoe Nazarian

**Player://** Grinn#1826

**Name://** Zoe Nazarian

**Age://** 67

**Gender://** Female

**Role://** Special Forces

**Faction://** New Empire

**Special Role://** Cybernetic Enhancements

**Physique://** Zoe is an elderly lady who lived a very active younger life before having three children. She stands about 5’5 and weighs about 125 lbs. She had augments put in back when she was in the service but had them replaced with less conspicuous civilian prosthetics when she retired. Upon her re-commissioning she went through the grueling process of having the prosthetics removed and replaced with current generation cybernetics.

**Personality://** On the one hand Zoe is a traditional woman who is loving and kind. She was a mother for ~30 years and was as affectionate and doting as could be. On the other hand, she was a former special forces operative for the New Empire who has a bloody past. She is snappy as a drill sergeant with troops but knows exactly what kind of desert her friend likes and never forgets a birthday.

**Likes://** Order, cooking, CQC, country music, authority figures, accurate data sets, gardening, and coffee.

**Dislikes://** Alcohol, drugs, cigarettes, “new fangled technology”, wide open spaces.

**Notable Skills://** Zoe was a special forces operative back in the day. She was exceptionally well trained at CQC, infiltration, demolitions, and mobile suit piloting. She struck hard, fast, and always got her mark on time and with an efficiency rating that would make any commanding officer break out in jealous sweat. She also is a great homemaker: a nice cook, a happy gardener, skilled at raising kids (and likely cadets...) and a wiz at getting chores done. She was literally trained in a form of “modern ninjutsu” (practical stealth, infiltration, information gathering, distraction, and CQC) known as the Hayamichi no mono.

**Weaknesses://** Zoe is a stickler for order, regularity, and schedules. In her youth she was a solid improviser but her age has made her inflexible. She’s also past her prime physically- she used to be a killer soldier and she’s in great shape... but “great shape” for a 67 year old is different than “great shape” for a 20 year old. Her cybernetics augment her but she’s not as young as she once was.

**Life Goal://** Revenge. Plain and simple Zoe wants revenge for her late husband’s death at Tikal. She is angry at the universe and now that her children are all off at the academy- she is going to get it. She knows her days are numbered but she’s going to go out fighting.

**History://** Zoe is from an old military family whose loyalty to the New Empire stretches all the way back into the obscuring mists of the old Empire’s glory days and beyond. They have had admirals and grunts in their family and not everyone has joined up but her family name of “Vorbote” is all but synonymous with “service”. Zoe enlisted at a young age, scoring top marks in her class. She was initially assigned to infantry where she became a special forces operator. Her career eventually led her to officer school where she distinguished herself in a number of subjects. As a stallion (an enlisted who went officer) she was earmarked for great things and was assigned to New Empire special mobile suit forces. There she met Steven Nazarian, a brilliant space-naval officer two ranks above her who commanded the ship her special forces group was assigned to. She eventually fell in love with the cunning captain and retired to pursue civilian life after a long and storied career as a front line operator.

Zoe and Steven ended up having three children: Naomi, Amber, and Holister. Their parents doted on their children and spoiled them more than a little. While Zoe had retired, Steve had remained on active duty and was gone for long stretches at a time. Despite a secret affair he confessed to her, his obsession with work that often stole time from their marriage, and the family having to move several times their marriage was one based on love and trust. They were as loyal to each other as they were to the Empire. Eventually Naomi got married to a Junior officer on Steve’s ship, Amber became a researcher in a large mobile suit factory, and Holister was accepted into the officer program right out of secondary school. Zoe and Steve were together, alone and fulfilled for the first time in decades. They had “lived the dream” and escaped the pain of the war to raise a family in relative peace. They had a solid seven golden years together before tragedy finally ended their “forever after”. On one of Steve’s last tours he was assigned to Tikal and he, along with many other good and noble citizens of the New Empire, lost their lives to the automated enemy.

When her husband’s ship, “The Amber II” was destroyed by the enemy, Zoe knew exactly what she needed to do. Without missing a beat she re-enlisted on the spot. She was at first politely refused but she knew powerful people; people she’d trained, people who had served under her husband, people who her son in law knew. They pulled strings for her to re-enlist and within a week she was packing her bags for the dockyards, ready to take the fight back to her foes.

**Family://** Zoe has 3 children (Naomi, Amber, and Holister) and was married to Captain Steven Nazarian before his death. Her son-in-law is Captain Yari Royal and she has 2 grandsons from him and Amber’s marriage named Chaplain and Gunner (who are 2 and 4 respectively). Her own parents are long since dead but she has a sister named Elma (who she calls “Sissy”) who is her emotional support in life and three brothers in the service (2 of whom are still alive, though both are in the reserves now). She also has many nieces and nephews from her siblings who she loves to send treats to.

**~~Cybernetic Enhancements (Basic)://~~** ~~Zoe has artificial knees that replaced her failing ones, some minor nerve rehabilitation that brings her reaction time back up to that of a soldier, and a cybernetic eye that has telescopic zoom as well as infrared sensors.~~

**Cybernetic Enhancements (Advanced)://** Zoe’s entire nervous system and some of her musculature has been replaced or augmented by cybernetics. The musculature upgrades allow this old lady to fight like she did in her youth (a special forces commando) but still remains at a level of “peak human fitness” (rather than being superhuman). Her cybernetic eye can link directly to mobile suits to give her a direct feed to the suit’s data. Her mind remains human, though her intentions have grown increasingly cold.

## Mobile Suits

**> RX-139 Hambrabi** (Basic)

**> RX-78GP02A Gundam GP02A** (Advanced) [Beam Bazooka Type // Type-MLRS]