Ayana Puri

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>  | *Call me a sellout if you wish. But when someone puts a gun to your head, and tells you that if you don't play nice, we'll kill you, everyone you care about, burn down decades of work, and destroy everything you've built? Yeah, you listen. I'm not a traitor. I'm not a collaborator. I don't support the True Sons. But I'm doing the smart thing. Keeping my head down. People need to learn that fighting back isn't always the answer. There's other ways to resist. Ways that won't get innocent people killed. You think I've betrayed you? But everything I've done was to protect the citizens of Aurora. Does that make me the bad guy?*
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## Ayana Puri

### Occupation

* CFO of Skell Technology (formerly)
* CEO of Skell Tech

### Education

* Syracuse University in New York
* Indian Institute of Management
* Yale University School of Business Management (MBA)

### Factions

* Skell Tech
* True Sons (reluctantly)

### People

* Maurice Fox (secret partner)
* Jace Skell
* Paula Madera
* Captain Clint Brandon

### Nicknames

Anya (by Lt. Mercer, purposeful mispronunciation)

**Ayana Puri** is a highly intelligent, shrewd businesswoman with a long and impressive educational and professional track record. The former Chief Financial Officer of Skell Technology, Puri was thrust into a position of control over the company after CEO Jace Skell became cut off from Aurora following the Dollar Flu outbreak.

Following a rise in tensions between the New American Empire and the Geneva Strategic Alliance, Puri urged a neutral stance was best. Skell Tech was founded on helping people, and supporting a war effort on either side, she believed compromised their moral principles and their vision. She also feared that if the war came to their shores, their lack of a military and the abundance of largely unarmed families would lead to a massacre.

Her concerns were ignored, however, and Paula Madera superseded her in forming an alliance with former rival Sigmus Corporation. However, Puri's fears came to pass, as the True Sons turned their eyes to Aurora. Leveraging Jace Skell and their numerical and military strength, the True Sons gave Puri and Skell Tech a simple offer: Join or World 2.0 would be razed to the ground.

Fearing for her co-workers' lives and all the progress they'd achieved being undone, Puri reluctantly agreed to their terms. The True Sons landed a "peacekeeping force" of nearly 45,000 troops along with tanks, aircraft carriers, and fighter jets, occupying major locations across the islands and violently suppressing any form of resistance. Puri was placed as a figurehead, a puppet for the True Sons to claim they were allowing Aurora self-sovereignty. Forcing Puri's face everywhere has caused her to become unpopular with certain elements of anti-occupation groups who see her as a collaborator, although her supporters within the resistance claim she's only trying to find a way to fight back without sparking outright war or invoking the wrath of the True Sons.

She has recently come into strife with Captain Clint Brandon and Lieutenant Eline Mercer over her seeming inability or unwillingness to "control" a small yet growing insurgency amongst former Skell Tech employees against the occupation. Caught between trying to prevent Aurora from military annihilation and not wanting to aid the True Sons in targeting her former co-workers, Puri has been contemplating her next move.