Rania T'Jani

**Rania T'Jani** is a journalist and news correspondent who is a member of the Council Recovery Corps.

## Biography

Rania was born to a Quarian musician and Asari journalist Mila T’Jani. When Mila was only 179, she gained renowned status among Galactic News Network when she covered the aftermath and survivors of the Geth War. At 350, she met a Quarian musician who had never returned to his fleet since his Pilgrimage, and they both married and established a residence in Thessia within the year. Because Mila was still busy with her Journalism career, Rania spent the first 40 years of her life mostly associated with her father, who was known to be charismatic and fun. He established a solid foundation of music and an appreciation of the arts to young Rania, even getting her some beginner dance lessons. Rania personally never enjoyed the dance lessons with their emphasis on formality and proper posture, and instead opted for a more improvisational, fun approach to her dancing.

Despite not being physically present often, Mila still managed to keep in contact and form a strong bond with her daughter thanks to their frequent vid-calls. The young and impressionable Rania loved seeing her mother on TV, and often expressed her interest in going on TV just like her mom. Mila supported that dream throughout her childhood, helping her with her homework and even sending various souvenirs from the places she visits as a journalist.

In 2112, Rania’s father passed away from natural causes, devastating young Rania. At this point, Mila officially retired from Galactic News Networks and came home to Thessia to fully commit to raising the now maiden-staged Rani. Fully committing to the dream of becoming a journalist like her mother, Rania graduated from an academy in Thessia in 2186. Thanks to her mother's reputation among Galactic News Networks, Rani was hired by them as an Emergency Correspondent, tasked with covering the efforts of various recovery groups and crisis response teams. She had covered efforts of Salarian educators offering free education to impoverished colonies, and an Asari recovery team following the Second Skyllian Blitz. One particular assignment that stuck with her was when she did a profile piece on Earth’s HUSTL crisis response team. While spending a year with the team, she befriended many of the human crew, who gave her basic lessons on self-defense, hacking, and parkour. She also befriended a fellow music hobbyist named Allison. Allison came from a long-line of musicians and music enthusiasts, who had made it a personal mission to catalogue many of Earth’s classical music from the 1950’s to the early 2010’s. As a music fan, Rania found herself enthralled with Earth’s old style of music, finding their emphasis on storytelling and lyrical arrangements fascinating compared to modern music’s electronic beats and synthesizers. Allison gifted Rania with a playlist featuring many of these classic Earth songs. To this day, the two remain in contact, as Allison continues to provide Rania with more Earth music in exchange for music samples from other alien races.

In 2190, Rania’s career took a turn. She was currently settled in Omega, following the efforts of a new non-profit clinic that had opened up shop to treat those in need. While there, she noticed that a gang had been rising in power in Omega, making treatment and distribution of resources difficult. Feeling that something should be done about these gangs, Rania pitched the story to her superiors at Galactic News Networks. They refused, telling Rania that it wasn’t her story to follow. Rania was still determined to find a way to stop the gang and decided to investigate them anyway. She discovered that the gang is being paid by an up-and-coming senator who is paying the gang to stir trouble in Omega, allowing him to ride on a campaign promoting increased security across Citadel space in exchange for the legalization of Red Sand. However, most of her evidence at this point was through hearsay, and thus wouldn’t be admissible. So Rania took a transport to the Citadel paid a visit to the Silversun Strip, where the senator has his residence. Using her hacker training from HUSTL, she broke into the residence and hacked into the senator's personal computer for incriminating evidence connecting him to the criminal organization. Unfortunately, on her way out, the authorities caught up with her, about to arrest her for breaking and entering. Rania attempted to flee the authorities, and managed to elude most of them with her basics in parkour allowing a clunky escape. Unfortunately, one of the authorities managed to shoot her in the right leg, causing her to fall and be easily apprehended.

While being surgically treated in the hospital, Rania managed to narrowly avoid arrest with her incriminating evidence against the senator, as well as support from Mila who was visiting the Citadel at the time. The superiors were not happy with Raina’s disobedience in not sticking to her own story and threatened to terminate her. However, Rania and Mila managed to talk their superiors down, with Mila mentioning the newly formed CRC as a potential news story. Rania offered to cover the story as a correspondent, to which the superiors reluctantly agreed. After fully recovering from her injury, Rania proceeded to sign up for the CRC, using her mother Mila as a reference and opting for the position of “News Correspondent”.

## Personality

Rania is a talkative person. Due to her reporter like upbringing, Rani’s been conditioned to always be asking for questions and opinions, and very rarely will bring her own opinions to a conversation. Despite this, she’s a friendly and outgoing person, who almost always has a smile on her face.

Rania’s the type of reporter who always seeks the truth, and so she will do many things to try and get answers to a story, sometimes illegal stuff. She will never kill anyone in cold-blood or subject them to torture, but she will resort to hacking, breaking and entering, or even impersonating different people to get to answers if good old fashioned interrogation doesn’t work.

Outside of work, Rania is an avid lover of music. Recently, she was introduced to many samples of Earth’s classic music from the 1950’s to the early 2010’s thanks to her step-mother. Whenever she is intently focusing on writing a story or a task at hand, Rani would slip on her headphones and listen to music to fit her mood. Sometimes while relaxing, she will sing along to her favorite toons, waving her arms to the beat of the music, and sometimes doing some basic dancing.

### Exceptional Skills

* **Server Hacking** - Taught by friends from HUSTL, Rania can connect her omni-tool to a main computer terminal to hack through firewalls and other protective measures to obtain information. It is limited mainly to consumer computers and servers, and may not work against more high-end military grade servers.

* **Parkour Training** - Through friends at HUSTL, Rania has some training in the basics of parkour, allowing her to run from one location to the other in the quickest route possible. Her skills are primarily limited to vaulting over objects, proper landing including tuck-and-rolls, and wall hanging.
* **Music Lover** - Rania is an avid listener to music, often times playing music through her headphones when she’s focusing on an activity or if she needs to pass the time. She will occasionally dance to the music she’s playing, but she’s not a professional dancer. Lately, she has gained a fascination with classic Earth music from the 1950’s to the early 2010’s.
* **Journalistic Instinct** - Rania’s experience in journalism makes her a questionative talker. Through conversations, she will often ask more questions than answers, and will find ways to guide the various conversations towards gaining information on a certain subject, be it the communicator themselves or a topic the communicator knows info on

## Physical Description

Rania is a fit, fairly attractive Asari standing at 5’ 3” and weighs an average 168lbs. Her complexion is sky blue, while her back fringes morph to a darker navy blue shade. Freckles dot her face underneath her green eyes, which also have bold purple face markings on her cheeks, part of her back fringe, and under her chin. There is a scar on her lower right leg from a bullet wound.

She normally wears a black t-shirt underneath a purple leather vest top, brown pants, and black boots as her casual appearance. When in an emergency/combat situation during her news reports, she will wear a blue armored jacket with white and blue-striped armor plating attached to the shoulders and elbows. She often has purple wireless headphones around her neck that she will occasionally wear to listen to music (though earbuds were suggested for her, she prefers the old-school feel of headphones).

### Armament

* M-3 Predator Pistol
* M-4 Shuriken SMG

### Abilities

* Throw
* Overload
* Tech Armor