Orion

Orion depicted with his sniper rifle

Orion (real name Oscar Mova) is an Elven shadowrunner, sniper, and security specialist. He has been operating with The Spartans runner team, and has therefore been an active member of the resistance.

## Before The Spartans

### Early Life

Oscar Mova was born in Adelaide to Paul Mova and Laura Mova (née Nakamura). He his one quarter Japanese through his maternal grandfather. He was raised speaking both English and Japanese in his household.

Oscar attended a St Peters College. He played AFL both within and outside of the school, and maintained a strong physical fitness. He also performed well in maths and humanities subjects. He continued to do business and economic focused subjects. This lead to him doing a Bachelor of Commerce at the University of Adelaide. He performed exceptionally well in this course.

### Southern Security

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After completing his degree, Oscar quickly found employment in a company called Southern Security, at their head quarters in Adelaide. He worked as a business analyst and market researcher. Working here, he gained a solid knowledge of security systems.

It was here that Oscar met Jenny, an Elven spokeswoman, and her sister Elisa, a computer technician. Oscar and Jenny became close over their time at the company. Oscar also became good friends with the CEO of Souther Security, a dwarf named Jaryd Sledgehammer.

Oscar worked his way through the ranks of the company, until one Wednesday morning word went around that Sledgehammer had died in a car crash the previous night. Southern Cross were treating the crash as suspicious. By that afternoon, the board had appointed human Ashton Wright as the CEO.

The next morning, Oscar, Jenny, Elisa, and all the other elves employed at Southern Security arrived to find they had been fired. Ashton had accused each of them of stealing company property, corruption, and associated them with the death of Sledgehammer. Oscar's position had been taken up by Ashton's inexperienced nephew, Marcus Seven.Oscar grew particularly angry with Ashton and the company for their blatant corruption. However, when he and the other elves failed to get new jobs due to the corruption allegations against them, he was furious.

### Early Shadowrunning

Unable to find stable work, Oscar, Jenny, and Elisa all decided to begin shadowrunning. They decided to move to Melbourne to avoid alienating their relatives, and began various jobs in the shadows. Jenny got into contact with Jake Dragonfly, and the three performed some simple stealth-based runs, with Jenny (now Andromeda) acting as a face, Elisa (now If/El5e) as a decker, and Oscar (now Orion) as a sniper and security specialist.

Orion quickly picked up the skills needed to use the sniper rifle, pistol, and combat knife. His security skills were valuable, and combined with If/El5e's decker skills, the team was capable of breaking into a great deal of secure facilities. However, Orion lacked security equipment. Through out their time running together, Oscar and Jenny grew closer, and it was clear that they had a romantic interest with eachother.

This did not end well, however, as when Oscar attempted to formalize the relationship between them, Jenny rejected his advances and stated that they should remain focused on their work. The awkwardness following this event lead to the break up of the runner party Jenny went on to become a fixer, working as a face in her spare time. If/El5e became a freelance decker, working for various runner teams and stealing pay data.

Orion did some small solo jobs, for a short time, but through Jake Dragonfly, Orion met The Spartans, following the death of N30n.

## With the Spartans

### Early Jobs

Orion joined The Spartans, and began operating with them shortly after the beginning of the resistance. He encountered fire-hound-thingies while searching for the rebellion meeting place, but fended them off. He was useful in one of the first pro-resistance meetings, capturing construction materials to prepare Mildura. He proved he was a capable sniper, situating himself on a roof with his ghillie suit. He went on to come up with the idea of shipping supplies up the Murray in a submarine, and was helpful in the negotiations to convince several pirates to guard the mouth of the river. Orion was helpful in getting the farmers and cows to Mildura, once again utilizing his combat skills.

Orion was useful in capturing an Ultra-Light executive to gain intel. He was in the room preparing to interrogate him when he exploded, nearly killing Quicksilver. Orion was badly injured and taken out of action for some time, but fully healed.

After the Spartans merged with another party, they attempted to find a troll doctor for the Ancients. The party arrived at an apartment block, where they encountered and easily defeated some gangers. Orion de-escalated a situation with an angry Irish dwarf with a potato gun. The party began knocking on doors to located the troll. Some people didn't know where the troll was, some doors didn't open. The Hurricane and Orion chased a wealthy elf in order to find information about the troll, almost catching him, but being prevented by a smoke grenade. The party convinced a drug-addict to tell them where the troll was in exchange for some weed (Which Orion claimed was "Novasmoke," a weed/Novacoke hybrid). They located the troll, who appeared to be operating on a patient, with two guards nearby. Hippie de-escalated the situation, as the party wanted the patient to survive. Orion offered the guards, doctor, and patient coffee, to which the doctor responded the patient was dead. Therefor, the Spartans killed the guards and doctor, decapitating the doctor and returning his head to the Ancients.

The Spartans were then hired (presumably by Ultra-Light) to investigate a shutdown of the Melbourne Spire. Orion documented all his findings, including the bullet wholes, malfunctioning drones, corpses, survivors, AIs, and strange animal scratches.

### The Hotel Heist

After the spire mission, Orion was instrumental in pulling off a successful heist with the party. Their objective was a Fenrir Wolf tooth necklace, and data from a computer, which would then need to be wiped. These targets were located at the penthouse suite of an upper class hotel/function venue, during the 60th birthday of notable hunter, Reginald. At first the team had to get themselves on the guest list for the party. They arrived at an office building in Preston, and Orion and Star Break entered, posing as OH&S Inspectors. They approached the receptionist, viewed plans of the building, and located the spider's office where the party list was being kept. Upon arriving in the office, the party found the spider was working long hours and placing a great deal of strain on himself. Orion encouraged him to get some fresh air while Star Break asked him questions, allowing Orion to disable the security camera, locate the party list, edit it, and return it before Star Break and the spider returned. They exited the building without confrontation.

Now invited to the party (under their fake names: Rodger Dangerfield, in the case of Orion), the party bought top-level fashion in order to fit in. They arrived at the hotel, avoiding a police blockade thanks to some dwarven allies. Star Break and the Hurricane approached first, posing as a married couple, however Star Break's fake SIN didn't check out. Orion and Rhino approached next, and this time Orion's fake SIN failed to pass the scan. However, Orion (posing as an influential socialite) acted as if he and Star Break were old friends, and convinced the guard to let them pass with the help of a $6,000 bribe (which was split evenly from Star Break and Orion's wallets). In the function hall, the party began to socialise while forming a plan to get to the penthouse on floor 20. The elevators were disabled, and the stairs from floor 5 to 6 were blocked by guards. Orion conversed with the guards, and convinced them he was going to book a hotel room on one of the above floors as he had 'had to much to drink.' It was also at this point that, when smoking a joint, some random rich guy gave him a very expensive pipe.

Star Break booked a room, haggling the price of a single room down to only $13,000 dollars (of which Orion payed $3,500). They were assigned room 13 B. The entire party went up to the room, with Star Break pretending to be feeling particularly tired. Upon reaching level 13, they were encountered by Leroy Ross, who had previously aimed to assign them a run. Leroy (who was drunk) questioned their presence, directly accusing them of being mercenaries. This caused suspicion in the guard who was escorting them, who checked all their SINs again (this time with them all passing) except for Star Break, who, in pretending to feint, actually fell unconscious. The party used this as an excuse to quickly retreat into their room, however the guard insisted he would send up a medical official soon.

Somehow needing to convince people not to enter the room, Orion devised the ingenious plan of recording sex noises on a compad and playing them as loudly as possible on a loop while they were out of the room. So, they gathered around the Rhino's compad, and the grunting, moaning, furniture-nudging and wrist-tapping ensued. They then went up to the top floor, where Orion used his maglock pass-key to enter the penthouse suite, only to see a very large, very asleep, very Horned Bear. Orion and Rhino sneaked around it to the study area, where they were greeted with a large macaw. Orion shot the macaw with his pistol (with a silencer) to prevent it screaming and waking the bear. However, his gunshot woke the bear nonetheless.

Star Break and The Hurricane fought the bear, while Rhino stole the computers hard drive and destroyed the computer, and Orion picked the lock of the necklace's display case. They smashed a window open, allowing Rhino to grapple away. Orion waited for Star Break and The Hurricane to disengage from the bear and grapple away, before he descended the building using gecko-tape gloves. He arrived at floor 13, and broke into room 13B, briefly confronting a medic who was awfully confused about the situation in the room. Orion retrieved Rhino's compad and left.

### Medieval Jungle

The party then took the job offered to them by Leroy; exploring a mysterious jungle in northern Australia. They flew to the location, set up a bass camp outside the forest, and began their exploration. Rhino and Orion led the party with machetes. They arrived at a part of the forest so dense that the trees formed a wall. After some exploration, they found a pass between this wall, but encountered four strange individuals wielding spears and makeshift flintlock pistols built around broken modern firearms. They engaged in combat, during which Star Break summoned a blood spirit, revealing her nature as a blood mage. Only one of the bandits was left alive, and they gained a great deal of valuable information from him; the bandits were Outback Motor employees who had been in the jungle for around twenty years.

The Spartans continued exploring, toward a river where they resupplied their water, before stopping to camp for the night. Sometime around 1am, Orion (who was on watch at the time) spotted seven bandits stealthy approaching from across the river, along with two fenrir wolves. Rhino and The Hurricane quickly dispatched the wolves, and Orion killed a bandit with a shot to the head. The rest of the attackers were slaughtered by three mounted knights.

The knights hailed the Spartans, and agreed to take them back to their village. They travelled the rest of the night, seeing multiple large and intimidating beasts in the distance, but thankfully avoiding further conflict. In the morning, they arrived at a tiered village of around 2,000 people built around a hill and surrounded by a palisade. They met with Justinia, the leader of the village, who told them about their god Castile, and encouraged them to rest in the inn. However, they were guarded at all times by a knight of the village.

The party slept for almost the entire day and night, waking up the following morning. Orion explored the village, asking and recording all the details he could. He began to admire his guard, Elyn, who he decided he would pursue as a romantic interest. Orion also sought a meeting with the Sages of the town, but was unable to do so as he was not a follower of Castile. In order to gain further access to the town and it's information, he decided he would convert, which involved a mysterious 2 day ritual.