Vil'Raalon

**Vil'Raalon nar Zonbay vas Guwa** is a software engineer and a member of the Council Recovery Corps, joining to improve the Flotilla's relations with other Council races.

## Biography

Vil was born to Faen’Raalon vas Zonbay and Jaana’Raalon vas Zonbay. Faen, Vil’s father, was the chief engineer of the Zonbay. As a father, he encouraged Vil to delve into his passions and learn to do them well. Vil’s mother Jaana was a seamstress and artist. She was a very active mother in Vil’s life and encouraged his creative tendencies.

Among his age cohort on the Zonbay, he was the most reserved child in early development. The quiet, bubble locked toddler showed a lot of curiosity about what lay outside the enviro bubble and often would crawl to the edges gazing out at different angles to see what was out there.

Vil’s mother, Jaana’Raalon introduced him to sculpting when he was 6. He took to that rapidly and spent great amounts of time sculpting. He would often sculpt little trinkets and give them to other crewmates of the Zonbay as gifts. When they had held onto it for a while, they would return the sculptures to the storage lockers that formed the market. His mother Jaana would then gather them back up to recycle them into sculpting materials for reuse.

Vil was old enough to receive his enviro suit at 9 years old. The first thing he did was explore. The Zonbay was a decent sized cruiser, with lots of places for him to explore. He realized quickly that there were places only the technicians were allowed to go and begged his father to train him to be a technician. Faen’Raalon directed him to focus on his studies to become proficient enough to start as an assistant, leading Vil to be a very motivated student. His continued antics sharing the sculptures meant he knew lots of people and was fairly well regarded, yet he didn’t form close friendships with anyone. He remained a bit reserved, content to see people happy to receive a gift made for them.

2180 February 15th marked the day when Vil’s father allowed him to start as an assistant technician on the Zonbay. Vil was excited, and he studied to know as much as he could about the safety procedures and techniques for repairing things. The job was mostly fetching parts for the engineers and technicians, but Vil was excited to help keep the ship running. He also was excited to see first hand how the engineers and technicians worked.

Watching the engineers work on software that caused so many things to happen intrigued Vil. He kept learning about ship maintenance, but his passion changed to learning more about code, and how it was used. For a couple of years, Vil was content to just use the schooling provided to learn about programming. He found that he wanted to go deeper on subjects and turned to explore other sources.

At age 14, Vil began to supplement his education by using the extranet to research how other species developed software. He became an active reader on a variety of forums where experts discussed complex software issues doing his best to follow and learn from their discourse. He also started posting his sculptures on the extranet so that they would live a little longer than just in memories. Being able to see his progress over time helped him refine his techniques and improve.

Within a year, Vil was no longer lurking on those forums but began to engage. His supplemental education allowed him to form some internet relationships with various professionals in the field outside of the fleet. One relationship of note is the mentorship relationship that developed with Professor Eloy Barras of Citadel University. Professor Barras frequently provided constructive feedback to posts Vil made of a technical nature leading them to converse over the extranet frequently.

Vil became a fan of the Arc Pistol in 2184 as they began to be produced in the fleet. He spent a lot of time analyzing the designs for it and learning anything he could about it when it first came out. At this time, he began to expand his omnitool designs to include possible arc pistol mods, he didn’t test any of them out, but the practice led him to study the principles of blueprinting mods.

When Vil was 17, the Zonbay came together to help him prepare for his pilgrimage. A marine named Lamm'Taram vas Zonbay gave him the standard training in self-defense including basic hand to hand and marksmanship. Lamm took the role of mentor very seriously, being a quarian with hopes of reclaiming the homeworld and a belief that a better-trained flotilla would help that happen. Vil trained hard under Lamm with some amount of talent. In hopes of inspiring Vil to become a marine after his pilgrimage, Lamm worked hard to acquire an arc pistol as a parting gift for Vil.

Before he departed on his pilgrimage, the Zonbay was part of a 16 cruiser relief mission to the Taetrus system following the Vallum bombing. While he didn’t do much besides do his part in keeping the ship running, which at his age involved being an assistant ship mechanic helping out the engineers, the voyage was a formative experience for him. He began considering what the outside world thought of the quarians. He realized that quarians could act to change that.

Vil left on his pilgrimage when he was 18 years old. He sought out Professor Barras at the Citadel University and petitioned him to be hired on as a research assistant. Due to their existing relationship, Professor Barras accepted Vil as an assistant. Vil witnessed firsthand the negative opinions much of the galactic community held for quarians. C-Sec regularly questioned him. Many dismissed his presence. He tried to make as few waves as possible in a foreign environment, focusing instead on his work with the professor.

One incident that was an exception to this occurred when Vil was going home through the Wards. He witnessed a human mugging a volus. He sabotaged the mugger’s gun and took cover calling C-Sec. C-Sec thankfully arrived before things escalated further and arrested the mugger. The officer, however, was about to also arrest Vil for causing a dangerous escalation and was threatening to get him thrown off the Citadel, but another bystander intervened and pointed out he had at least prevented the volus from being mugged. Vil was let off with just a warning.

Vil worked with Professor Barras for 3 years, before returning to the flotilla with his gift. The gift was an algorithm developed to cut down on the time complexity of sensor readings. Vil had written it using techniques he had learned from Professor Barras while an assistant. Vil expressed hope that the flotilla would benefit from this as it would reduce the strain on shipboard computers for many of the older ships in the fleet. Unfortunately, when he returned to the fleet, another returning quarian brought back a salarian developed hardware bypass that rendered the code unnecessary. The Captain of the Guwa, a frigate in Patrol Fleet accepted the gift anyway despite it not being a useful gift for the fleet. Captain Honn'Weello vas Guwa explained to Vil that he was accepting Vil for having put in a skilled effort as a gesture of kindness. He recognized that Vil’s skills were a much greater asset than the gift. Despite those intentions, it was well known to the crew of the Guwa that Vil had brought what the crew considered a poor gift back from his pilgrimage. The cold reception drove him to seriously consider the CRC.

Within a year of returning to the flotilla, Vil requested to join the CRC and be transferred from the Guwa to the Resurgence. He had to go through one of the most stressful experiences of his life, a short hearing with the admiralty board to propose his case for the transfer. The core of his case was that he would be working to improve the flotilla’s public relations with other Council races. Instead of seeing them all as vagrants or enemies, the other races would be seeing a quarian pitching in for the good of galactic society. His transfer was approved, and he moved forward optimistic that he would do good for the galaxy as part of the CRC.

## Personality

Vil gets nervous when he experiences new things away from home, but he keeps a level headed attitude. He will be hesitant to rush into new experiences, but his curiosity will usually win out meaning he often does rush into such experiences even with that hesitation. That curious drive has led him to learn much through extranet search, though that hardly is able to substitute for experience.

He has difficulty resisting helping someone he sees in trouble, suffering, or in need, and often doesn't fully think of the repercussions before doing so focused just on helping them in the present. A bit of an exception to his level headed attitude, but he retains the demeanor of being level headed even in such a scenario. He is likely to try being friendly and trusting when first meeting a new person, however it tends to come out a bit shy. Having lived a rather sheltered life in the flotilla, Vil knows that bad people are out there and will try and take advantage of him and others, yet he doesn't have the experience to recognize it as quickly as he should.

Vil's creativity isn't limited to just his art, he strives to find creative solutions in all he does. His tech skills depend on his creativity in design and the use of technology. He will often look for ways to work together with others to solve problems used to working on a ship crew that is very cooperative.

In a fight, Vil prefers to play to his strengths and weaknesses. He will seek to find cover to avoid enviro suit breach. He only engages in hand to hand combat when presented with no other choice, as he is aware that many foes outweigh him significantly. He prefers to support his allies by using his technology skills to create openings. Disabling the opponent's weapons and shields, providing tactical information with his tactical scan, or using creatively placed fire from incinerate rounds to cause a distraction are all ways Vil tries to help set his allies up for success. While he has talent and training shooting his arc pistol, Vil has not fired it outside of a shooting range or combat simulation before joining the CRC.

### Hobbies & Interests

* *Omni Sculpting -* A tiny ship model complete with drive core sounds, a reimagined flower created from images of Rannoch, and an abstract plastic starburst. All these are examples of tiny trinkets that Vil crafts with his omnitool, often bound to be given as a gift to the next person he sees.
* *Software Development and Hacking -* Vil has been looking at code for much of his life, to him it’s another art medium with which he can express himself.
* *Extranet Diving -* When he lived in the sequestered flotilla the only place to explore was the endless sea of the Extranet. When a subject burdens Vil’s curiosity, he will dive down into the depths seeking answers.

## Physical Description

Vil frequently has his hands either rifling through the variety of pouches on his suit, absentmindedly fiddling with an ornamental clasp on the back of his suit, or messing with his omnitool. There is always some piece of code or sculpting schematic ready to bring up when he has a minute to think, for creativity strikes him at odd moments. Hanging from his black suit are several bags and pouches, including a shoulder bag. They have secure clasps attaching to his suit to make certain they don’t float around in low gravity situations. He is usually the person most likely to be carrying the most omni-gel or medi-gel. He has a soft spoken voice and sings as an alto. He typically stands in a relaxed pose, even when nervous. The best way to detect his nervousness is the way he shifts his right heel back and forth over the ground. When he has somewhere to be he is a very fast walker but tends to meander otherwise.

His faceplate is blue and the lighting of the infrared HUD display reflects off of his rounded nose and especially his eyes allowing the expressions of his eyes to be a little easier to see. Several shades of purple lighter than his skin, his reflective eyes are expressive.  Most of his suit is between dark brown and black colors. He has a black hood which he thinks is the most attractive part of his outfit and keeps in the best condition.

Hidden away under his suit, Vil is fairly short and lightweight. His hair is a few inches of dark brown with a hint of purple, which accents his soft, purple skin quite well. The vegan diet of nutrient paste he lives on doesn’t provide him an excess of fat. The lean muscles he maintains through a moderate workout schedule provide him more muscle than his frame would suggest. Besides his immune system deficiencies, he is a sturdy, healthy quarian.

### Abilities

* Sabotage
* Incinerate
* Overload
* Tactical Scan