Ranya Wodin

**Ranya Wodin**

Ranya Wodin first appears in Chapter 1775 'Girl Gossip', during Ves' retreat from the clutches of a Friday Coalition Reserve fleet ambush. She is part of the hexer fleet headed by Gloriana Wodin and Brutus Wodin.

Ranya Wodin is a biotech expert from the Hexaedric Hegemony. Ranya is a part of the Wodin clan, hence she is prideful, materialistic, perfectionist and bloodthirsty. As a biotech expert, Ranya is knowledgeable and passionate about incorporating and utilizing exo-plants as an alternative implant and body augmentation for human use, especially in the medical field of accelerated regeneration, anti-aging and creation of natural plant compounds and derivatives with exotic effect. Ranya considers the crown jewel of her research to be the replacement of her hair into exo-plant leaves, which grants her limited anti-aging, anti-toxin and photosynthesis ability.

Ranya needs large sum of resources to fund her research. She earns most of her money by creating and selling recreational drugs to hexer hegemony citizens and Terran expatriates within the grey market. The funds she earnt enabled her to take a loan and purchase a civilian spaceship, a Hexer Hegemony Corvette.

Ranya dislikes Ves with a passion as she values Gloriana and would rather Gloriana had a relationship with a fellow Hexer rather than a lower class citizen like Ves. So Ranya chased after Gloriana in her personal corvette 'The Frozen Leaf' as fast as she can, in order to convince Gloriana to ditch Ves. Ranya resolve herself to stay as long as it takes to convince Gloriana to return to their own state and leaving a lower class state like the Bright republic behind.

As time passed, Gloriana managed to convince Ranya to stick around. Instead of dragging Gloriana back to their home state, Ranya found herself to be sucked deeper and deeper into the quagmire which is Ves propensity to attract trouble, by creating a new Larkinson clan, with the potential to drag entire states and star sector into a dangerous and chaotic dance of death.

At first, Ranya stay because of the remuneration offered by Ves in order to operate and install the CFA implant, which Ves discovered in the grounded CFA battleship. After an insidious betrayal during a critical operaion, Ranya managed to save Ves life and successfully installed the precious CFA implant inside Ves brain. The next thing Ranya knows, Ranya become the new director of a new branch of Larkinson Biotech institute, lured again by the amount of money offered by Ves.

As Ves fame and fortune become bigger and bigger, Ranya was already well entrenched in the Larkinson clan and become involved too deep into a matter beyond her ability to cope and handle. With Ranya Wodin success tied intrinsically with the Larkinson clan, Ves finally made an offer Ranya can't refuse. The realization of Ranya's greatest ambition and a prize beyond her reach, Ranya acquiesced to Ves offer and accepted being adopted into the Larkinson Clan. From that point on, Ranya Wodin became Ranya Wodin Larkinson, while also earning the scorn and hostility of her relative and friends back in Hegemony space.

Ranya Wodin Larkinson then slowly discovered a new cultural perspective outside of the Hexandric Hegemony, due to the influence of her adoption into the Larkinson clan. Yet to her, all that matter is to research the object of her greatest ambition, the extension of life, and perhaps... Immortality.