Aethienn

## **Appearance**

**Height:** 5' 5''​

**Hair Color:** Naturally black, dyed blue

**Eye Color:** Purple-blue

## **Strengths and Weaknesses**

**Skills:** Aethienn is a crack shot with a blaster, but is most dangerous when engaging in melee combat where she has trained extensively to fight with energy blades (usually carrying two). Under these circumstances her almost supernatural reflexes and dexterity are at their most noticeable.

**Weaknesses:** Aethienn is light-weight and not particularly strong.

## **Personality**

*"If the day comes that we have to fight one another again I would prefer to kill a worthy adversary."*

While Aethienn can come across as a vicious brute, she takes no particular pleasure in killing, maiming or torturing people (though she doesn't recoil at them either). She will, however, follow orders to the letter, won't ask questions and won't hesitate to use violence if she feels it is the most efficient option to achieve her goals.

Aethienn is cool under pressure, slow to anger and highly logical to the point where she can almost seem like an emotionless automaton at times. This dispassionate attitude carries over into most areas of her life and she doesn't hold grudges against people she has fought against - she is just doing her job and they are doing theirs.

Aethienn lives a somewhat spartan life, avoiding 'sin' and 'vice' and striving to live 'honourably'. While she has the skill-set to be an assassin, she dislikes people who operate from the shadows, preferring to come at her opponets in a straightforward way.

Despite not being a particularly warm person, Aethienn has always been well liked by the soldiers under her command, going into battle first and putting herself in danger so that they don't have to.

## **Background**

**Role on Ship:** Kiellar Command Liaison (Lieutenant/First Lieutenant rank equivalent)

**Backstory:** Aethienn has no surname. She was born on the planet Versula with no memory of her parents or who they were. This put Aethienn in the unenviable position of not being able to prove whether or not she was a KC citizen (the State's default assumption is that a person is not, unless they can prove it). As such, there was no support network for the young girl and she grew up begging and eventually pickpocketing to survive (her small stature is in part the result of malnourishment as a child).

This changed 30 years ago when she decided to pickpocket a KC Captain wearing a mask, the man who the crew of the *Defiance* would come to know as Ouroboros. Despite being skilled in her art, Aethienn was caught by the Captain. For a non-citizen, caught committing a crime against a military officer, the punishment could have been as arbitrary and creative as Ouroboros had liked. Instead, he adopted the young kiel, training her to be a soldier.

Ouroboros was not harsh with her, taking on the role of the father Aethienn had never had. Grateful for the chance to escape the slums of Versula, Aethienn rapidly became fanatically loyal to the Captain and while she despises the Kiellar Command military-state, she loves Ouroboros and will obey his every command without hesitation.

This eventually led her to a collision with the crew of the *Defiance* when she was sent to kill Amlai (she never asked why), a task that she, uncharacteristically, failed to achieve despite having succeeded in taking over the lower decks of the ship with her troops. Aethienn delivered what she thought had been a killing blow to the Kolmoik, but, after hearing Gollar vessels were closing on her position, ordered her troops to evacuate without confirming that Amlai was actually dead.

Subsequently, Aethienn had a run in with Carter during his brief captivity on the Zerataca, and was unimpressed by the Captain of the *Defiance*, deciding he was an arrogant, pontificating buffoon. Despite this, she did not put up any resistance when Ouruboros ordered her to make sure no harm came to Carter or his crew following the opening of the Wormhole; it is her job to do what Ouroboros asks.