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D'Yan
Physical Age 61 in 1201, Calendar age 134

by Unknown

Occupation: Party Animal

Attributes: 7A5A2A-B-1

Background:
Born sometime in 1067, (her people did not record births, but she chose Holiday as her "official" birthday¹), in a community of TL 1 Vargr on Pscias (2106/Spinward Marches). While still a pup, D'Yan² stowed away on a Scout ship that was surveying the world, and by the time she was discovered, the ship was already in Jump. By then it was too late to return her - she had already seen too much to be safely returned to a world that knew nothing of aliens or other worlds - and so the crew decided to adopt her. The Scout Service were understandably unhappy about this, but reluctantly agreed that there was no practical alternative. As soon as she was old enough, D'Yan enlisted in the IISS, and soon became an expert - if slightly eccentric - Scout, preferring long-range exploration and survey missions, (ideally alone). One of the first things she did after joining was to track do the nearest Psionics Institution and get herself tested. She was happy to discover that she qualified for a scholarship, and went back for training as soon as she had enough leave saved up. Her Psionic powers are probably the main reason that D'Yan has survived so long - she has a habit of regularly getting herself into life-threatening situations, and being able to Teleport to safety can be extremely useful! Her career came to a sudden end in 1110, when her superiors discovered that D' Yan practised an unusual custom: she enjoyed eating sentient creatures. This was discovered when, after an unsuccessful First-Contact mission, her superiors found that she had eaten the alien ambassador. Apparently nobody had known that cannibalism was an acceptable practice on her homeworld, and so had never bothered to tell her not to do it.

In order to avoid a scandal, the IISS simply declared her "psychologically unsuitable for service", and quietly discharged her. After the Scout Service, D'Yan turned to a life of crime and hedonistic self indulgence, often running foul of the law with crimes including riot, grand larceny, murder, and attempted genocide³, but usually managed to escape, (by a combination of Psionics, excessive violence, and blind luck). By 1113, however, she had managed to anger just about every law enforcement agency and organised crime syndicate in the entire Domain of Deneb, so she stole herself another Scout/Courier⁴ and headed Rimward/Trailing, reaching the Solomani Rim shortly before war broke out⁵. After this, her activities are unknown for several years, although it is believed she headed Corewards, just ahead of the Solomani advance. She went into cold-sleep shortly after Virus struck, and was defrosted in 1197. D'Yan has never been married, and has no children, although she does claim to have been cloned several times. However, she cannot remember how many times, or where it was done, and has no knowledge of the current location of any of the clones.

Career Path:
1084-1109 Scout
1110-1123 Criminal
1124-1197 Hibernation
1198-1201 Criminal

Initiative: 4

Combat Assets:
Slug Weapon (Pistol)-4/11
Energy Weapon (Pistol)-3/10
Armed Martial Arts (Large Blade)-5/12
Unarmed Martial Arts-5/12

Other Assets:
Astrogation-2/12
Bargain-1/11
Bribery-2/12
Carousing-6/16
Combat Engineering-2/7
Computer-2/4
Disguise-1/11
Electronics-2/4
Environment Suit-1/6
Forgery-6/16
Gambling-7/17
Grav Belt-2/12
Instruction-1/11
Interrogation-1/11
Language-(Pscian 10/20 Galanglic 3/13)
Liaison-2/12
Mechanic-1/8
Observation-1/11
Pilot (Interface/Grav)-1/11
Ship's Engineering-2/4
Ship Tactics-2/12
Streetwise-4/14
Survey-2/12
Survival-1/11
Tracking-1/11
Ground Vehicle(Wheeled)-2/12
Willpower-1/11
Xenobiology-3/5⁶
Zero-G Environment-2/7

Psionic Assets:
Awareness-11/22
Telekinesis-11/22
Telepathy-11/22
Teleportation-11/22

Appearance:
D'Yan is about average height for a Vargr, (1.5m), with black hair, (now almost totally grey). She is quite attractive, if you're fond of hair, teeth, and claws, and usually seems to be smiling at some private joke. The attractive appearance, however, is rather offset by her pathological hatred of bathing, giving her a...err...unique aroma. D'Yan dresses rather conservatively for a Vargr, preferring her old Scout Service tailored vac suit with all insignia removed. If she expects to get into combat, D'Yan wears a set of TL14 Combat Armour, (which she has sprayed pink in the hopes that the enemy will think she's a human). She uses the same helmet with both suits - this has been modified with a holographic projector to give the impression that there are goldfish swimming around inside⁷.

Personality:
It is generally agreed that there is no such thing as a "typical Vargr"; D'Yan is the exception to this rule. Everything that has ever been said about Vargr is probably true of D'yan: she likes loud music, and even louder colour-schemes; she likes things that go fast, and things that go boom; she makes up the rules as she goes along, and believes that laws are things that only apply to other people. D'Yan's motto is: "if it feel s good, do it...and keep doing it until you pass out and slide under the table." As an example of how she puts this into practice, whenever D'Yan arrives on a new planet, she throws a Party capital 'P'. The Parties are never advertised, they just happen spontaneously, usually beginning in a bar in a particularly seedy area of Startown, and ending...well , almost anywhere. D'Yan doesn't consider a Party to be a success unless a) it lasts more than 12 hours, b) the number of people involved is more than 500, c) the local authorities have to call in the Marines to end it, d) it costs more than MCr1, and e) she can actually remember less than half of it. Despite her age, and the abuse she regularly subjects her body to, she is still in good physical condition and is hyperactive to the point that most people get exhausted just watching her. D'Yan has one interesting idiosyncrasy: she gets very guilty about hurting people. In at least one case, after blowing someone's arm off she sent the unconscious body by taxi to the nearest hospital, along with enough money to pay for a cybernetic replacement. Not surprisingly, D'Yan's favourite food is raw meat, (ideally still alive). She will usually be satisfied with an extremely rare steak, but she does have a rather unnerving habit of cutting out "ginger-bread men" from it, Telekinetically animating them, and then enthusiastically chasing them around the room⁸.

Motivation:
Joker: D'Yan is, of course, certifiably insane.
Heart 4: She likes people, and is generally fairly amiable and talkative.

Possessions:
Extremely variable. D'Yan makes most of her money by either gambling or bank robbing, depending on how she feels and how well-armed the local police are. However, she doesn't collect money or material possessions just for the sake of it, but merely as an aid to Having Fun. She will usually have (Cr10 - MCr6 ) available, usually carried loose in a large black holdall. There are certain items that D'Yan will always have: A bowl of goldfish. An IISS-issue TL15 tailored vac suit, slightly battered but still airtight. An suit of Imperial Marine-issue TL14 Combat Armour, painted pink, extremely battered and no longer airtight. A TL12 Gauss Pistol, with several clips of assorted ammunition. An experimental TL16 Fuion Pistol, with one or two clips. A rather tatty-looking pink sheet of paper, (normally in a waterproof bag) - this is her psychological discharge from the Scout Service, and is her most valued possession. A blade weapon of some sort.

Quotes:
Humans? What flavour?
These aren't my pets, they're my lunch!
"Eek! Wet stuff!
Let's PAARRTY!!

Contacts:
Several, probably all dead

Notes:
• [1] When she celebrates, everyone celebrates!
• [2] D'Yan is how she is normally known; her complete name is extremely long and known only to herself, and she regularly adds new syllables to it, (it tells the story of her life in her native tongue, of course, nobody outside Pscias speaks it, so she generally only uses it to annoy bureaucrats and officials who ask for her full name).
• [3] She encountered a minor race that tasted so disgusting she decided to wipe them out.
• [4] D'Yan has a terrible memory, and can never remember where she parked her ship. Her solution is to steal a new one - preferably a Scout/Courier, since she usually travels alone. However, just in case she ever remembers where she parked one, she always sets up a bank account at every starport she visits with a large enough balance to cover the docking fees for several years.
• [5] She would like to believe there was a connection between these two events.
• [6] D'Yan claims to be able to identify a species by taste.
• [7] She first tried using real goldfish inside a water-filled inner layer inside the helmet, but they kept dying. Plus, she was always afraid that the glass might break and get her wet.
• [8] She rarely does this in private - she prefers to save it for expensive restaurants, or when she is with people she wants to embarrass.

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