Crimson

Summary

Full Name: Crimson (nickname, real name unknown)
Rank: 1 (Master Helmsman)
Gender: Female
Birthdate:
Height: 5'9
Build: Wiry
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Bright Red
Skin: Pale

Career: Void-Master
Origin: Footfallen (Footfall)
Birthright: Fringe Survivor (Heretek)
Lure of the Void: Tainted (Deviant Philosophy)
Trials and Travails: Darkness (Dark Secret)
Motivation: Exhilaration (No Joy Unexplored)
Lineage: None
Connections: Due to her abilities as a pilot and her natural understanding of technology she seems to be quite at home on ships and as such gets on extremely well with the Void-Born.
Public Reputation: Coming from Footfall she doesn't fit in very well to normal Imperial society, she finds many of the things that Imperial Citizens take for granted to be rather strange. She tends to come across as highly-strung, a mix of moods ranging from grumpy to ecstatic to angry at fairly short notice.
Ship-board Reputation: She has an impressive talent for piloting that is still very much being developed and with time will probably see her being one of the best you can get. Her mood swings and irascibility can make her somewhat difficult to get along with at times and she gets very twitchy about what she sees as "her ship" at times. However get her drinking and she's a lot more relaxed and fun to be around and off duty tends to get on better with people than she does when she's at the helm.

Background

Family

Crimson's family came to Footfall generations back to escape persecution from the Adeptus Mechanicus for their unusual beliefs. The natural ability with tech seems to run in the line and they usually end up working as pilots, engineers or things along those lines and often try and avoid both the Ecclesiarchy and the Mechanicus, both of whom have issues with their beliefs and methods which are considered to be heretical. Her family, like her, do not really believe in the Omnisiah and care more for logic, reason and science than for faith in the Emperor.

Origins

Her upbringing on Footfall was not an unhappy one, though it was not the easiest either. Her family belonged to a fairly small crime gang mostly dealing in smuggling activities as well as doing some tech repairs as well. She loved Spaceships though and dreamed of flying one. She scraped together money and did odd jobs to get some chance to fly smaller craft and such, turned out she was something of a natural.

To the Stars!

Finally she had enough experience to do what she longed to do and get off Footfall. She signed on with a smuggler ship looking for a new pilot and headed out into the stars. She shot the Maw (the other way round) and spent a few years on various different ships, most smugglers and such, she tended to stay away from any sort of official Imperial vessels in case authorities looked too closely at her background and beliefs (it's one reason that she does not tell people her real name, it would identify her family and beliefs).

Facing the Dark

On one of the ships she travelled on as pilot she met Astra and Orthesian, who were the Navigator and Enginseer respectively. A device that, unknown to her Orthesian had, caused a problem with the Geller field on the ship during warp travel and caused a demonic incursion. During the following battle at some point Crimson was faced with a choice of putting her life at serious risk to save the Captain of the ship or to space that area to protect herself, she took the second option and survived the whole thing but now with the secret of what she did that she wouldn't want anyone else to know about.

A Brighter Future?

On its voyage back to Port Wander after the incident the ship picked up Vectis and lupus-havelock and their contacts to cymbry and sebastian-york got them positions on the Rogue Trader's vessel and was a way to get Crimson away from the ship that had caused problems.

Personality

Driven

Honour

Loyalty

Renown

Sheet

Weapon Skill: 34 Ballistic Skill: 40 Strength: 33 Toughness: 40 Agility: 65 Intelligence: 40 Perception: 41 Will Power: 35 Fellowship: 42

Fate: 2 Wounds: 10 Corruption: 8 Insanity: 2

General Skills: Carouse, Navigation (Stellar), Pilot (Flyers, Spacecraft), Psyniscience, Tech-Use, Trade (Voidfarer), Dodge
Languages: Low Gothic, Secret Tongue (Rogue Trader)
Lores: Common Lore (Imperial Navy, War, Koronus Expanse), Forbidden Lore (Archeotech, Xenos), Scholastic Lore (Astromancy).
Talents: Polyglot (all languages at -10), Decadence, Nerves of Steel.
Weapon Proficiencies: Pistol Training (Universal), Melee Training (Universal).

Special Abilities and Modifiers:
Rival (Inquisition), Enemy (Ecclesiarchy)

XP Earned: 5,000 (base) + 500 (background and wiki entry) + 500 (wikification) + 500 (earned in play)
XP Total: 6,500