Background
Family: Maternal Grandmother Alive, Paternal Both Grandparents Alive, Mother Alive, Three siblings, Character is First Born
Family deeds: Relative made an important scientific breakthrough of great benefit to society, Relative has a well publicised addiction, Relative is a founding member of a major corporation
Term 1 Special Arm
Basic Training: Deception 0, Gun Combat (Lazers) 0, Investigate 0, Melee(Unarmed) 0, Recon 0, Stealth 0
Skills and Training Persona Development (EDU+1) Personal Development [Rank Skill] (Jack of all trades)
Life Event: Enemy (The character is betrayed in some fashion by a friend. If you have any Contacts or Allies, convert one into a Rival or Enemy. Otherwise, gain a Rival or an Enemy)
Rank 1, gain Melee (Blades) 1
Link to Rolls by mdt
Term 2 Special Arm
Skills and Training: Personal Development (EDU +1), Personal Development [Advancement Benefit] (Gun Training (Energy)
Life Event: Enemy (You foil an attempted crime on board, such as mutiny, sabotage, smuggling or conspiracy)
Rank 2,
Link to rolls by Chobo
Term 4 Wanderer (Drifter)
Skills and Training: Service Skill (Stealth) Survival Skill (Jack of all Trades),
Life Event: Extra Skills (Vacc Suit)
Rank 1, Gain Mechanic
Link to rolls by mdt
”I’ve been in worse places,” Tam thought, as she lay in her cramped berth, with her hands interlaced behind her head, aboard the Verdant Dawn. She shifted in her bunk and banged her knee against the wall of her low berth. She silently cursed and thought, How did I get here? The gentle hum of the vessel helped her to relax as she thought about her past and mused, If one were to look at their life as a chain of events, each responsible for the next and caused by the last, where does any story begin?
Her current plight started in the arms of Chip Dillion, Captain of the Merchant Vessel Lone Star. Captain Dillon was from somewhere called Texas. To hear him talk about it you would have thought Texas was the economic, cultural, and moral center of the known universe. In reality it was a minor republic on the planet Terra. Chip talked big but dreamed bigger and that was one of the things Tam liked most about him, his swagger. Over the two years serving on his ship she had grown close with the Captain, perhaps to close. They enjoyed good times together and it could have continued if the fool of a Captain didn’t ruin it by asking her to make their relationship official by saying the words. Angered by his betrayal, Tam did wat came natural to her and ran. She Booked passage on the first vessel out of the system the Verdant Dawn.
Jumping from ship to ship was natural for Tam having served on several different ships over the last eight years her life. All of them merchant traders of type or another; The Rascal, Loki, Paladin, Last Hope, Nexus, Kitty Hawk, and finally the Lone Star. Each ship and crew with its own personality and quirks.
Tam wasn’t always a wanderer and vagrant and Chip’s betrayal wasn’t the first she suffered. Tam enjoyed a twelve year career in the Darrian Special Arm, rising to the rank of Captain. Her career was meteoric in its rise and just as quick in its falling. She was betrayed twice by the same man, Belehn Nasihld Nono. her commanding officer and one time lover. He betrayed her when she was new to the Special Arm by not assigning her to missions she was qualified for. The second time was when he was the judge in her court martial that resulted in Tam being discredited and kicked out of the Special Arm.
It seemed that the men she loved were always betraying her, just as her father did. Tam grew up in Jacent in a well to do family. Her Grandfather had started Ratanenga Industries an engineering company that developed some ground breaking tech fifty years ago, a business her father ran into the ground. Unfortunately, her father couldn’t cope with the stress of running a business and being compared to his successful father. He sought solace in illegal drugs, ultimately overdosing, destroying the business and the family. Tam ran from that tragedy and into the Special Arm.
Personality:
On the surface Tam appears aloof and pragmatic. Underneath it all is a seething rage, rage at her father for his weakness, rage at The Special Arm for letting her go, and rage at her self for running away from attachments. Although she seldom lets her anger show it is boiling beneath the surface and has led her into trouble on more than one occasion.
Tam has little tolerance for bullies and an innate wander lust. She makes her way across the universe righting small (and large) wrongs and she views herself like a medieval knight errant wandering the galaxy. She travels light, living a spartan lifestyle, and has little love for material things.
She has a wry sense of humor and often gives advice in riddles, aphorisms, and metaphors with a knowing grin.
Connections
Eave - Busted a smuggling ring together - +1 stealth
Warren - Served on research ship together - +1 Vacc Suit
