Name: Alice Triskin
Appearance: [img]http://www.dev.asheborocreative.com/picrate/archive/10/full/picrate-146-1309156969.jpg[/img]

Crew Position: Mechanic
Age: 30
Relevant History/Background: Raised by a single mother, Alice’s father was an Engineer, a man obsessed with his job which, it was undeniable, he had a certain gift for. He was employed by Weyland on an oil freighter as their chief engineering officer. It wasn’t good money, but it was enough to survive, unfortunately when he was due to arrive home for the birth of his daughter, Frank Triskin never did.

Alice and Georgia never found out what happened to her father, the crew was written off as killed in an industrial accident and Georgia struggled by on the miserable stipend provided by Frank’s pension and life insurance. To her mother’s dismay Alice proved to be her father’s daughter, being even more gifted with machine’s than her father had been. When she caught the local mechanic teaching Alice the workings of his latest commission she beat her daughter soundly and gave the man a piece of her mind.

It didn’t work though, and Alice gradually picked up more and more, taking to engineering in the same way that most children take to playing outside. A few years on, and Alice’s mother lost her job, leaving the two facing homelessness and probably, starvation. Alice started fixing small things for the neighbours, and repairing the many things that broke down in their home. Eventually her mother stopped denying it and Alice started working for Weyland, though strictly on terrestrial projects, in deference to her mother’s wishes.

It was an apprenticeship, and of all her fellow students she stood out, easily coming in the top 10% of the intake, falling down perhaps on her written assessments, but excelling in any practical examination her examiners cared to give, often well beyond any expectations and assessment conditions. She graduated a year ahead of the rest of the pack, and was offered a position on the Aphelion project, constructing and improving the ship based on the original Prometheus blueprints. Several of the mechanical improvements were as a direct result of her intervention and designs. It was only logical that she would be offered the position of Mechanic on the mission, and with the financial benefits included in the deal, she couldn’t turn it down.

Her mother was furious, but by the time she found out, it was already too late…