[b]Name:[/b] Lith Diae
[b]Age:[/b] 427
[b]Gender:[/b] Male
[b]Species:[/b] Ashtar
[b]Appearance:[/b] Lith shares the characteristic features of all Ashtar; a narrow, angular face, prominent cheekbones, and skin composed of small, soft, faintly blue coloured scales. His jaw and chin are considerably broader than most Ashtar, and he sports a thick, bristling mustache, which is unusual indeed. His black hair is kept short, almost a military style buzz cut. He’s quite broad at the shoulders, tall, and well muscled.
[b]Personality:[/b] Lith is rather grave and serious, even for an Ashtar. His sense of humour is almost non existent, and he tends to be quite literal minded. On the upside, while many of his people are arrogant and superior, Lith is quite down to earth and level headed. He’s cool under fire, but sometimes a little...undiplomatic, or impolite.
[b]Skills, Talents, and Powers:[/b] Personally, Lith is highly trained in many military disciplines. An accomplished strategist with several centuries of experience as a fleet commander under his belt, Lith is also a pretty good swordsman. He is also well educated in xeno-anthropology.
As an Ashtar, Lith has access to the knowledge, thoughts, and memories of his entire species via their Union, a form of psychic collective mind. It should be noted that knowledge has its limitations: Lith might theoretically know how to perform open heart surgery, but his unpracticed hands are no substitute for a practiced doctor.
All Ashtar have very well developed ESP abilities, or psionics as they call them. This includes an array of telepathic and telekinetic abilities, all defined by an elaborate set of rules and principles. Lith is a moderately accomplished psintegrat. He is capable enough at shielding his own mind or attacking another’s, attempting to break down their defences and gain access to their thoughts. He can easily move objects with his mind, and can perform basic molecular manipulation to generate blasts of fire or lightning.
[b]Equipment:[/b] Lith usually doesn’t carry very much on his person. For combat situations, he did bring his [url=http://media.animevice.com/uploads/3/36472/666546-karas_fire.jpg]battle armor.[/url]
Fairly standard issue, Lith’s battle armor is a powered exoskeleton suit with a variety of built in systems. Psyblades are installed on both wrists for hand to hand combat, and a standard issue carbine rifle clamps on to the back. The armor operates in a number of extreme environments, from open space to deep oceans. Thrusters on the feet and at the elbows provide limited flight capabilities, while personal forcefields augment its defensive strength. The suit has a sophisticate sensor suite, and active camouflage to avoid detection.
While not exactly equipment, Lith is in charge of the Ashtar delegation to the Archimedes. The delegation consists of a squad of 20 PsyOps commandos, a small team of 8 scientists and diplomats, along with 5 high-tech attack corvettes and their small crews to augment the Archimede’s offensive capabilities.
[b]Brief Backstory:[/b] While Lith is a comparatively young Ashtar-only halfway through his second incarnation-he has proven to be a capable fleet officer. He was promoted to Commodore upon returning to the service in his second incarnation, and has spent the last two hundred years in command of a General Service Cruiser squadron. GSC’s are used by the Ashtar for a wide range of exploratory, diplomatic, and combat roles, though the ongoing conflict with the Sakturi has seen GSC’s being pulled into combat more often than not. While Ashtar relations with the Star Sea Alliance are very new and distinctly arms-length, the launch of the Archimedes was deemed to important to ignore. Lith was selected to lead the Ashtar delegation to the Alliance and help with the Archimedes’ mission, due to his studies in xeno anthropology and his years of service in GSCs. 



[b]Species Name:[/b] Ashtar Mishri
[b]Home Planet:[/b] Ayrie, a massive global metropolis far from Earth and the Milky Way.
[b]Appearance:[/b] The Ashtar are tall, angular reptilian humanoids. While visually quite similar to humans, their skin is actually composed of scales with a distinctly blue tint. Ashtar are generally taller but thinner than humans, with much sharer facial features and pointed ears. Their eyes have large irises and very little white.
[b]Brief History:[/b] The Ashtar are an older species who have been puttering around the stars for several thousand years. Unfortunately for them, the precursors seem to have not left behind any True Relics anywhere near their territory, meaning the Ashtar had to reach space the hard way. For this reason, they are a little touchy-some might say jealous-when they interact with humans and other members of the Star Sea Alliance, those lucky species which had space travel practically handed to them on a silver platter. The Ashtar allegedly discovered Earth and humanity several centuries ago, but only initiated contact when humanity became a spacefaring species. They are not a formal member of the Star Sea Alliance, but are considered a friendly associate, although “friendly” might not be the right word. While amiable enough, the Ashtar tend to be distant, cold, and close mouthed. The Alliance knows very little about them. Apparently, they have a distant multi-galactic empire and are embroiled in a terrible war with an unknown enemy.
[b]Notable General Information:[/b] Apart from the aforementioned pointy-blueness of their appearance, Ashtar tend to be cold and formal. Many of them are insuferably arrogant, considering themselves vastly superior to the backwater buffoons of the Alliance. Another distinct feature of the Ashtar is their psychic Union; a vest telepathic linkage of minds, through which all thoughts, feelings, and memories are shared. When an Ashtar’s body dies, their mind returns to the Union, where they may elect to be born again into a new body, or artificially inserted into a cloned body.