[b]Name:[/b] Vaessa 'Veil' Marix
[b]Age:[/b] 23
[b]Gender:[/b] Female

[b]Bio:[/b] Vaessa, code-named "Veil", is the designated medic for the AGSF squad. Even in a world of easily cured diseases, artificially grown limbs, and cybernetic enhancements, man still bleeds when cut and wounds still fester if untreated. As such, in situations where traditional medical treatment isn't practical, like firefights, the field medic remains vital.

Before being recruited by the AGSF, Vaessa ran the Marix Family Clinic down in the slums. In those pits filled with disease and crime, a good street doc was one of the most valued people in a community, and a honest-to-god doctor, who'd attended actual courses on medicine, was a beacon of light and hope. So it was with her family's clinic. Her father and her grandfather before him were properly educated physicians, but Vaessa was home-schooled. Her skills didn't suffer from her lack of a proper education; indeed, she had nearly eight years of practical experience by the time she was fifteen in addition to the lessons her father taught her. Sadly, fate interrupted her relatively pleasant life of stitching up bloody wounds and treating sick humans and aliens alike.

In the slums, plague is a fact of life. People get sick, die, and the survivors burn the dead and carry on. Red Fever was Vaessa's neighborhood plague, and last year's was particularly virulent. Her grandfather had died the year before, and this year her father fell ill. Him, and the rest of the neighborhood. Even had the clinic been stuffed to the gills with medicine, it likely couldn't have handled the outbreak. As it was, the medicine ran dry only a week and half in. She scrambled to save anyone she could, but the neighborhood died almost to a man. Her efforts, while futile, were valiant and she never faltered in her attempts to save people. It was this calm focus and determination in a crisis that attracted the AGSF's attention.

Vaessa accepted their invitation mostly as a means to leave the gutted remains of her community behind. While she could have set up shop somewhere else, she's honestly not sure she would be able to handle suffering and death on that scale again, so she takes a morbid comfort in knowing that she's unlikely to have more than a few bodies to deal with at a time as long as she's working in a squad setting.

[b]Equipment:[/b] Vaessa utilizes diagnostic cyberware and a special-issue field medic kit. The kit comes with multiple doses of medicine for various common diseases, painkillers, sterile bandages, sterile needle&thread, and a few doses of emergency bio-gel. Besides the kit, she keeps her own private reserve of black market painkillers which, while illegally manufactured, are far more potent than the mainstream stuff. They last much longer and one could comfortably lop off a limb while running off them, but they leave the patient uncoordinated and nauseous for much of the duration.
As much as healing matters to her, she realizes that her new line of work is dangerous, so she's taken to using a hard-light SMG and wearing a basic ballistic bodysuit. The SMG is fairly effective at middle range, but it shines at ten yards and less. Her bodysuit is a rather bare-bones affair. It'll save her life if she's shot, but her best defense is staying out of the line of fire.



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