[b]Name:[/b] Sabatine Hickoring

[b]Rank:[/b] Lieutenant

[b]Age:[/b] 24

[b]Biography:[/b] Sabatine Hickoring is a member of the old but not particularly influential Hickoring family. The Hickoring's of Westmarch are a west country family of moderate estate but have been out of political power for the last century or so as a result of not moving to Xenos in order to pursue the cut and thrust of Senatorial politics.

Sabatine is the youngest of five children of her now deceased parents. Her oldest brother, Justin, is the Hickoring of Westmarch and enjoys the flashy lifestyle the estate affords him as does his grasping and manipulative wife. Separated by nearly a decade from his next oldest sibling and nearly two decades from Sabtine he has little affection for his younger relations and has essentially cut them off without a cent. In order to make a living (and more importantly maintain the image of aristocracy) the four remaining siblings were forced to find employment with the Republic. The two older boys embarked on careers with the Foreign Service while Sabatine's older sister obtained a commission with the Land Forces of the Republic in an infantry unit. Forming a informal financial agreement, the three pooled their resources to put Sabatine through the naval academy, viewing the RCN as the best place for the energetic young girl.

Raised in the country largely by servants who knew of her brothers cool feelings towards her Sabatine learned at a young age that the only way to gain respect was to be helpful and to do the best you could at any given task. This willingness to help made her popular among the tenants who were less than enamored with their absentee landlord and his wife both of whom the tenants (correctly) believed looked down on them. It was also an attitude which served her well at the RCN academy where she graduated at the top half of her class, with high marks in technical subjects and physical fitness. Her three older siblings were able to secure her a midshipman's billet at the RCN harbor complex at Harbor 3 assisting in maintenance and dock work. Eventually she caught the eye of a captain fitting out for an expedition to the Rayleigh Stars and Navy House was prevailed upon to assign her to the task force. Before leaving Cinabar she sat for an passed her Lieutenant's exam, no mean feat for a spacer whose entire experience consisted of in system tests and a couple of cruises in senior year at the academy. 

A year or so on station has knocked some of the Harbor 3 starch out of Sabatine. Although she is renowned as a hard task master by the crew especially the power room crew, her willingness to throw herself into the work makes her a popular officer. The Riggers are particularly happy to have an officer who is both willing to learn and willing to help and have adopted Sabatine, unofficially, as one of their own.   

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