[hider=Zsresrinn] [b][u]NAME:[/u][/b] Zsresrinn. [b][u]SPECIES:[/u][/b] Vrexul. [b][u]AGE:[/u][/b] 57 standard years. [b][u]FACTION ALIGNMENT:[/u][/b] Dolsilvec Regime, formerly(?) Zrovreni Solar Revolutionary Pact. [u][b]HEIGHT/WEIGHT:[/b][/u] 9’4’’, 430 kg. [b][u]PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:[/u][/b] [img]https://i.imgur.com/aEGW8jT.jpg[/img] Zsresrinn’s massive arthropodal body has an oblong and rounded shape, rather similar to that of a flea. While not exceptionally tall for a vrexul, she is remarkably bulky, with a broad, imposing frame and cords of semi-synthetic muscle rippling underneath her carapace. A number of her limbs have been surgically and augmentically altered, as well as supplemented with prosthetic grafts, so as to allow her to stand almost upright on the lower pairs alone, leaving the others free for combat or other tasks. Indeed, her forelimbs are clearly divided into different categories specialised for various functions, from long scything ones clearly designed for attack to clusters of small and slender ones for fine manipulation. Her naturally grey segmented shell is overlaid with heavy plates of cybernetic armour fastened to her body, which occasionally slide about and rearrange themselves to ease her movements. Small openings line her flanks for parasitic vermin to exit her body, occasionally flaring and crackling with cold grey-blue light from her integrated evrzedigor mote. [b][u]BACKGROUND PRIOR TO BEING SELECTED FOR THE MISSION:[/u][/b] Zsresrinn was hatched in a hive-city of the Ugnosk Global Concord, an ex-colonial planetary nation-state in the outer galactic regions and a member of the Zrovreni Pact. Although touting itself as a free, fluid society where each could flourish in accordance with their merits and abilities, in opposition to the stagnant and exploitative - or so the news broadcasts went - League, the truth was a less presentable one. One among the Pact’s more unscrupulous allies, the Concord’s government practiced subtle techniques of indoctrination on its population, inconspicuously directing its members along paths calculated to benefit the central authority first and foremost. The vrexul were especially vulnerable to this, due to their high exposure to information technology during their education; their training modules were often inseminated with subliminal stimuli and memetic keys to ensure their views and perceptions remained agreeable to the Concord’s leaders. Such was also Zsresrinn’s lot. Noted for showing exceptional physical fitness even among her kind already at the larval stage, after pupation she was exposed to materials that insidiously built up an optimistic view of a military career in her mind, and, believing to be acting on her own will, enlisted in Ugnosk’s armed forces on reaching adulthood. Despite the Concord’s obfuscation, its claims of rewarding merit had at least a grain of truth to them. As Zsresrinn distinguished herself in her early deployments, first on peacekeeping duty, then on operations against rogue militias and the occasional League advance unit, she received a number of commendations, though never truly rose through the ranks due to her lack of command aptitude. Eventually, she was recommended to one of the Pact’s many armed organisations, and left Ugnosk to travel the wider galaxy as a special combat operative. The bulk of her military experience comes from those years, fighting the League, separatist groups, hostile local regimes and more on hundreds of battlefields. She never spared much thought to the greater ideals she was supposedly fighting for, beyond a basic understanding of why this or that enemy needed to be opposed; battle was quite simply her element, perhaps due to residual indoctrination from her youth, or perhaps due to a real inclination of hers. During that time, she visited the first landing sites of the vrexul repeatedly, growing more and more fascinated with her people’s history and its riddle, and in time the mysterious deliberations of the Evzredigor bestowed her with one of its fragments. Shortly before war broke out on Chalgeol, Zsresrinn, along with a number of other vrexul, was assigned to assist the Dolsilvec Regime, largely as a political gesture, a show of both support and force. Although never formally decommissioned from the Pact (not in the least because the groups she had worked with had always been rather light on formality) and not truly subordinate to the Regime’s officers, they nevertheless often found themselves “strongly advised” on their deployments. Being a voirvorde, Zsresrinn was attached to a classified research program on esoteric technology, in the hopes that the unique way in which the semi-etheric evzredigor fragment merged in her body would provide useful insights. However, little progress was made before the civil war escalated. The program was eventually disbanded, and Zsresrinn returned to the frontlines to battle the Carnazir over a grueling decade, before a task of great importance was suddenly found calling for someone with an unusual set of skills. [u][b]REASON FOR MISSION RECRUITMENT:[/b][/u] Zsresrinn is first and foremost a combatant, with tremendous innate strength, decades of experience and a whole armament of military augmentations and weaponry. As one of the relatively few vrexul troops fighting for the Regime, she represents one of the heaviest concentrations of raw destructive power in a single body at its disposal, making her a prime choice for a compact security detail to both protect against hostile forces and safeguard its interests from opposing parties if needs be. Additionally, being an evzredigor host and having a however slight acquaintance with void-technology research, it is believed she may at the same time be able to interpret some of the data at the objective site. [u][b]WEAKNESSES:[/b][/u] [i]Heavyset:[/i] Built as a colossus and loaded with heavy armour and weaponry, it’s little wonder that Zsresrinn is not very mobile, either in or outside combat conditions. While it is difficult to make her budge from a point she has entrenched herself in, the same applies to her as well, and her movement is plodding and unwieldy. In addition, being large and slow makes her a very inviting target to any enemy with a minimum of accuracy. [i]Up Close and Personal:[/i] Compounding the problems of her poor mobility, Zsresrinn is very limited in her ability to strike at foes at longer ranges. Besides low-accuracy suppressive fire, there is not much she can bring to bear against more elusive targets. [i]Grunt:[/i] Never one very gifted for tactical thinking, serving as a specialised combat operative used to working with supporting elements has left Zsresrinn with little experience in independently coming up with solutions to complications in the field. Unless someone more capable takes the lead, her only response to most situations is stubbornly forcing her way through them with brute strength. [i]Ravenous Metabolism:[/i] The larger a being is, the more energy it expends, and the vrexul are no exception. Though a host to internal symbiotic cultures that can hold off the worst pangs of starvation for some time, Zsresrinn needs to regularly consume large amounts of nutrition to remain healthy and active, and her swarm of parasitic organisms only adds to the number of mouths to feed. [i]Ape shall not kill Ape:[/i] Unless they are renegades who have clearly betrayed the Orphan Fleet and sided with those who sought to destroy the Evzredigor, Zresrinn is extremely reluctant to fight other vrexul and praolznevatz. Even if coming under their fire in the heat of battle, she will avoid dangerously injuring them as far as she is able, believing that the bonds among their kind should transcend inconstant political allegiances. [u][b]SKILLS AND TRAINING:[/b][/u] A veteran warrior, Zsresrinn excels in close-quarters combat and terrain interdiction. She has mastered the skill of making the most of her many powerful limbs to strike and grapple multiple smaller enemies at once, or even latch onto and claw away at larger and armoured targets. While unable to match the raw strength of opponents like unztadlige or mechanical vehicles, by striking at weak spots with her claws and weapons she can become a threat even for more imposing foes. Her skills likewise include entrenching herself in vantage points and pinning down hostile activity through sweeping fire and blocking chokepoints. Beyond her combat experience, Zsresrinn is skilled in surveillance and area defence, as well as, to a lesser extent, military equipment maintenance, field medical care (mostly for vrexul anatomy) and foraging. [b][u]LOADOUT:[/u][/b] [i]Hellhammer:[/i] Distinctive vrexul heavy weapon, and a personal favourite. Carrying 2,000 standard anti-materiel rounds. [i]Inferno beam emitter:[/i] High-yield energy weapon capable of melting through armour, but with high dispersion and drastically less effective at long range. Carrying two reserve power packs, can be internally recharged at the cost of metabolic activity. [i]Dauvnil Spineblaster:[/i] A semi-biological weapon firing chemically propelled organic projectiles. Small missiles can disperse into shredding fragments or release corrosive acid payloads. Ammunition is grown internally at the cost of reserve biomass. [i]Rupture Claws:[/i]Large reinforced blades integrated into Zsresrinn’s two upper forelimbs, can be withdrawn when at rest. [i]Adaptive Exo-Plating:[/i] Less of a real suit of armour than a system of protective plates attached to Zsresrinn’s natural exoskeleton and connected to the underlying muscles, allowing them to slide about and rearrange themselves as the situation requires. [i]Integrated toolset:[/i] A number of simple mechanical tools bound to smaller retractable limbs. [u][b]AUGMENTATIONS:[/b][/u] Unsurprisingly, Zsresrinn is so heavily augmented that it has been joked her grafts and enhancements outweigh what’s left of her original body. From synth-muscle strands to redundant carapace layers, through specialised feelers, redundant organs and several implanted eyes capable of filtering out different signals and light wavelengths, her strength, endurance and perception are reinforced to unnatural heights. A number of other augmentations have even more bizarre effects, such as rapidly transforming biomatter from one shape to another, sacrificing excess mass to quickly close over wounds, circulating hormones to override fatigue for a time, and maintaining a veritable miniaturised ecosystem capable of providing vital nutritional substances that are directly digested, though it is designed to supplement and balance a regular food intake and not replace it. [u][b]ETHEREOLOGY:[/b][/u] Zsresrinn has no innate etheric potential. While she can use her evzredigor fragment to imitate etheric abilities, usually in the form of animate projectiles that coalesce into small aggressive monstrosities on impact and screens of shimmering fog over her entrenched positions to impair enemy aim, she cannot match a true user of the Abzu in potency. [u][b]PERKS:[/b][/u] [i]Living Armory:[/i] Like many of her kind, Zsresrinn stores most of her weapons inside her body in a partly decomposite form while they are not in use. This does not include her hellhammer, although she does carry its ammunition store internally. [i]Envoy of the Decomposing Abyss:[/i] A host to a fragment of the Evrzedigor. Besides the practical advantages, it also serves to bolster Zsresrinn’s morale, as she feels the assimilation strengthens her connection to her people and their origin. [i]Psychoparasitic Synchronization:[/i] Zsresrinn makes the most of being able to share the perception of her subordinate organisms. Many of them have refined senses, allowing her to keep watch over wide areas and detect enemies attempting to flank her. [/hider]