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As depicted wearing the military uniform of her noble house, which is what she's going to wear in most occasions.  On the shorter side.

[b]Character Name:[/b] Duchess Ingrid Daschke

[b]Callsign:[/b] Ramrod, assigned to her by the others.  She thinks it means "ramrod straight" but it just refers to the size of the stick up her ass.

[b]Age:[/b] 30

[b]Character Archetype:[/b] Stuffy Noblewoman

[b]Character’s Guiding Motto:[/b] "Fachwissen ist der Grundstein des Rittertums!" (lit. Expertise is the cornerstone of Chivalry!  There's a very long and boring story about how this came to be the family's motto as a result of their actions during the Age of War.  It's in German because they take their familial LARPing very seriously.)

[b]Character’s Fatal Flaw:[/b] Complete unwillingness to bend princples.  Acting the part of a proud knight is important in every single action and interaction, even if there's no honor left to defend.

[b]Character’s Expertise:[/b] Decorum, Swordfighting, Diplomacy.

[b]Nationality/Allegiance:[/b] Lyran/House Daschke (defunct)

[b]Background:[/b] House Daschke effectively no longer exists.  When it [i]did[/i] exist, from the early 25th century until about two years ago, it was a minor noble house ruling over the small Lyran Commonwealth planet of Poulsbo on the Marik border alongside the (comparatively) more famous House Astra.  Despite their relative obscurity, the planet's proximity to FWL space meant that it did see action often during the Succession Wars and proved itself at least somewhat useful to Lyran national interests.  As the second-in-line to the family title, she still insisted on being trained to the same degree that the heir presumptive, her elder sister did.  She excelled...but that didn't do anything to affect her position in the family at all.  She was committed, however - even if that meant she'd be stuck as retainer to her sister for the remainder of her natural life, she wanted to see House Daschke proliferate and expand.

House Daschke did not proliferate and expand, mostly because it was successfully scattered to the four winds after a sudden and unexpected betrayal by House Astra.  To condense centuries of political intrigue into one sentence, the other nobles of Poulsbo saw House Daschke as being far too sycophantic toward the interests of House Steiner in opposition towards the near-independence minded nature of Poulsbo's population.  The events of the takeover were confusing at best, and at the end of it, Ingrid was left running for the hills and presumed herself to be the sole living member of House Daschke - thus, Duchess apparent.

So far were these hills that she managed to end up at the complete opposite end of the Free Worlds League.  Most of her ancestral funds had been spent in a failed attempt to regain Poulsbo with no progress made and little else to show, so she basically just threw herself at the first mercenary command that would take her - Gawain's Green Knights, joining within the last year.

[b]Vehicle:[/b] An OSR-2C [i]Ostroc[/i] given the edgy pet name of [i]Susser Todd[/i], the pride of the Daschke family line.  Previously well-maintained through prior generations despite the 'mech's relative rarity, it's probably in worse condition now that Ingrid's been piloting it without the support of a noble house.

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