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[color=00ff66][h3]Character Description[/h3]
[list]Name: Billie ([color=ce2029][s]ERR[/s][/color] Certified)
Species: Human (Certified)
Sex: Female (Certified)
Age: 22 (Certified)
Role/Job: Aeronautics System Technician (Instrumentation and portables) (JOAT)
Appearance: This girl reminds you of a clever fox. She has wide green eyes that are like two chunks of jade. Her silky, wavy, red hair is neck-length and is worn in a pixie style. She is very short and has an athletic build. Her skin is cream-colored. She has a strong chin and long-fingered hands. Her wardrobe is tight.
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[h3]Strengths and Weaknesses[/h3]
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[*] Skills: 
[list]Billie is extremely well-read, and her adopted father's equal on the ski slopes - not that he was all that skilled. Her technical school and prior association with criminals has provided her with a wealth of skills she strives to improve - especially her blaster skills.
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[*] Weaknesses:
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Billie has reason to mistrust others, most of her life people have tried to use her for their own schemes. It has colored her thinking, she's well aware how quickly things can turn against her. While she prefers to keep to herself, she realizes that some things are too big and she's going to need help.
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[h3]Background:[/h3]
[list]Backstory: Billie was left wrapped in a towel inside a box on the steps of the Crater Street Orphanage, all they found on her was an old military medal being used to pin an stained envelope to her blanket, but instead of a note, the director found inside a recipe card for Karsk, a coffee and moonshine drink. The director found it enjoyable, except for the faint blurriness it caused her vision.

The police started an investigation, but her footprint was not on file, nor was there any recent births for a child with a cross-shaped birthmark on her left hip. Police eventually gave up, deciding she hadn't had her birth recorded so it was going to be near impossible to find her parents.

She was ten when she accidently witnessed an assassination. The assassin had shot from the roof next door to the orphanage, line of sight for the jail three blocks away, then froze when he saw her watching him packing up his gear hurriedly. He raised his laser, then heard the sirens and fled. She tried telling the other kids, but they didn't believe her.

Three weeks later, Justin Tyrell, a wealthy civil servant, appeared at the orphanage, looking to adopt - and picked her. She had her own room with a giant bed, nice clothes, tutors, a private school, a personal maid, and trips to the mountains where Tyrell would ski. However, there was no mother, just the house keeper, but there was a stream of women who'd visit, sometimes spending the night in her adopted father's room. He also dabbled in art, selling to his friends. She had no idea where the pieces came from.

Her roommate told her about the other man who came looking for her later, but he didn't adopt anyone.

One of his "trips", they spent having dinner with this minister who kept staring at her, making her feel uncomfortable. Justin and this minister had a long talk outside of her hearing and at the end of the night shook hands. It was back at the hotel room that Justin told her that she was now betrothed to the minister's boss, and he would collect her when she became an adult. All perfectly legal, he assured her.

Justin mistook her silence as acceptance, but she was feeling betrayed and was already planning, getting things ready as she scanned the library to learn everything she could to help her escape.

Those plans got an unexpected boost when she was 14 when she was kidnapped by Tony, a local crime boss, who was upset by a painting Justin had "sold" him. Knowing Justin wouldn't report her to the police, he decided to make some use of her in his smuggling operation - and took a shine to her. Suddenly the whole gang was wanting to teach her some of their skills - picking pockets, professional gambling, computer fraud, firing a blaster, and making all sorts of underworld connections.

Her time with them was fruitful. Tony helped her get a new identity and set her up with a good technical school that taught her how to maintain aerospace equipment for spaceships. Billie got herself a nice job at the Eden orbital shipyards, working in their repair shop and installing equipment.

It was a good life, she was able to deflect most questions about her prior life, keeping it simple. Unfortunately, a former member of Tony's gang spotted her and ratted her out to his new boss - and they began blackmailing her, needing her help to get into the secure warehouse pods. Knowing what waited for her if she went to the cops, she had little choice but to help them bypass the security doors and access the warehouses.
                                                      
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