Name: Tashia Wex
Age: 23
Race: Sentinel
Species: Tirolian
Appearance: 
Tall and thin, with purplish-tinted skin and pale hair worn in a ponytail. Like this, only dressed more appropriately, and a bit less busty: [hider=Image][img=http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2013/099/3/a/dark_elf_assassin_by_adam_fisher-d60zbje.jpg][/hider]

Personal Info: 
Deeply frustrated by the situation her race now finds itself in, Tashia is ambitious, driven and quite prideful – both personally and nationally. She hates the idea that the abandoned Tirolians are rejects or failures, the insinuation a surefire way to set her temper off. Keenly aware of her own failings, she comes off as a borderline workaholic, spending large chunks of her down-time in the simulators or reviewing past flight records, improving her skills through sheer persistence. People who get close to her, however, find that she can be a dedicated friend with something of a big-sister complex - she likes to see her friends do well too, and doesn't shy away from holding them to her high standards for their own good.

Personal History: 
Tashia was born into a poor family, in one of the least well-off cities on Tirol. Her early life taught her the value of a tight-knit community, the adolescent Tirolian taking odd jobs or watching half of her accommodation block’s children to help the adults get by. When she was old enough, she would have most likely gotten a dead-end job and continued to make ends meet.

She wanted more than that, though. She wanted to better herself, and the best way to do that was to join the Imperial military as soon as she was old enough. The local unit was less of a military and more of a militia or police force, with outdated equipment and relatively poor discipline. Most of their time was spent patrolling the streets or dealing with the more serious crimes. Still, it was an income, a bunk, and training – a foothold she could use to push herself further up. Tash took the job as seriously as if she was stationed on the imperial flagship. She did well in the pilot aptitude test, was trained and eventually assigned one of the unit’s few Variable Fighters. Maybe, just maybe, if she proved herself capable her reassignment requests would actually get answered.

Then the Masters abandoned their home-world, and her unit was deemed unfit to join the exodus. The furious pilot was crushed, her unit left with the unenviable task of maintaining order in a poor city whose government had just disappeared, on a planet under attack from a vastly superior alien force. To her pride, her comrades rose to the task, gritting their teeth and defending the city long enough for the Sentinels to arrive and reinforce them. With her home relatively safe, Tashia immediately volunteered for duty in the fleet.

Mecha: SV-IX Gamma
Weapons and equipment: 
-[url=http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs5/i/2005/011/7/5/sci_fi_gun_by_genocidalpenguin.jpg]A pistol[/url], small but punchy.
-[url=http://s.cghub.com/files/Image/128001-129000/128670/603_max.jpg]A compact PDW[/url].
-[url=http://www.hobbygen.com/images/hts-mm51%20%286%29.jpg]A long combat knife[/url] (almost a short sword, really), usually sheathed in the small of her back.