Name: Kasyra’Tala Vas Ryushei Nar Sherana
Race: Quarian
Sex: Female
Age: 31
Class: Engineer
Appearance:
Kasyra, like all Quarians is confined to an environment suit almost all the time. She favours white clothing over her suit with thin pale blue bolts of cloth to accentuate where appropriate. The white cloth also has a swirling pattern that shows up in a silvery finish when caught in the right light.
Her eyes are luminous like any Quarians, and her well formed nose and brow can be seen behind her mask as well. She stands unusually tall for a Quarian woman at 5'6 and looks slightly too thin for it.
The ‘hair’ extended from the back of her helmet is made up of luminescent synthetic strands that Kasyra claims resemble Quarian hair. They normally glow a constant blue, but she is capable of turning this glow off, making them go black.
Background:
Kasyra’Tala Nar Sherana was born on (year pending) aboard the original Quarian cruiser Sherana, a warship in a prominent position in the Heavy fleet. Daughter of the Captain and Chief Engineer, Kasyra’s early years were, relatively speaking, very lonely. Her parents did their best to make time for her, but they were both exceedingly busy individuals and could not spend as much time with her as they liked. On the other hand, the other children were afraid of her precisely because of the high rank of her parents, and so she had few friends among her peers while growing up. In addition, as a Heavy fleet ship, the Sherana’s crew were constantly training for and carrying out battle drills, further reducing time for her to engage in social activity of any sort.
As a result of these factors, Kasyra focused the majority of her time on academic and practical studies. In particular, she learned to handle all manner of firearms typically used onboard Quarian ships, as well as close quarters combat tactics and even melee techniques. All this in addition to the typical Quarian skills - basic operations of every station on the ship and basic maintenance and repair of every kind of technology available to the ship.
At age 18, she began her pilgrimage. Fitted with cybernetic immuno booster, given armor upgrades to her suit and a Stiletto III pistol, she was sent out into the universe. Given her position as the daughter of a ship's Captain, she was expected to bring back something of greater value than most. She quickly decided that she would attempt to acquire nothing less than full sized starship for the fleet. In order to do so, she made sure she was dropped at the Citadel to begin her journey, as difficult and unpleasant as that was.
Unfortunately, she quickly realised how difficult this goal would be. She also found out within the first few days that she was not up to the standard expected by non-Quarians in the technical fields, making it quite difficult to find a legitimate job. And so she decided to put her combative skills to use. A little research led her to one of the seemingly more honorable Mercenary groups - the Blue Suns. They didn’t usually favor Quarians, but that was more down to few Quarians being interested in joining Merc groups than a particular stigma.
Or so she thought.
On her third day on the Citadel, she had set a meeting with the local Blue Suns group. Naively, she had allowed them to set the location - an alleyway in Tayseri ward. Only moments after arriving, she found herself being stunned into unconsciousness by one of the Blue Suns. When she came to, she found herself slung over the shoulder of a Batarian engineer. She had been disarmed, her Omnitool shut down. She acted quickly, covering and poking at the Batarians eyes with one hand while reaching down to his pistol with the other. He quickly threw her to the floor, but not before she had taken hold of his weapon. Springing to her feet, she shot him in the gut at point blank range multiple times, heedless of the rest of the squad around her.
Rather than immediately shoot her for this, however, the Blue Suns captain, a Turian, intervened, ordering his men to cease fire. He decreed that she would fulfill the contract of the man she had just murdered as recompense for her actions. Grudgingly, she agreed, having no other way out. She was given the man's Omni tool and weapons, and so began her time as a Blue Suns mercenary.
Kasyra learned to survive in the Blue Suns organisation very quickly, quickly realising that among the merc groups, honor was relative. Initially she fought as a dedicated combat engineer, making use of the Cryo Blast and Snap Freeze programs that had already been installed on the Omni tool she was given, however she quickly began to add to her battlegear as the pay started to roll in. As valuable as she became to her squad however, she was never truly treated well. Many a fellow merc had to be taught not to eye up her curves via a swift beating. New squad members found out the hard way she was not weak or fragile. At best she was typically feared by her squad mates, gaining a reputation as a cold hearted killer more interested in finishing the job than keeping her squadmates alive. In truth, she was never bothered by this however. As much as she had gotten what she wanted, she had been exposed to some of the worst trickery employed by the scum of the galaxy in the process. She did not forget, nor did she forgive.
Near the end of her fourth year in the Blue Suns, an opportunity for her to take vengeance on her captors-come employers came about. The ship her Blue Suns team was operating out of came under attack from a hostile Blood Pack vessel. The Blood Pack closed to carry out a boarding action, and a brutal close quarters fight ensued. By the end of it, the two dozen strong team had been reduced to four - two seriously injured, Kasyra and the Captain, the very Captain who had spared her while condemning her to a life as a merc.
First she triggered an overdose of Medi-gel on the two injured members in the Med bay. Then, humming the sing song tune of the phrase that would bring her back to the Migrant fleet, she entered the Bridge. A point blank Cryo blast into the captain's back immobilised him long enough for him to realise what was happening before Kasyra slid an omni blade into his skull.
She then proceeded to throw all the bodies, including the comatose survivors, out the airlock before cleaning up the ship. She funneled all the crews credits to a new account of her own, leaving the rest of the ship’s supplies onboard for later. With the evidence of how she acquired the ship erased, she set course back to the migrant fleet.
She was hailed as a hero on returning to the fleet, her gift of a solid, combat effective ship exceeding expectations by no small amount. Given a choice of serving aboard any ship in the fleet, she chose the Ryushei, an old Batarian heavy cruiser now in service with the Heavy fleet. She thought perhaps that things would change now, that it would all go back to normal.
Yet old habits die hard. Never the most social Quarian to begin with, her time among the Blue Suns had left her cold and isolated, unwilling to function as a tight-knit group. Despite her efforts, she could not shake these habits so easily. She integrated poorly with the crew of the Ryushei, and refused to speak of her experience on the Pilgrimage, making it difficult for the crew to help her overcome these problems.
Her martial skills were no secret however, and they had only improved with her time away. Rather than allow her to continue impacting the morale of the ship negatively, the Captain decided to assign her to the ship's detachment of Migrant marines. She quickly proved herself among the most effective soldiers the fleet had to offer, and within six months of assignment, she found herself drafted into a special operations unit.
Two scouting missions near the Veil went without incident, but a third ran into disaster. Her squad was discovered by a Geth patrol ship and was forced into a fighting retreat. She was injured during the battle, but her actions cost the lives of two of her fellow Quarians. The return to the fleet was not a triumphant one. After action reports found fault primarily in Kasyra for the loss of life. She was deemed more of a risk than she was worth for any squad she could be assigned to. Returning to the Ryushei, she found herself assigned to one of its small long range scout ships, this one directed well and truly away from the Veil.
It took time for her to integrate with the four other crew, but realising that the only other option was to leave the fleet, she made the extra effort. In time, she finally found a place to belong aboard the scout ship. Eight years passed, and Kasyra was happy.
Yet the Blue Suns do not forget, and they do not forgive. A squad sent by the brother of the Blue Suns captain she had killed tracked down the scout ship, finding it while it was landed on a world near Omega. Four of the crew, including Kasyra, were away from the ship when they arrived. They forced entry and killed the pilot in short order, setting up an ambush for the rest of crew. The first salvo of bullets and tech blasts cut down two of the remaining Quarians and injured the third. Only by chance did Kasyra avoid any more than grazing strikes to her shield.
As she went to cover, her return fire caught the Turian member of the squad unawares, bringing him down. The two human members of the squad quickly broke cover and moved towards her, but they were not prepared for the extent of her tech attacks, and died screaming in a hail of ice, fire and sparks. She decided to chance it then, boosting her shields as much as she could while rushing the remaining Batarian squad member, Omni blade active. Caught off guard by her sudden ferocious attack, he too went down, his eyes slashed by the red hot blade before she finished him.
The injured member of the scout ships crew died in her arms a few minutes later, her wounds too severe for treatment.
In a mere few minutes, Kasyra’s life had been brutally ripped away from her. She went mad with grief and rage at the loss, vowing to enact vengeance upon the Blue Suns for the ruination they brought to her life as a whole. she realised that for all her knowledge, one woman alone would not be able to fight the Suns. Instead she decided to join a freelance merc team, use her skills to generate more money and perhaps hire a team of her own to strike at the Blue Suns effectively.
She took the scout ship to rendezvous with one Captain Jerrel Luzami before sending it back to the migrant fleet on autopilot, the bodies of her former crew mates aboard. A short explanation of her past and what had happened accompanied, as well as a statement of her intentions for the Admirals to judge as they would. It mattered little to her now what her people thought of her. Revenge consumed her mind, and this job was the first step on the long path that would see her freed of her past. Or more likely dead.
Equipment:
Kassa Fabrication M-6 Carnifex - Melee Stunner Attachment, Piercing Mod.
Aldrin Labs BlueWire III Omni Tool (Right arm. Equipped with standard Omni Blade)
Armali Council Nexus VII Omni Tool (Left arm. Equipped with Cryo Omni Blade)
Devlon Industries Survivor Armor, appearance heavily modified to her taste.
Powers:
Cryo Blast
Snap Freeze
Overload
Shield Boost (the self only version)
Disruptor Ammo
Skills worth noting:
Kasyra is a skilled melee combatant, both with Omni blades and unarmed fighting. Without the mass or strength to overpower foes, she relies on redirecting an enemy's strength and striking vulnerabilities.
Dextro Chef - Kasyra despises typical Quarian nutrient paste. She learned the art of Turian cuisine during her time with the Blue Suns, and has continued practicing whenever she can. She has yet to meet a merc capable of matching her Dextro cooking.
Relations:
Kasyra has briefly met Vellios, while she was serving with the Blue Suns.
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