NAME: Katryn Hohenzollern
AGE: 32
SEX: F
NICKNAME: Empress (Originally Kaiserin, translated for your convenience). She earned this nickname because of her last name being associated with the German royal family.
DESCRIPTION: Katryn is, overall, a large woman. Standing just above six and a half feet tall, and weighing 220 pounds, she has a muscular build on a large frame. Despite this though she appears somewhat lithe and limber due to her height, an appearance that is complimented by her sharp, defined facial features which are rarely framed by her remarkably long, deep copper hair as she usually keeps it in a tight French braid that falls past her waist. She also has a fair amount of freckles just below her grey-blue eyes. She is not particularly battle worn, being relatively young, and as such retains a bit of her youthful radiance, though is not particularly beautiful, she is not entirely unattractive either, despite being a multiple tour combat veteran. Her only significant scars cannot be seen unless you catch her working out in a sports bra and shorts as she has a spread of multiple jagged scars up the left side of her thigh and abdomen where she took several pieces of shrapnel from an IED explosion. She also has various minor scars on her face and hands from the brief, occasional fistfight.
PERSONALITY: Depending on the kind of day she's having Katryn generally has two moods, gruff or amicable. She is never particularly friendly, but she is never particularly unfriendly either. She likes to keep to herself for the most part, but is willing to be friendly in the right circumstances, generally this requires alcohol though, of which she is very fond. She spends most of her time with her guns, which she considers to be better friends than most humans, which simply serves to reinforce her misanthropy. Katryn has a very strong sense of justice, some say it might be a little too strong and this is will often manifest in what might be considered cruelty and she may even be willing to look the other way if some otherwise unjustifiable act might occur that she considers just. Besides this sense of justice, Katryn is primarily motivated by a desire for a life of action, money means very little to her, though she does not mind being paid well. She dislikes being idle for long periods of time, which has proven useful in the sense that she is constantly trying to learn new things in order to occupy her time.
ATTIRE: Katryn's combat gear is a fairly standard German Army set-up that she recreated herself upon joining the Dreadnaughts as a hold over from her origins in the Bundeswehr. Over an undershirt of some kind, usually a tank top, she wears a button down, long sleeve shirt, a ballastic plate carrier, a tactical vest, and a chest rig, in that order. Standard BDU pants, knee and elbow pads, a kevlar helmet, combat boots, hand tape, and gloves. All in situationally appropriate camoflauge.
WEAPON OF CHOICE: While Katryn is generally comfortable with any general purpose machine gun, she is most accustomed to her very own custom MG3 (with Der Blitz scrawled across the body of the gun in silver paint just above the grip), another hold over from her Bundeswehr days. Of course a light machine gun is not well suited for all combat situations so Katryn sticks to German firearms for the most part. In a direct combat role, rather than a support role, she will often alternate between the H&K HK-417 and the H&K G-36C with a H&K USP as a sidearm, very rarely, if the situation calls for it she will use a Model 870 shotgun or a H&K UMP, though she tries to avoid smaller weapons if at all possible. Typical modifications include a laser sight, a foregrip, and various different other sights.
MUGGING: She beats the snot out of him and then gives him the money from her wallet anyway.
BIOGRAPHY: Born and raised in Bavaria, Katryn has always had an affinity for mountains, she traveled all over Europe as a teenager, always looking for bigger, better mountains to climb, to ski down, to hike. She even took a few trips elsewhere in pursuit of mountains, but she always returned home, to the base of the looming Alps in southern Germany. It was here too, in a little city called Füssen where she discovered that this love of mountains had a practical application and so it came to pass that Katryn joined the Gebirgsjäger, Germany's very own mounain infantry.
It was more or less a dream come true for Katryn because if there was one thing that she loved as much as mountains it was guns and the bigger the better, in both cases. She had spent much of the time she didn't spend traveling with her father at their local range, where she became a rather exceptional shot, in correlation with her skiing abilities, she became an formidable biathlon participant, though not quite formidable enough for the German Olympic biathlon team. All this experience translated further into her being an exceptional member of the Gebirgsjäger, as both and excellent shot and a competent athlete, she was perfect for the job. So perfect, in fact, that after just three years in the service of the Bundeswehr and two tours of duty in Iraq, she was tapped for service in the Kommando Spezialkräfte, or KSK, Germany's premier special forces division, which she accepted gladly and continued to serve with them for the duration of Germany's involvement in the Iraq War.
Unfortunately for Katryn firearms expertise and valuable life experience were not all she had acquire in the military. She had also become very fond of the devil's drink, a little too fond. This became evident when she brutally beat a man in a bar while off duty after she rebuffed multiple advances and he got a little handsy. The Bundeswehr determined that while her actions may have been justified, the severity was unwarranted and they ruled that she would need to complete an addiction rehabilitation course in order to continue her services. Knowing full well though that even if she did complete this course, she would most likely end up doing clerical work for the rest of her career, she refused and was dishonorably discharged which caused her to spiral a bit out of control before she realized that she was throwing a lot away just because the German government told her she couldn't continue serving, so upon hearing about it from a friend of a friend, Katryn joined the Dreadnaughts as a support weapons specialist.
TALENTS: Katryn is fluent in multiple languages including Arabic, Kurdish, and Farsi. She is a decent, but untrained, mechanic and has some limited medical knowledge. Katryn is an excellent skier and climber, and as part of her outdoor recreation adventures became licensed as a bush pilot in both the United States and Canada. Katryn also learned the piano from her mother and possesses a fair degree of skill.
ROLE: Katryn is a support weapons specialist. This includes proficiency with a degree of support weapons, though she specializes in machine guns of the heavy and light variety. However Katryn is more than capable with a wide variety of support weapons platforms including, but not limited to: surface-to-air missles (i.e. FIM-92 Stinger), anti-armor platforms (FGM-148 Javelin, AT-4, RPG-7), and anti-personnel/light anti-armor platforms (Milkor MGL, Mk 19 grenade launcher, Mk 47 Striker). She is also capable of operating slightly larger infantry support weapons such as the M3 howitzer and various artillery pieces like it. As stated though, she is particularly fond of machine guns with which she is proficient in most varieties, preferring light machine guns for their high rate of fire and portability, but more than capable of operation mounted and generally stationary Mgs such as the M2HB.
OTHER: Dismissed, soldier.
I LIKE: Cigars and hard liquor.
I DISLIKE: Small talk and small guns. Being called Kat.
ATTRIBUTES:
Strength: 4
Dexterity: 4
Constitution: 4
Wisdom: 2
Intelligence: 3
Charisma: 2
SKILLS:
Melee Combat, Finesse
Melee Combat, Brute
Unarmed Combat, Finesse
Unarmed Combat, Brute
Marksmanship
Explosives
Tactics
Operating
Medicine
Sneaking
Mechanics
Camouflage
Survival
Persuasion
Intimidation
Regulation
Lying
Leadership
Willpower
Morale
Stamina
Health
SPECIALIZATION: Weapon Proficiency: general purpose machine guns