hatsushitu miyamaka
while ostensibly aki is a harsh but orderly industrialized society, beyond the star port the world is heavily overrun with regional and block gangs of various strictures and capabilities waging unending war for control of the planet's various megastructures, power sources, and underground habitats. one of the more powerful gangs in proximity to the port is yasuka. hatsushitu miyamaka was born into this gang and was pressed into service to it at the age of 10, trained first as a recon agent and then as a light soldier. in an effort to expand its reach off-world yasuka volunteered miya as an experimental subject for cyber-enhancement studies on glisten. these enhancements were successful and miya was placed with a merchant house in an effort to gain off-world economic contacts. but miya rebelled and simply deployed with the merchant house, walking away from all further contact with yasuka.
on her arrival in the merchant house jamison realized what miya was doing and took her under his wing and guided her into the merchant culture. they worked closely over the years, and when jamison formed his crew for the high flyer he asked her to be his navigator. she accepted.
miya is jamison's secret weapon on three levels. though she was pushed through to navigation school without the usual pre-requisites of comms, computer, or electronics training, she has excelled in this skillset. her jump plot courses end sooner and precipitate closer to destination worlds more often than most other navigators, cutting many hours off of jump transit resulting in earlier arrivals and earlier bids for cargo, resulting in greater profits per jump. she also is able to navigate most street cultures - compared to yasuka she finds most other gangs and warehouse toughs and underworld characters to be plain vanilla wannabes - and come up with street intel of great value to jamison in brokerage negotiations. more prosaically, because of her enhanced hearing she is able to overhear conversations behind closed doors and down hallways and across rooms, and she uses this ability particularly during jamison's parties to keep abreast of competitors' developing negotiating positions. jamison does not like "spying" but does like to know "the truth", and she tries to respect this.
miya was trained first for covert intelligence-gathering, and then as a light ambush soldier ("soldier flower"). her urban recon skill enables her to observe and assess any movement or activity in any urban setting and also to conceal her own, making her both difficult to find and difficult to hide from. she is well-trained in blades, focusing on traditional swords and thrown daggers and shuriken but is also proficient in any edged weapon and even in improvising weapons from pieces of sheetmetal and broken glass panes if necessary. it should be emphasized that she is no legendary ninja warrior goddess, she merely is well-trained and naturally good at it.
of her cyber-enhancements that of her dexterity is the most natural and observable. when she cares to she can run faster, jump up further, jump down further, and move with more agility, than any natural human, not spectacularly so but enough for it to be very noticable, and her joints have been strengthened to deal with the increased workload. she is a great urban
parkour and can outrun or overhaul almost anyone in an urban setting. her enhanced hearing extends her range to ultrasonic, allowing her to hear high-frequency sounds such as clothing rubbing over a hidden knife, breathing, and a hand brushing across a wall. her enhanced sight allows some perception of the IR range, allowing her to "see in the dark" any heat source.
(the human mind is designed to accept a certain level of sensory input, and miya's sensory enhancements exceed this. while they do not disturb her greatly she sometimes feels the need to shut her eyes or sit in a silent setting. she has had her cabin on the ics high flyer soundproofed as much as possible and occasionally will retreat into it.)
yasuka never forgets anything. if they ever obtain a foothold off of aki they will remember hatsushitu miyamaka and take vengance if they can. miya knows this, accepts it, and is ready to live or die but never go back. jamison knows this too, and will do what he can to help her.
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character:
hatsushitu miyamaka, aki/glisten
age 10
initial stats:
strength : 6
dexterity : 6
endurance : 6
intelligence: C
education : 8
social stand: 2
skill points available:
(special before age 18)
(intelligence C + education C)/4=6.00 skill points per tour, plus 2.00 skill points/school)
offical career:
yasuka block gang flower
various merchant houses
service history:
tour 1) school: urban recon
assign: silent flower
develp: education +2
skills: urban recon 2 (1 skill point for skill level 1, 2 skill points for skill level 2)
streetwise 1 (2 skill points for skill level 1)
(=5 skill points total)
tour 2) school: blade (emphasis katana +1, thrown blade +1)
assign: sharp flower
develp: -
skills: blade 2 (1 skill point for skill level 1, 2 skill points for skill level 2)
streetwise 2 (3 skill points for skill level 2)
personal tactics 1 (1 skill point for skill level 1)
(=7 skill points total)
tour 3) school: navigation
assign: pretty flower
develp: education +2, cyber-enhancement audio, visual, dexterity
skills: navigation (3 skill points for skill level 1, 4 skill points for skill level 2)
soft vacc suit / 0G 1 (1 skill point1 for skill level 1)
(=8 skill points total)
tour 4) school: navigation enhancement
assign: flight
develp: -
skills: navigation 3 (5 skill points for skill level 3)
pilot 1 (3 skill points for skill level 1)
(=8 skill points total)
final:
character:
merchant navigator hatsushitu miyamaka "miya"
age 26
final stats:
strength : 9
dexterity : D
endurance : 9
intelligence: C
education : C
social stand: 2
cyber enhancements
joint reinforcement / enhanced dexterity
audio extension - high-frequency
vision extension - IR
skills by category classifications:
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skillset skillpts levels skills
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space (16) (5)(*)
vacc suit / 0G 1 1 soft vacc suit / 0G 1
flight 15 4 navigation 3*
pilot 1
technical - - ----
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ground (-) (-)
transportation - - ----
wilderness - - ----
other - - ----
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professional (-) (-)
medical - - ----
broker - - ----
other - - ----
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people (5) (2)
leader - - ----
steward - - ----
other 5 2 streetwise 2
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weapons (7) (5)(**)
tactics 4 3 urban recon 2*
personal tactics 1
personal 3 2 blade 2*(katana +1, thrown +1)
heavy - - ----
ship's gunnery - - ----
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