Ara - EXVI-I
Overview
Section titled “Overview”Appearance
Section titled “Appearance”Ara resembles a 4’6” adolescent, bipedal plantigrade snow leopard with fierce, rarely-blinking and perpetually dilated eyes, and unruly long silver headfur she refuses to tend to. Wears little protective armor, but will wear suits when spacebound. Otherwise prefers concealing, loose civilian clothes.
Genetic Mods
Section titled “Genetic Mods”Hastily ‘printed’ (read: grown) Snow Leopard Genes spliced with Human Genes, though in her past she has had all sorts of genetic mods and forms. As a result, her life expectancy in her current form is questionable; her body not meant for longevity.
Tech Mods
Section titled “Tech Mods”Neural-interfacing transmitter that hard-beams memory/neural data towards specific coordinates upon death (currently forcefully deactivated), enhanced claws.
History
Section titled “History”While humanity has not cracked ‘eternal life’ as it were, StepLyx, an underground corporate espionage/assassination corp, was able to find a cheat code: if you maintained a thorough record of an operative’s memory engram before death and simply ported it to a freshly grown body, you could maintain their skills and loyalty without ever having to train them, and their identities could be born anew each time! Who cares about memory degradation over time? Eventually you’d lose an operative, sure, but the burn rate was SO incredibly low…
Ara glitched upon this, her latest body. Maybe there was something imperfect about the cybernetically enhanced brain those memories had been put in, or maybe 50+ downloads and uploads of her consciousness had DONE something, but whatever or whoever she’d desired to be at the start, now she was simply tired. It was easy enough to fry her neural implants (albeit dangerous) to keep her from ‘going back’,and now she merely exists off the grid, waiting until this short-lived body, too, gives in. Or to get a new lease on life.
Affiliation(s)
Section titled “Affiliation(s)”Owned Ships
Section titled “Owned Ships”Steplyx Solutions
An agency known mostly to corporate and the seedier government interests, they specialize in the acquisition of information via espionage, or the removal of ‘obstacles’ via assassination. Their volunteers are fitted with neural interfaces that beam their consciousness to a server upon death, eternal-life as a slave-assassin.