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Général Gauvain de Beauhernais a L’Espée Foix, Comte de Foix.

Looks: Tall and muscular he has dark hair and piercing blue eyes, a scar runs over the orbit of his left eye. He is classically handsome with an urbane charm and has a definite eye for the female form.

Throughout his career Foix has been known as a rake and a libertine as well as a duellist.

Instead of taking an officer's post in the regular army of his homeworld the young Foix volunteered to join the Legion - as a Legionnaire. They cared nothing for social station and dealt with all only on merit. Thriving in the basic simplicity of this environment Foix found himself to be both an able soldier and a natural leader.

Foix became a master of small unit tactics and always lead from the front. Serving among a meritocracy of killers his rise through the ranks was meteroic. His promotion to Colonel lead to the independent command of his Paras in a fire base where he learned medicine to triage and treat his own wounded direct from the field.

Further promotion took him from his beloved battalion and whilst on leave he met and married his wife Lysette Eloise. Returning to the Legion he volunteered as a Forward Observer to allow contact with fighting units and an unauthorised return to combat duties.

The Legion was withdrawn from the frontline following the siege of Hessia. Foix completed his master’s degree and news from home now finally caught up with him. A series of events amongst his extended family had catapulted him to primacy for the position of Comte. His military instincts warned him that given the devious nature of his family this apparent good fortune may in fact be part of a more sinister plot.

He determined to travel until he could gain better intelligence of events in the murky politics of his noble family.

Foix is accompanied by the faithful Grimaud who is known by reputation as a most talented chef.

A “potted” bio of Foix for general information and for those needing char gen events / hooks relating to his career.

[Leitz please move this if it is in the wrong place, thank you]. :)
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Post the common knowledge, and shareable background of your characters here. Assume other players may look for connections so that everyone knows at least one other person. NPCs may also wind up here, so the players can keep track of everyone.
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Harmersbach Family known so far
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Rock - named for his Father's favourite material it seems - or may be just the stone in his father's heart?

Medical Training for 8 years becoming Chief Resident trauma surgeon at Ulricehamn General, and then falling for Elvira, the almost heir of the Jacobs Dynasty who was working in Auditing! She's off working and I am left with the Hunting, Shooting and Fishing set - swept into the circles of a woman who is a Dynasty...and is not in favour. So we find a path outside Birach - but the General falls. Eventually, so slowly, we drift back towards home.

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Rock Harmersbach, Baron Darkrock, Fellow of the Atrean College of Surgeons.
Born 191. Kirk Harmersbach and <Mother's details TBA>
Education: Private Tutorage; Torkington Collage Medical School.
Occupation: Residency Torkington Collage Medical School and Ulricehamn General.
Married: Marquise Elvira Jacobs, 221. 2 Children: Frey Jacobs and Freya Harmersbach
Interests: Medicine, Riding, Shooting, Rally Driving
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Elvira Harmersbach nee Jacobs, 6th Marquise Nesnafjord.
Born 197. Sven Jacobs and Marie Esterhardinge
Education: Nesna Skole.
Occupation: Audit Consultant, Jacobs Bjerka
Married: Baron Rock Harmersbach, 221. 2 Children: Frey Jacobs and Freya Harmersbach
Interests: Languages, Travel, Shooting
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Frey Jacobs. Presumptive hier to the Marquisate of Nesnafjord.
Born 223. Rock Harmersbach and Elvira Jacobs
Education: Private Tutorage
Occupation:
Unmarried
Interests:
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Freya Harmersbach.
Born 223. Rock Harmersbach and Elvira Jacobs
Education: Private Tutorage
Occupation:
Unmarried
Interests:
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Cliff Harmersbach
Born 190. Kirk Harmersbach and <Mother's details TBA>
Education: Private Tutorage
Occupation:
Unmarried
Interests: Birach Rebellion
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Anevay "Vee" Becker

Anevay (Vee to her friends), was born aboard a free trader, somewhere in Imperial space. Her parents divorced when she was five, and she lived with her father aboard his ship. Her education was more practical than theoretical, so she had no degree from a school.

When she was old enough, her father helped her hire on with a shipping line that spanned half the sector. She worked hard, and made first officer within nine years. She studied a variety of disciplines, moving from one department to the next aboard the ships she served on.

Her personal life was almost non-existent; relationships among officers, and especially between officers and non-commissioned personnel, were frowned upon. She was not without some experience in such things, but she’d never had a serious relationship. Her professional life, although stellar by her captain’s estimation, began to wear on her. She’d been to many worlds, but she’d experienced little of them.

She came to a decision – hastily, as it turned out. Upon arrival at this end of the main, the time arrived for her to consider reenlistment. A captaincy was in the stars, as it were, but her heart was no longer there. Vee heard that one of their low berthed passengers was a retired senior captain, who had come here to claim his own ship. So, she resigned her commission, picked up a few items that she might need, and set off to find Senior Captain Wen Rodriguez.

Then, she fell into Gauvain Foix's orbit, or he fell into hers, and the rest is history :D
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Captain Anne Dubois, SCN (retired)

7B578D

Anne is a career officer, having spent 6 terms in the Confederate Navy, nothing is known about her prior to this.

A tall, slim, woman in her early 40's, Anne exudes the confident air of someone who has spent their life in the military. Short blond hair and striking ice blue eyes only add to her demeanour.

Anne is a specialist in both tactics (3) and engineering (3), and has published a number of papers on navy tactics (both classified and publicly available).

For formal occasions she wears her dress uniform, and a smart business pant-suit if less formal attire is required.
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Fleet Admiral (ret) Winnifred "Winnie" Pike, SCN

The old man has seen war up close, and led ships in the deepest of space. If you're Navy and you haven't heard stories of Old Winnie, you're not in the Navy. A social event on Alssijn becomes "right and proper" if Old Winnie makes it. Of course, men (married or not) attend those parties, as Old Winnie's beautiful (and single) daughter Julie is often in attendance.


Juliette "Julie" Pike

Beautiful, charming, and graceful. When they step into a social, Julie's arm rests lightly on Winnifred's. Soon, however, every man there seeks a word, or a dance. Once, a young bravado sought more; the black eye Juliette gifted him with was argument enough that some man has her heart. She has recently joined the entourage of Comte (Atreo) Foix, and is destined to charm every man on Birach.



Lady Perelandra

A working armed merchant in service to House Foix. Captain Jameison Smythe, commanding.
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Assistant Professor Baroness Joséphine Gabrielle Gericault, Age 34



A brilliant Scientist trying to save her sister despite her own ambition, jealousy and sometimes questionable empathy.

People know her as cold, proud but frighteningly intelligent, and that she is researching secrets that perhaps humans were not meant to know. There are rumors in some circles that Josephine manipulates Lysette to her own ends.

Lord Auguste Gericault, Josephine and Lysette's father, was a formidable scientific mind specializing in genetics. He was convinced that psionic development was the next great step for all of humankind. His theories on the origin, genetic linkage and activation of psionic ability were fringe ideas in the larger scientific community but he was convinced of his direction.

Lysette and Josephine were born minutes apart. They are fraternal rather than identical twins, despite bearing a strong resemblance between them. Instead of heirs, as their older brother Renee was, they were products of an experiment in genetic manipulation. Of the two of them, only Lysette possessed the potential their father was looking for, so Josephine was largely ignored. Lysette was gregarious, charismatic, charming and volatile, where Josephine was reserved, awkward and quiet. Josephine always looked after her sister, tempering her more risky exploits.

Josephine pursued science both out of natural aptitude and as a bid (unsuccessful) to win some of her father's affection and interest. She was recognized as a significant scientific talent, though warned away from her father's theories.

Josephine met Gauvain de Beauhernais a L’Espée Foix one evening when he romantically climbed onto the balcony of her room at their family estate, a rose between his teeth. Josephine, only having just arrived by shuttle that day and quite tired, woke up and panicked. Kidnapping attempts against her family were not entirely uncommon, after all.

She reflected later that, in the dim light of the room, disheveled from sleep, and having borrowed some ridiculously frilly nightdress from Lysette, her own luggage having gone missing from the port, Josephine must have looked nearly identical to her sister. The (admittedly fit and handsome) stranger advanced on her, piling up a bouquet of compliments and amorous suggestions that Josephine had only ever seen in novels. When he leaned in to claim a kiss from her, she overcame her shock. Unfortunately Foix found his subsequent shock somewhat harder to overcome as it came from a relatively powerful taser.

Her sister than burst into her room, finding the semi-conscious Foix at Josephine's feet, and Josephine realized this was another of her sister's love affairs. She rolled her eyes, then helped Lysette get the rugged fellow onto the nearby bed, then promptly left to sleep in Lysette's room. The next day she was introduced to the man properly after having endured a night of sleep constantly interrupted by the rather loud amorous adventures of her sibling. Though she found herself, as usual, rather tongue tied, he was equally as charming and charismatic as her sister.

The romance progressed at speed. Her father agreed to a marriage between the two not least to prop up the family finances which had suffered recently from Lord Gericault's bad investments in pursuit of his research. Though it was not the first time, it was the most intense episode of envy Josephine had ever contended with. She was in her sister's shadow yet again. Josephine kept the rose, found abandoned on her bedroom floor. Though if you asked her why, she couldn't have said exactly.

After their father passed, Josephine inherited his research and began to know just what it was her father had done to them. She was both repulsed and fascinated as she began to see the extent of his theories. When her sister wrote to her of trouble between her and her husband, Josephine went to stay with her, promising their mother that she would look out for her sister as she had always done.
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BMM-100644 A 200 dT Birach Merchant Marine hauler for the belters around Birach. Fitted with a reinforced front to allow moving of ships and space debris.

LT W Lefron, Captain

SLT A Lefron, First Officer
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Yevgenia Ilyanovna Kuryakhina

Zhenya to her friends.

A mercurial figure, whose appearance changes to match her milieu, she is generally unremarkable unless she wants to stand out. Aboard she keeps to herself, but is unfailingly polite and friendly to everyone, speaking with a distinct accent. Yevgenia has revealed little about herself beyond that she served as a diplomat, had some sort of minor position of responsibility in her families interests for a while. Now she is “retired” and “free to do what I want, not what I am told.”

When she joined the Lady Perelandra she was dressed in a smart business suit and had a substantial amount of luggage. For formal meals she appears in foreign-looking gowns.
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Lady Perelandra, Jameison Smythe, Captain

Comms/Sensor Ops Subensign Myung Fevre

Loadmaster CPO Clay Constant

Spacer Apprentice Ai McConnell
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Commander Ayanda Taheri, age 30 (human female, she/her)

Prefers to be called either Cmdr. Taheri, or Taheri. She thinks her giving name is too "chewy."

Tall, well muscled, medium skin tone, short black hair

Retired from the Star Confederation Navy, got out before body parts started getting damaged, or she felt like throttling a superior. Had many interesting adventures which will be added here as I make them up.

She met up with Foix and crew in the previous session. She was picked up from the planet with the Vargar temple, when the air/raft she was driving broke down. She was unable to repair it and was rescued.

(Player has forgotten many details.) She decided to throw her lot in with the Comte, and has been traveling with him a a body guard, etc. Beats being stranded on strange planets.

CCA897

A Navy jack of all trades:
Electronics 1
Engineer 1
Gunnery 1
JoT 1
Mechanical 1
Ship's boat 1
Vacc suit 1
Sword 1*
Laser rifle 1*

*edit, adjusted

If it breaks, she can usually fix it, with much cursing. She occasionally quotes an ancient playwright, with the odd name of "Shakespeare."
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SpinwardMarch wrote: Thu Jan 28, 2021 3:46 am Commander Ayanda Taheri

Retired Imperial Navy, met up with Foix in the previous session. She was picked up from the planet with the Vargar temple, when the air/raft she was driving broke down. (Player has forgotten many details.) She decided to throw her lot in with the Compte and has been traveling with him a a body guard, etc. Beats being stranded on strange planets.
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A simple game
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Looks like Josephine is in there twice
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lenusmars wrote: Sat Jan 30, 2021 5:50 pm Looks like Josephine is in there twice
The node between Sulin Hua and Shengli Hua is actually "Josephines grandmother", but the name got cut off due to size and export.
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Ah, yes, one of those games where an org chart is needed.

Not being a "local" does have its advantages. Cmdr. Taheri, or just Taheri (her preferred name, she is retired Navy, after all), didn't know any of these people before the air/raft incident. So she (refreshingly) doesn't have the emotional baggage associated with them. Occasionally, she will look at Foix and crew with one of those, "What did you just say?" looks. The looks are momentary, and she snaps back to Navy protocol.
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Still working it out, but a fuller image of Josephine.
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lenusmars wrote: Fri Feb 12, 2021 1:11 am Still working it out, but a fuller image of Josephine.
Very elegant :)
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#19 Post by shaidar »

How about this for Anne Dubois, a little young maybe...
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#20 Post by lenusmars »

That's a great image.
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