Age: 37
Gender: Female
Skills: Combat and field medic, specialty in triage and psy-conditioning.
Equipment: Sescia caries her triage and field surgeon kits with her everywhere, along with a phase pistol which she is very capable with.
Psychic Abilities: Known as a human lie detector Sescia can identify and feel minute chemical changes in the human body. This helps her make various medical assessments at a glance and can sometime help her track the biological conditions of her subjects as well as determine when they are being intentionally evasive. While she is not a mind reader or an empath specific chemical changes can help her register impulses like fear, aggression, and lust. Her heightened abilities also allow her some rational control over her own chemical processes which in times of need allow her to manipulate them to a limited degree. Such as willing endorphins or adrenaline to release if she's injured, suppressing chemical based emotional responses, and slowing or speeding up her own heart rate. The advantage includes being able to control her reactions to injury and to be resistant to psy based manipulations. Sometimes though she can use her own abilities to create emotional barriers between herself and others. In very rare life or death situations Sescia can manipulate the chemical functions of others but only when she has truly been driven to the edge of her fight or flight impulse.
Personality
Sescia is quick to action, thorough, and cautious. Just as capable as most men she's somewhat more aggressive than typically deemed ladylike but then that's more or less because of all the crap she typically has to deal with as a medic. Her bedside manner is abrasive but her skills are exceptional so her patients generally don't mind a little back talk as they get sewn up. She's also got a temper which is made all the more frightening by the fact that she has such good control over her chemical impulses. If she aims her gun at you even in passing you should be aware that she may just use it whether your her enemy or not. Typically though there is an aura of cool rationality about her that most people find they can depend on. Sescia doesn't sugar coat things and will lay her opinions straight.
Her cool demeanor hides intense sensitivity and emotional vulnerability which she's also not afraid to air when something moves her. Unlike some women who try to stay in emotional control, Sescia has been known to freely cry and show a wide range of human emotion in front of others, although people shouldn't mistaken such displays as weakness because she's more than capable of feeling and doing at the same time. Sescia deeply resents and takes issue with people who use their Psy abilities to hurt and manipulate others and she can be exceptionally cruel to those who come across her table that do. To violate the mind is likened to violating the soul and Sescia will not abide it.
Ironically Sescia is very good with children and animals now doubt because they trust her. Animals in particular understand Sescia on a chemical level and typically will bond with her quickly. She's also quick to pick up alien physiology because of her abilities and has fairly good negotiation skills when their called for. Deep down she really does care about most living things and will uphold her basic commandments as a medic and humanist.
History
Born on one of the newer colony planets Sescia lived the hard life of a pioneer. Her parent were ecological scientists with origins in eastern Europe. Life in the colony was often hard and unforgiving and there were many season where there was some debate over if the colony would be able to self sustain. When sescia was sixteen and epidemic broke out killing many. As one of the few able bodies people seemingly not affected by the disease Sescia was recruited by the med teams and taught triage and field medicine as they went. Within six months almost everyone perished or fled. Sescia survived because of her unique abilities that naturally fraught off the epidemic and ultimately rendered her immune as the strain mutated. Of the 600 people that settled in the colony more than 2/3 perished. The rest fled. Ultimately Sescia was left alone to bury and burn the remaining dead who did not have anyone else to dispose of them. Sescia personally nursed a buried the last 150 men, women, and children personally. Eventually the colony was put under quarantine and Sescia was left alone among the ghost colony for nearly five years.
It was a horrible and lonely existence. Sescia spent most of her time trying to maintain the colony's technology and data bases in the event that the quarantine was lifted and people returned, In that time she taught herself many things. Eventually mercenaries and thieves did come forcing Sescia to leverage the colony's remaining resources to preserve her existence. In many cases her extensive medical knowledge saved her life as visitors were less likely to waste someone who knew the secrets of the colony. Some who defied the quarantine feel ill and when they died Sescia buried them and took possession of their equipment. Her knowledge grew and using her own tissues eventually Sescia was able to distill a serum to help treat the illness. eventually not all visitors who contracted the illness died from it thanks to her.
Sescia survived on the failed colony for almost ten years before the quarantine was finally lifted and legitimate human scientists returned. Upon discovering Sescia her experiences and abilities were thoroughly documented and ultimately she was recruited into the PSCEA.
