Name: Alyss Shepard
Age: 27
Date of Birth: 13th February
Place of Birth: Sector Twelve, Alpha Tau System, Starship Nynaeve
Gender: Female
Race: Human
Profession: Mercenary
Ancestry: Military



Implants: Alyss has been implanted with physical enhancements, granting her increased bone strength - she could be hit by a car and emerge without a single broken limb - as well as implants in her extremities that allow her to discharge electrical charges and bolts within a moderate radius. Her final implant is in her skull, giving her a personal HUV display that she can access with thoughts, displaying information and helping with weapon targeting.



Carnifex Hand Cannon: A high powered and extremely accurate pistol, firing armour and shield piercing rounds, capable of punching through military grade armour, barely even noticing metals such as steel.

Viper Rifle: An automatic sniper rifle, with a twelve round clip, firing incendiary rounds.

Dual Shredder Machine Pistols: Automatic, 32 round clip machine pistols, firing armour piercing rounds.

OmniTool: Versatile technological gadget, worn on the back of the hand to form a holographic glove. Can serve as a phone, a computer, link into HUVs, and serve as a small scale gravity manipulator to lift objects up to the size of a cabinet or sofa (for example). Other functions are provided, but nothing I can be bothered to list (or is significant enough to need it).

Personality: Calm and controlled, Alyss rarely lets her temper get the better of her; though this is not to say she is a nice person, she is simply considerate and focused in her unpleasantness, nor does it mean she does not get angry, she simply does not explode in a rage. Anger might cause her to kill, but this would not be due to loss of temper, simply an utter disregard for life. The Sanctity of Life does not have a place in the mercenary assassin business, and it is an alien concept to her.

History: The daughter of a soldier and a criminal, Alyss' father - a captain in the Terran Fleet - was naturally unable to remain with her mother, an information broker, due to the connotations such a relationship would have for his career, and so Alyss did not meet her father throughout her childhood, raised only by her mother and her mother's ring of contacts. She was treated well by all of them, an indulgence of the normally hard and calculated criminals' soft sides. When she came of age, Alyss decided that she should take it upon herself to better serve her mother, and so arranged training with an assassin in her mother's employ, learning combat and subtlety. She soon became a valuable asset of the broker, eliminating those who stood in her path as easily as her teacher, and for no further pay than praise. Eventually, however, the desire to branch forth naturally occurred, and the young woman signed on to a mercenary organisation, serving several years in the ranks of the Dark Moon Mercenaries, before eventually earning enough of a reputation that she could effectively operate as a freelancer, charging exorbitant amounts for the toughest of missions, and this is where we find her today.