Name: Mia Ilo
Species: Tiefling / Human female
Age: 23
Heigh: 1,65m
Appearence: She is in very good physical shape and used to be on the move and work a lot. Her skin can be described as tanned but also has a slightly ashen or gray touch to it. She has black hair, that she keeps short and usually bound into a ponytail to keep it out of her eyes. She has short, back-swept horns, long pointed ears and a very flexible prehensile tail. She also has pointed fangs and generally sharp teeth.
Personality: Generally Mia is alert and curious. Her upbringing in an orphanage and the mistrust she often faced as a tiefling made her appear introverted and weary of others. But her desire to belong somewhere and to have a place where she would feel safe and valued makes her seek out exactly the sort of situations she would feel a bit uncomfortable to be in. What in turn can lead for her to be easily irritated. Especially by people who act strangely and seem to be focused their attention on her. Her heavily goth leaning outfits can be easily seen as a way to keep a distance from other people.
Even when she wants to have a good life and to respect the laws and just live her life, she has a strong sense for social injustice and dislike for corporations. This can make her sympathetic towards anti-corporate movements and ideas. She is also mistrustful of religions and similar believe systems.
Education: She has good general education and has picked up many skills around engineering, mechanics and computers. She is naturally gifted in controlling machines, driving and piloting. As she is observant and reads a lot, she has picked up many other bits of knowledge over time.
Notable skills: Mia is an expert pilot and driver and very skilled with machines and computers.
Backstory: Mia was born somewhere in the Industrial Hive – Mining District 4 Area 952 Level 524 on the planet Tiphars 4 in the Tiphars system. The whole system is heavily developed with mining and industrial hives and stations and is run by an alliance of dwarven clans who colonized the system and set up their operations there. It is mostly specialised in extraction of raw materials and heavy industry and has drawn in billions of workers and countless businesses from all over the inhabited space.
Where Mia was born exactly or who her parents are is unknown. She was left in a orphanage at an early age and there are no records about who her parents have been. The only fact that Mia knows is, that her mother was human. And probably someone from the upper levels of the hive who left her in the orphanage out of shame of having a tiefling daughter.
The truth however is, that her father was a being from the plane called The Iron Perdition. He fled the place and stole a soul from the Tyrants ruling the place. The Iron Perdition is a world of gears, chains, and eternal enslavement, where souls are forged into tools, weapons, and machines. Where identity is stripped away and everyone are turned into obedient constructs. And the Tyrants do not want to let any of their subjects, and even less, their creations escape. The deeds of Mias Father enraged the Tyrants, but he managed to evade them as he fled into the material plane. There, he seduced Mias mother in order to bring the soul to the world and have her be born, while he himself fled on, drawing the hunters the Tyrants send after him away from the place where Mia now was. But even with that, she is still tied to Perdition. She can not escape it and while she has no idea of it, Perditions hunters might still find her, seeking to test her, drag her back and force them into Perditions designs. She might be tempted with power or corrupted since there is no telling what the Tyrants might have in store for her. And she is still connected to the place through her soul and that is a bond the Tyrants and their hunters can use to get to her.
The hunters eventually caught up with her father, but she remain hidden.
So Mia grew up within the spanish speaking community of workers in the mining hive. She got her education, did the odd jobs here and there, chased after money and eventually started to collect work experience. She was involved with some illegal activity, some anti-corporate groups and had her run-ins with the law. But the law in the hive is a thing in itself. The dwarven security force usually only troubles themselves with things that threatens the integrity of the whole operation and the rest is left to locally hired mercenaries and sometimes even gangs. So she usually managed to wiggle her way out of anything serious and learned quickly how to evade the worse situations. Developing both her work experience, skills in piloting machines and her general knowledge.
And she quickly developed the dream of being a pilot and have her own ship. But the Tiphars was, in her opinion, already full. And she did not thought that hiring on with some military of mercenary force. That sort of life had way too many rules and she would not be allowed to fly as she liked. People called her “Tail” when she was a kid and she even decided, that once she has a ship, that will be her callsign as she remembers the few friends she had as a kid fondly and, even when it was not an easy life, she still thinks that it was good for the most part.
Following her dream, she left the hive when she was 18, having managed to get enough money saved up to pay for a flying license. Her quick mind and uncanny ability to understand anything that can be piloted helped her in blasting through the course and she soon started to fly shuttles between mining stations in order to earn money for the next part of her journey. Doing some smuggling along the way allowed her to get enough money, so that three years later, she managed to get away and out of the system.
She bounced around a few of the nearby systems searching for a place she would feel like she would belong to, doing mechanic and piloting jobs along the way. But never anything stable as she still looked for a place that would make her feel like she would be at home and have chances to grow.
It did not took too long however, at the age of 22, that she got spotted by a member of a ship crew who quickly managed to recruit her. Sadly, on the very first voyage, one of the officers on the ship got handsy and tried to get her into bed with him. She shot it down, but felt, that she would not be able to stay on that crew. So she left again and this time found a more promising opportunity.
It might not have sounded fully legal, but it promised money and the idea to be a part of a crew. Something she wanted to become a part of as the small group on a ship was much more to her liking then the crowds of people that she lived between back where she came from. So she was not too picky, even after her first experience, and hired on … only to discover, that it was not a smugglers ship, but the pirate vessel known as “The Hangman”, run by the infamous Captain Francesca Diego and that the cargo the ship had loaded consisted of slaves.
Being who she is, she argued, that she has not signed up for that. But she could not leave any more and the pirates only laughed at her arguments, throwing her into a cell and telling her, that if she does not smarten up and join them, she would be sold together with the slaves once they arrive at the market.
The Hangman however never made it to its destination as it was ambushed by a Capy patrol ship that was out on piracy patrol. The pirates tried to flee and in the chaos of the fight and everyone busy with trying to make the engines go even faster, Mia managed to get out of the cell and she used her understanding of computers and machines to get through the ship and into the captains shuttle.
She undocked it and fled, dodging the incoming fire. But she could not avoid it all and got hit several times, forcing her to divert to the next inhabited planet. Luckily, the patrol ship was busy with the pirates and their captain decided, that they would look for the shuttle later. They even put it off for now as they have noticed, that the pirate ship was shooting at it too.
But Mia had the problem, that she was in a shuttle that was loosing all power and was plunging down towards the surface of a planet that was coming closer with very high speed. In her paniced search for anything that would help her, she found the captains chest, that was hidden on the ship. And inside, aside of money, a gun, and a set of false identities the captain had set up for herself, she also found a nano-injector meant to inject her with a nanite factory and turn her into a nanocyte. An experimental device that was stolen from a corporate research laboratory and was worth more money then Mia has ever imagined she could have. But she could not sell it and did not even knew what it was. But the container had a label and it did said, that it can heal injuries and strengthen the body against attacks or other trauma. And with the shuttle still falling, she injected it.
At least, that is what she thinks as she has a memory gap between finding the chest and pulling the shuttle up to avoid diving nose down into the ground when she manages to restart the engines for a last boost before they would die for good.
She managed to land well enough to walk away from the crash with the things she looted from the captains chest and run away before anyone could come to check on the shuttle or the patrol ship would come back. As she thought, that the Capy would surely consider her part of the pirate crew.
She managed to get to the next settlement and with the money she got, she booked a ticket out system and made a run for it. And eventually she spotted the information about the planet Gulion and decided to go there as it looked promising to maybe offer the chance for her to finally start the sort of life she always wanted.
Of course, the pirate captain escaped the Capys wrath and is just as much looking for Mia as is the corporation that originally created the nanite-injector.