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Oct. 1st, 2025 05:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
not_scrap Nyla was shipborn--born on a generation ship. Maybe that's why she never feels fully comfortable planetside. As a child, she was a vent-crawler, exploring the ship through vents and by that, seeing some things that she probably shouldn't have seen in terms of violence, criminal activity, and other ways people can be horrible. It made her resilient and resourceful, though, and her fairly negligent parents (she stayed out of their way, they got to forget they had a kid) finally remembered her existence when she got a scholarship to go to medical school. Suddenly, they were so proud! Suddenly, they were so excited to have her!
She left the generation ship the next time it docked, just...walked right off with a carrysack, and never looked back.
Fortunately, that shipdoctor certifiction made finding jobs really easy! Unfortunately, the jobs she got starting out tended to be pretty grim, with a lot of industrial accidents and people begging her not to write them as unable to work, because they'd lose their entirelivelihood! Moral dilemma time.
She resolved that one day, she would be her own boss, and she'd never put her crew in that sort of situation. If she had a crew, and they got injured, she would do her best to take care of them. She couldn't promise fabulous retirement on a paradise planet--because heck, she can't even promise that for herself!--but she would do her best.
Her ship is...not much. The cheapest one available from Grave, ithas the basic yellow and black hazard striping, and so many people saw the warning card 'do not scrap' that they thought it was the ship's name (it's not) so...it has more or less become the ship's name. She is Nyla Vereca, Captain of the Do Not Scrap. So be it. It's still a ship, it's still spaceworthy, and as long as the contracts come in, she can keep flying.
Her first crewmate was the Unsouled Rauth. He could have done so much better than the posting on her very squiffy ship, but he took it, insisting he would not mind the boring missions, stating he wanted only peace and space to pray.
She's always suspected he was running from something.
Siefer is her engineer and muscle, brash and cocky Life's never boring around him, because he doesn't tolerate boredom. With Daime, her hypdroponics and life support expert, she had enough crew to fly, and take whatever missions came her way.
She preferred to take science and research contracts, because, hey, space is about exploration, just not the boring generation ship kind her parents are on. But recently, after a bad run in on a random salvage operation (a former friend became an enemy), she fell on some hard times--the ship was barely spaceworthy, Siefer was injured, and (sigh) she was forced to contract with the military, shuttling their mysterious and very sullen forces to some really shady areas.
They did pay for a full refit of her ship, though, so she can't really complain. Much.
She left the generation ship the next time it docked, just...walked right off with a carrysack, and never looked back.
Fortunately, that shipdoctor certifiction made finding jobs really easy! Unfortunately, the jobs she got starting out tended to be pretty grim, with a lot of industrial accidents and people begging her not to write them as unable to work, because they'd lose their entirelivelihood! Moral dilemma time.
She resolved that one day, she would be her own boss, and she'd never put her crew in that sort of situation. If she had a crew, and they got injured, she would do her best to take care of them. She couldn't promise fabulous retirement on a paradise planet--because heck, she can't even promise that for herself!--but she would do her best.
Her ship is...not much. The cheapest one available from Grave, ithas the basic yellow and black hazard striping, and so many people saw the warning card 'do not scrap' that they thought it was the ship's name (it's not) so...it has more or less become the ship's name. She is Nyla Vereca, Captain of the Do Not Scrap. So be it. It's still a ship, it's still spaceworthy, and as long as the contracts come in, she can keep flying.
Her first crewmate was the Unsouled Rauth. He could have done so much better than the posting on her very squiffy ship, but he took it, insisting he would not mind the boring missions, stating he wanted only peace and space to pray.
She's always suspected he was running from something.
Siefer is her engineer and muscle, brash and cocky Life's never boring around him, because he doesn't tolerate boredom. With Daime, her hypdroponics and life support expert, she had enough crew to fly, and take whatever missions came her way.
She preferred to take science and research contracts, because, hey, space is about exploration, just not the boring generation ship kind her parents are on. But recently, after a bad run in on a random salvage operation (a former friend became an enemy), she fell on some hard times--the ship was barely spaceworthy, Siefer was injured, and (sigh) she was forced to contract with the military, shuttling their mysterious and very sullen forces to some really shady areas.
They did pay for a full refit of her ship, though, so she can't really complain. Much.
But Rauth reminded her, that contracts with the military often have a lot of fine print.
Nyla is 5'2", and albino--a mutation from the conditions on her generation-ship. It does give her superior night vision but a hypersensitivity to bright lights, she often manages by tying a scarf over her eyes.
