Stories
Recorix: Ruin
A small crew of Heimdall soldiers are hired to protect a mining operation on the inhospitable ice planet Recorix.
Story contains swearing, violence, and misgendering of a cis character.
Planet Zar: Nexus
Ghenya
STANDING AT KOSHI KEIDAI
BASICS
| Name | Ghenya Geggorok | Gender | Female |
|---|---|---|---|
| Species | Batarian | Pronouns | she/her |
| Age | 30 | Height: | 5'2" |
| Residence | The Heimdall; Recorix | Rank | Corporal |
Personality
Ghenya does what she must to keep afloat, but her pride keeps her from drudging too low in the totem pole. While she doesn't have high aspirations for herself, she wants a comfortable life and would like to be regarded as someone worth knowing. In order to do so, she's picked up a myriad of unsavory talents, including weapons proficiency and a ruthless lack of empathy for anyone outside her tight knit social circle. She's been mercenary long before she ever joined the Blue Suns or the Heimdall, and no longer suffers a single pang of sympathy for the poor souls she's hired to kill. She doesn't get any particular amount of pleasure from it either, she's not a murderer. It's business, is all, and she's here to make money, not friends.Having restarted her life over more than once, Ghenya is wickedly resourceful and resilient. She's bounced back from loss and trauma without a second glance, knowing full well she's avoided her own demise by the skin of her teeth. If it comes down to saving herself or literally anyone else, family including, she's going to choose her own hide. Once she's part of something she'll never do anything to purposefully destroy it, she's not into subterfuge on her own doorstep, but her first loyalty is to herself.
Despite all this, Ghenya is a deeply lonely individual. She's had to harden herself against social ties after losing friends, family, and lovers, but that empty space in her heart aches. She longs for people to call her own and tends to think of her squadmates as a little cadre of companions. Dangerous thinking, people die in mercenary outfits. Despite her best efforts, Ghenya gets easily attached to those she spends enough time with to gain a personal understanding. She wants to be liked and this desperation drives her into awkward social interactions.
With no desire for a leadership role and a deep need to be accepted, Ghenya has no problem cooperating with any team she's made part of. She doesn't like making command decisions, although she's intelligent and quick thinking enough to do it when she's in a tight spot. If plans go awry, she wants to know someone else it to blame.
Background
As with most batarians, Ghenya grew up in isolation from the rest of the galaxy, under the rule of the Hegemony. Her family were poor laborers and she had several siblings that went off to work at a young age. Many died in harsh factory conditions, but Ghenya and her parents considered themselves lucky. While they were poor, at least they had their freedom, and they worked hard to keep it. A large chunk of their meager profits went to paying for status in batarian society in order to help keep their noses above water. Ghenya was a quiet, hard working girl, who strives to please her parents and her superiors. She never made a fuss.The death of her parents changed that. They were killed over a financial dispute by the very group of batarians they'd been paying for status. Their murders were brutal and happened in front of their remaining children. Ghenya and her siblings hid. Orphans were often dragged into slavery and they would rather live on the streets than deal with that harsh life. Most, including Ghenya, escaped. Some did not. Realizing the horrors of her life, Ghenya determined to make something better of herself. She wouldn't die a status-less factory worker, as her parents did. She continued her day job, such as it was, but got involved in information trafficking and running scams. She created a tidy nest egg through this, and when she reached adulthood she bought herself a ticket on a slave raiding vessel and entered Alliance space. She never looked back.
Ghenya was quickly snatched up as a recruit for the Blue Suns - a mercenary organization toting themselves as 'bodyguards for hire.' She made decent enough money working for the Blue Suns and kept herself away from the most dangerous jobs. Head down, gun up, that's her motto. She enjoyed the company of the other renegade batarians on her crew, where status was bought with kills and proficiency as much as it was with money. She formed deep bonds for the first time outside of her own family, creating a small cadre of close friends. Eventually one of those friends, another batarian Upetia Dhog'goros, became a lover. Upetia had grown up on Khar'shan, the batarian home planet, as a slave. She killed her masters and escaped to Alliance space where she found most of the alliance races cruel and unwelcoming to a batarian.
Ghenya learned how to get good at her job, becoming proficient in long range weapons, hand to hand combat, and tech forgeries. Eventually her growing skills caught the eyes of her commanders and she was sent on a high risk, high reward, covert mission. As with all missions requiring discretion, her blue suns tattoo was removed with an acid wash. Her team was made up of a myriad of batarians, humans, and turians, who were asked to assassinate some key figures researching Reapers and habitation options outside of the milky way. They were to bring all information they discovered back to the person who hired him.
The mission went poorly. Someone tipped off the scientists. Many of Ghenya's team mates were killed, the others; captured. Through quick thinking and quicker wits, Ghenya separated herself from her team and crawled into a maintenance shaft where she waited for the firefight to end. She watched as Upetia fought bravely to the very end, refusing to be imprisoned. Ghenya saw her die, and did nothing.
Once the chaos calmed, Ghenya crawled the the loading dock and snuck aboard a skiff. She was brought to the Citadel, where she introduced herself as a refugee from the Batarian Hegemony. With no alliance identification and no Blue Suns marks, she fit easily among the throngs of batarians already seeking asylum.
Shortly after arriving at the citadel, she and several other refugees were approached by a hanar diplomat, offering passage outside the Milky Way to anyone with useful skills. Ghenya volunteered, eager for another start. She'd lost everything in her life twice now, what difference would it make to leave the galaxy?
She boarded the hanar vessel Sails Between Stars and started the long journey to a distant home.
When she awoke decades later, she found herself in the Nexus, docking at Mwari station. This new world was completely different to everything she'd known before. Mwari station was some kind of socialist dream, the entire opposite of the batarian hegemony. She was offered free lodging and necessities without any questions asked. As with most of the travelers on Sails Between Stars, she was granted an interview with cultural diplomats on Mwari station in order to help her best fit in with her new life. She could do any sort of manual labor or factory work, but her tech trading and forgery skills were obsolete in this new world. And she didn't want to go back to her old life as a drudge.
All the skills she'd acquired working for the Blue Suns were still relevant. Ghenya was polite enough during her interview but left without requesting a job transfer. Everyone needed a mercenary and she'd find out who. The search was not as difficult as she imagined it might be. There, floating near Mwari Station, was the Heimdall - a military research vessel... and mercenary organization. Ghenya couldn't believe her luck. She found recruiters on Mwari station and became the first batarian to join the Heimdall's crew.
Ghenya proved to be a ruthless, efficient asset to the Heimdall, and quickly rose in rank to sergeant. She currently resides on the inhospitable ice planet Recorix, hired along with a small team to guard mines from the planet's native inhabitants.
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