NEXUS CHRONICLES

Cold and ruthlessly efficient, Souad makes for an effective team leader, if a cruel one. She lacks empathy for others and shows no remorse when she places them in dangerous situations. People are pawns to her and she won't soon allow anyone to forget that. Souad keeps to herself, rarely socializing with her team on downtime, and remains a deeply private person who has no desire for popularity. All her interests lay in power and she's certain she can obtain that on her own. Wickedly observant and deadly quiet, Souad stalks the shadows of the station with both ears open for any information vital to her climb for promotion. She has no attachments, no embarrassments, and therefore no weaknesses of her own to be exploited. 

Or so she'd like to believe. 

Her lust for power and prestige has driven everything else out of her life. She has no true companions, no exploits or hobbies outside of her quest, and has promoted herself as a callous ice queen to further cement the divide between her and her peers. She wants no one. She needs no one. Only, dna deep her xenomorph alterations call for her to find a hive, to claim some people as her own... and she has. Not many, and not that she'd ever admit to it or act fondly toward them, but she has formed a deep attachment to several of her more competent squad mates. Josie and Ghenya have earned her respect and admiration. Souad is not a demonstrative person, but she enjoys their company like a cat might. Sitting quietly in their presence without truly interacting with them. 

Souad is wickedly intelligent and uses her shrewd mind to concoct the most conniving plans. Enemies beware, Souad holds nothing back, and she will weasel out your weaknesses. She demands perfection from her team and absolute obedience, but this is well earned. She has an immaculate track record for successful missions and a mind keen as any to dream up plans of attack. She is decisive and competent, never doubting her own leadership or faltering in the face of difficulty. 

Souad isn't forthcoming about her past. It's not bleak or upsetting, she simply has no desire to share an aspect of herself she considers dead. Her family were well-off, station born traders, and she lacked for nothing growing up. She has a small assortment of siblings and cousins whose company she enjoyed as a child, and dutiful parents who loved her dearly. But Souad was always... off. She was a loner, quiet and contemplative even when she was young, and showed little empathy for anyone around her. There were several incidents in her youth where she deeply troubled her parents: Cruelty toward other children, callousness in the face of reprimand, manipulating anyone she could get the tiniest scrap of dirt on.  

 Souad excelled at every task she put herself too, completing school with outstanding grades. Despite her parents' insistence that she follow in their footsteps and become a trader of diplomat, Souad knew precisely what route she wanted her life to take.  

 On her 18th birthday she enlisted with the Heimdall and left her family and comfortable life of riches behind.  

 She volunteered for Dr. Krum's genetic alteration program shortly after joining, for one reason: Power. The chance to obtain a form that would make her stronger, faster, nigh invincible against any opponent was too beautiful to pass up. Souad spends most of her time in xenomorph form, skulking in shadows and hiding in impossible places to acquire all sorts of juicy knowledge without anyone knowing she's there.  

 Although she's young, Souad has proven herself time and time again to her superiors and has the making of an officer, but her desire for power jeopardized her goals. She discovered (through meticulous research and observation) several of the Heimdall's officers stealing funds from the organization. Instead of bringing this information to internal investigations, she approached the officers in attempt to blackmail them. Her plans backfired. One officer scrubbed his records clean and put Souad in for a transfer to Recorix, an inhospitable ice planet, where she would live for several years while protecting a mining operation.  

 

Shapeshifting

from human to xenomorph form. Souad's xeno form is a copper-black warrior.

Wall Crawling

In xenomorph form, she can crawl on sheer surfaces and even upside down.

Acid Blood

She possesses acidic blood that can eat through most material, organic and inorganic. While this is most potent in her xenomorph form, her blood remains acidic even in human form, although much more dilute.

Recorix: RUIN

A small crew of Heimdall soldiers are hired to protect a mining operation on the inhospitable ice planet Recorix. Story contains swearing and violence.