Name: Katla, Natalcya.
Age: 33 years.
Ethnicity: Unclassifiable; originally Intaki (which she's still listed as in CONCORD's registries).
Height: Exactly 175 centimeters.
Weight: Varies by clone; the norm is 70 kilograms.
Eyes: Naturalistic-looking ocular implants; iris color is blue.
Hair: Ginger (shaved down to a stubble).
Katla was born and raised in the Gallente Federation. She graduated from the Federal Navy Academy near the bottom of her class and left Federal space soon afterwards, drifting from place to place and making a living as a freelance courier and miner, developing a serious drinking problem along the way.
After more than a year in voluntary exile, she returned briefly to Federal space to join the newly-started industrial corporation Krysalis in Placid, becoming a director of the corporation before it folded. She then left Federal space once more and returned to her old life as a drifter.
After largely vanishing from what very limited spotlight she'd been enjoying, she reappeared about six months later, sobered-up and straightened-up, at the head of a fresh corporation named Astropolitan Front. She claimed to have "found herself" during a stay in Yulai, and preached a new philosophy she claimed to have developed during this flash of identity-shaping insight. This philosophy, which she called "Astropolitanism", held that off-worlders from all across "civilized" (CONCORD-monitored) space were developing a common culture, and could be united into a nation unto themselves, with CONCORD poised to serve in a crucial leadership role if it would only "come into its own". The enemies of this potential new world order were identified as the various planetary governments who still tried to impose their cultural values and political agendas upon the off-worlders. The proposed solution to this "dirtling problem" was a quarantine of every single inhabited planet at the hands of CONCORD after their supposed ascent to power, backed up with the threat of planetary annihilation (often referred to in Astropolitanist rhetorics as giving someone a "Reschard Sunrise"). The mode of government in this proposed new state was envisioned by Katla to be one of fascism, and she openly declared herself a supporter of such.
The movement and corporation enjoyed limited success at best. While recruitment rates were initially high, turnover rates for capsuleer personnel were equally high, and the number of active pilots at any single time was low. The outbreak of war between the great powers of the cluster and CONCORD's passing of the Emergency Militia War Powers Act proved to be the final nail in the coffin of an already disintegrating movement and corporation. Katla left Yulai under controversial circumstances, apparently having lost most of what little influence she'd had with employees of CONCORD proper. Soon after, she resurfaced as a member of the Sansha Loyalist corporation Naqam, where she remains to this day.
Upon joining Naqam, Katla at first grew ever more insular, anti-social and rigid, her need for order and control developing into a truly debilitating cluster of phobias and OCD, and her demeanor against other people in conversations becoming increasingly hostile.
Recently, however, Katla seems to have undergone a profound personality change. She's become a much more relaxed and amiable person, seems to have overcome many of her psychological issues, and has begun to socialize with other people again. She has even claimed that she's through with politics, although careful observers will note that she still seems to have soft spots for both Sansha's Nation and for CONCORD. And as of yet, she's made no indication of planning to leave Naqam.
Tidbits:
- Katla has traditionally preferred to be addressed with her last name only, but has grown to care less and less what people call her or how they address her.
- Katla has only once in her life broken a CONCORD law, even after joining Naqam. That one spot on her record continues to irritate her, even though she doesn't regret the action itself.
- Katla is an atheist (though she acknowledges the existence of the Amarrian God as a legal construct).
- Katla has traditionally shown little respect for dead people, whatever their achievements or sacrifices might have been, regarding it as pointless to honor the memories of "people who no longer exist".
- Katla is fond of using a legal approach to existential questions; for example, a capsuleer dying and waking up in a new clone is still the same person, "because the law clearly says so". She argues that the law is the only thing which can give anything resembling a "true" answer to fundamentally subjective existential questions. If the law has no answer, then the question is "irrelevant" or can be answered with "whatever you decide".
- Katla is a self-admitted coward. Even though she likes dressing up in uniform to look like a soldier, she's barely useful in a space fight and completely useless in any kind of out-of-pod combat.
- Katla has a weakness for red wine and hot dogs.
- Katla does not like animals. She does like drones, but has learned to be wary of those which are built or modified by Izzy.
- Katla is often a hypocrite. She is also often honest about being one.
...yes, I'm long-winded. Deal with it.
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