Capsuleer name: Lupe Jimenez
Birth name: Fai-Lin Marmol Kaidan
Gender: Female
Race: Achura/Vherokior [father/mother]
Birthplace: Aboard the
Creator's Vision Heron-class frigate
Age: 33
Age of clones: 30
Date of Birth: June 8, 82 YC
Height: 5'7
Weight: 130 lbs
Hair: Dark blue
Eyes: Blind
Blood Type: O
Education: Science and Trade Institute -- B.S. in Astrogeology (YC 102 - YC 107)
State War Academy -- Starship Engineering with Capsuleer Training (YC 109 - YC 112)
Family:Shanji Kaidan (father, YC 47 - YC 94)
Larina Jimenez (mother, YC 63 -, living on Rairomon IV)
Biography: 'Lupe Jimenez' (birth name Fai-Lin) was born to a rather unlikely pairing: an Achuran father and a Vherokior mother. Her father was the commander of the Heron-class frigate Creator's Vision, an explorer ship in an Achuran fleet that was one of the many sent out to find the stolen pieces of the Rod of the Creator and bring it back to the Achur. While traveling through the Amarr Empire on their way to an unexplored region of deep space, the
Creator's Vision docked in a space station above a settled Amarr planet, refueling and restocking the ship (generously paying the Amarr for their hospitality, of course). While on the planet, he visited an Amarr dignitary's home and observed the Minmatar slaves working there. One of them, a Vherokior woman, caught the Achur man's eye; he believed her fit enough to serve as an extra bit of help on the ship, so he offered a substantial amount of money to take her off of the man's hands. The dignitary agreed (likely using the money to buy more slaves to replace her anyway), and he took her aboard his ship where she served as a captain's assistant. Over the years, their relationship blossomed, and after a while they had a daughter, whom they named Fai-Lin.
The first twelve years of Fai-Lin's life were spent entirely on the
Creator's Vision; while the ship did dock regularly, Fai-Lin was not allowed to leave the ship for fear of getting lost or hurt. While her father did love her as any father would their daughter, his job as ship commander and his duties to the Achur exploratory fleet at large kept the two of them apart mostly, despite the fact that he was never more than meters away. Fai-Lin's mother thus took on the job of raising her, and as a result Fai-Lin took to her mother very well, despite the fact she was a Minmatar ex-slave on a Caldari ship.
At the age of twelve, disaster struck. The Achur fleet, having been relocated to the Caldari Border Zone briefly with intent to launch a new expedition, was attacked by a small Gallente fleet. The fleet's security detail fought bravely, but against a Federation Navy fleet, the exploratory fleet was sorely outmatched. They held out long enough for Caldari Navy patrols in the area to converge and drive back the Gallente, but in the firefight, the
Creator's Vision was destroyed. When the ship was hit, an explosion in the engine room blew out a good chunk of the ship, and a bit of shrapnel that flew inside the remaining part of the ship hit Fai-Lin, mangling her eyes and face and blinding her. Fai-Lin, her mother and various crew members managed to get to the escape pods on the ship, but Fai-Lin's father and many of the not-so-lucky crew members of the
Creator's Vision perished along with the ship.
The Caldari State gave Fai-Lin and her mother a relatively generous stipend in recognition of her father's service; Fai-Lin's mother stretched the money to buy medical care for her daughter in the wake of the explosion, and while Fai-Lin was *mostly* fixed up, the blindness was irreversible biologically. After the procedure was done, her mother bought a home in the Rairomon system and secured a job for herself working for Caldari Steel. While the conditions were less-than-stellar, it still put a roof over their heads and a little more money saved each year for the next eight years. Between stipend savings and salary earnings, Fai-Lin and her mother made enough money to get Caldari Steel to send the young, blind adult to the Science and Trade Institute, where she received a degree in Astrogeology in order to mine materials for Caldari Steel's factories.
Memories of life as a ship captain's daughter, however, compelled her to find a career that dealt more with ships than astrogeology did, and after two years she attended the State War Academy; during the screening process, SWA physicians discovered she had the genetic make-up and the biological integrity (aside from blindness) to go through their own version of the capsuleer program, which gave her a rigorous education in ship piloting and weapons operation, in addition to her expertise in Starship Engineering. She graduated three years after attending the SWA as a capsuleer engineer. At her graduation and registration into the capsuleer database, she elected to register her name as Lupe Jimenez, taking on her mother's last name and the nickname her mother gave her as a first name.
Upon graduation, the State War Academy fitted Lupe out with standard capsuleer implants, plus an implant specialized for her; a neural implant connected to the visual cortex of her brain, which in turn connected to a small camera implanted in her forehead (think Indian bindi forehead decorations), allowing her to circumvent her blindness for whenever she was outside of her pod. For the first time in nineteen years, she could see again...sort of. Through a camera lens.
Personality: Lupe is unlike most Achurans in that she's not intensely spiritual; while she knows a fair bit about Achur philosophy from her childhood, she hasn't kept herself acquainted with it for just over twenty years now. Instead, she has a very simple, "hands-on" approach to life, believing that the best solution to a problem is the simplest and most direct one. If something can be shrunk down and made more simple and efficient, it should be.
Consequently, she's very much in favor of individualism, putting her at odds with the Caldari philosophy of state first, the Amarr philosophy of God first, as well as the Minmatar philosophy of tribe first (although she very much sympathizes with the Minmatar rebellion and their cause). However, even though the Gallente promote individualism and liberty, she still despises them utterly for nearly destroying her life and taking her father from her.
Notes and stuff: I've played the game on and off since 2008, but this is my first time trying to get into the lore of EVE itself, so there's probably a fair amount of mistakes in here (naming conventions being the big one most likely). This character's still a bit of a WIP, but hopefully the above character sheet wasn't too text-wally or bad!
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