RE: [Rage at the Eclipse] - The First Phase
12-22-2018, 04:38 PM
Name: Lucy Lilburn
Species: Modified Human
Description: 5'6" with straight black hair, light brown skin and dark brown eyes. Wears a black suit, white shirt, black skirt, tie and shoes with white socks, very office looking, with a more casual spin in terms of style. Wears shades often. Quite MiBish. Unknown age, looks to be about 20s. Wears two golden rings with different signets on them.
Bio: Lucy was part of a... well, her story begins about 50 years before she was born. A galactic spanning cult/corporation began a program, collecting various embryos from various xenos races, bringing them to a hidden planet where an ancient artifact known as The Gate was located. There, the embryos were seeded with a combination of radiations and electromagnetic signals from The Key, another artifact found nearby The Gate. Over the 5 decades of collecting embryos, Lucy was the first successful embryo in that A. she didn't immediately become sterile or explode and B. didn't appear to be horrifically mutated mid-process. After that, she was raised by the cult, known as the Seekers of the Silver City, or just Seekers. The Gate was seeming some sort of precursor artifact or some other kind of nonsense, the Seekers didn't really know much actually, in all their time working on researching the dead planet and it's artifacts, the furthest they'd gotten was to the point of activating The Key and interacting with the Keyhole, which they'd managed to decode into a hellishly difficult and incomprehensible collection of constantly changing code and jargon, but, The Key had made someone with the ability to make sense of the code, theoretically. Someone whose mind could rapidly change to become the perfect machine for reading and manipulating the information filtered by it.
The main problem, was that whilst Lucy did have the possible ability to reach the potential of being able to sort out the code and make sense of it, in the code with pit-traps of knowledge, where Lucy had to temporarily learn some new area of mathematics or astronomy and such which set her back in her focus, meaning she had to begin again, but with the new knowledge to step over that particular area of code. It was like navigating a huge maze of information, seeking out some far off point. But even then, the far off point they were looking for was one point out of a million others. To make a darts analogy, Lucy had the ability to throw the dart far enough to hit the board, but it was a crapshot of whether or not she would even hit the bulls-eye apparently.
Eventually, the corporation began using Lucy to deal with other problems that came their way, financial predictions, breaking into virtual vaults, cyber-security, etc, and Lucy slowly became aware of a schism in the group. One half was focused on the more mundane matters, money and infrastructure and power. The other was focused still on cracking open The Gate and forming their religion of seeking a higher reality, focusing on people and politics and power. The Keyhole was still being used to test more embryos, but only one more embryo had shown any promise at the time where, action happened. A splinter group kidnapped Lucy from the planet of The Gate, a group more focused on the material side of things apparently, and got her out of there amidst a mess of violence and explosions, most likely crippling a lot of the work Lucy had done over the years. Still, she didn't have much love for anyone in the Seekers of the Silver City, regardless of their side of the schism. During the escape, she paid attention, she practiced when she could, she focused on her goals, and a month into the trip of navigating through shell rides, laying false trails, and covering their asses, Lucy killed her captors and fled herself, after looting everything she could from them.
A few years later, and Lucy has set herself up as an everyman for the local criminal network on Frajkt, taking custom jobs for whatever they happen to need. So long as she takes her time and the work seriously, it's rewarding and reliable, which is all she particularly wants. At the moment, just being able to enjoy some free time for herself in life, and not be stuck in some cyber-punk machinery is good enough, for now.
Skills: Lucy is very good at two things, one, is coding. When it comes to computer hacking and cyptology, she's excellent, and is familiar with most xenos programming.
The other, is whatever she happens to focus at purely for about two weeks. She seems to have another segment of her mind that allows her to reach about seven years of intense training in an area in two weeks of focus. It can increase past that but it has more noticeable diminishing returns after that point, and requires even more focus, but in the very short term, she can pick things up very quickly. Also, this area of knowledge that is taking up this "slot" fades rapidly if another area of expertise begins to replace it, so that if two weeks is spent learning how to paint real good, the past skill fades as is she hadn't used it at all for around seven years, and so on, and so on. It does allow her to pick up a familiarity with any skill afterwards, since, say, if someone spent seven years speaking a language, and then stopped for decades, they'd still be able to pick it up a bit easier than someone else, so whether she was using her normal brain or her focused brain, it comes a little quicker. And those two weeks of focus do seem to carry over to two weeks of normal training that stick around in her normal brain.
Equipment: Her hacking tools, the rings, both of which split open into input devices, and her shades which show the computer information as 3-d screens in front of her. A well-made handgun she's familiar enough with using. A collection of fake IDs she made. A wallet with aforementioned IDs and some Credits cards. A burn phone and a normal comms unit.
Species: Modified Human
Description: 5'6" with straight black hair, light brown skin and dark brown eyes. Wears a black suit, white shirt, black skirt, tie and shoes with white socks, very office looking, with a more casual spin in terms of style. Wears shades often. Quite MiBish. Unknown age, looks to be about 20s. Wears two golden rings with different signets on them.
Bio: Lucy was part of a... well, her story begins about 50 years before she was born. A galactic spanning cult/corporation began a program, collecting various embryos from various xenos races, bringing them to a hidden planet where an ancient artifact known as The Gate was located. There, the embryos were seeded with a combination of radiations and electromagnetic signals from The Key, another artifact found nearby The Gate. Over the 5 decades of collecting embryos, Lucy was the first successful embryo in that A. she didn't immediately become sterile or explode and B. didn't appear to be horrifically mutated mid-process. After that, she was raised by the cult, known as the Seekers of the Silver City, or just Seekers. The Gate was seeming some sort of precursor artifact or some other kind of nonsense, the Seekers didn't really know much actually, in all their time working on researching the dead planet and it's artifacts, the furthest they'd gotten was to the point of activating The Key and interacting with the Keyhole, which they'd managed to decode into a hellishly difficult and incomprehensible collection of constantly changing code and jargon, but, The Key had made someone with the ability to make sense of the code, theoretically. Someone whose mind could rapidly change to become the perfect machine for reading and manipulating the information filtered by it.
The main problem, was that whilst Lucy did have the possible ability to reach the potential of being able to sort out the code and make sense of it, in the code with pit-traps of knowledge, where Lucy had to temporarily learn some new area of mathematics or astronomy and such which set her back in her focus, meaning she had to begin again, but with the new knowledge to step over that particular area of code. It was like navigating a huge maze of information, seeking out some far off point. But even then, the far off point they were looking for was one point out of a million others. To make a darts analogy, Lucy had the ability to throw the dart far enough to hit the board, but it was a crapshot of whether or not she would even hit the bulls-eye apparently.
Eventually, the corporation began using Lucy to deal with other problems that came their way, financial predictions, breaking into virtual vaults, cyber-security, etc, and Lucy slowly became aware of a schism in the group. One half was focused on the more mundane matters, money and infrastructure and power. The other was focused still on cracking open The Gate and forming their religion of seeking a higher reality, focusing on people and politics and power. The Keyhole was still being used to test more embryos, but only one more embryo had shown any promise at the time where, action happened. A splinter group kidnapped Lucy from the planet of The Gate, a group more focused on the material side of things apparently, and got her out of there amidst a mess of violence and explosions, most likely crippling a lot of the work Lucy had done over the years. Still, she didn't have much love for anyone in the Seekers of the Silver City, regardless of their side of the schism. During the escape, she paid attention, she practiced when she could, she focused on her goals, and a month into the trip of navigating through shell rides, laying false trails, and covering their asses, Lucy killed her captors and fled herself, after looting everything she could from them.
A few years later, and Lucy has set herself up as an everyman for the local criminal network on Frajkt, taking custom jobs for whatever they happen to need. So long as she takes her time and the work seriously, it's rewarding and reliable, which is all she particularly wants. At the moment, just being able to enjoy some free time for herself in life, and not be stuck in some cyber-punk machinery is good enough, for now.
Skills: Lucy is very good at two things, one, is coding. When it comes to computer hacking and cyptology, she's excellent, and is familiar with most xenos programming.
The other, is whatever she happens to focus at purely for about two weeks. She seems to have another segment of her mind that allows her to reach about seven years of intense training in an area in two weeks of focus. It can increase past that but it has more noticeable diminishing returns after that point, and requires even more focus, but in the very short term, she can pick things up very quickly. Also, this area of knowledge that is taking up this "slot" fades rapidly if another area of expertise begins to replace it, so that if two weeks is spent learning how to paint real good, the past skill fades as is she hadn't used it at all for around seven years, and so on, and so on. It does allow her to pick up a familiarity with any skill afterwards, since, say, if someone spent seven years speaking a language, and then stopped for decades, they'd still be able to pick it up a bit easier than someone else, so whether she was using her normal brain or her focused brain, it comes a little quicker. And those two weeks of focus do seem to carry over to two weeks of normal training that stick around in her normal brain.
Equipment: Her hacking tools, the rings, both of which split open into input devices, and her shades which show the computer information as 3-d screens in front of her. A well-made handgun she's familiar enough with using. A collection of fake IDs she made. A wallet with aforementioned IDs and some Credits cards. A burn phone and a normal comms unit.
"Don't get me started on Henchmen."