Name: Brooklyn of Clan Spyche (Caste Blood Punitive)
Gender: Female
Appearance: Brooklyn looks otherwise as a bog-standard human female to the eye, except for a complete lack of skin pigmentation (being entirely an ashy grey), and a near complete lack of body-hair. She has the perilously tall, and delicately seeming, thin body build usual of those Remnants who have bodies adapted to low or zero gravity conditions. Her eyes are a nearly transparent shade of icy-blue. She lacks anything of what Earthers would term 'beauty'-being less enhanced in most ways that matter-but an intricate array of affiliate tattoos, extensive scrap-augs, scavenged harnesses and tools of trade remarks her well to those of Remnant society, who value only that which has use. Her augments are designed with survival functions-to traverse heights, filter and preserve water and food, to make breathable air, to staunch wounds and suit-breaches, or to kill enemies, and such and so-on. All have been designed to be themselves expendable and partially detachable-like many Remnants, she blurs the line between humanoid and cyborg.
Background: The Moons of Saturn were some of the first planetoids humanity attempted to tame in it's outward expansion-the small moon of Enceladus in particular, was much touted as the 'first step', due to it's semi-habitability, and it was one of the first colonies ever founded...it was quickly eclipsed, however, with much larger colonies being established in the Rings, or places like Mars and 'nearby' Titan. Enceladus has the honor of becoming the first solar backwater, a place little noted or paid much attention to-except for it's prodigious stores of liquid water, which helped keep the many border-worlds from getting thirsty. This brought much wealth to the Earthers who bankrolled the expeditions, but little to the colonies who did the work.
The people of Enceladus-solitary and independent folk who grew even more insular over time-fell into odd, backward ways, becoming clannish and hostile to outsiders. Even before the Descent struck, Earth had only modest success in taming the world or it's people...and afterwards, it was one of the places that managed to stay mostly intact-like most Remnant colonies, those who most independent of the "Big Blue" were the one who managed to thrive after it's fall. Enceladus actually profited-the Descent having removed their most hated landlords, the people were able to take control of their resources...for a time.
Fast forward to the 23rd century, where Enceladus has devolved into a mass of tribes, guilds, clans, fiefdoms and neo-liberal royal families sparring and squabbling over the precious water supplies still locked under the surface. One day, this happened.
Clan Spyche welcomed a woman child seized in a raid on the neighboring Kissism Tribe, and she is assigned to a 2nd generation laborers family, to be raised for a lifetime of bloodline-punitive labor under the geyser-mines. The woman-child is named for a great Earth city of the past, as a sign to all of her disfavor to the Great Kurn (their word for God, that literally being the planet Saturn), in being born to such an dishonorable enemy such as the Kissism. She grows, finishes primary tutoring, and takes a low-blooded mate to 'share her heat'. In secondary life-tutoring, she ignores industrial, social, and familial lessons, preferring to undertake militia training. The act of killing three of her classmates-two of them from ambushes at home, considered a mark of an inventive and devious mind-gains her notice and entry into the warrior caste. At 18 she undergoes her first raid, and places a red hand on an enemy Kissism, without drawing void-blade or bolter-gun upon him. While her social rank is blood-punitive and unalterable, this achievement reflects well on any future offspring she may have. She slays a machine mongrel from ambush at 19, bring it's shattered head home as a trophy. When her mate is found and judged as a traitor to the Clan, she gives him to the void herself, and afterwards aids in the recycling-ritual. At 20, she is one of the first to fall to the plague of Bloodburn-though she does not recover entirely, she shows a remarkable resistance to the disease-she is almost as much tolerant of KMI-670, the only known treatment for the disease, albeit being highly toxic, and not a true cure. It only slows the symptoms.
At 21, Bloodburn has begun to decimate both the population and economy of Enceladus-it's believed the Corrupt old Powers of Earth have once again made the Deathplagues in their secret labs, and used this one to try and kill the people, by poisoning the oceans upon which the world's lifeblood flows. While others claim a spirit-curse set upon them by Kurn, in revenge for the waves of those unjustly slain in it's many wars-still others say the cause is in the blood itself, a structural weakness set into the very bones of them, and thus an unavoidable fate. Brooklyn is granted an off-world permit by the Clan Elders to search for a potential cure to this malady, because only those of the rank of blood-punitive may ever leave the shadow of Kurn, already being damned to one of the Sixty-two-Hells (one for each of Saturn's moons) in any case. It is believed she has almost ten years before the Bloodburn destroys her mind entirely, at which points she is given permission to end her own life, or otherwise find merciful oblivion in a manner befitting one of rank blood-punitive.
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