Brahnamin's Characters - Jian

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Jian van Jensen :: Ship's Captain

Attributes

Physical || Mental || Social

Trained Skills

Fight

Fly

Influence

Notice

Operate

• Infiltrate Systems

Sneak

Treat

Trick

• Misdirection

Untrained Skills

| Craft | Drive | Fix | Know | Labor | Move | Perform | Shoot | Survive | Throw |

Distinctions

Ghost in the Machine: There ain't a system in the 'Verse you cain't crack.

• Step Back: Roll instead of for 1 PP

• Code Monkey: You are a master at teaching old code new tricks - When you are altering or rewriting code, spend 1 PP to roll your Trick die and add it to your total on any Operate roll.

[Highlighted Skills: Notice/Operate/Trick]

Old Leather Jacket: You wear your jacket almost like a uniform. Folk almost don't recognize you without it.

• Step Back: Roll instead of for 1 PP

• Talk ‘em Down: Your jacket lends you an air of authority - When you try to defuse a charged situation, step up or double Influence. Take or step up a Complication to do both

[Highlighted Skills: Fight/Fly/Sneak]

Former Ship's Doc: You were a doctor once . . . a long long lifetime ago.

• Step Back: Roll instead of for 1 PP

[Highlighted Skills: Influence/Operate/Treat]

Signature Assets

Grey-Ops Cortex Implant You've been fitted with a shielded inter-cranial processor featuring a full cortex suite, variable frequency bandwidth, and broad spectrum wireless access.
[Special: Implant relays directly to optic nerve and inner ear. No visible externals]

• Back Door: When you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back. You can use your implant to suss out shortcuts into systems by hard-linking your system to theirs. Take or step up the complication Hard-Linked to step up or double Operate when infiltrating electronic systems.

Steady Hands Despite their cybernetic nature, your hands and arms look perfectly normal and perfectly human. They don't flinch or shake, and they don't hesitate. No matter what is going on around you, your hands know what they are about. After all, that's how they were engineered.
[Special: Cybernetics extend to shoulders]

Neural Hypo Implanted in your cybernetic fingertips are hypodermic emitters loaded with doses of a disabling neuro-stun agent that can be released through physical contact.

Bio

Character Concept: Practical Pacifist/Always in the Thick of Things.

Role: Ship's Captain

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Home planet: Sihnon

Religion: Buddhist[ish]

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Age: 38

Height: 170cm

Weight: 70kg

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First Impressions: Jian is short and wiry, with a mix of Asian and Caucasian features. He keeps his hair buzzed and wears a short goatee, has dark eyes and a quiet, unassuming voice.

Episode History

• [Pre-Episode] Raised and educated in the core, Jian went to university on Sihnon and became a doctor. During the war he regularly went behind enemy lines on both sides of the conflict to ply his trade on whoever needed it that day. Ostensibly his sympathies lay with the Independents, but Jian did not let his sympathies get in the way of who he patched up. He spent the end of the war in a prison camp where the Alliance was experimenting with cybernetics and was ultimately rescued by Lynch, a young soldier tasked with 'cleaning house' after the war who would soon rise up the ranks in Alliance Intelligence.
• [EP9] Jian joined the crew in the middle of a job where the crew was retrieving an artifact from Earth That Was, which was ultimately successful.
• [DP10] Pirates set an ambush. Jian's medical skill is a heavily drawn upon asset and he learns he's not much of a knife fighter. Spends most of the episode behind his meatshield asset, the Dead Pirate Robert. AKA Bob. The crew does not yet know of Jian's association with Lynch.
• [EP11] Jian helps search for Wiley's kidnapped kin. Crew discovered his implant and facility with computers. Particularly with breaking into computer systems. Strongly encourages the crew to use Lynch as their escape hatch at the end of the episode.
• [EP12] Crew is tasked with freeing homesteaders from a matriarch who is buying up all the property on their moon and using force and coercion when they won't sell. Jian uses his history with said matriarch to try to bring things to a satisfying conclusion, but a stalemate and retreat is the best they can manage. Jian avoids bringing up Lynch again, but encourages the crew to protect themselves and their charges by making a video documentary of their 'rescue' of the homesteaders to make their image too public for the crime boss behind the moon buyout to easily come after them.
• [EP13] The crew helps Kraig find a watch he lost on a battlefield during the war before said battlefield gains protected status. Jian's relationship with Lynch becomes known when he uses that connection to get himself and some crew members out of a hassle with local law enforcement. Jian leaves the ship at the end of the episode to make good on what he owes Lynch for rescuing him during the War.
• [Inter-Episode] Jian joined up with Lynch after leaving the Righteous to clear his debt with the man, performing odd tasks and questionable off-book ops, the last of which cost him both his arms. Lynch put him back together, but Jian reckoned his debt clear and his friendship with the intelligence operative effectively at an end.
• [EP18] Jian returns to the crew of the Righteous.

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