NAME: ELENA KARINA ALPIN
IDENTITY: FEMALE
ALIGNMENT: ELDER CIVIL
AGE: 36
BORN: 1986
SKIN: OLIVE HAIR: BROWN EYES: GREEN
PHYSICALITY: LIGHT, ATHLETIC
ORIGIN: ARCHITECT CITY (FORMERLY OLD EASTERN DISTRICT)
PARENTS: ARIANNA SOVALES ALPIN (Mother, Dec’d) UNKNOWN (Father)
SKILLS: Chemistry, Biology, Medicine, Tracking, Espionage, Military Markswoman, Navigation, Bio-engineering
CURRENT OCCUPATION: Biodiversity Researcher, Elder Preservation Guild
BACKGROUND NOTES:
As a child, Elena survived the siege of the Old Eastern District, her mother having fought and died trying to protect the city against the an invasion of Outlander Mechs. Taken as a refugee by an unnamed soldier, She was fostered by the Preservation Guild of Elders, and grew up in Elder City while the Eastern District was rebuilt as the fortified Architect City.
Elena never returned to Architect City. At age 17, Under the Guild’s refugee policy, Elena trained as an engineer and intelligence officer in the Elder Armed forces. During her 8-year service, Elena fine-tuned her natural-born abilities as a tracker and hunter. She became a prime weapon for the Guild during periods of unrest between the Elder City and the Outlanders; under an assumed identity, she was responsible for finding and trapping four Tyrant marine gang leaders during the Sea Wars of 2006-2012. She remained under covert protection until their executions.
Upon her retirement from the Military, Elena earned her Doctorate in Geological Sciences and Indigenous Biology. At age 29, She took a post as Chief Biodiversity Officer for the Preservation Guild.
In 2017 she joined the recon mission Operation Red Rust, to chart and survey the current state of the great Frozen North continent of Lyra Sol. En route, one of the fleet of 7 Icebreaker ships was towed under by an unknown entity. 90 lives were lost. Savage oceanic storms followed, and two more vessels were wrecked at sea before the Guild pulled the mission, never to reinstate it.
Elena finally found the work she was cut out for in lobbying the Guild to give her a permanent field job. Now as skipper of the recon ship ALICE, Elena quietly dedicates herself to her own research; scouting the vast Outlands for opportunities to improve the natural habitats of Aeryn species, and gathering minerals to aid terraforming research.
GROUND-LEVEL INTEL:
Elena is a very accomplished rock-climber.
She has never had a long-term relationship. In her words, “noone ever really got inside me, and I prefer it that way. There’s too much to know.”
The closest she ever came to really loving somebody was Zia Fortuna, who we will meet again in this story.
Elena never found out who her father was, and she doesn’t care. Probably some pilot her mother Arianna met at an Eastern bar sometime. Her mother was the only person she ever trusted as a kid. After losing her in the siege, she didn’t speak for 6 months.
Her neck tattoo signifies she is a refugee of the Old Eastern District. All Guild refugees were branded thus, with a luminescent insignia, two simple lines on the left of the neck.