AURORA
Bio:
Academic, linguist, archaeologist, intelligence operative, diplomat. When the Administratum has charged you with venturing into the dark corners of the galaxy to identify and assess threats, both known and unknown, you wear many hats.
Revelations:
-Aurora demonstrated aptitude in both rifle marksmanship and the identification of xenos species. Both talents should serve the party well in the trials ahead.
-Aurora, like Cassius, was vocal over her outrage at Vadik's choice to kill Shen, and thus making them all accomplices to his act. She knew too much of the Inquisition to think that they would forgive such an act were it ever to come to light.
-Aurora, like Cassius, was vocal over her outrage at Vadik's choice to kill Shen, and thus making them all accomplices to his act. She knew too much of the Inquisition to think that they would forgive such an act were it ever to come to light.
CASSIUS VAN LOCHE XIV
Bio:
A daring pilot with an ego matched only by his skill, how did he wind up piloting bush ships in the vastness of the void?
Revelations:
-Cassius proved in short order why he was selected as the pilot for one of Roa Mahaka's field teams as he skillfully navigated a corridor of withering fire from a derelict space station's surprisingly operational automated defense systems at break-neck speed.
-Cassius made no secret of his highborn status, or the fact that he struck out from his privileged life to seek adventure in the void. He was also profoundly surprised that none of the party had heard of his exploits as a professional racer on Terra, provincials are so poorly informed these days...
-Cassius felt Vadik's betrayal over Shen deeply, and had cause (for the first time in his life) to question what he had gotten himself involved in. Outside of his duties for Mahaka he threw himself into the search for a noble's assassin on Port Wander. Is he trying to distract himself from his own doubts?
-Cassius felt Vadik's betrayal over Shen deeply, and had cause (for the first time in his life) to question what he had gotten himself involved in. Outside of his duties for Mahaka he threw himself into the search for a noble's assassin on Port Wander. Is he trying to distract himself from his own doubts?
MANUS ASHOK
Why would a Rogue Trader have need of the services of a sanctioned psyker trained as a living weapon? For the same reason anyone else would! Is there something more within his guarded mind? Something beyond a mere instrument of the Emperor's will?
Revelations:
-Manus revealed little of himself, apart from relating that he was taken by the Black Ships at a young age when his psychic power manifested. He alluded to the torturous and grueling trials which crafted him into what he is.
-It did not take long for the group to discover that Manus' power came with an inherent risk. Will a single lapse of control spell doom for them all? Or will Manus be able to shield his mind against the perils of the Warp? Only time will tell...
-Manus' power has been the deciding factor in more than one encounter which could have spelled the end of the party's exploits. Though they do not fear him as deeply as they once did, his compatriots still have a healthy respect for the dangers that accompany the use of Manus' power.
MERRICK
A Hive-born gunslinger with a fast hand and unfailing eye. How did he wind up serving a Rogue Trader among the stars, when he should have been dead in an alley years ago?
Revelations:
-Merrick made it clear that he had been chosen for this field team because he would stop at nothing to fulfill the contracts he had been assigned.
-Merrick has begun a modest collection of weapons from the team's fallen enemies. He seems to have a preference for axes, perhaps a throwback to his days in the Hive wars?
VADIK TABOR
What can be said of Vadik? Nothing, for the taciturn mercenary is reserved and suspicious to a fault.
Revelations:
-Vadik reluctantly alluded to a history with the Adeptus Arbites before selling his services to Roa Mahaka. Merrick was intrigued by this; given his long history of criminal activity he knew more than most about the Arbites, and he had always heard that the mantle of the Emperor's peacekeeper was never willingly put aside.
-Vadik confessed to the murder of Shen, an Inquisitor's agent. Few of his comrades supported his decision, though he has since suggested he only claimed credit to get Cassius to get the ship back on course. Could an Arbites, fallen or not, truly be capable of such a thing?
WU-10
Sacred relics, artifacts of man's past and gifts of the Omnissiah, lie scattered among the stars. There they wait for the true believer to reclaim them in the name of the Machine God. Wu-10 is such a believer. How did a Skitarii, and an unusually independent one at that, become entangled in the services of a Rogue Trader?
Revelations:
-Wu-10, the name he was given when he began his path to cybernetic enlightenment, related that he had been born on the red planet of Mars to factorum workers.
-Wu-10 demonstrated to the party that he was a true disciple of the Machine Cult. He would tolerate some degree of ignorance or disregard for the proper use of technology, but only insofar as it served the mission he had been charged with by his Magos and Roa Mahaka. How far will the party test the limits of the cyborg's patience?
-Wu-10 took the cybernetic arms of a gladiator as trophies after defeating a mercenary who dared to stand defiant against him. With the blessing of his Arch-Magos he now uses them to enforce the will of the Omnissiah.
Valens Grimm
Bio:
What defines us as people is often those experiences we recall first. The joyful laughter of other children, a mother's embrace, a father's pride, or the absence of all these things can often be the small corrections which determine the trajectory of an entire person's existence. If that is the case, what defines Valens Grimm is war. Unrestrained, unmitigated, and unremitting, the war against the orks on his homeworld of Ryza was all he knew after conversion into the order of the Omnissiah's Tech-Priests. Everything else was scrubbed to make room for weapon schematics, data storage, and the Litanies of Function. His name is all that remains of the man before the machine, an almost perfunctory vestige kept to placate those unenlightened by cybernetic conversion with whom he is obligated to work.
Revelations:
-Valens talent, and obsession, with weapon systems was readily apparent. His new comrades found this a welcome skill, even as his attempts to establish what his internal files describe as "camaraderie" met with limited success due to the his erratic, though energetic, quirks.
Muffin
Bio:
A former convict whose sentence was conversion into a combat servitor. Valen's database queries after obtaining him suggested a list of names which normal human beings found pleasant and non-threatening. Muffin seemed the logical choice, as they were listed as highly enjoyable and delicious to those with flesh tongues.