Shipwreck
Pilot Anneleise Vespertroth (a.k.a. Shipwreck)
"Shipwreck's the best damn pilot I've ever had. Unless she's sober. Don't let her touch that stick sober."
~Captain Liam Midas
Physical Description
General Physical Condition
Shipwreck's body would be athletic if it wasn't for her barely controlled Blueteeth which has wasted her body and rendered her somewhat twitchy and frail.
Facial Features
She has the typical cluster of black freckles under her eyes, and three constellation dattoos: one is a profile of a rabbit on her right cheek, one is a squid beneath her left eye, and under that on her left cheek she has a pirate galleon from the Age of Sail.
Physical quirks
Her teeth have been stained blue from her addiction.
Apparel & Accessories
Shipwreck wears a jumpsuit in polite company, but the temperature preferred by Captain Midas on the LFS Derelict is far too warm for her so she often wears little if she can get away with it.
Specialized Equipment
She is never without her Neptune Blue inhaler.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Anneleise was born in the inaugural generation of the Vesper and Troth pirate clans on Hippocamp. She grew up accompanying her family members on raids and ambushes, watching people she loved kill and die for plunder on distant worlds. The blood and violence and loss were normal for her, and she never imagined another life outside of piracy.
She always knew that she wanted to be a pilot. She spent countless hours in simulations and watching her cousins fly, learning everything there was to know about the craft. When she was sixteen years old (STY) she grew tired of waiting for her parents' permission and stole a ship for a joyride to prove that she could do it. She ran the Larissa Course, beating several records. Or rather, she would have broken several records, if she hadn't lost control and plunged the ship into Hippocamp nose-first, barely walking away from the crash. They dubbed her Shipwreck, and that was the last time she ever flew sober.
During her recovery, she found that even the simulators made her nervous. On advice from an old pirate cousin, she began experimenting with Neptune Blue. The thrill and connectivity of the drug steadied her hands and she was able to outclass the best pilots of her clans. She was given a gig on her first ship, and her skill increased the yield of their raids by fifteen percent; inner world pilots just couldn't shake her, missile batteries couldn't vector her flight, and PSC constables destroyed their engines trying to match her maneuver.
It all ended with the Hippocamp Push. The PSC finally figured out which moon had been doing the most successful plundering. In an eleven hour battle, every ship in the Vespertroth clan's arsenal was destroyed, except for hers. Hundreds of commandoes and thousands of drones and clones dropped onto the surface, purging every fighting man and woman who didn't surrender. The civilians were taken for processing to be split up amongst the other Neptunian moons in accordance with the Bijorn Agreement.
When her little fighter was the last ship and she saw the swarms of soldiers on the surface, Shipwreck broke and fled. She crawled into a spaceport bar on Enceladus, sold her fighter, and tried very hard to drink herself to death. It was there that Captain Midas scraped her off a restroom floor and hired her on, having tracked down the pirate that had done so much destruction and managed to get away.
Sexuality
Typical of Neptunian, she is casual to the point of being oversexed. She hasn't had a serious relationship in her adult life, and she seeks indulgence wherever and whenever it piques her interest.
Education
Shipwreck learned piracy and piloting on Hippocamp growing up, then on various pirate clan ships.
Employment
Shipwreck is the pilot of the LFS Derelict.
Mental Trauma
Shipwreck feels the loss of her family and experiences bouts of self loathing over the fact that she fled.
Intellectual Characteristics
Sanguine
Morality & Philosophy
Nihilist
Personality Characteristics
Motivation
Shipwreck wants to get paid and enjoy her life until it's over, preferably sooner rather than later. She is self destructive, hedonistic, and carefully maintains an emotional numbness.
Savvies & Ineptitudes
As long as she still has her 'medicine,' Shipwreck is one of the best pilots in human space. Otherwise, she's a shaking, quivering mess and would likely earn her name all over again.
Likes & Dislikes
Shipwreck likes comraderie and stubbornly refuses to take anything too seriously.
Virtues & Personality perks
Kindness
Vices & Personality flaws
Indulgence
Hygiene
Neptune Blue has a chemical scent, and it clings to her densely.
Currently Boarded Vehicle
Species
Conditions
Ethnicity
Year of Birth
471 AC
29 Years old
Birthplace
Hippocamp
Children
Sex
Female
Eyes
Cobalt
Hair
White and black
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
Pale with black freckles
Height
5'3
Weight
Underweight
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