HTGS Service Commander Rayan Hajjah-Jaafar
Commander Rayan Rayan Hajjah-Jaafar
There are no one in the Tanit System who doesn't know the name Rayan Haj-Jaafar, because she's widely seen as the saviour of the Tanit System. She was the commander of Hyperspace Transport Grid Station Tanit when the Nova Event was initiated by an unknown party in the Great Stellar war, using the hyperspace gate system to channel blasts of radiation and solar plasma into distant systems to initiate nova events in them. As the last reinforcements from the USN fleets transited in, she correctly interpreted the sensor readings that followed and engaged Protocol Closed Harbour. Designed for direst emergencies, it closes a hyperspace gate by detonating all its hyperspace field generators. Her actions undoubtedly saved the system, but also isolated it.
Her remains were recovered by TSL personnel during the station reclamation process, and were interred in the until then empty tomb on Barcino. She received a fatal dose of radiation while executing her duty as Station Commander.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
What follows is what was recorded from station survivors and recovered from corrupted databanks by TSL personnel.
Born on New Auckland, Rayan Hajjah-Jaafar lived a largely uneventful life until the year of her 17th birthday, when she completed the Hajj to Mecca. She served briefly in the Great Stellar War as a USN naval technical officer, but was released from service after sustaining severe injuries during the Battle for Odin System. After recovering, she entered service with the Hyperspace Transit Grid Organization, the independent group that operated the hypersapce gates linking Terran space. There she met and married her husband, who was unfortunately on leave when she was forced to enact Protocol Closed Harbour. She perished a few days before her 50th birthday from radiation poisoning after overseeing the evacuation of the station in a damaged vacc suit. Her actions saved not only the system, but the hundreds of personnel aboard the station. She was survived by her children, Zahid and Farah.
Gender Identity
Rayan Hajjah-Jaafar was a cishet woman, and understood gender to be a spectrum.
Sexuality
A heterosexual woman, Rayan was attracted to men romantically and sexually.
Education
She completed secondary and post secondary schooling on New Auckland before spending two years training as a technical officer specializing in sensor operation and maintenance at 4th USN Naval Base in the Marduk System. An above average academic, she was in the top 20 of all of her graduating classes.
Employment
As a technical officer, she rose to the rank of lieutenant in the USN Aerospace Defence Corps before being critically injured during the Battle for Odin System.After recovering, she was employed by the Hyperspace Transit Grid Organization, where she rose to the rank of Station Commander.
Accomplishments & Achievements
Rayan Hajjah-Jaafar was awarded for bravery and injury during the Battle for Odin System, but the exact awards given are unknown owing to lost and corrupted data.
Mental Trauma
Throughout her post military service career, Rayan Hajjah-Jaafar suffered from depression and PSTD related to the battles she had been in. It's known that she sought treatment for this, and was undergoing therapy aboard the station.
Intellectual Characteristics
Rayan Hajjah-Jaafar is remembered as a fast analytical thinker, able to quickly piece together information and accurately interpret what this meant. This was noted several times in the military records that were recovered, and is beleived to have played a crucial role in how she was able to react to the situation unfolding in 12399 HE so rapidly.
Morality & Philosophy
A practicing Muslim and hijabi, Rayan Hajjah-Jaafar's ethics and morality were deeply informed by her faith and tempered by her knowledge. She worked hard to balance the secular aspects of the world around her with her faith, and was a strong believer in the idea that a person must always take just action in the face of inequity.
Taboos
Like most muslims, she abstained from non-halal foods, and as a hijabi, she kept her hair covered in public at all times.
Personality Characteristics
Motivation
Rayan Hajjah-Jaafar was a woman motivated by a deep sense of responsibility to her family, her subordinates, and to the tenets of her faith.
Personality Quirks
Although not a gambler or even a frequent card game player, she was known to shuffle a deck of cards one handed while stressed and thinking about a situation.
Social
Family Ties
Her children, Zahid and Farah, were successfully evacuated and entered into foster care on Barcino. Their descendants remain there to this day. The fate of her husband, Umar, is unknown. He was three jumps away visiting his brother on family business when the Nova Event happened.
Religious Views
Rayan Hajjah-Jaafar was a practicing Muslim, and saw faith as a personal matter not to be inflicted on others.
Current Status
Deceased
Honorary & Occupational Titles
In life, she had three titles attributed to her.
- Hajjah
- Lieutenant (Retired)
- Station Commander
Age
49 (Deceased)
Date of Birth
12350 HE
Date of Death
0 TE (12400 HE)
Circumstances of Birth
Normal.
Circumstances of Death
Radiation poisoning following station evacuation.
Birthplace
New Auckland, Amun System
Place of Death
Hyperspace Transport Grid Station Tanit, Tanit System
Children
Current Residence
The Tomb of Hajjah-Jaafar
Pronouns
She/Her
Sex
Female
Gender
Woman
Presentation
Feminine
Eyes
Brown
Hair
Long, straight, and black.
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
Brown
Height
172cm
Weight
62kg
Quotes & Catchphrases
"Allah and Duty guide my hands. Inshallah." were her last recorded words before she entered a radiation saturated conduit to manually release the station's starboard escape pods. These words are inscribed on her tomb.
Belief/Deity
Muslim
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