Name: Sirka'ith
Species: Ssi-ruu
Gender: Female
Appearance: (with brown scales, instead of red)
Age: 17 (this is an adult, as Ssi-ruu mature more quickly than humans)
Height: 2.15 meters
Skills/Abilities:
- Close to medium range combat specialist
- Strength equivalent to an adult wookiee
- Thick, blaster resistant hide
- Very keen sense of smell (able to detect changes in the emotional state of species with which she is familiar)
- Triple eyelids resist sudden bursts of light
- Surprising speed and grace for a creature of her size
Weaknesses:
- Long-range combat
- Eyesight poorer than that of a human
- No notable non-combat skills
- Young age compared to adults of other species limits her practical experience
- Stands out in a crowd, or any other situation
- Little to no stealth capabilities
Equipment: Like most Ssi-ruu, Sirka wears only bandoliers across her chest to carry her belongings, along with whatever holsters she needs. Her primary weapon is a
Mark II medium repeating blaster cannon. While normally a mounted weapon, the cannon can be carried by the heightened strength of a Ssi-ruu. She has modified it with a proper stock and grip, and powers it through a power cell which she wears as a backpack that, compared to her size, is reasonably compact. As a sidearm, she carries an
E-11 blaster rifle, and a one-handed variant of a
vibro-ax as a backup weapon. She also carries a small belt of fragmentation grenades.
Background: Sirka'ith had somewhat of a unique childhood among the Ssi-ruu. She was hatched a year after the attack by the Chiss which devastated her people's military. As xenophobic of a species as the Ssi-ruu are, they were forced to engage in some measure of diplomacy with the rest of the galaxy. Sirka's father was a black Ssi-ruu spy, ostensibly serving as a diplomat off-world, while her mother was a red Ssi-ruu bodyguard. This forbidden union made her a brown-scaled Ssi-ruu, and a member of the lowest caste of Ssi-ruuvi society. Normally, her egg would have been destroyed by her parents, but being outside their home system, her parents could not as easily get away with the murder, so they simply passed her off as the child of one of their brown-scaled Ssi-ruu servants.
In the first few years of her life, Sirka was in the position of being mostly ignored by the parents who had disowned her, and the servants who were meant to care for her. As such, no one bothered to stop her when she started to interact with the local populations of the worlds they were assigned to, something that would normally be forbidden for any Ssi-ruu hatchlings that, for whatever reason, found themselves outside Sii-ruuvi space. Her adoptive parents did teach her some of the Ssi-ruu, but she was more heavily influenced by the cultures of the worlds around her.
It was years before Sirka's father and his entourage returned to Lwhekk, and by that point, Sirka was too old, and had been outside Ssi-ruuvi space for too long to ever be able to accept what her life there would be like. The brown-scaled caste of Ssi-ruu were treated terribly. She did not care about the Imperium, nor about the religion they started to force on her. After a few beatings, she played along, but she resolved to escape as soon as possible. Luckily, the fact that she was raised outside Lwhekk also meant she was one of the few Ssi-ruu who could actually speak Basic, so it was not long before she was assigned to be a translator for a real diplomat. As soon as they reached a relatively large city, Sirka made her escape into the city's crowded underworld.
Despite only being a child at the time, Sirka found that there was one kind of work that such a large and intimidating being as herself could find quite readily. As a mercenary, she earned enough credits performing simple jobs to get offworld, and from there, she decided to continue honing her skills in combat. After all, it wasn't as if she had the skills to do anything else.
