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Mass Effect: Omega's Finest

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Mass Effect: Omega's Finest

Name
Jek Laeron

Age
24

Species
Salarian

Gender
Male

Appearance
Jek is of the slender, wiry build typical of salarians. His skin is a greenish-grey, and dotted with darker scales around the chin, forehead and cranial horns. His large dark eyes have a sharp-witted gleam.
(I'll try and do some vector art at a later date.)

Occupation
Freelance hacker/saboteur

Class
Engineer

Powers
Sentry Turret
Sabotage
Incinerate
Snap Freeze
Arc Grenade
Drill Ammo

Weapons
M-90 Indra Sniper Rifle
M-5 Phalanx Heavy Pistol (with laser scope as in ME2)
Both weapons are modified with Ultralight Materials in order to minimise weight.

Armor/Apparel
Jek makes use of Jormangund Technology's Crisis Armour (salarian form factor), giving him protection from a variety of hostile environments. As a salarian, he is rather fragile, and his kinetic barriers can only compensate so much.
The modified Archon holo-visor he wears is an excellent asset to a tech expert such as himself: it links to his omni-tools to project a variety of useful readouts and HUDs for almost any situation.
Casual wear: a simple salarian jumpsuit.

Equipment
Dual Savant omni-tools
3x grenades

Personality
Jek Laeron is a perfect example of the salarian gearhead. A consummate tech specialist, he has encyclopaedic knowledge of an impressive array of technologies: besides being your go-to guy for a hack or bypass, his rigorous STG training and natural talent make him adept at repairing systems (or the opposite), modifying equipment, rigging explosives, piloting vehicles…

Among those he has worked with, Jek is known for his dry and acerbic wit. In most conversations, his particular brands of sarcasm and cynicism quickly make themselves known. This often grates with those around him, but he makes up for it with an unflappability and level-headedness that allow him to remain cool in even the most heated of situations. Jek considers himself very much a professional, and doesn’t hesitate to remark on this quality (or the lack thereof) in others.

Jek’s morality is somewhat hazy. He will kill in cold blood, and has a disregard for law or authority (especially when they get in the way), but he does operate to his own code and disapproves of excessive cruelty or violence. He is not a greedy man (unless rare tech is involved) and a job’s pay doesn’t matter much to him: he’s in it for the challenge.

He talks in the clipped tones common among salarians, occasionally dropping pronouns or articles in the manner famously exemplified by Mordin Solus.

Bio
Showing promise from a young age, Jek was enrolled in the salarian military, where his talents got him assigned to the Special Tasks Group. He graduated second-best of his class from the STG Academy (top place was claimed by a certain Corporal Kirrahe) and his skills were quickly put to work in the field.

Jek’s last mission for the Group was an operation against a hacking collective who had been disrupting an influential dalatrass’ financial transactions. His team was dispatched to locate and neutralise their base of operations. They were successful, but during the latter stages of the mission Jek discovered several surprising files on the hackers’ mainframe. These files proved that the very dalatrass who had ordered the operation had been using a backdoor to funnel considerable sums of credits out of various government funds, including welfare and the military, into her personal accounts. Before he could copy the files, his oblivious teammates wiped the databases (as per their orders from, of course, the dalatrass), destroying all proof of her corruption.

When Jek’s appeals to have the dalatrass investigated fell on deaf ears, he took matters into his own hands and exploited the same backdoor to drain every last credit from the dalatrass’ accounts, returning the stolen funds to the government and donating the rest to a slew of charities. The dalatrass was unsurprisingly furious, and even Jek’s hacking skills weren’t enough to remove all traces of his ‘theft’: he was caught and court-martialled.

Stripped of his rank and dishonourably discharged, Jek left Citadel space for the Terminus Systems, angry and disillusioned with authority. At first he tried to find work as a hacker-for-hire on Illium, but the dalatrass had contacts there and he was soon driven off-world.

He wound up on Omega, where he found his skills to be quite welcome (at least, as welcome as anything is on Omega). Jek found that the kind of work available on the lawless station actually suited him far better than the banality of white-collar crime: he enjoyed the danger, the thrill, and the challenge.

Jek has been taking jobs as a freelancer for the last six years, hacking, slicing and shooting his way across the Terminus Systems. He’s turned down several offers from Eclipse, leery of getting involved with the merc gangs, but has nonetheless made enough of a name for himself that he has recently been contacted for a mysterious, high profile contract…

(Note: if there’s anything I need to change, please let me know.)

Spectre.