Name: Riel Noctis (Re-el Knock-teese)
Date of Birth: 03/30/2172 (33)
Place of Birth: Eior District, Marius VI, Varmulus Sector
Gender: Male
Species: Human
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 216 lbs
Appearance:
Personality: Although generally taciturn and introverted among strangers, Riel is best described as thrill seeking and outgoing. He is full of contradictions, yet rarely a hypocrite, and never willingly so. Priding himself on his creed of honesty and devotion, Riel possesses an unnatural degree of determination. Once he makes up his mind to accomplish something, he literally stops at nothing until he has done so. Those who are close to him often claim he possesses a radiant personality, and that he is often capable of unintentionally imprinting his moods onto others.
While the emotionless or grim look that usually lines his face my suggest otherwise, Riel is in actuality a deeply loving and protective individual. Something which causes him to immediately hate any person or thing that causes harm to the things he cares for. As well as resent those that cause needless suffering. Interestingly, Riel also possesses a heavy cynical outlook on life. As an individual with a high level of self discipline, he is also impossibly slow to anger, and even harder to distract. Making him an formidably efficient worker when coupled with his genius leveled intellect and photographic memory.
Unfortunately, this, and his love of tinkering, often results in him being consumed by his work. So much so that he becomes inattentive or 'numbed' to the world around him. While this usually isn't a problem within the confines of an lab, it has frequently caused him to become a burden in the field. It should be noted that Riel also possesses a superiority complex, believing he is better than others because he is smarter than them. Thus, finds most of his species to be slow witted and uninteresting.
Likes: Challenges, Chess, Tinkering
Dislikes: Drinking, Smoking, The untruthful
Ambitions: Hopes to unravel the mystery of humanity's fall and use technology to reverse it.
Strengths: Technological Expertise, Photographic Memory, Cybernetic limbs
Weaknesses: One Track Mind, Superiority Complex, Overly Curious, Easily bruised
ADVENTURE!
Fears: Going Insane, Being forcfully dependent on others/ helplessness
Interests: Science/technology, History, Women
History:
Marius VIMarius VI is one of the five small planet within the Varmulus Sector. Marius VI, unlike its siblings, Marius II - V, was once the only life-sustaining planet within said sector. The planets themselves orbit a trio of small stars which wad locally referred to as 'Trias'. Though it remains unknown as to how this phenomenon occurred, it is known that this was not always the case. As it was during
the formation of Trias that Marius Prime was destroyed. It is also because of Trias that Marius IV & V are eventually became uninhabitable, with one possessing oceans of lava upon its surface, and the other a desert planet on which water no longer remains.
Having always been a planet known for its technological superiority, Marius VI was once a global metropolis comprised of impressive architecture and beautiful landscaping. At one time, it was also one of the richest human colonies in the cosmos. However, following the 'Trias Event', two thirds of the planet's surface was destroyed. The remainder having been spared only due to the erection of a globally commissioned barrier. The likes of which was designed solely for the purpose of reflecting solar flares. Yet, despite this great feat, billions of lives had been lost. Along with most of the planet's wealth.
Since then the rest of the planet had become a wasteland. There the wreckage of the old cities remained, half swallowed up by the planet and buried by sand. Over time, these 'dead lands' became the place of exile for the undesirables of 'New Marius'. Banishment equalled death. The planet's core, which now possessed the only available drinking water, had since been hollowed out in the area beneath New Marius City. There they created the planet's only accessible well. Which the locals eventually came to call 'the hidden sea'.
Riel NoctisBorn to a post-Trias Marius VI, Riel had the fortune, and curse, of being the son of a prominent scientist. Which on Marius VI, had become equivalent to being born into nobility. Thus, Riel had been raised in a life of luxury, and robbed of a childhood. As his father, Andeal, had always forced the path of a Technologist upon him. Just as those who knew Riel always expected greatness from him.
Driven by the desire to impress his father, Riel spent every living moment studying. If it wasn't for a class test, then it was for his father's private ones. If his father wasn't around to quiz him, then it was so that he could impress him the next time he was. Still, to his disbelief, it was never enough. No matter how many perfect scores he achieved, or how many certificates of excellence he received, to his father, it was never enough. Within Riel's logic, there was always some sort of flaw. Some ghost calculation that he some how failed to see.
By the time Riel had reached his late teens, it had just about drove him insane. That was, until he applied to the Marius Academy of Technology. Where, as was standardly required by MAT, Riel was made to under go an I.Q. test. Ironically, despite all his achievements, and having built his first space capable engine at age twelve. It was only after he got his results that the genius he was, was recognized. Graduating with scores which rivaled those of the late Technologist Legend Brax Ular, the designer and builder of Marius' protection field. Riel not only surpassed his father's impossible expectations, but also became globally revered as the most promising mind of his time. Among his people, he was almost a king.
As the years went by, Riel would go on to make several advances in technology. The most notable of which was done under the employment of 'ScionTech'. The company responsible for the mass production of Marius' two core sources of income, Weaponry and Spacecrafts. There Riel designed the 'Energy Recycling Converter'. Which when used in conjunction with Marius' protection field, would in theory allow the inhabitants of Marius VI to safely channel Trias' energy for a variety of uses. Potentially creating the first true method of clean, renewable energy.
Unfortunately, it would be that particular accomplishment, that would change Riel's life forever.
Civil Unrest on Marius VIShortly after the completion of Riel's device, Marius' government confiscated it and ordered Riel turn over all research related it. Which he reluctantly destroyed instead, fully aware of the political game that had now come into effect. While half of the government wished to use the device as it was intended, as i means of immediately bettering Marius VI's quality of life. The other half sought to additionally profit, thus proposed weaponizing the device. Thus, as time dragged on and tempers began to flare, the people of Marius VI also begun to divide. The planet came under threat of its first civil war.
As a means of avoiding this, Riel was left but with one choice. To destroy his device. Although doing so had brought a fragile peace to his world, the ensuing explosion had also robbed him of both his arms. Nearly causing him to bleed to death and bringing what looked to be a permanent end to his scientific career.
A Journey's beginningIt was only weeks following his accident that Riel was visited by the (insert name of intergalactic human military here) at his residence on Marius VI. Brandishing an offer which Riel was in no position to refuse. In exchange for his unconditional services, they would restore his arms, and with it his life as a scientist. Hence, it was with great joy that Noctis agreed to under go cybernetic surgery and became outfitted with what was at the time, the latest military grade cybernectic implants.
What happened next still remains a opaque blur. As the last moments Riel can remember was are falling asleep within his pod.
Romance: Yes
Sexual preference: Heterosexual
Military Rank: N/A
Combat Skills: Minimal, combative capabilities based on superior strength of cybernetic limbs.