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D O S S I E R
SpeciesHuman HomeworldTerra Nova Age31 Height/Weight5’6” (167.64 cm)
125 Lbs (56.699 kg) ClassSoldier (Commando Specialty)
L O A D O U T
I N V E N T O R Y
- 600 Credits
- 2 Medi-gel Units
- Alliance Dog Tags (Keepsake)
- Pack of Cigarettes & Lighter
- Lucky Gold Dinar (Medieval Era Arabic Coin)
P O W E R S
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A P P E A R A N C E
Amina stands roughly average height and has a slim but “chiseled” physique from years of training and military service. Her skin and hair are a deep brown color and her eyes an almond shade. She keeps her hair cut shoulder length and more often that not tied back in a tight bun at the lower back of her skull. Amina wears no makeup or any accessories save for the lucky coin she has around her neck as a pendant. Her sense of style outside of her military duds is basically non-existent, always plain casual clothing of cheap brands.
Amina has been often described as “neutral”. While adequately polite - usually - she maintains a reserved demeanor, keeping most interactions simple and straight to any business. She has something of a grim, cynical sense of humor which can lead to a cracked smile here or there though most of the time her visage is a stoney as a statue. That is not to say she does not have a tender side, Amina is just very careful with whom she makes herself vulnerable to and is conservative with any affections she has.
B A C K G R O U N D
Amina Galal was born on the planet Terra Nova just after the first colonists arrived - her parents among them. Amina’s father was an engineer and her mother an agronomist, both seeking an exciting new life beyond the sprawls of Earth. The family lived in what was at the time a small frontier outpost not far from the new capital of Scott.
When the First Contact War with the Turians broke out it shook all of humanity to say the least, Amina still just a swaddled infant as her parents watched the news bulletins aghast. After the Council stepped in and the three month conflict ended Amina’s father was among the contractors who aided in the reconstruction efforts on Shanxi and he saw firsthand the destruction wrought by the Turians. This paired with endless stories of the aliens’ brutality lead to an early stage of fear of those beyond the boundaries of humanity which would greatly affect Amina’s mentality on alien beings in the years to come.
Over the next decade Amina’s family continued to live on Terra Nova and well at that, her parents’ respective professions and aptitude making them invaluable members of the growing colonial effort. Amina herself performed well in school and was very well liked by her teachers and peers. The family had also welcomed a second child, Zahir, Amina’s younger brother by five years.
In 2071 the colony of Mindoir is attacked by Batarians, many humans are killed without mercy and those who are not are taken away as slaves. That next year the Batarians in protest of human expansion into the Skyllian Verge break ties with the Council and many fear a full scale conflict between the Systems Alliance and Batarian Hegemony is nigh. Amina’s parents by this point have become paranoid that Terra Nova would be the target of another Batarian slave raid or razed in a possible war with the Batarians. The following year the family of four depart Terra Nova and Amina finds herself thrust into the bustle of the home world of humanity, her parents buying a home in North America after moving all their assets to Earth.
In 2175, at age nineteen, Amina decide to join the Systems Alliance despite the protests of her parents who had grown more afraid of the galaxy beyond Sol, past events paired with more recent ones - such as the disappearance of the MSV Hugo Gernsback that same year. At the time Amina’s father was doing poorly for contract work and her mother was not making enough at her new job to pay the bills. Amina wanted to attend university but had no scholarships and the family could not spare the additional funds for her to go. The Alliance meanwhile had a program that offered to fully pay for university following a period of enlistment, many of Amina’s friends and acquaintances taking the opportunity. Despite the falling out with her parents Amina enlisted and was soon wearing an Alliance uniform, proudly at that.
Despite her former ambitions, and underlying worries, Amina Galal soon discovered that she was in fact very cut out for military life. She had gotten through training with high marks and was instated as an official Alliance Marine, stationed aboard the SSV Morlaix, a York class cruiser. Though still concerned for her well-being Amina’s parents were proud of her achievement, her brother Zahir saying he wanted to join the Alliance someday much to their parents’ chagrin. As the months passed Amina began to develop a sort of “patriotic” attitude about the Systems Alliance and the role it would play in spreading humanity across the stars, aliens or no aliens. Her captain was a firebrand with open disdain for Turians and certainly for Batarians, his sharp rhetoric often enough settling deep within Amina. “We are the newcomers on the galactic stage,” he would say, “the Turians, Asari, Batarians, Salarians - they all feel threatened by us. They know we can do in a generation what has taken them several and they will not hesitate to curtail us. One day they may all try.”
And then came the Skyllian Blitz in 2176. Batarian pirates organize and launch a massive offensive on the planet of Elysium, Alliance ground forces repelling the assault after a relentless and brutal battle. Amina and her squad were among the cleanup crews sent down to the planet to mop up or detain any scattered pirate forces after. Elysium had been pummeled by the pirate attack, the destruction reminded Amina of the stories her father told of Shanxi. So much death and mayhem and once again at the hands of aliens with the Council showing little empathy for the damage done. Amina was promoted after Elysium and given her own unit, but no accolade could rinse the gruesome images of Elysium from her mind or positively alter her ever-growing outlook on those that humans were sharing a galaxy with.
In 2180 a friend of Amina’s was arrested for connections to Cerberus. Amina had of course heard of Cerberus before, a shadowy former black op allegedly with a human centric basis that went rogue and began carrying out various actions across the galaxy. These actions ranging from destruction of alien installations to assassinating political officials, including human politicians that had an “appeasement approach” to the Council and other species. While Amina was loyal to the Systems Alliance she had over the years become somewhat disgruntled with the bureaucracy of the Alliance Parliament and the constant groveling of Ambassador Udina and other officials at the feet of the Council. The activities of Cerberus may have been terroristic and often seemed self-destructive without a doubt, but their basic motive of “humanity first” paired with the involvement of a close friend of hers was enough to give Amina pause - pause enough to take the time to read the manifesto of the “Illusive Man”.
It was just after the attack on Eden Prime in 2183 that Amina was approached by Cerberus, her name passed along to them by an unknown source aboard the Morlaix. When they made the offer to Amina to join their fold Amina initially considered reporting it, after all being contacted by a declared terrorist cell was something someone did not just ignore with a wave off. For whatever reason though she kept mum in the end and merely cut contact with the Cerberus operative who had tracked her down.
It was after the attack on the Citadel however that Amina found herself truly questioning her place in the Alliance after so many years. Commander Shepard, a renowned Alliance hero, had saved the Citadel from the Geth attack after being grounded by Udina and the Council. Then after Shepard was declared dead several months later in an attack their warnings about an impending galactic threat were purged thanks to both Council and Alliance Parliament. And then when the first of the Terminus colonies went dark - due to the Collectors it was later discovered - the Alliance did nothing and blamed it on pirates and slavers. This was the final straw for Amina; a human colony and all of its people abducted but because it lay outside of Alliance political and military jurisdiction it was considered not a priority. Amina scrounged up the line for the Cerberus contact from before and showed her interest in joining as well as wanting to be free of the Alliance. When the SSV Morlaix harbored itself on the Citadel next Amina went AWOL and left with her Cerberus contact who took her to Cronos Station straightaway. Due to her prowess as a squad leader and her combat abilities Amina was given command of a Cerberus team and given immediate assignment.
Amina spent the next two years with Cerberus, mostly doing security detail for Cerberus facilities and escorting Cerberus personnel and resources between locations. Occasionally she and her team would be given special assignment and always performed to the highest expectation, the Illusive Man himself commenting that they were “among humanities’ finest”.
Just after the destruction of the Collector base by the resurrected Shepard Amina would then part ways with Cerberus after the Illusive Man ordered Cerberus operatives be implanted with Reaper technology. Amina was beyond shocked at this initiative and saw this as a betrayal of everything Cerberus was built upon, believing that the Illusive Man had been corrupted by power or worse succumbed to Reaper indoctrination at some point. This fear was only worsened when project leaders and entire teams would go missing suddenly as time passed. For the second time Amina abandoned her post and after many years away returned to Earth. She wanted to contact her parents but could not for worry of them being targeted by Cerberus or somehow implicated in her defection to Cerberus years back. She knew the organization kept tabs on members families and close friends and the idea of her loved ones being arrested or killed because of her actions was too much to bare, so she merely laid low - acquiring a fake identity and getting by for the time being on credits saved away. All the while trying to figure out what to do next.
When the Reapers invaded the Earth Amina was in the New York metropolis at the time and got caught up in the fighting. Several days in she joined a resistance cell that formed up lead by Alliance military personnel. Though her identity was exposed soon after the resistance allowed her to stay and fight with them due to her skills in combat. Throughout the course of the war Amina’s cell remained in the New York State area, waging guerrilla warfare against the Reapers while rescuing human stragglers and destroying Reaper facilities and infrastructure. When the call went out to rally everyone in London Amina’s cell crossed the northern Atlantic and met the other forces in London. During the final battle she and her fellows provided support along the outer flanks while the main force pushed for the beam and ultimately managed to destroy the Reapers.
With the Reaper War now ended Amina looks to the future; to her own future, the future of humanity, and the future of the galaxy. Most importantly she wishes to track down her parents and brother whom she was never able to link up with through the conflict. She hangs on to the hope that they are alive and well and that as reconstruction is commenced she will find them, and if not all she can do is keep trudging ahead as she has always done.
M O T I V A T I O N
Amina has two motivations these days; to find her family and to stride forth into the future wether she makes any large mark upon it or not. Amina joined the SRN after the end of the Reaper War with the hopes that it would be different than the Alliance and Cerberus, that she could find a place with them and help to rebuild. That this time she could stay. With her family currently missing she has little else but to help those who can help Earth and prays that in the end she will find those she loves.
F L A W S
Amina’s biggest flaw is her human nationalist outlook and her open suspicion of all aliens, particularly Asari, Turians, Batarians, Salarians, and Quarians. While Amina does not outright “hate” aliens she is of the stubborn mindset that they will help only themselves - and perhaps each other - but will never help humans for the sake of it. Even with all the species present in the battle for Earth Amina knows it was a multidirectional boon, the aliens were not fighting “for Earth” but to ultimately destroy the Reapers and save their own peoples. All the aliens now present on Earth, paired with the near genocide of humanity, have given Amina an angsty disposition that unless a human centered reconstruction effort is made Earth will in time become as alien in nature as the Citadel or the rest of the galaxy was/is.
Amina is a survivalist and can be prone to paranoia in dire situations, particularly when anyone she does not trust is involved.
M I S C
- She is of Afro-Arab descent, her mother is Arabic while her father is mixed Arab and African.
- She is a Deist.
- She is ambidextrous.
- She is fluent in English and Arabic.
- She is pansexual.
- She has a drinking habit and smokes casually. |
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