Calamity Havok

SHE/HER
RETIRED PIRATE, CURRENT MECH-HEAD

“Trust me, kid, lotta people have that idea once, and the ones who survive never try it again.”

Calamity Havok is a constant reminder of Jerry’s most controversial act: that one time he broke Bai Zexian’s Golden Rule and let a Hell Hound back on the station.
She doesn’t talk very much about her early life, other than to say that she wasn’t born here and that she used to have a life and a family. Then she stepped on the toes of someone very powerful and lost a century of realtime in stasis before waking up marooned and penniless in the Long Rim.
With nothing left to lose or to live for, the simple, brutal nihilism of the Hell Hounds was a good fit. It started off as mere moonlighting, but she quickly became a fully-fledged member when her twin talents for astonishing violence and unlicensed mech modification caught the eye of Andros Capella himself.
She was one of the Hounds’ very worst, until she became so popular in the ranks that Capella saw her as a threat. What followed was the inevitable fate of any Hound who displeases him: her mech was sabotaged and a “tragic accident” was arranged. But through some miracle, she survived long enough to be picked up by one of the Gate’s salvage crews.
This caused a serious political problem for Jerry: letting her back on the station would cause unrest, but exiling her again would be a death sentence. Eventually, he allowed her to stay under heavy supervision, lending her expertise as a sort of official-unofficial aftermarket modification specialist for the militia’s mechs. Not many people want her here, but few can say they’d want her talents to be available to anyone else, either.

Calamity Havok is a ex-pirate, and a pretty unapologetic one, it's clear from her behaviour that she is only helping the militia to get back at her old boss.
As the description says, she is a pirate of success, not only an engineer, but a killer, she was the enemy just a couple of days ago.

• How does your player character feel about working along with a pirate or letting them touch their mech for maintenance?
• Have the pirates hurt someone your PC knows? do they harbour some hate towards them?
• Can your PC relate to Calamity in some way? were they ever betrayed by a trusted person?
• Has your PC ever committed a crime to survive? are they proud of it? does anyone besides them know?