Siren

SHE/HER
PILOT OF THE DRAGON’S TOOTH

“No whining, marine! Think of g-force like a high score! Are you gonna let Mother Nature beat you?!”

Siren is an ALKONOST-class flight operations NHP originally employed by SecComm, but she threw in with ThirdComm early in the revolution. Though the revolution succeeded, Siren didn’t get to enjoy it – her last mission was a total wash, and her squadron ended up getting wiped out along with her pilot and her ship.
She was finally salvaged from the wreck of her strategic bomber a century ago. After a lengthy and troubled rehabilitation, she drifted around Union, out to the Long Rim, and eventually found herself in Calliope.
During an absence of qualified pilots after the Demon Winter, Siren was given flight control of the Dragon’s Tooth, one of the Gate’s clippers. She excelled in the role, and continues to fill it to this day, ferrying the Strategic Response Team between jobs.
As a member of the military, she cultivated the stern, bellicose attitude of a drill sergeant, an affect she had to mediate as she adapted to the life of a civilian, and which is now resurfacing. Out of habit, she calls members of the team “marines,” no matter how many times they ask her to stop.
Her casket has eleven tally marks on its casing, but she doesn’t remember what they mean. Clipped to it is a folder containing emergency protocols in the event of a cascade, and an ad-hoc Balwinder-Bolaño schedule. At the start of the campaign, she’s just about to come off a cycle, and should be stable for the next six years, barring unexpected cascade triggers.